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Drunken teen accidentally shoots self in head (updated at posts 44, 46 & 48)
The Monitor (McAllen, Texas) ^
| June 13, 2012
| Naxiely Lopez
Posted on 06/13/2012 12:07:47 PM PDT by EveningStar
SOUTH OF ALAMO A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself with a semi-automatic handgun Monday night when the single round he fired at a butane tank ricocheted and hit him in the head, authorities said.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; banglist; darwinaward; ricochet
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To: EveningStar
And the Darwin Award goes to...
To: EveningStar
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:11:03 PM PDT
by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: EveningStar
Sounds like he was going to win either way it played out.
4
posted on
06/13/2012 12:12:10 PM PDT
by
davius
(You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:12:48 PM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(Criminaliens or Crimigrants...0bamao's people?)
To: EveningStar
Shooting drunk and shooting at a butane tank already made him a Darwin Award contender.
That the bullet came right back at him and not someone else, testifies to a pretty good shot though.
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:14:31 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: EveningStar
I ain’t buying it. I’ve been hit by 9 Makarov ricochets from 10 feet. Wouldn’t hurt a mouse. A .380? Sumpin’s wrong.
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:14:47 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: EveningStar
“You’ll shoot yer eye out, kid!”
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:15:13 PM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
To: EveningStar
9
posted on
06/13/2012 12:16:01 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: EveningStar
The whole family is in the United States illegally, Treviño said. The boys parents moved to the country several years ago, but their two sons had just arrived about six or seven months ago.Mighty good family there... Illegals with guns, boozing it up with their kids..
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:17:36 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: gundog
I aint buying it. Ive been hit by 9 Makarov ricochets from 10 feet. Wouldnt hurt a mouse. A .380? Sumpins wrong.QUICK! Submit it to Mythbusters!
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:18:59 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: kingu
Mythbusters did an episode on ricochets. Bullet slows down a BUNCH. But varies depending on what it bounces off and the angle.
To: kingu
If they debunk it does the guy come back to life?
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:24:34 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: kingu
I read that but I didn’t excerpt it. People are perfectly capable of clicking on links - as you just demonstrated.
To: EveningStar
A butane tank? Whassat? Did they mean a propane tank?
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:25:58 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(My dog, yes. My wife, maybe. My gun....NEVER!)
To: EveningStar
Israel “Butthead” Torres.
To: Sherman Logan
Angle is pretty close to straight back if he got hit in the head. I got hit in strongside thumb after a ricochet off a chunk of concrete. My first thought was “Man, I hit that square.” Did it penetrate his skull at an eye socket?
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:27:46 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: lazypadawan
This has been done by a previous year’s winner. The question was, if you shoot a hole in a butane tank, how close do you have to stand while flicking a bic lighter to ignite the thing?
Answer: 7 feet.
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:30:43 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
To: kingu
The whole family is in the United States illegally, Treviño said.Shooting the butane tanks no American is willing to shoot. - GW Bush
/s
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:31:36 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: EveningStar
Here!...hold mah beer...*HIC!* while I
shoot..this..here..pistol..*HIC! / BANG!*
*awkward pause*.. D@NG! *thump*
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posted on
06/13/2012 12:33:10 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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