Posted on 07/02/2012 8:18:35 PM PDT by Beave Meister
LARGO | Surrounded by teenage friends on the back porch of his house, Thorin Montgomery was first up in a contest of Russian roulette.
Right away, the .38-caliber revolver fired its round. Badly wounded, the 17-year old was rushed to the hospital Friday night. Keeping vigil, friends wrote wishes online that he might summon some sort of inner strength and pull through.
But he died around 3 a.m. Sunday at Bayfront Medical Center. And friends who now dedicated Web posts to his memory struggled to reconcile how the teen with a bright smile and happy demeanor could be dead.
"Truly blessed to have been such amazing friends with you Thorin … rest your soul in paradise," wrote one.
Deaths and injuries from the act of bravado — putting a bullet in the chamber, spinning it, pointing it at your head and pulling the trigger to see if it goes off — are uncommon in Florida, but not unheard of. An expert who has studied the phenomenon suggests it's one way young men — and the victims are almost always young men — seek the rush of a thrill.
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There is a Darwin award winner (confirmed), that lost at Russian Roulette playing with a semi-auto handgun.
He went out with a bang ping.
I’m always perplexed by stories like this.
The only thing that could have boosted his score would have been trying to play with a semi-automatic.
The only thing that could have boosted his score would have been trying to play with a semi-automatic.
He only had a 1 in 6 chance of winning so the Schwartz must have been with him.
Better to die than live the rest of your life with the sound of that hammer dropping every night you go to sleep.
at least his medical bills are now covered.....
The house always wins in roulette.
Zing.... Instant thought when I saw the title......
>>...struggled to reconcile how the teen with a bright smile and happy demeanor
Oh, sure. Just like in his photo. /s
No, no Thorin!
How many times we gotta tell you, man?
It’s ONE bullet, FIVE empty chambers.
Exactly. I'm female, but I remember teenaged boys doing things like this when I was growing up. We girls took chances, too, just in other ways. The teen years can be deadly.
Am I the only one to notice his name matches the name of a character in The Hobbit? RIP, young man.
My first thought, too. I would guess the police have probably considered that possibility.
Remember that old Vietnam era movie “Deerhunter”? I saw that and had spooky dreams for months afterwards.
Yes, this kind of crap is stupid, but so is a lot of the other high danger, thrill seeking crap that people tend to admire.
Seriously?? [facepalm]
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