When you hear a yarn about a hick cop shooting himself in the foot while clowning around with his pistol, you think, "Mayberry, RFD."

But this time, its Riverdale, Utah. And the victim is not Deputy Fife, but Police Chief Dave Hansen. And he did it while teaching gun safety.

The Ogden Standard-Examiner reports that two students in a concealed weapons permit class say Hansen, apparently their instructor, was carelessly goofing with his Glock 40 when he put a bullet hole the size of your pinky through his ankle.

Lewis Walker told the S-E:

The chief's brother (state Rep. Neil Hansen, D-Ogden) was just on TV saying the chief was showing us how to clear a weapon when the gun went off — but that's bull. The chief said he was going to show us the rifling in the barrel of the gun, and he was pointing it around at all of us in the class. He was trying to disassemble the gun under the table when it went off.

Bang! Hansen perceptively cried: I'm hit!

Then the chief toppled over and asked the class to call 911. Thus ended the gun-safety lesson for the day.