When police descended upon the New Jersey home of Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress last week and seized guns and ammunition, they also walked away with the bloody pants that Burress wore when he accidentally shot himself in the bathroom of a nightclub when the gun he was sporting slid down the leg of his sweatpants.  The Associated Press reports that in addition to a 9-mm handgun, a .30-06-caliber rifle and the ammunition, (including a clip for a .45 gun), police also said they recovered the sneakers that Burress wore during the accidental shooting during the three-hour search of the New York Giants receiver’s Totowa home. It is likely that investigators are trying to determine whether the recovered weapons are registered, according to AP. If they are not registered, it is likely that the suspended NFL star will face additional charges, the news agency reports. Benjamin Brafman, the receiver’s criminal attorney, said Wednesday morning that he believed that only a registered rifle was taken from the home.

A bloody man jumped from a speeding car and into his truck.
An Atlanta man was driving his truck down the freeway when a 25-year-old kidnapping victim, bound with extension cords, leapt from speeding vehicle in front of him and bumped along the road in front of him like a bloodied rag doll before jumping up and hopping in the back of his truck. “It was certainly a very harrowing experience,” Bruce Hembree, 37, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I was terrified. He was obviously in great duress because he came out of a car at highway speed, about 70 miles per hour.” Humbree said that the incident, along a stretch of I-285 near Martin Luther King Drive, brought traffic to a halt. “He was rolling through the middle of my lane, looking like he was a rag doll,” Hembree said. “He was leaving bits and pieces of clothing and skin as he rolled.” He said he slowed down to keep from hitting the victim, Deshon Blackmon, whose hands were tied with the cord. Blackmon then jumped up and into his truck and started banging on the window “like it was a Humvee and we were in a firefight or something,” he told the Journal-Constitution. “Go! Go! Go!” Blackmon screamed, saying that the kidnappers had his ID and were going to kill his mother. But Hembree remained still, afraid of what they might do. “And they were all looking at that car,” he said. But the car drove off, and Hembree said he drove to the next exit and pulled over so Blackmon, who was bleeding profusely, could call 911, the newspaper reported. Two of the victim’s friends told police that the kidnapping was drug-related.