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Cabela Gun Mystery Unsolved

You never know what you’re going to find when you open a stall door inside a public bathroom. Ed DeGroot said he was “stunned” when he opened such a door at Cabela’s on Thursday. There lay a loaded Ruger .38-caliber pistol with a round chambered. “I went to the middle stall and you couldn’t miss it,” DeGroot said. “It was on the floor right below the commode. It blew me away.” DeGroot said the gun didn’t look real to him at first, but when he tapped the side of it with his foot he could tell it was the real deal due to its weight. Not wanting his fingerprints on the gun, the Everett, Wash., man, who was shopping at the outdoors retail store with his father Bob of Spokane Valley, gently handled it with toilet paper and gave it to a Cabela’s employee/ Brian Walker , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog