Posted on 07/02/2012 8:18:35 PM PDT by Beave Meister
LARGO | Surrounded by teenage friends on the back porch of his house, Thorin Montgomery was first up in a contest of Russian roulette.
Right away, the .38-caliber revolver fired its round. Badly wounded, the 17-year old was rushed to the hospital Friday night. Keeping vigil, friends wrote wishes online that he might summon some sort of inner strength and pull through.
But he died around 3 a.m. Sunday at Bayfront Medical Center. And friends who now dedicated Web posts to his memory struggled to reconcile how the teen with a bright smile and happy demeanor could be dead.
"Truly blessed to have been such amazing friends with you Thorin rest your soul in paradise," wrote one.
Deaths and injuries from the act of bravado putting a bullet in the chamber, spinning it, pointing it at your head and pulling the trigger to see if it goes off are uncommon in Florida, but not unheard of. An expert who has studied the phenomenon suggests it's one way young men and the victims are almost always young men seek the rush of a thrill.
(Excerpt) Read more at theledger.com ...
I guess you'd check and want the entry wound to be contact or point blank, and there should be GSR on his hand on the same side as the entry wound (and no GSR on the hands of any of the other "players")
> it’s one way young men and the victims are almost always young men seek the rush of a thrill.
Pro Tip: Skateboards are cheaper than guns.
Girls starve themselves literally to death. Stupidity is an equal opportunity state of mind.
At least he died doing what he loved.
From the Wikipedia:
History
The term "Russian Roulette" dates back to a 1937 short story of the same title:
- Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette? [...] With the Russian army in Romania, around 1917, some officer would suddenly pull out his revolver, remove a cartridge from the cylinder, spin the cylinder, snap it back in place, put it to his head and pull the trigger.[1]
Note that this varies from the current practice of Russian Roulette, in that one chamber was left empty. Modern Russian Roulette places only one bullet in the gun.
Yep. The current example definitely bolsters Sir Charles' Theory.
As a parent I'd opt for the Russian thing as a way for my kid to go.
I'm thinking from the looks of this dude and the activities he was endeavoring in, that his future wasn't that bright.
Well, you have a point.
But, I have had a friend offed himself in the same manner.
The blood and brains on the couch and wall were a mess.
I miss him. This was the stupidest thing.
A .380 auto that he was sure he was not loaded.
Yes, drugs were involved.
You’re not the only one to notice that. My thought on that was that someone who names their kid “Thorin” is probably a little further removed from reality than most parents. Very likely a lot of fantasy and escapism in that household.
Combine that with the standard propensity for teenage boy impressions of invulnerability, and you get someone who very likely didn’t even consider that in russian roulette sometimes the cartridge starts out under the hammer. He’s probably seen more than a few movies with RR scenes, where the characters involved go 3 or 4 pulls without anything happening.
The loss of your friend is stupid, reckless and tragic.
The other...
What do you say to the parents?
Yeah.
That’s why I posted Chistopher Walken up ^ there.
Yeah.
That’s why I posted Chistopher Walken up ^ there.
*sigh*
My jokes are getting *too* inside.
And then take a nice annual fee for being one of the directors of the anti-gun organization in an air-conditioned office. Funny how that happens.
Some of us just march to the clang of a different cowbell.
:-P
He financed Bilbo's Misty Mountain expedition for 20% of the treasure.
(Clang!)
You rang?
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