A man from Texas was injured on Thursday, whose bullet ricocheted to his face after shooting an armadillo in his backyard.
Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe said that the unidentified man, who lived in Marietta Texas, went outside his home at around 3AM when he tried to shoot an armadillo that was on his property.
"His wife was in the house. He went outside and took his .38 revolver and shot three times at the armadillo," said Larry Rowe.
With the animal's hard shell, the armadillo was able repel one out of the three bullets. The bullet hit the Texas man's jaw in return, as per CBC News.
The man was immediately rushed via airlift to a hospital located nearby, "where his jaw was then wired shut," as per The Guardian.
Unfortunately, no one knows what happened to the armadillo. "We didn't find the armadillo," said Sheriff Larry Rowe.
Comedian and animal rights supported Ricky Gervais even hilariously tweeted about the incident. The post read, "Karmadillo!"
Texas man shoots armadillo, bullet ricochets back into his face https://t.co/1TNl5y3yVN karmadillo!
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) August 1, 2015
But this isn't the first time a human got injured after an armadillo deflected a bullet. Back in April, a man from Georgia injured his mother-in-law when a bullet also ricocheted from an armadillo's shell.
"Hit a fence, went through the back door of his [74-year-old] mother-in-law's mobile home, through a recliner she was sitting in, and into her back," as per local TV station WALB's report.
An investigator for the Lee County sheriff's office, Bill Smith, talked to WISTV about the shooting. The Georgia man, who goes by the name of Larry McElroy, shot the armadillo from a mere 100 yard distance.
"Just the circumstances, just all the way around, the whole situation was unusual," explained Smith.
Fortunately, the mother-in-law named Carol Johnson did not suffer any "life-threatening injuries." However, in this Georgia case, the armadillo ended up dead.
