Police: Wife Stages Shooting To Avoid Deployment « CBS Houston

Police: Wife Stages Shooting To Avoid Deployment « CBS Houston

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BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Bossier City police say a woman trying to avoid an Air Force deployment had her husband shoot her before lying to investigators that an intruder was to blame.

Police say 25-year-old Judy Groomes was treated for wounds on both of her legs from one round from a handgun fired by her husband, 26-year-old Christopher Tyquan Groomes. Both are active military based at nearby Barksdale Air Force Base.

Groomes allegedly claimed an intruder shot her early Friday while her husband and two children slept. But police say she convinced her husband to shoot her to avoid military service.

QUESTION:

What is the opportunity cost of being healthy? For this woman it was being with her family, which she apparently considered to be a very high opportunity cost. This high opportunity cost changed her incentive to be healthy and consequently her behavior. That doesn't mean shooting yourself to avoid your commitments is morally acceptable, but it does make such behavior more understandable.