{"id":6442,"date":"2015-04-16T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2015-04-20T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:52:07","slug":"it-wasnt-me-officer-im-tellin-ya-like-i-said-i-shot-the-armadillo-and-then-it-was-the-armadillo-what-shot-that-bitch-mother-in-law-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/16\/it-wasnt-me-officer-im-tellin-ya-like-i-said-i-shot-the-armadillo-and-then-it-was-the-armadillo-what-shot-that-bitch-mother-in-law-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t me, Officer, I&#8217;m tellin&#8217; ya! Like  I said, I shot the armadillo &#8211; and then it was the armadillo what shot that bitch mother-in-law of mine.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/ricochet-armadillo-strikes-georgia-mother-in-law-back-article-1.2184362\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Daily News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Georgia man shoots armadillo, bullet bounces off critter&#8217;s shell, hits shooter&#8217;s mother-in-law inside mobile home 100 yards away: Police (VIDEO)<\/h1>\n<div id=\"a-byline\" style=\"color: #111111;\">BY\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #015fb6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Lee-Moran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">LEE MORAN<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.nydailynews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2184332.1428993319!\/img\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/article_635\/177316909.jpg\" alt=\"NR\" width=\"480\" height=\"\" \/>JCRADER\/GETTY IMAGES\/ISTOCKPHOTO<\/p>\n<p>Armored and dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>A Georgia man shot his mother-in-law in a freak accident after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted off the creature&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p>Larry McElroy, 54, was outside 74-year-old Carol Johnson&#8217;s mobile home in Lee County on Sunday night when he took aim with his 9-mm pistol at the animal,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #015fb6;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wistv.com\/story\/28786983\/man-shoots-at-armadillo-bullet-hits-mother-in-law\" target=\"_blank\">WALB reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The critter was killed by the round.<\/p>\n<p>But the projectile bounced back off its armor, hit a fence and traveled 100 yards to fly through the back door of the property, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the bizarre incident.<\/p>\n<p>He recommended McElroy use a shotgun next time.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/ricochet-armadillo-strikes-georgia-mother-in-law-back-article-1.2184362\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News Georgia man shoots armadillo, bullet bounces off critter&#8217;s shell, hits shooter&#8217;s mother-in-law inside mobile home 100 yards away: Police (VIDEO) BY\u00a0\u00a0LEE MORAN JCRADER\/GETTY IMAGES\/ISTOCKPHOTO Armored and dangerous! A Georgia man shot his mother-in-law in a freak accident after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted off the creature&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}