[UA] What a way to kill your wife...

[Henrix]

At 19:11 2008-04-20, Haroudo Xavier wrote:
>Yeah, if at least one bullet bounced back would be great.

'Luckily' there are others who've tried the same thing, with more 
'fortunate' results (I do think it was on here when it happened):

>US man blasts stubborn wheelnut with shotgun
>Published Tuesday 13th November 2007 10:20 GMT
>A US man has been "severely injured" after blasting a stubborn 
>wheelnut on his Lincoln Continental with a 12-gauge shotgun at an 
>inadvisably close range, the Telegraph reports.
>
>The unnamed 66-year-old, from Southworth in Washington state, had 
>been repairing the vehicle for two weeks and apparently lost his rag 
>with the last bolt on the right rear wheel which refused to budge.
>
>He let the wheel have it "from arm's length", and was "peppered with 
>ricocheting buckshot and debris" for his trouble. He then enjoyed a 
>visit to Tacoma General Hospital with "severe but not life 
>threatening injuries". His feet, legs, and abdomen were worst 
>affected, but the damage extended up to his chin.
>
>Police Deputy Scott Wilson said: "He's bound and determined to get 
>that lug nut off. Nobody else was there and he wasn't intoxicated."
>
>While fans of the Darwin Awards will certainly applaud this valiant 
>effort to earn a posthumous gong for those who have contributed to 
>the "improvement of the human genome by accidentally removing 
>themselves from it", we can't help feeling this ordnance-assisted 
>mechanic is not in the same league as the Brazilian who "tried to 
>disassemble a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) by driving back and 
>forth over it with a car".
>
>As the 2006 citation recorded: "This technique was ineffective, so 
>he escalated to pounding the RPG with a sledgehammer. The second try 
>worked - in a sense. The explosion proved fatal to one man, six 
>cars, and the repair shop wherein the efforts took place."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/shotgun_mechanic/


So, what's with these 'shotgun mechanics'?


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