There's the hint, folks.
"My hammer was outside so I took the bullet and put it on a rock and smacked it with the hammer," Fath said.
Posted on 04/24/2009 7:15:08 PM PDT by John W
PLEASANT LAKE, Ind. (WANE) - George Fath moved to his mobile home in rural Steuben County two months ago. The previous owners left a lot of trash in the yard, so Fath was cleaning up Thursday afternoon. That's when he found a 22 caliber bullet in the yard. He didn't want his three young boys to get hurt from the bullet, so Fath decided to dispose of it.
"My hammer was outside so I took the bullet and put it on a rock and smacked it with the hammer," Fath said.
Fath wasn't expecting the bullet to fire.
"It went off and went into my belly and knocked me on my butt," Fath said.
Fath said he thought he was shot in the stomach. His wife called 911. According to the police report the bullet didn't actually hit Fath.
"Fath was not bleeding, and it did not appear that Fath was struck with the bullet. Fath suffered a minor abrasion to the area of his stomach," police records read.
But, Fath told NewsChannel 15 the bullet did go in his stomach and doctors removed it at the hospital.
"I smacked the bullet and fell down and blood came pouring out," Fath said. "I was hitting it to smash it. I didn't expect it to go bang."
Fath said he'll never hit a bullet with a hammer again.
"I wasn't thinking about it. It was the dumbest thing I ever did in my life. I suggest nobody do it," Fath said.
Police agree. Steuben County Sheriff Rick Lewis said no one should ever hit a bullet with anything.
"The round can go anywhere. It could hit the person striking it with a hammer, a neighbor, a child in the yard. There's just no controlling where the bullet will go," Lewis said.
A bullet doesn't have to be in a gun to fire.
"Anytime you get pressure [to the end of the bullet] to cause it to explode, it will fire," Lewis said.
If someone finds a bullet, don't throw it in the trash either.
"Call local law enforcement and we can take car of it," Lewis said.
Next came the pipe stuck in the ground, a lit firecracker and a marble.
Lots of smoke, flames, bad smells, and interesting reactions drove us out of his basement laughing our butts off.
He tried it with a shotgun shell held in a bench vise. The ice pick and a hammer experiment resulted in him nearly losing his hand.
You've got to think about the idea that the barrel of the gun is a very important part of the basic machine. 22 shells are way lighter than the slug of lead in the end and the shell casing, or the shrapnel from it is going to be the flying part without the barrel with the exit end pointing away from you.
Rusty gets cudos for one other crazy stunt he paid dearly for; ice skating down a frozen hill. The spiral fracture kept him in traction for months.
Last I heard he's all growed up and doing fine, but we had a lot of fun back then.
Moron. No doubt votes Democrat because he doesn't expect them to be socialist control freaks.
Fath said he'll never hit a bullet with a hammer again.
But will undoubtedly continue to vote Democrat.
Incidentally, do they teach in journalism school that more than one sentence per paragraph is not allowed?
A buzzing strong tickle/tingle is what I recall...
Gosh! A Darwin Putz of the Year Award! he even flunked qualifying for the actual Darwin ward:-) Fortunately, but he sure was CLOSE:-(
It’s pretty difficult to set the powder off without a primer. The primer in rimfire cartridges is in the rim, not a separate cap.
followed by a swift slap to the back of ones head
You could take the whole roll of caps, lay them sideways on a brick or an anvil and hit it with a hand held sledge hammer. The sound is deafening. We used to bite the bullet end of the cartridge and could disengage the bullet from the casing and pile up the gunpowder and do the same and get a really nice bang out of it. My Father and Grandfather would hide their cartridges from me because I was forever pilfering the powder from them and making explosives. One thing I never did was hit a cartridge with a hammer. We had these little poppers that were round and exploded by throwing them against the wall...we’d throw them onto the highway and let the cars blow them up...but they ruined your day if you chewed them. Also, never put strikers into a sewage opening if you don’t have an avenue of escape...I could go on...
Did you ever place the whole roll on a sledge hammer and hit it with a ball peen?
There's the hint, folks.
"My hammer was outside so I took the bullet and put it on a rock and smacked it with the hammer," Fath said.
Sounds like something my husband would do.
I gave a bb to my little brother and he smacked that thing for over an hour and said it must be a dud
I would think with larger cartridges, such as a .30-06 it would be pretty much the same, just a flash-pop, and if you got hit by the slug or the brass it would likely be little more than an annoyance.
(But I’m not going to try it!)
I tend to think that the police report has the right of it.
WWWII? - was that a Pro-Wrestling thing?
Oops, hadn’t read all the posts. Knew I wasn’t alone.
Stupid is as Stupid does.
I used to take a sledge hammer to whole rolls of them at a time - that’s a serious bang. Sometimes I’d get two or three decent bangs out of one roll, but when I hit a roll with enough force, there’d be maybe one or two “caps” that didn’t fire.
I played with hammers a lot as a youngster, so I used several weights of ball peen hammers and claw hammers as well, but I finally settled on the 8LB sledge because it was so darned effective. it was a bit to swing for a young kid, but I had a knack for destruction then that I put to “good” use.
The sound was louder than a .45 cal I can tell you that. I was a pretty obnoxious youth at 8-10 years old - I’d pull this stunt at 7:00 a.m or earlier some days. I could also burp loud enough to effect a pretty good echo in the neighborhood at an early hour as well.
I’m just about laughing out loud at myself - the stupid things I did as a kid.
I used to put some in a pop bottle, cork it, and set them off with a magnifying glass in the sun. I could blow a cork about 10 feet.
See my post #98, I did what you’re describing too.
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