Police Say Man Tried To Use Potato As Silencer For Gun

WFTV.com ^ | June 7, 2006 | unknown

[Lurker]

MIAMI -- Miami-Dade police say a man stuck a potato on the barrel of a gun, believing the spud would act as a silencer and muffle the shooting of a woman.

Police say Shane Thompson carved a hole in a potato with a spoon, stuck his gun inside and threatened to shoot the mother of his child. Thompson reportedly told her that no one would hear the shot, because of the potato's silencing qualities.

Police say he never fired the tater-tipped gun, but instead hit the woman several times. Thompson has been charged with false imprisonment, aggravated assault and battery.

While spuds are nutritious, the silencer potato is an urban legend dating to the 1920s. Thompson apparently isn't alone in believing the myth.

A Miami-Dade financial advisor was convicted in the early 1990s for shooting one of his clients to death with a gun topped with a potato. Crime scene technicians found the potato under her body.

[DH]

One day Bill Clinton and Al Gore were walking down the beach when suddenly a bunch of women ran up to Clinton and simply worshiped him.  This happened several times the further they walked down the beach.  When they had finished waking down the beach Al asked Clinton "why were those women falling at your feet like that?"  Clinton said "it's my package.  Look, see the big bulge?  I put a large potato in my pants and it helps my package profile and it drives the women nuts."

The next day Al was walking down the beach by himself and the women were not coming after him, indeed, they seemed to be running for their lives.  When Al finished his walk he met Clinton at the end of the beach and told him the "potato thing" didn't seem to work, as a matter of fact, it seemed to scare them off.

Clinton looked down at Al's pants and said "It ain't gonna work unless you put the potato in the FRONT of your pants...not the BACK!"
 

[pax_et_bonum]

lol!

[BigBlueJon]

When potatoes are outlawed, only outlaws will have potatoes.

[Khurkris]

True dat...I always preferred the Sionics Cucumber Supressor...from the Werbell Farm Store.

[Rakkasan1]

do the Mashed Potato
do the Twist
if I shoot ya just once, will ya like it like this...

[Charles Henrickson]

He thinks this way no one will know what's he doing. But . . .

THE POTATOES
HAVE EYES

[martin_fierro]

[Charles Henrickson]

"Sheeesh! I need this like a hole in the head!"

[Dead Corpse]

Sure thing... plug the barrel. This guy needs to be sent to a nice safe place with a .44 and a bag of potatos. Make sure everyone else is at a safe distance.

Hopefully, Darwin will take over from there...

[mikrofon]

Thompson has been charged with false imprisonment, aggravated assault
and battery.

Another example of potato battery...