What tragically bad luck. I wonder if CPR could have helped restart his heart.
6 pounds is a cannonball. The headline makes it seem as if this was an accident from a Dennis the Menace sized back pocket sling shot. This was a monster of a slingshot.
This sounds like the death of the first Confederate during the War of Northern Aggression. The soldier was hit in the chest with a spent round. The bullet did not penetrate but the trauma caused his heart to stop beating. Weird the ways we can die.
Sad. RIP.
Sad story. Do they really need an autopsy? Isn’t a 6 lbs rock good enough?
You’ll shoot your eye out.
Any guy here who owned a WristRocket, which is NOT oversized by any means, knows how deadly a properly engineered slingshot can be.
RIP young fella.
Too young for The Darwin Award?
One of the lessons of my youth was that you never launch anything straight up.
Once, when I was a child, I was cleaning my slingshot when it went off. Thankfully there were no injuries, but I never owned up to the neighbors broken window.
I’m sure many of us think about the crazy, foolish and dangerous stuff we pulled when we were young...and we thank God we made it thru...
Rest in peace young man.
My prayers to the parents and the other child.