Man shoots himself...

[NissanGurl]

Can't be a nomination for a Darwin Award, but if it were me I would have been standing to the side of the bullet

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/whacking.bullets.ap/index.html

BTW, love how CNN linked the story...whacking...bullets

 

[Unheard]

What a dumbass.

 

[manlymatt83]

idiot

 

[Indolent]

so what was he really doing this for?

 

[Queasy]

Please tell me this was a ricochet. I really don't want to hear that he was dumb enough to stand in front of the bullet.

 

[Mrvile]

An employee of an Albany scrap metal company told The Post-Star of Glens Falls that the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

Cleveland said Mosher's shells amounted to just a few pounds.

Something tells me that what he went through probably wasn't worth it...

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: NissanGurl
Can't be a nomination for a Darwin Award, but if it were me I would have been standing to the side of the bullet

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/15/whacking.bullets.ap/index.html

BTW, love how CNN linked the story...whacking...bullets

It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly.

the bullets were in a vice, im sure it was a ricochet. i cant see even the best darwin candidate putting bullets in a vice sideways to hit them and clear the casing. vices tend to have sloped bases as well, so that would make sense to me. what would make more sense is to NOT hit bullets with a hammer just for the casing.

 

[Firebot]

Originally posted by: Mrvile

An employee of an Albany scrap metal company told The Post-Star of Glens Falls that the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

Cleveland said Mosher's shells amounted to just a few pounds.

Something tells me that what he went through probably wasn't worth it...

He'll have to empty a whole LOT of shell casings to pay his medical bills now!

 

[fLum0x]

lol.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Unheard
What a dumbass.

/thread

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: Unheard
What a dumbass.

 

[thegimp03]

Hahahah

 

[Goosemaster]

:laugh:

 

[Minjin]

This reminds me of an older movie where two kids were playing with bullets in a vice. I think it was set in war torn europe. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

[Farang]

I'm lucky I never won a darwin for throwing bullets into a fire

 

[Viper GTS]

I'm impressed that it managed to get enough velocity to penetrate.

Without a gun around them I would have expected the casing to just rupture.

Viper GTS

 

[Shawn]

All that for $5. Wouldn't the bullets have been worth more?

 

[SilthDraeth]

Originally posted by: Shawn
All that for $5. Wouldn't the bullets have been worth more?

I am pretty sure that .223 are worth more than scrap brass.

 

[UNCjigga]

Crack/meth/insert-low-class-drug-here is a helluva drug.

 

[BooGiMaN]

i am a firm believer in human stupidity...i bet he will be back whacking bullets before he is even fully healed from his wound...

he will now probably wear a pillow ducktapped to his stomach and a pair of goggles....just to be on the safe side....

 

[ColdFusion718]

Never underestimate the limits of Human Stupidity.

 

[alkemyst]

hmm when I read whacking and shooting one's self I was thinking something else.

 

[ksaajasto]

thats horrible...


as well as funny

 

[IronWing]

My brother put shrapnel into his hand doing something similar. When he was ten years old he found a 22 bullet. He tried to set it off by setting it on the concrete porch and hitting it with a hammer. It worked.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: ironwing
My brother put shrapnel into his hand doing something similar. When he was ten years old he found a 22 bullet. He tried to set it off by setting it on the concrete porch and hitting it with a hammer. It worked.

ROFL!