What’s the best way to scratch an itch? One of those wooden back scratchers with the pointy fingers would come in handy, but nobody ever seems to have one just laying around when they really need it.

One of the most important inventions ever.

Sometimes a back scratcher won’t work on a stubborn itch. That’s when you have to take things up a notch like Jorge Espinal, 44, from Texas. He was drinking beer and playing poker at 3AM when a terrible itch occurred on his back. He went into another room and grabbed the first thing he could find – a loaded revolver.

Back scratcher x 1,000,000

Of course he was only planning on using the barrel of the gun to relieve the itching, but when it’s 3AM and you’ve been drinking, sometimes you forget important things like not using a gun to scratch your back. The gun fired into his back and he was treated and released from the hospital with non-threatening injuries.

I don’t have a picture of Jorge Espinal, but I typed his name into Google and came up with thousands of these stereotypical images, so we can just assume he looks like this:

“Joo got some big cojones, mang!”