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Teenager 'accidentally shoots himself in the genitals while cleaning new gun
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ^

Posted on 09/10/2012 11:46:47 AM PDT by jakerobins

and a testicle while cleaning a gun he had just bought, police said.

Michael Smeriglio, 18, initially lied to police and claimed he had been shot as he walked down the street in Port St. Lucie, Florida on Thursday.

But after he was questioned by police, he admitted he had done it to himself while cleaning a gun at a friend's house on Verada Street

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; floriduh; napl; nightintheruts; ouch; sourcetitlenoturl
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Honestly Sir..I was just cleaning it and it went off! LOL....Well that's one way to keep from having kids.
1 posted on 09/10/2012 11:46:50 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: jakerobins

I guess the kid didn’t have the balls to tell the truth.


2 posted on 09/10/2012 11:50:21 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: jakerobins

“Cleaning the gun:” what they say when they shoot themselves while being a jackass.


3 posted on 09/10/2012 11:50:48 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Port St. Lucie....

"Hello, 911? Yeah, the Mickey D's jus' run outta nuggets, yo. And, um, I shot myself in the nads."

4 posted on 09/10/2012 11:50:49 AM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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Ouch. Depending on the damage he may qualify for a Darwin award.


5 posted on 09/10/2012 11:52:36 AM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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Question: If you shoot your own balls off, does that make you an honorary Darwin Award recipient, even though you’re still warmer than room temperature?


6 posted on 09/10/2012 11:54:56 AM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: jakerobins

Darwin chuckles ...


7 posted on 09/10/2012 11:55:44 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
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To: ken in texas

Hmmm.... obviously I took more than two minutes and twenty seconds to formulate my post. :)


8 posted on 09/10/2012 11:56:27 AM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: jakerobins

OUCCH!!!! That’s going to leave a mark!


9 posted on 09/10/2012 11:57:42 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: jakerobins; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
THIS JUST IN: The victim has just signed on as a soprano with the Vienna Boys Choir.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

10 posted on 09/10/2012 11:58:26 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: jakerobins

Bless his little...heart.


11 posted on 09/10/2012 11:58:35 AM PDT by Elpasser
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To: NonValueAdded

Only half a chuckle...


12 posted on 09/10/2012 11:59:02 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Kartographer

Man, I hate it when that happens.


13 posted on 09/10/2012 11:59:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: RingerSIX

LOL. Always glad to see another FReeper with a similar sense of humor.


14 posted on 09/10/2012 12:00:27 PM PDT by ken in texas (I was taught to respect my elders but it keeps getting harder to find any.)
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Ouch. Depending on the damage he may qualify for a Darwin award.

And disability payments from the taxpayers for the rest of his life...

15 posted on 09/10/2012 12:01:00 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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Unfortunately, he was left with one testicle to further pollute the gene pool.


16 posted on 09/10/2012 12:01:12 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: jakerobins

One way to avoid this type of accident is to unload the weapon before cleaning.


17 posted on 09/10/2012 12:01:12 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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I see he has a gun with a decocker feature


18 posted on 09/10/2012 12:02:09 PM PDT by verum ago (Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
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To: Travis McGee

““Cleaning the gun:” what they say when they shoot themselves while being a jackass.”

Dittos. Just what I always think of these stories.


19 posted on 09/10/2012 12:02:36 PM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
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To: Revolting cat!; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
Port St. Lucie, Florida

'Nuff said.


20 posted on 09/10/2012 12:03:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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