the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot
You might be peppered with birdshot. Buckshot doesn't pepper you.
Posted on 11/13/2007 1:07:57 PM PST by DancesWithCats
SOUTHWORTH, Wash. - A man tired of fighting a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said.
The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home near Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear tire by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.
"He was bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said.
From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as high as his chin.
"Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said.
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“he would have been a shoo-in for the Darwin Awards.”
Local kid almost made it. Drilled into an ammonia pipeline. 3500 people out of their houses, major highway closed, schools empty and a major ammonia spill feeding directly into the gulf.
the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot
You might be peppered with birdshot. Buckshot doesn't pepper you.
ROFLOL !!!
Oddly enough, his name was Rick O’Shay.
Never heard of WD-40 I reckon.....
That is some awful big buckshot,, hope he wasn’t using that,, whoooooa..
A lot of reporters had the same problem in Dick Cheney's accident. Shooting Harry Whittington in the face with buckshot wouldn't have left much. Or of any quail he was hunting with it.
My wife had a Plymouth Belvedere that suffered a flat in a pouring rain that gave no signs of stopping. Stepping out of the car, I was soaked immediately so I didn’t rush the job of changing the tire. Pop the hubcap, loosen the lug nuts, jack up that end....not a difficult task, right? Well, the hubcap popped off, no problem, but those lugnuts wouldn’t budge, even putting my full weight and strength against each one of them in succession. The rain isn’t helping my mood but those lugnuts were about to drive me insane.
Out of desperation, I slammed the wrench to the right, clockwise. Miraculum! The nut loosened and I repeated the process on each one and changed the tire.
Following one of my father’s tried and true practices, I cursed the ancestry and the progeny of the &*@% Chrysler engineer who designed it that way.
When dry, I pulled the manual from the glove box and found the notation that the lugnuts had to be removed with a clockwise motion of the wrench, but only on the left side of the car. Chrysler no longer makes them that way but it doesn’t matter since I haven’t bought another one of their products.
OMG You must have been ready to kill somebody. And to think that they then instructed that the other side be normal!? Nuts, no pun intended.
Moral: If you try to shoot the nuts off, you’ll likely hit your knees.
The correct method:
1)Pack about 5 lbs of Tannerite in the rim
2)Shoot at it from several hundred yards away with a rifle
3)???????
4)Profit!
“Saw that on FNC ... the kid was 16 ... the pipe he drilled into was carrying ammonia from the port to a fertilizer plant. The reporter said the kid thought there was money in the pipe! WTF?”
3 kids heard there was a pipe with money under the bridge. 2 of ‘em decided something wasn’t right and walked away. The 3rd had the drill and got severely burned.
Didn’t anyone tell that fella about impact wretches?
You might be a redneck if ...........
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