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Teen Hurt Whacking Bullets With Hammer
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| 05/14/2007
Posted on 05/14/2007 2:18:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. (AP) - A teenager who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit, according to Warren County deputies.
Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer, deputies said.
Deputies were called to his home in Lake Luzerne shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday when one bullet went about a half-inch into his abdomen. He was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released. No charges were filed.
Mosher told authorities he was trying to empty the rounds to collect the brass casings for scrap.
Sheriff Larry Cleveland said about 100 other rounds that Mosher hit had "fizzled," but one was somehow sent with more force. It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly.
An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.
Cleveland said Mosher's shells amounted to just a few pounds.
Lake Luzerne, at the southeastern edge of the Adirondacks, is 45 miles north of Albany.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; darwinwannabe; dopeykid; holdmuhbeer; ijit
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Today's Darwin Award goes to....
To: Responsibility2nd
Just shows that guns don't shoot people.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:20:05 PM PDT
by
unspun
(What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Can’t call it a Darwin award. He’s still in the gene pool.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:21:31 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Every Thread a BYJ Thread (http://www.byj.co.kr/)!)
To: Responsibility2nd
No charges were filed. Shoulda been charged with stoopidty and attempted idiocy.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:22:10 PM PDT
by
ladtx
("You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." Will Rogers)
To: Tamar1973
Yes, but for how much longer?
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:22:30 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Global Warming is Leftist Theology - Why is it Being Taught in School?)
To: Responsibility2nd
He was just trying to do a good deed.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:23:06 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Responsibility2nd
The teen needs to go find something else to whack on...
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:23:23 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: unspun
Wonder if he said those immortal words, “Hey, watch this...!”
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:23:45 PM PDT
by
RedRover
(Defend Our Marines)
To: Responsibility2nd
I think the kid learned his lesson! Ouch!
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:24:08 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Every Thread a BYJ Thread (http://www.byj.co.kr/)!)
To: Responsibility2nd
was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit,He's plan was about 99% safe.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:24:10 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Bacon Man
Ping to something you would never, EVER do.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:24:39 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(You have to defile a mummy completely, or they come back to life. You know that.)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:24:54 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Responsibility2nd
He could have simply gone to a shooting range and collected all the empty casings he wanted.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:25:02 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 74 days away from outliving Curt Hennig (whoever he is))
To: Responsibility2nd
Some guys have ALL the fun.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:25:37 PM PDT
by
Socratic
(To persevere is to laugh again.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Today's Darwin Award goes to....
With honors. Magna Cum Stupid.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:25:39 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Responsibility2nd
Teen Hurt Whacking Bullets With Hammer I'm sorry but some headlines just make you laugh.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:25:59 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: Tamar1973
Well, it’d probably qualify for an honorable mention.
To: Responsibility2nd
He ran outta gun before he ran outta bullets.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:26:05 PM PDT
by
Radix
( Honey, I shrunk our Carbon Footprint.)
To: ladtx
Shoulda been charged with stoopidty and attempted idiocy
_________________________________________________________
Unlicensed operation of a human body in an ignorant manner
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:26:17 PM PDT
by
5Madman2
(There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
To: RedRover
He’s too young for..... Holdmuhbeer.
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posted on
05/14/2007 2:26:44 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Global Warming is Leftist Theology - Why is it Being Taught in School?)
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