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- Yage2006, on 10/12/2007, -13/+170Natural selection in action :)
- cmilki, on 10/12/2007, -21/+155It's "The most Stupid Teenager"
Sorry, couldn't resist. - gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+116Well, it was only a face wound... he can still go on to breed.
- SimpleBinary, on 10/12/2007, -6/+90Hopefully he's too ugly now...
- tsarfan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+83see what happens when kids dont have enough drugs to do?
- jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+73Yeah, because there aren't stupid people anywhere else in the world.
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -1/+62"So why can't we have a video of this?"
I'll film if you hit. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58Thats how we got kids like this....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51We have videos of people pouring gasoline on their pants and running through fire.
We have videos of people hitting a can of WD-40 with a sledgehammer.
So why can't we have a video of this? - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -6/+53One word: FLORIDA.
- cybortrip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48"They say it appears to be an accidental injury. There were no charges."
I would have charged him with 1 count of stupidity and 2 counts of retardation. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44Whatever happened to unprotected casual sexual? Kids these days..
- Alphateam, on 10/12/2007, -38/+70This is what happens when they are taught that Noahs flood made the Grand Canyon.
They do not know how the world works. - PhantomRogue, on 10/12/2007, -6/+38No, we are digging you down because you are an idiot.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35You're an idiot because instead of blaming the teenager doing stupid *****, you blame pretty much everybody else. You complain about the bullet being available, you complain about lack of gun control, etc...
It's called personal responsibility. The idiot kid was clearly trying to make the bullet fire. The fact that he took a bullet, put it in a vice, then whacked the primer with a screw and a hammer clearly shows that he knew what he was doing. He was trying to fire the thing.
And you blame the bullet being available to him? Yes, that is idiocy. - MEbuDDy6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25You lazy bums. If you had bothered to read the article which was a grueling 6 sentences long..... you would know.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Carlos Mencia isn't funny. Sorry.
- thecoolestcow, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28Stupidest is a word. Ninjawords says:
stupidest
(adj) : superlative of stupid; most stupid
Also, Merriam-Webster shows the definition for "stupid" when typing "stupidest" in the search box at m-w.com. Yes, it's a word. - Coven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21With no barrel to guide the bullet it pretty much goes any which way it wants.
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19that is an astute observation you've made.
- cvp1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I hope the title of your submission is intended for ironic purposes.
- pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I actually did this once 26 years ago. I was only eight or nine years old. I found the .22 cal bullets in my father's closet and took one to our workshop.
I obviously had no appreciation for the danger surrounding bullets. I was just curious and wanted to know what made them go. The first thing I did was cut the bullet in half with a pair of heavy wire cutters (maybe tin snips). That opened the casing and I saw lots of little formed rods of gun powder tightly packed in the cylinder under the bullet. Looking back, I've always been amazed it didn't ignite the gunpowder.
I expected a loud bang from cutting the bullet, and when I didn't get it I went a bit further. I put the half of the bullet with the firing pin on the anvil part of our vice and smacked it with a hammer. The sound was so deafening that my ears rung for five minutes and I couldn't hear a thing. I also took a little shrapnel to the nose and cheeks, but nothing so serious that I had to involve my parents. They didn't found out until I told them just a few years ago.
I got WAY lucky, but not much smarter. I still like to take stuff apart just to see how it works. - BillGod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18it's just a flesh wound!
- bieber, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27In cases like this, we need to actually _enforce_ natural selection. Someone needs to be sterilized...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+28@CraigB12
I don't see how anyone would Digg you up for that. It was a completely worthless comment.
My comment is worthless as well, though, so Digg me down, too. - falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I knew a guy who ended up blind in one eye from doing this with a blank from a starter's pistol. About the same age as this kid when it happened. I shudder to think back at all the stupid things I did when I was 15-16, and I'm just glad I don't have any permanent injuries (just some scars with some embarrassing stories behind them). I hope this kid comes out healthy and a little bit smarter. Goodness knows he's not the first teenager to do something stupid.
- Al3x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17The worst part is that it sounds like something I would have done thinking it was a good idea....
- Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Casual sexual?
- ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"They say it appears to be an accidental injury. There were no charges."
Really? He didn't accidentally shoot himself on purpose? - khag7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Not smarter. Just less stupid.
- scilec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'd say that it's a case of being a teenager and making really bad judgment.
According to many diggers, That actually makes him the world's second stupidest teenager and me the first. When I was a teen, I was with my cousins and I found several bullets on the ground. I then proceeded to throw them into a camp fire. Fortunately, nobody was hurt and I was even able to "breed" later. I guess the world is doomed. - Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14What jwoey means to say is that the *cartridge* probably exploded. The bullet was most likely copper jacketed lead...not exactly something that explodes. but as Coven said, without a barrel, or more importantly, a chamber, it's very likely that the brass casing fragmented, propelling the fragments as well as the bullet in many directions, though at far less than the velocity of the bullet when fired from a gun.
- Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9In fact, the only way this story would have been better was if it was Mencia hitting the primer. He's that unfunny.
- iet2004, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Gryffydd's reply is a prime example of why I want to marry a nerd. love you guys.
- btgoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8And now you know why Fark has a Florida tag....
- Hashiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Too bad death was laid up on the Griffin's couch...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11i'm sure there are less intelligent teenagers, and all of them come to digg
- Jwoey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8the bullet exploded, it didnt fire like it would out of a gun.
- RAiNsTorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You silly bastard, your face is off! Have at you!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I know that city well.. and trust me.. he is about as bright as they come.
- ahughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ah yes, another great Darwin Awards Honourable Mention. I guess we know where that family's genes sit on the food chain.
- 0siris, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Here in New York, we have regulations out the ass. The only way for us to get guns aside from the long waiting period is to buy a dirty gun from the street (which was most likely used to plug a cop) or get one from out of state. Both illegal, so law abiding citizens are left defenseless against criminals
- PabloMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If a trained adult would have shown this boy how to responsibly and safely handle firearms and ammunition, he would have had due respect for the loose round and disposed of it properly.
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"If you think back to your teenage years, I'm sure you remember doing things almost as stupid, or worse. Or knew people who did."
True, I spent hours convincing my "friends" not to so such things. They called me a pussy. Now one is dead, and the other is a total loser.
So kids, don't listen to your friends who call you a pussy. Seek it instead. - DoctaStooge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Example of ImTheDarkcyde's point. A sample post:
omfg, d00d got pwn3d, rotflol - Pezza131214, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No, not only in America, It's all over the world my friend.
Here's a grown man in Brazil, doing the same thing with an RPG.
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2006-04.html
I know Brazil is in America, but it's not in the US, and it's clear when you say America in your comment, you're speaking about the US. - diggenerate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This has nothing to do with why guns are bad, in fact a gun wasn't even used just a bullet. Why are guns bad?
because someone could get hurt right? Well think about that logic for just a second. Someone could only get hurt if they were not properly trained or if someone intentionally shot them. So they only culprit is not the gun but the idiot behind it. In areas where it is required to have at least one firearm in your residence, crime is significantly reduced, now why do you suppose that is? - sremick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm not arguing those statistics, nor am I trying to equate the UK and the USA. Those are two vastly different countries with different cultures, and incredibly different sizes. And they were founded on different principals.
One of the core foundations of the USA is that they saw what happens when the government gets too much power. So important that it's in the constitution. The idea of making sure that the general population could maintain their own firearms was designed to protect against the advance of a "police state". Hopefully you've read enough of the news (particularly Digg) to notice how significant of an issue this is becoming. It is a particular problem in the USA (the multiple tasering stories, the innocent civilians being shot due to botched police raids, the person's house being burnt down by a flash grenade, etc) but the UK isn't innocent of increasing police-state tendencies either.
While the UK and other countries might be content to let themselves be ruled with absolute power and shuttled around like obedient sheep while refusing to stand up to the travesties of their own government and police, the USA tends to think otherwise. The idea of armed civilians is meant as a deterrent, both to potential criminals AND to a government/police that might be inclined to overstep its boundaries. I don't personally walk the streets with a concealed weapon, but it's legal for me to do so in my state and someone thinking about mugging me would have to consider that. Same with someone considering breaking into my home. Here in the USA the only robbery I was subjected to was to my storage facility 10 miles from my home. I've never had my actual premises robbed.
And I must say, in the USA the person most-likely to mistake you as a burglar and shoot you is a cop, who'd have the gun even if you banned them from the citizens.
What your statistics show is that America has a larger percentage of crime than the UK. What they do not show is that the guns are the CAUSE of this additional crime. We have other problems and factors contributing to that discrepancy, and it's idiotic to try and put the blame on guns. Guns don't cause crime, criminals cause crime. If the USA has that many more crimes with firearms than the UK, it's naive to assume that if there were no guns all these people with criminal intent would magically become angels and good citizens. Their desire to rob/rape/murder/etc was already there and they will do it by whatever means they can once their mind is set to it. We won't solve the real problem unless we stop looking for knee-jerk convenient scapegoats and digg deeper. And solutions should punish criminals, not punish innocent law-abiding citizens while continuing to let criminals be criminals.
- TKardinal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you think back to your teenage years, I'm sure you remember doing things almost as stupid, or worse. Or knew people who did.
This lack of judgement is why we have laws forbidding teens from having access to so many things, such as cars, guns, drugs, alcohol, pornography, and sex with people who have achieved their majority.
Think about this. - hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9boom headshot?
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