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Bang goes the wedding!!

  • 12-10-2009 06:49PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,448 ✭✭✭✭


    Talk about a serious case of cold feet!!!!! :eek::eek:


    A man mistook his fiancée for an intruder and shot her dead the day before their wedding.



    John Tabutt told police he seized his gun because he thought he heard someone in his Florida home.
    Thinking his live-in partner was in bed, the 62-year-old fired at a figure in a dark hallway.
    He discovered too late he struck Nancy Dinsmore, also 62, who he was due to marry the very next day.
    Tabutt called 911 in the early hours of Friday, moaning and sobbing, according to local newspaper reports.
    "I thought I had an intruder in the house," he told the emergency operator. "Honest to God, she looks dead."
    A "distraught" Tabutt stood by while his fiancée was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, according to police.
    He has not been charged with any offence and officers said everything pointed to a tragic accident.
    The couple planned to wed in a small ceremony at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Florida's Winter Springs, Ms Dinsmore's son-in-law Scott Sposato told the Orlando Sentinel.
    "They loved each other," he said. "It was quite apparrent"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Talk about a Shotgun wedding.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Jesus Christ!!! That is unbelievable! Tragic too... How guilty must he feel?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I bet he did it on purpose, she probably nagged him so much that he went mad


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Must have been a shotgun wedding.

    *gets coat* etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭Kradock


    At least the church was booked


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Could be worse...... he could have bummed a burglar in his bed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Second Amendment FTW


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


    Looks like the nightime piss in America is fatal.


  • Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gaaarrrrryyy..?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Great way to get out of a wedding imo.... Ah officer i though she was a burgler!

    Bet he had the will prepared the previous week.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Talk about a serious case of cold feet!!!!! :eek::eek:


    A man mistook his fiancée for an intruder and shot her dead the day before their wedding.



    John Tabutt told police he seized his gun because he thought he heard someone in his Florida home.
    Thinking his live-in partner was in bed, the 62-year-old fired at a figure in a dark hallway.
    He discovered too late he struck Nancy Dinsmore, also 62, who he was due to marry the very next day.
    Tabutt called 911 in the early hours of Friday, moaning and sobbing, according to local newspaper reports.
    "I thought I had an intruder in the house," he told the emergency operator. "Honest to God, she looks dead."
    A "distraught" Tabutt stood by while his fiancée was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, according to police.
    He has not been charged with any offence and officers said everything pointed to a tragic accident.
    The couple planned to wed in a small ceremony at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Florida's Winter Springs, Ms Dinsmore's son-in-law Scott Sposato told the Orlando Sentinel.
    "They loved each other," he said. "TO DEATH!!!!!!"

    Fixed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    What can I say... it put a smile on my face anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭pikachucheeks


    At 62, was she really going to live much longer anyway?

    Kidding! That's actually really sad, poor guy! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    A gun in household is more likely to be used against somebody living there than an intruder - I'm led to believe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Talk about a serious case of cold feet!!!!! :eek::eek:

    It's more than just her feet that are cold now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,758 ✭✭✭Stercus Accidit


    Cowboy culture, I'm all for people owning guns if they choose to, but its this idea that you have one for defence, and that burglars are to be feared and shot. Never mind that shooting at dark silhouettes in your own home is not a good idea.

    Stupid bastard.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    At least he can console himself with the thought that she'd almost certainly have filed for divorce and cleaned him out in a few years time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    An extreme case of premature ejaculation (shooting into one's spouse)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Barry White, saved my life and if Barry White, saved your life Or got you back with your ex-wife Sing Barry White, Barry White It's alright


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Proof that it is bad luck to see the groom the night before the wedding.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    bloody americans and their guns


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Maybe he didnt agree with the prenup!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Talk about a serious case of cold feet!!!!! :eek::eek:


    A man mistook his fiancée for an intruder and shot her dead the day before their wedding.



    John Tabutt told police he seized his gun because he thought he heard someone in his Florida home.
    Thinking his live-in partner was in bed, the 62-year-old fired at a figure in a dark hallway.
    He discovered too late he struck Nancy Dinsmore, also 62, who he was due to marry the very next day.
    Tabutt called 911 in the early hours of Friday, moaning and sobbing, according to local newspaper reports.
    "I thought I had an intruder in the house," he told the emergency operator. "Honest to God, she looks dead."
    A "distraught" Tabutt stood by while his fiancée was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, according to police.
    He has not been charged with any offence and officers said everything pointed to a tragic accident.
    The couple planned to wed in a small ceremony at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Florida's Winter Springs, Ms Dinsmore's son-in-law Scott Sposato told the Orlando Sentinel.
    "They loved each other," he said. "It was quite apparrent"



    So next time some guy in America falls out with his missus, he can shoot her and just say: "honest guv, I thought that she was an intruder?", and thats` Okay?
    I`m not say that this is what this daft sod did, but there should be some sort of penalty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,375 ✭✭✭fonpokno


    At 62, was she really going to live much longer anyway?

    Kidding! That's actually really sad, poor guy! :(

    Edit: Never mind, i missed the kidding!

    Very sad story though, imagine doing that to your fiancee...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭MudSkipper


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    A gun in household is more likely to be used against somebody living there than an intruder - I'm lead to believe.

    ftfy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Till death do us part....

    (yeah, i realise they weren't married yet, but it's all i can think of :().


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    I dont know how people can feel sorry for these people. Gun control and gun ownership in America is so fuckin stupid that anythime I hear about stuff like this I can only think Thank God that's one less idiot in this World. If you're stupid enought to go shooting things at night in a dark room then you pay the consequences


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 924 ✭✭✭Elliemental


    I dont know how people can feel sorry for these people. Gun control and gun ownership in America is so fuckin stupid that anythime I hear about stuff like this I can only think Thank God that's one less idiot in this World. If you're stupid enought to go shooting things at night in a dark room then you pay the consequences


    Wasn`t it the idiot`s fiance that was killed though?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Wasn`t it the idiot`s fiance that was killed though?

    Yes but the guy will also pay the consequences


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭K-Ren


    I dont know about you, but I prefer the thought of this kind of pump-action between a 62 year old couple.


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