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The following story gives a whole new meaning to the colloquial phrase “riding shotgun.”

An Edmonton man was handed an eight-month jail term Wednesday after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including a gun offence for accidentally shooting a buddy in the derriere with a shotgun while they were driving around the city.

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Crown prosecutor Shivani Naidu-Barrett told court that Sean Robert Martin, 33, and his girlfriend had been in the rear seats of a GMC Yukon while his pal, Adam Matychuk, was driving, with his girlfriend in the front passenger seat on Sept. 10, 2015.

Naidu-Barrett said the Yukon was in the area of 109 Avenue and 95 Street when a single shot was discharged from a shotgun in the rear seat and “struck Mr. Matychuk in the buttocks.”

Court heard Matychuk and his girlfriend exited the vehicle while Martin and his girlfriend fled on foot.

At the time, police said Matychuk was taken to hospital suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.