Grand Junction, CO - If you’re gonna work at The Kitchen Center in Grand Junction, Colorado, make a note that the guy with the neck tattoo gets cranky. Jacob Bertrand, 27, was arrested on Tuesday - almost a week after a workplace attack that left the other guy with 20 nail holes and new nose piercing.
On Wednesday, June 4, Bertrand got pissed off at a co-worker. Bertrand chose to act on his annoyance by spraying the guy with flammable lacquer thinner. Then he threw a garbage can at the victim and shot him about twenty times with a nail gun - mostly in the chest, but he also gave the guy a nail piercing to the nose.
Fortunately for the victim, Bertrand wasn’t smoking at the time. That lacquer thinner would have gone up pretty fast. Also fortunately for the victim, most of the assault was captured on store videotape, making charges much easier to file. Why it took a week to arrest Jacob Bertrand I’ve no idea, but whatever, they have him now and he’s not going anywhere for a little while.
Jacob Bertrand is charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and second degree assault. He’s being held at the Mesa County Jail on $25,000 bond. I’d kind of think a nail gun would qualify as a deadly weapon, but the victim’s injuries were apparently not life-threatening. But the victim will forever be That Guy Who Got Shot With A Nail Gun. Imagine explaining that body modification story at parties.
10 responses so far ↓
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WryBread
Jun 12, 2008 at 6:32 am -I saw the headline and I thought, “Oh, dear God. Don’t let this guy have sprayed someone with a nail gun.” Does the inventiveness of perps ever cease?
He looks like an elf on speed.
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Hippiepoet
Jun 12, 2008 at 7:55 am -OUCH!
Goddammit, that’s just fucked up.
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funkmama
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:08 am -What a retard loser assfuck. Anger issues much?
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funkmama
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:09 am -Rotflmfao- elf on speed…. how true!
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SNOOKIE
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:51 am -JESUS FUCKING CHRIST-CALL DR. PHIL DUDE
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Kathy
Jun 12, 2008 at 8:58 am -20 times with a nail gun? That sounds like attempted murder to me, unless it was one of those brad nailers. Then that would mostly just hurt.
Yeah, he is an all around asshole either way. I wonder how tall he is, he does look like an elf. Napoleon complex maybe?
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Lynn
Jun 12, 2008 at 11:41 am -o-O He’d be kinda cute if it wasn’t for those crooked eyes and pointy ears.
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WryBread
Jun 12, 2008 at 12:01 pm -I can agree that his NOSE is cute. The rest is very scary to me.
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jenjen0135
Jun 12, 2008 at 2:53 pm -hahahah…he still looks pissed!
I’ve never worked at a jail that would let you keep all the piercings in!
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Athena
Jun 12, 2008 at 4:08 pm -I’m telling you…We need to create interment camps for people with neck tattoos. We’d see crime plummet.
I may need to upgrade my neck-tattoo-people taser to one of the tasers with the shooting prongs, so keep me out of nail gun range.
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