Posted on 08/31/2019 7:17:54 PM PDT by simpson96
A Florida man wielding nunchucks and bug spray tried to quiet a group of noisy neighbors, spraying them and threatening to open fire on the revelers — but the only person he ended up injuring in the crazed quest for quiet was himself, officials said.
Larry Adams, 61, was arrested after the bizarre confrontation, which residents said was sparked by loud music coming from a car outside a Daytona Beach apartment complex late Monday night, FOX35 Orlando reported. One neighbor told the station Adams initially tried to frighten the group, but the bid backfired – literally – when he struck the car frame with the nunchucks and the martial arts weapon unexpectedly bounced off the vehicle's body and smashed into his face.
Adams allegedly also threatened to shoot the group, and doused them with roach spray, according to the station. Officers responded to the scene after Adams and his neighbors called police on each other.
When cops arrived, they noted Adams had a cut on his forehead, and a subsequent check of his home revealed a nunchuck, an empty can of roach spray and a box containing a loaded semiautomatic handgun magazine, WKMG-TV reported, citing the arrest affidavit. It was not clear if Adams owned a gun or had one in his dwelling.
Adams was booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges of aggravated battery and assault, according to the station.
The manager of the apartment complex told FOX35 Adams is set to be evicted.
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On himself???????
“Adams was booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges of aggravated battery and assault, according to the station.”
When I was a teenager, I was playing around with a pair of those a kid had and nearly put my teeth out and stove my nuts in...all in one fell swoop...that was enough for me!
I’ll never forget my self injury with a blackjack :)
The spraying, no doubt.
Monday night.
People (who work) have to get up early in the morning.
Some thug blasting ghetto music from his vehicle with bass speakers the size of 22 inch rims?*
I do not blame him at all.
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*I realize this part is conjecture but I defy anyone to tell me this never happens.
There is something about injuring yourself with something like that that makes it seem even stupider, if that is even possible.
It is like that moment of sheepishness that almost every guy has experienced as a young boy, trying to cut something with a folding blade knife, only to have it fold and gash your finger between the blade and the body of the knife!
You had probably been warned about it, but...until you actually do it to yourself, the lesson doesn’t really stick in. Then...you never (or ALMOST never) do THAT again!
Hehe...in your case, were you just trying to see how it felt on your own head, and thought you would lightly whack it to find out? No WAY you thought, would that light blow cause any harm...:)
“Florida man . . . nunchucks . . . roach spray.” Perfect trifecta.
LOL
I’ll never tell!!
And I didn’t need weapons to hurt myself when i was a yoot.
I forget how young I was when I poured water on a light bulb to see what would happen. Near blindness is what happens :) I wasn’t a bright “bulb” back then, pun intended.
And I actually used my firs serrated knife on my arm on purpose to see how easily it could cut deeply.
Easily!!!
Hahahahahah! That was exactly what happened to me right AFTER I nearly hit my nuts!
I think I was twelve at the time wearing the black BCD (birth control device) glasses like they issue in the military, and those saved me from a bash directly in the eye.
You would think I would have stopped after the thing hit a millimeter from my sack! But no...
It reminds me of when I moved up to New England, and my friends all played street hockey. They needed a goalie, and I had no experience with hockey at all, so I volunteered.
No mask.
My left hand had a first baseman’s mitt, and my stick hand had a hockey glove with two pieces of paneling with some foam sponge between them held on with telephone wire.
For leg pads, my friends father installed carpet, and he had a metal shed full of carpet samples (the shed did double duty as a hockey goal/backstop which I stood in front of as they took shots at me)
We took a carpet sample, about three feet square, folded it into thirds and shoved it up the front of each leg of my blue jeans to serve as leg pads.
They stood down at the foot of the driveway and placed a hard plastic puck on a sheet of paneling, and fired slapshots at me.
The very first shot flew at me, and hit my unprotected thigh a couple of inches above where the carpet pads ended, and I jumped around in little circles, dropping my stick and gloves, squeezing my painful thigh in my hands to the laughter of my friends.
I sucked it up, picked up the gloves and stick, stood in front of the shed, and the next slapshot whizzed in at high speed, and struck my thigh in exactly the same place!
I repeated the dance of pain, and after a few minutes of groaning, again picked up the gloves and stick, and stood warily in front of the steel shed.
The next shot screamed in, hit my jury rigged blocker on my stick hand, ricocheted off of it and hit me in the cheekbone right under my eye causing me to see stars and leaving a raw welt.
I threw down the stick and gloves, pulled the carpeting out of my pants, and that was it.
Oddly enough, I did learn to skate, and eventually did buy equipment and played goalie in mens leagues and pickup games for about 15 years before I had to give it up because I tore up my knee.
Same here. I missed my teeth, but Big Al and The Boys got a rude awakening. I figured well, this is a non-starter. LOL
Hahaha...honestly, when I was farting around with them, I didn’t even have the advantage of having seen a martial arts movie, and the first and only time I saw them used to that point was watching the kid spin them around. Not even putting them through the legs or under the arms or anything, just spinning them around!
LOL, I thought...Hey! Let me try that! I had no idea what they could do. Sigh. I was never lucky enough to learn lessons the easy way, but in retrospect, maybe it WAS easy I didn’t knock out teeth or bash my eye. I will take that, I guess...:)
Yeah, women talk about all the hours of pain they go through during childbirth. Well, OK, I can understand that. I can empathize. But what they don’t understand is, we men can compress all of that pain they endured for hours into a half second of stupidity that involves our cojones. LOL
I’ve got a better Florida man story.
Florida man heard about the approach of Hurricane Dorian. He knew he would be wise to evacuate, so he booked a flight to Grand Bahamas.
Well, as they say, eventually--even after enduring all the pain of childbirth-- at least some women will start saying they wouldn't mind having another baby. But you NEVER hear guys saying after they've took one to the family jewels that they'd like to do that again.
I guess he never watched all the youtube videos showing how his fellow morons hurt themselves trying to be Bruce Lee.
It’s a rice flail. A rice flail. more unless you make it more.
The unarmed Okinawans had a tendency to make farm implements into self defense weapons.
I'm gonna deem him not guilty - at least for this event....
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