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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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1 posted on 06/13/2012 12:07:55 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

And the Darwin Award goes to...


2 posted on 06/13/2012 12:10:01 PM PDT by lazypadawan
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To: EveningStar

Dumbass.


3 posted on 06/13/2012 12:11:03 PM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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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.)
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To: EveningStar

Okay, here we go again.


5 posted on 06/13/2012 12:12:48 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Criminaliens or Crimigrants...0bamao's people?)
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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.

6 posted on 06/13/2012 12:14:31 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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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.


7 posted on 06/13/2012 12:14:47 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: EveningStar

“You’ll shoot yer eye out, kid!”


8 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")
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To: EveningStar

9 posted on 06/13/2012 12:16:01 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: EveningStar
The whole family is in the United States illegally, Treviño said. The boy’s 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..

10 posted on 06/13/2012 12:17:36 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: gundog
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.

QUICK! Submit it to Mythbusters!

11 posted on 06/13/2012 12:18:59 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

Mythbusters did an episode on ricochets. Bullet slows down a BUNCH. But varies depending on what it bounces off and the angle.


12 posted on 06/13/2012 12:23:49 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: kingu

If they debunk it does the guy come back to life?


13 posted on 06/13/2012 12:24:34 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: kingu

I read that but I didn’t excerpt it. People are perfectly capable of clicking on links - as you just demonstrated.


14 posted on 06/13/2012 12:25:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

A butane tank? Whassat? Did they mean a propane tank?


15 posted on 06/13/2012 12:25:58 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My dog, yes. My wife, maybe. My gun....NEVER!)
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To: EveningStar

Israel “Butthead” Torres.


16 posted on 06/13/2012 12:25:58 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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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?


17 posted on 06/13/2012 12:27:46 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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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.


18 posted on 06/13/2012 12:30:43 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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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

19 posted on 06/13/2012 12:31:36 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: EveningStar
Here!...hold mah beer...*HIC!* while I
shoot..this..here..pistol..*HIC! / BANG!*
*awkward pause*.. D@NG! *thump*

20 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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