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| Florida Man Shoots Himself in Arm Without Gun |
| 2009-01-16 |
| DELAND — DeLand police are investigating a bizarre shooting at a cemetery that involved bullets used in a military funeral service but no gun. Howard Sheppard, 30, of Deltona, was shot in the left biceps and went to Florida Hospital DeLand for treatment, Officer Jacob Hudson wrote in a report. Sheppard, who works at DeLand Memorial Gardens, told a nurse he picked up six rounds of ammunition and one of them discharged and struck him in the arm, Hudson said. When Sheppard said the other five rounds were in his shirt pocket, a security guard took the shirt and called police. Sheppard initially said the ammunition was on a shelf and one of the bullets may have discharged because he threw a hammer and a string trimmer on the shelf, police said. After being pressed, he told Hudson that he secured the sixth bullet in a vise clamp, placed a metal punch into the cartridge primer and hit the punch with a hammer. |
| Posted by:Frozen Al |
| #9 You know, I was thinking of that cartoon before I saw Atomic Conspiracy's picture. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-01-16 16:21 |
| #8 and these two geniuses ended up civilians To the enormous relief of a lot of active duty people. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-01-16 16:10 |
| #7 ...Some years ago at the old Myrtle Beach AFB in SC, a couple of USAF Ammo types who were SUPPOSED to be prepping some 30mm A10 training ammo for disposal decided that the rounds would look much better on their 'I Love Me' walls. They pulled the projectile out, poured the propellant on the ground, and then decided to pop the primer (electrically initiated so it doesn't have a contact point on the base of the casing) by putting it in a vise and putting a propane torch to it. They figure the primer will go bang and they will have a safe, cool-looking trophy. Not quite. What happened was that when the primer cup fired, it became a white-hot fragment that shot upwards through the open mouth of the brass case, ricocheted off a wall and a tool box, and penetrated the thin wall of the propane torch. The resulting explosion, though while not enough to do any damage on its own, set fire to a huge pile of packing material that was sitting next to the workbench (in violation of tech orders). The fire almost destroyed the work bay, and these two geniuses ended up civilians. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2009-01-16 15:25 |
| #6 After being pressed, he told Hudson that he secured the sixth bullet in a vise clamp, placed a metal punch into the cartridge primer and hit the punch with a hammer. I'm just curious, what did he THINK would happen? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2009-01-16 10:44 |
| #5 |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-16 07:16 |
| #4 You can get a bullet puller from Midway or Cabelas for $20.00 or less. Idiot. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2009-01-16 06:10 |
| #3 Reminds me of the Filipino scavenger who decided to mark a find on a disused firing range by pounding a stake into the ground with another recent find: A "dud" mortar shell. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2009-01-16 05:50 |
| #2 OK, experiment succeeded! I don't know what else he really expected from his engineering expedition. He even used a metal punch, instead of the screwdriver or coathanger that I would have probably used. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-01-16 05:17 |
| #1 Darwin Award wanna-be. Better luck next time, idiot. "Too stupid to live" really should be a valid diagnosis. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-16 00:32 |