Posted on 06/18/2011 10:28:44 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
For five years Sean Murphy was driven to distraction by a painful blemish that no amount of creams, ointments or doctors' appointments could cure.
So he came up with his own radical and permament procedure to remove the stubborn [images] wart forever - he blasted it with a 12-bore shotgun.
But not only did the blast take off almost his entire finger, it also left him facing 15 years in jail for the illegal possesion of a firearm.
Yesterday, with only a stump to show for the middle of his left hand, and a suspended 16-week prison sentence, he insisted he had no regrets.
“I’m happy with that,” he said outside Doncaster Magistrates’ Court, South Yorkshire.
“I know I could have gone to jail for up to 15 years for a firearms offence. My solicitor did a very good job.
"The best thing is that the wart has gone. It was giving me lot of trouble.”
Richard Haigh, defending, said Murphy, 38, had been “a victim of his own stupidity when domestic pressures got to him”.
Mr Murphy decided to open fire with the Beretta after fortifying himself with several pints of beer. He settled down outside his caravan, took aim and opened fire.
Police heard about his unconventional treatment and launched an investigation.
Murphy, who lives in the town, told the bench he had found the Beretta under a hedge .....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obamacare.. sometimes you just have to blow the damn thing off because the wait to get it fixed right is just to damn long.
Good thing it was not some extra skin in his nether regions and he lived in san-fran...
.note the comments under the story.. :)
Gots tu luv tha Yorkshire folk. Lived there for almost a decade. <3 Eh, yup!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3ieNhEsDY
Yorkshire Bitters is a great wart remover___
Wow I’ll keep that in mind next time I get a big ol ugly wart
When your socialized medicine can’t even cure a wart, the time for guns has come.
Yorkshire business transaction:
*Salesman enters shop*
Salesman: Owt?
Shopkeeper: Nowt
*Salesman leaves shop*
I don’t know if this says more about the British medical system or the British gun control laws. I think he could have gotten his wort removed over here in a walk in clinic.
What a total klutz...
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