Jerry Dunston, a former hardware store owner, gets a hand from Jim McKee, left, as he prepares to fire his "spud gun" near his home in Baden, Pa., Friday, June 9, 1995. (Photo: AP)
1 posted on
08/20/2003 7:55:39 AM PDT by
bedolido
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To: bedolido
"I'm not the bad guy," says Suprise. "I'm just trying to live the American dream." The American Dream --- fire a frog out of a spud gun.
2 posted on
08/20/2003 7:57:10 AM PDT by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: bedolido
ping
3 posted on
08/20/2003 7:59:58 AM PDT by
thackney
(Life is Fragile, Handle with Prayer)
To: bedolido
bump
4 posted on
08/20/2003 8:00:16 AM PDT by
groanup
(Whom the market gods humble they first make proud.)
To: bedolido
"I wanted to finish up my college and go to the air force and be a pilot," he says. If he wasn't smart enough to know not to look down the barrel of a gun, how the Hell did he expect to fly a plane?
5 posted on
08/20/2003 8:00:20 AM PDT by
TheBigB
(Some say shoot to kill. Others say shoot to maim. I say empty the f'n clip and let God make the call)
To: bedolido; Eaker
bedolido, sorry for pinging you own your own post.
Eaker -> mis-routed ping
7 posted on
08/20/2003 8:01:53 AM PDT by
thackney
(Life is Fragile, Handle with Prayer)
To: bedolido
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid"
We must ban the Potatokov-17 and all other weapons of mass digestion.
9 posted on
08/20/2003 8:03:03 AM PDT by
Mr. Bird
To: bedolido
Odd, the article never seems to say exactly who fired the gun. A self-inflicted injury? A stupid-friend-inflicted injury? Or is the manufacturer guilty for manufacturing legal items?
11 posted on
08/20/2003 8:03:55 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
To: bedolido
Berry was shot in the face, looking down the barrel of a home-built contraption called a spud gun. When it fired a frog, it blinded him. Dumbass.
How's the frog doing?
12 posted on
08/20/2003 8:04:27 AM PDT by
Hank Rearden
(Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
To: bedolido
We must immediately enact a federal law requiring registration of all spud guns. No, better yet, lets ban "assault spud guns." For the children.
To: bedolido
When it fired a frog, it blinded him. Someone really ought alert PETA about this genius.
15 posted on
08/20/2003 8:05:57 AM PDT by
TheRightGuy
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To: bedolido
Just one more case of OPERATOR ERROR.
Stupid enough to look down the barrel but wants to fly a multi-million dollar fighter...NOT WITH MY TAX $$$
16 posted on
08/20/2003 8:06:59 AM PDT by
ChefKeith
(NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
To: bedolido
"When it fired a frog, it blinded him." I don't think I will ever see this sentence again.
17 posted on
08/20/2003 8:08:21 AM PDT by
Khurkris
(Ranger On...)
To: bedolido
I remember a couple of months ago when this story first ran. People who have no sense will eventually find a way to damage themselves. If it wasn't the spud gun, he probably would have gone hood surfing or some other bone-headed stunt. We will probably get another chance to nominate this guy for a Darwin Award.
When it fired a frog, it blinded...
So spud guns fire by themselves but only after an unsuspecting frog lodges itself neatly in the barrel?
19 posted on
08/20/2003 8:08:53 AM PDT by
Great_Dame
(proudly allowing my son to fire his supd gun all summer! Splat!)
To: crosshair
ping
To: bedolido
Baden is just a few miles from me. Looks like that guy has a nice spud shooter!
22 posted on
08/20/2003 8:10:54 AM PDT by
Great_Dame
(proudly allowing my son to fire his spud gun all summer! Splat! He also shoots IPSC, 14yrs old.)
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Splat!
To: bedolido
Now we know what the VPC will be going after next.
28 posted on
08/20/2003 8:18:37 AM PDT by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
To: Hap; Xenalyte; humblegunner; Allegra
Hold mah frog ping!
35 posted on
08/20/2003 8:26:46 AM PDT by
Bacon Man
(Bacon is never wrong but occasionally fried.)
To: bedolido
Stop the presses. What, CBS can't find anything interesting to write about today? This is an old story. In fact last April it was mentioned in the responses of
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/897643/posts Do we really want someone this dumb operating a B-52? "Fred, you throw that switch and I'll stand out here to see what happens."
To: bedolido
****Berry was shot in the face, looking down the barrel of a home-built contraption called a spud gun. When it fired a frog, it blinded him. ****
This is really sad, but the kid is an idiot! Too bad this lesson was learned too late.
Still, no one can blame the spud gun, as the title suggests, blame ignorance of both the parents (for not teaching him correctly) and the boy for thinking he can look down the barrel of any gun without possible bad consequence.
As a side note:
Kind of cruel shooting frogs out of guns if ya ask me, what kind of values did this boy have? Where is PETA?
41 posted on
08/20/2003 8:38:48 AM PDT by
Roughneck
(Starve the Beast!)
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