Morons & Weapons
04.07.06Guav sent me these two links. Course, I’ve been hearing about this first one all over the morning talk radio. So there’s been plenty of mockery of this guy.
(Story 1) Apparently, he found an old 40mm round, while he was out hunting. He’s a teacher in Ventura, CA. So he’s been using this thing as a paperweight, while foolishly believing it to not be live. So one day he tries to smash a bug on his desk with the grenade, and it goes off. He was the only one injured.
(Story 2) This ones my favorite. haha.
Albany– A man was shot today inside an East Albany clothing store. He was a customer, who apparently tried to intimidate the store owner into selling him a shirt at a discount.
But he ended up paying full price for the shirt and leaving the store with a bullet in his abdomen. A crowd gathered outside the Shackleford Shopping Center as this strange shooting unfolded.
Thirty-year old Jahwar Harris walked into the High Dollar Fashions store, and offered the owner $15 for a shirt. The owner told him it was $25, so Harris laid a pistol on the counter and asked the owner ‘how much he’d take for it now?’
“He asked for a shirt, placed a weapon, a handgun up on the counter, the part-time owner took the weapon and put it in his pocket,” said Lt. Tracey Barnes of the Albany Police Department That’s right. With the customer’s gun now in his own pocket, store co-owner Damien Gardner continued with the checkout. Continue »
I call bullshit on the 1st story. The 40mm is the same round we use in Mk19’s. It takes 35 meters for it to Arm. I don’t see how it blew up.
# April 7th, 2006 at 9:08 pmSo you’re saying it didn’t actually blow up in front of the entire class and mangle his hand?
# April 8th, 2006 at 6:57 amYou can cry bullshit all you want, it happened.
The Darwin Award wannabe lost a large chunk of his hand and has upper torso wounds. Luckily he didn’t injure any of his pupils.
I find it somewhat worrying the minds of our children are in the charge of people/organizations that never thought to question the placing of aged live ordinance in a classroom; this guy was a hunter, you’d think he’d know better.
# April 8th, 2006 at 10:36 amI don’t think it blew up and exploded. It might of went off, there is a big difference. There is a certain arming fuse inside that prevents it from exploding even if primed. They give a certain distance from origin before it blows.
# April 8th, 2006 at 10:42 pmSo in other words, you’re splitting hairs over a semantic issue—whether or not it “went off” or “detonated.” That’s not the point at all.
The point is he banged it on the desk and there was a loud noise and a bang and it blew his hand off. And that’s not bullshit.
# April 9th, 2006 at 9:47 amSuffice-To-Say some sort of violent explosion occurred that resulted in him loosing a substantial portion of his hand and sustaining shrapnel wounds to his torso and upper body, that’s all.
# April 9th, 2006 at 1:04 pmBOOM!!! (class- HAHA, moron)
# April 10th, 2006 at 3:21 amI believe that at this time in human history, more than at any other time, technology in the hands of fool’s is allowing mother nature to really clean the gene pool. Red means stop!
# April 10th, 2006 at 9:00 pmMany things that are technically ‘impossible’ happen with things of the explosive persuasion. 105mm HE Quick rounds are NOT suppost to go off in the tube either. I was in a unit where it did. No it was not a cookoff. Yes it killed gunners.
Grade 3 (unreliable munitions) can and do go off at the most inconvienent ways.
Rule 1 Explosive items make really bad trinkets and curios. Avoid them.
Or you can keep them play with them and toss them around, it does tend to improve the gene pool in the long run.
# April 11th, 2006 at 7:30 amPlaying russian roulette with an @utomatic handgun does the cleaning job well too.
# April 12th, 2006 at 10:38 amPlaying russian rollette (mispelled on purpose for the moderator) with an automatic handgun instead of a revolver can clean out the gene pool pretty quickly too!
# April 12th, 2006 at 10:40 am