# Love at first shot. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902 "2013-12-09T16:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/1 "2013-12-09T16:54:50Z")
Some guys win girls over with candles and flowers. Others take a more direct approach. 😛 The mayo was shaken but didn’t break. 😃 > **[Accidental shooting brings Georgia couple closer: report](https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/12/09/accidental-shooting-brings-georgia-couple-closer-report/)** > > It was love at first shot. A Georgia woman says a casual fling grew into a full-fledged love affair after her beau shot her in the leg with a hunting rifle, according to a local report. Audrey Mayo… > [@](#): > > It was love at first shot. > > A Georgia woman says a casual fling grew into a full-fledged love affair after her beau shot in her in the leg with a hunting rifle, according to a local report. > > Audrey Mayo, 24, of Lafayette, is recovering but still in danger of losing her right leg after she was shot just below the knee in a deer hunting mishap on Nov. 21, the local Times Free Press newspaper reported. > \ > > Her family said she’s kept a sense of humor about the incident. She’d like to find the bullet and have it made into a necklace. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/2 "2013-12-09T17:48:43Z")
The family is remarkably forgiving. I’m not sure if I’d feel the same way if this was my daughter. > **[He shot her; now they're a couple | Chattanooga Times Free Press](https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/dec/07/he-shot-her-now-theyre-a-couple/?local)** > > LaFAYETTE, Ga. - A bullet ripped through the woman's thigh, through a vein and out the back of her kneecap. It buried itself in the ground. But really, it shot straight to the heart. > [@](#): > > But as she says this, as she talks about pain that sometimes makes her scream and curse and wiggle whatever she can wiggle to distract herself, Mayo laughs from her living room couch. Across the room, so does her mother, Mary Mayo, 59, a Memorial Hospital nurse who first assumed her daughter would die, then thought she would be permanently brain damaged from blood loss. > > But as the days progressed, and as the Mayos realized that Audrey would survive the shooting, fear turned into humor. Audrey Mayo says she wants to find the bullet, to turn it into a necklace. Greer, her brother-in-law, says she should get a tattoo of a deer with the word “Jane” across it in honor of her hospital name: Jane Doe. > > “Once we realized she was alive – and that she was going to be alive – we started to lighten up a little bit,” said her sister, Rachel Mayo Greer, 27. > > “No need to put more negativity on the whole thing,” Audrey Mayo said. > > Humor is important for her recovery, her mother said. She wants to buy her daughter a laptop. > > “She can watch funny stuff and laugh all day,” Mary Mayo said. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/3 "2013-12-09T17:52:33Z")
So, while _you can’t get a **man** with a gun…_ ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/4 "2013-12-09T18:00:25Z")
Sheesh, some people just don’t care about tradition. You’re supposed to use a _club_ to do that. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/5 "2013-12-09T18:18:30Z")
Women: you can live with them, and you can shoot them. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/6 "2013-12-09T18:22:57Z")
Shot through the leg, and you’re to blame. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/7 "2013-12-09T18:45:02Z")
> [@](#): > > The fledgling lovebirds were hanging out on the roof of Webb’s mom’s house when he spotted deer in some nearby woods and decided to hunt them. > > Mayo told the newspaper she thought she heard Webb call for her, so she went into the woods after him. Webb heard a rustling noise and fired, striking his chestnut-haired beauty. True love in Georgia. _Sigh!_ She obviously had convinced him she was game. 😃 Now, why can’t I find a woman like that?!? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/8 "2013-12-09T18:56:43Z")
“The first time we met, he blew me away.” ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/9 "2013-12-09T19:24:12Z")
Shooting within 150 feet of a road? Check. Using a firearm after taking drugs? Check. Firing without making sure of his target? Double Check. This guy is a keeper. Yeah, you could make a “he shoots, he scores!” joke here, but really, I’d counsel the girl to run as far as she could from him. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/10 "2013-12-09T19:44:55Z")
I could make a joke here about some women letting themselves be used for target practice and not complaining … but that would be really tacky and insensitive, so I won’t. 😃 Instead of “I walked into a door” or “I fell down the stairs,” what would they say? “It was an accident; I happened to walk in front of his gun just as he was pulling the trigger”? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/11 "2013-12-09T21:02:29Z")
So the whole Dick Cheney thing was…gay flirting!?! ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/12 "2013-12-09T21:09:32Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Shot through the leg, and you’re to blame. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/13 "2013-12-09T21:15:42Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Shot through the leg, and you’re to blame. > [@zoid](#): > > Wow. [Bon Jovi.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZHPOeOxQQ) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/14 "2013-12-09T21:32:48Z")
it was deer hunting and she had a rack. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/15 "2013-12-09T21:34:44Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > it was deer hunting and she had a rack. But only two points. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/16 "2013-12-09T21:38:42Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Wow. Just out of curiosity, what the heck did you think I was saying? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-at-first-shot/675902/17 "2013-12-09T21:45:37Z")
I assumed it was a play on Bon Jovi - no?