Revenge of the lug nut: Kitsap County man gets hurt when he blasts car wheel with shotgun

The Seattle Times ^ | 11/12/07 | The Associated Press

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

SOUTHWORTH, Kitsap County — A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, Kitsap County sheriff's deputies said. The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth and east of Port Orchard and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel before getting frustrated Saturday afternoon, Deputy Scott Wilson said. "He's bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said. From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with shot and other debris, with some injuries as high on his body as his chin, according to a sheriff's office report. "Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said. South Kitsap Fire and Rescue personnel treated the man at the scene before he was taken to Tacoma General Hospital with injuries Wilson described as "severe but not life-threatening."

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

You just can't make this stuff up.....

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

PING!!!!

I thought you would like a morning laugh!!

[ladtx]

Dang, everyone knows you don’t use a 12 ga shotgun on lug nuts, you use a 30-30 lever.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

LOL!!

um...how could he not realize that the buck shot was gonna ricochet back at him???

[wideawake]

"Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said.

How did this guy manage to make it to 66 if he believed - while sober - that this was a good idea?

It bottles the mind. It's mind-bottling.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"How did this guy manage to make it to 66 if he believed - while sober - that this was a good idea?"

Makes you wonder why old Darwin did not give him an award years ago....

[mtbopfuyn]

he wasn't intoxicated

Now he doesn't even have the excuse that the beer did the stupid deed.

[theDentist]

Exactly. There’s booze-stupid and just plain stupid. The next morning, booze-stupid is reduced.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I can understand the whole “Hold Muh Beer” incident.....but sober?????

[Perseverando]

"Ralphie, you'll put your eye out! !

[Jack of all Trades]

Tough to decide which paints a worse picture of the guy: dedicating two weeks to removing four nuts, or blasting himself with a shotgun. That's a real toss up.

[NRA1995]

Shotgu-u-un....shoot him 'fore he run now....do the jerk, baby....do the bird now....

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Good point.

[Thrownatbirth]

There’s booze-stupid and just plain stupid.

Raaaay......neeeeeerrrrrr....Beeeeeeeeerrrrr!

Loved those ads.

[laotzu]

repairing a Lincoln Continental

Damn Fords!!

Ya know, if he had a Macintosh.....

[Rummyfan]

No one ever told him about the right tool for the right job. A shotgun to loosen a lugnut? Let’s just say he learned his lesson at not too dear a price.

[Rummyfan]

[ThomasThomas]

Before you all condemn him we need to know,

DID IT WORK? Then regardless we can condemn him, standing up tall and proud knowing, it must have been a democrat.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Don’t they make some sort of stufF to put on rusted nuts and bolts to loosen them. I know there is sopmething, but I can’t remember what....

<P.I do know it is NOT a shotgun!!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I am guessing NO.....