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To: Musketeer

Be respectful of evolution at work.

;-)


12 posted on 06/05/2012 7:34:51 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: GladesGuru

This is a true story from where I grew up. About twenty years ago....some idiot who took high school and community college “metal arts” (machine shop skills)....had this idea of making his own silencer for a pistol. He’d read up on this and thought that he could do it with equipment he’d picked up at yard sales for the garage.

So he designed and built this silencer. He attached it to the pistol...discovering that it wasn’t entirely tight on the gun. There was this slight wobble even when fully attached. So he held the pistol with one hand and the silencer with the second hand. He fired. The silencer flew off the gun and he shot a finger off in the process.

He grabbed the finger, and got someone to take him to the county hospital where they did successfully re-attach the finger.

Several months later, after all the treatment, he returned to the garage. He looked at his silencer, and then redesigned it. He rebuilt version two. There was no wobble and for some reason, for the final test....he held the silencer in the same hand formation as before. He shot the finger off a second time.

Yep. I can’t even make this up. The hospital couldn’t believe that he had returned with the same issue.


16 posted on 06/05/2012 7:48:38 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: GladesGuru
Be respectful of evolution at work.

LOL.... I thought I was.

17 posted on 06/05/2012 7:52:38 PM PDT by Musketeer
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