Ouch!

This criminal learned the value of a good holster the hard way:

Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store. A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry Tuesday morning demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes.

The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge.

Police say surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants. The clerk wasn't injured.

A short time later, police found Derrick Kosch, 25, at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.

Now, I don't know what kind of pants this guy was wearing, but if they had pockets, why not try putting the gun in one of them? Seems like a much better idea than pointing it directly at your balls. Oh well, hindsight is, as they say, 20/20.