Wow... sorry to hear that man... I've had them go off about a foot or 2 from me... but never right next to my ear... I think it's loud enough when you hold one to shoot.
Couldn't imagine the sound close to the barrel exit... Hope your hearing comes back quick.
If it's some dude you don't really know... I would just tell it like it is and let whoever sort it out... I wouldn't want him in jail if he was a hookup though... Although, after some shit like that, I'd never talk to him again... I wouldn't give a shit what I could buy from him.
He is just an acquaintance. An annoying one at that. Since he is crazy he gets good meds, but there was never a time when I asked him to buy anything. It was always him calling me and saying he was broke or whatever so I would buy a couple of pills from him. Since the beginning of January I have cut down on pills anyway. I take some benzos, but no more opiates. I have done blow a few times, but pretty much phasing drugs out of my life. Anyway, if I were to want some good drugs, it wouldn't be from this guy. He is more of a fkn leech than anything. It does bother me though for whatever reason. All I did was go to the emergency room because I was worried about my head. The way I see it if I hadn't told the officer the truth he would assume that I was in fact playing with guns. Of course had the fat fuck not called me on the way to the hospital and threatened to kill my buddy for driving me there maybe I could have made it sound like an accident or whatever, but to put blanks in a gun and put it to my head and pull the trigger AND threaten to kill someone made me lose any sympathy I had. Now granted, if he were a friend(a real friend) of mine and was just drunk and was temporarily insane, I would have never brought him name up, I could have figured something out. Then again I don't think I would be friends with a guy who would do that. Bottomline, I never cared much for the dude, mainly cuz he was always begging me for money and he is a fat lazy pos, but I still feel kind of strange about the whole thing. I can't describe the feeling but I am a bit sick to my stomach cuz I am not convinced he was trying to hurt me and he is facing some serious time. It's just a weird feeling.