Afghanistan reservist puts himself in hospital after taking a blow torch to a machine gun bullet

Daily Mail Online ^ | March 22, 2015 | Christopher Brennan

[Teotwawki]

A military reservist who returned from service in Afghanistan last year was injured along with his family when a bullet from the war exploded.

A 25-year-old soldier in Lindenhurst, north of Chicago, was attempting to light a tracer round in his backyard with a blow torch when the ammunition exploded and alarmed residents on his street.

[Teotwawki]

Full title: Afghanistan reservist puts himself and family in hospital after taking a blow torch to a souvenir machine gun bullet in his Illinois backyard

[Gamecock]

Moravec added that the reservist, who returned from Afghanistan last fall with the tracer, had a 'respected history in the military'.

Had, as in past tense.

[US Navy Vet]

Last thing this guy said was “Here hold ma Beer and Watch this”!

[rfreedom4u]

I knew a guy who was doing what he shouldn’t with a 50 cal round. Ended up losing his thumb and two fingers and got a medical discharge from the Corps.

[baltimorepoet]

How about the guy who took a drill to a WWII German “potato-masher” grenade?

That didn’t end well.

[Gaffer]

50 caliber tracer?

[blueunicorn6]

Another slow Saturday night.

“Let’s take the car and see if we can skip it across the pond like a flat rock.”

[muir_redwoods]

I don’t drink. I used to but not for forty years or so. I know I tried to get drunk enough to do this sort of thing but I don’t think I ever quite got there.

I can’t quite imagine taking a torch to a .25acp round.

[Salgak]

You would THINK that the idiot would have removed the bullet from the round, first. . . .