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There's a 39-year-old man who's been hitchhiking around the country, writing a travel memoir called "The Kindness of America". He may have to rethink that. On Saturday night, he was hitchhiking in Montana when another man pulled up . . . and SHOT HIM. The man was drunk and the drive-by was TOTALLY RANDOM. Fortunately, the shooting wasn't fatal . . . and the shooter was arrested.
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Is it okay to laugh at someone for GETTING SHOT if they don't die AND the shooting is spectacularly ironic? I'm going to say YES, it's okay.
--39-year-old Raymond Dolin of West Virginia has been hitchhiking across the country, writing a travel memoir called "The Kindness of America".
--On Saturday, he was hitchhiking off the side of Highway 2 near Glasgow, Montana. (--That's up in the northeastern corner of the state, about 100 miles from the Canadian border.)
--Around 6:00 P.M., a man drove up in a maroon pickup truck . . . and SHOT HIM. That's right: The man who's hitchhiking across the country to prove how kind Americans are ended up getting shot in a random drive-by. In MONTANA.
--Raymond was able to flag down another driver for help. He was taken to the hospital where he's still recovering. The gunshot wound wasn't fatal.
--The police were able to track the pickup and they arrested the driver, 52-year-old Charles Danielson the Third, from Washington state. He was drunk at the time of the shooting, but didn't know Raymond and didn't have any motive to shoot him.
--There's no word on when Raymond's book is going to come out . . . or if he's rethinking the title.
(--Here's Raymond, before he was shot, and also Charles's mugshot.)
RELATED COMEDY: A man hitchhiking across the U.S. to write a memoir called "The Kindness of America" was shot in the arm in Montana:
. . . Though, as luck would have it, he was right in the middle of a chapter on irony.
. . . Today he held a press conference to announce that he's fine. And also he's changing the title of his book to, "America: What a Bunch of Douchebags".
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