Man loses leg after shooting at Tannerite filled Lawn Mower

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 1/31/2018 | J Hines

[w1n1]

Shooting at Tannerite can be fun to watch, but its important to be safety minded. In reality this is explosives and there are instances where accident happens when one doesn’t heed to safety.
Like this 23-year-old David Pressley and some friends put about three pounds of Tannerite into an old riding mower with the intent to shoot it and blow it up with the explosive.

The story goes, after “getting more than 20 shots” off the lawnmower exploded. Pressley can be heard yelling “I blew my leg off!” and blood spatters appeared on his person.
Pressley’s friends applied a tourniquet around the the injured man’s leg, helped him into a vehicle and drove him to a nearby road to be airlifted to a hospital.
Pressley’s left leg was missing below the knee.
Atlanta officials stated “there’s no telling how many injuries occur from Tannerite use. The general rule-of-thumb is to be a hundred yards away for every pound of explosives used. Read the rest and see the video of the tannerite lawn mower here.

[babble-on]

I don’t mess with anything bigger than Black Cat firecrackers for this reason.

[Professional]

Lawn Mower Bites Man story...

[Red Steel]

The lawn mower blade ...

[caver]

What an idiot.

[Red Badger]

Hold my leg and watch this...................

[MplsSteve]

“Pressley can be heard yelling “I blew my leg off!” and blood spatters appeared on his person.”

For a second, I laughed as I read this - until I read a bit further and saw that he really did.

Losing a body part is a terrible way to learn a lesson like this. I hope the guy will be OK.

[rdl6989]

Another one????

[alloysteel]

If it had struck just a little higher, it may have qualified for the Darwin Award for removal from the gene pool....

Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced. The other five percent comes from getting the way of somebody else’s temper tantrum.

[WayneS]

Hold my beer. Watch this.

[bigbob]

I think he deserves credit for an accurate self-diagnosis at the time of the injury.

[b4its2late]

WTH?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Well at least he didn't shoot his eye out.

[MAexile]

(Sigh)

Play stupid games...

[ClearCase_guy]

In reality this is explosives

Is you sure?

[b4its2late]

That had to leave a mark.

[Vendome]

you

[Yo-Yo]

How many times is this guy going to blow his leg off since he did it the first time in 2016?

[Hot Tabasco]

You are posting it because?

Because I never saw it before......sheesh!