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Number 4: CEO of American Title Found Dead With Self Inflicted Nail Gun Wounds
Breitbart ^ | 2/7/2014 | Debra Heine

Posted on 02/07/2014 8:27:00 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather

In response to Three Prominent Bankers Found Dead From Apparent Suicides Inside A Week:

On Monday I reported on the odd rash of suicides by financial execs in just the span of a week. There's one more rather grisly death to add to the growing list. Following the apparent suicides of 2 London bankers and a former Fed economist in the US, the Denver Post is reporting that Richard Talley, founder and CEO of American Title, was found dead in his home from self-inflicted nail-gun wounds.

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To: sheikdetailfeather

Yeah, they called them in suicides in Las Vegas too.


41 posted on 02/07/2014 9:09:42 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: RginTN

yeah you are right... and then the pay back... Loved that movie particularly Helen on the machine gun


42 posted on 02/07/2014 9:12:38 PM PST by Nifster
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To: doc1019
I think it would be difficult to do because the recoil of the gun would pull it away from you. Possibly if in a position that gravity would bring it back in contact. But more probably just will power to make yourself shoot yourself again. Or . . .someone did it to you. . .
43 posted on 02/07/2014 9:16:31 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Hmm. How can I murder this guy? Damn, I can’t use a regular handgun, since possession of that would be illegal.


44 posted on 02/07/2014 9:17:57 PM PST by Rainier1789 (My Constitution has a 2nd and 10th Amendment)
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To: Nifster

I can never get bored watching RED. Hope they make a third one.


45 posted on 02/07/2014 9:19:21 PM PST by RginTN
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Actually, this would be number FIVE.

Here is number FOUR.

Financial world shaken by 4 bankers' apparent suicides in a week

46 posted on 02/07/2014 9:20:11 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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To: sheikdetailfeather; betty boop; marron; Alamo-Girl; CottShop; metmom; xzins; GodGunsGuts; ...
Not only do we now have to be concerned with private aircraft failures and falls from very tall buildings, but also from malfunctioning nail guns?
Oh, Bother!

BEEP!

47 posted on 02/07/2014 9:20:15 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: YHAOS

The Clintons are working again.


48 posted on 02/07/2014 9:21:14 PM PST by sport
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To: TBall
Many are like that for safety. Some have a lever that allows you to rapid bump fire. Then the trigger can be kept squeezed and every slight depression of the nose fires another nail. You can literally “drag” it down and the recoil alone will depress the tip again and you can easily fire ten nails or more in six seconds or so. Bump fire is frowned on by OSHA.
49 posted on 02/07/2014 9:24:44 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: UCANSEE2

YIKES!


50 posted on 02/07/2014 9:25:36 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: doc1019; builder

builder has supplied the correct information

nail guns and staplers have a “full auto” feature


51 posted on 02/07/2014 9:25:54 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: doc1019
Single shot, well, actually semi-auto, with a strip of nails, one nail each time you squeeze the trigger.

A couple of problems, though. First, the nails are coated with a sort of glue (that's what keeps the strips together). When they go into you, they hurt! (I was framing a building addition years ago, and had the wall laid out on the ground--a knot I didn't see deflected the nail upward in the sill plate and into my hand instead of the stud. First reaction was to pull my hand back (wrong way), until I realized I needed to push it forward to get it off the nail).

Doing that to yourself would require some serious determination (or anaesthesia), and would be an odd choice for a tool of self-destruction.

Second, even back when, these devices had a safety mechanism to keep some idiot from shooting nails all over a job site willy-nilly. You have to push the front of the nail gun against something you want to nail. I'm not sure soft tissue would work well enough unless backed by bone, but that extra effort should have left a bruise or some mark, at least part of the time.

Yes, those can be thwarted by wiring the safety back, but who'd want to, and how many bankers would know that?

52 posted on 02/07/2014 9:26:41 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: YHAOS

Jeepers...


53 posted on 02/07/2014 9:27:26 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: builder
Bump fire is frowned on by OSHA

osha is in return frowned upon

54 posted on 02/07/2014 9:27:36 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: builder

I know how to make a nail gun cruise on a floor. I doubt a banker has such skills on his own head.


55 posted on 02/07/2014 9:32:58 PM PST by TBall
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To: lurk

One accidental double tap maybe, but the only way to make ‘em go semi-auto is to tape or jam the nosepiece back.


56 posted on 02/07/2014 9:33:37 PM PST by tomkat
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To: TBall
Yeah. Me too. He either was hopped up to overcome the pain or had it taped or otherwise affixed to him - or someone “helped” him along. Pretty danged strange circumstance.
57 posted on 02/07/2014 9:36:54 PM PST by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
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To: lurk; Smokin' Joe
For an expansion on that, see Joe's #52, above.

Just now saw his .. coulda saved some typing .. lol

58 posted on 02/07/2014 9:37:20 PM PST by tomkat
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I remember some guys on the Clinton list suiciding themselves by a shotgun to the back of the head, two separate calibers into the head, a bullet to the head and no gun. And the list goes on, of course, its the Clintons.

But a nail gun 7 or 8 times, I don’t know. Were the Clintons in town?


59 posted on 02/07/2014 9:38:20 PM PST by marron
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To: builder

“Possibly if in a position that gravity would bring it back in contact.”

I was nailing the rakes on a gable end on the second story this spring, using my weak hand to nail, and my strong hand to hold the board in place. The first nail hit its mark but the gun double tapped on the bounce, driving the second nail through the rafter and also through my hand holding the rake board. Ouch... The only way this guy could’ve nailed himself repeatedly would have been for him to have been laying on his back, holding the gun with both hands, trigger depressed, above his head and torso allowing the ‘recoil’ to bounce the gun into himself repeatedly.... Just what most bankers do in the garage.


60 posted on 02/07/2014 9:38:39 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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