Teen Hurt Whacking Bullets With Hammer

[Bruce333]

Didn't find this one posted yet:

http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/1413503/

LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. — A teenager who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit, according to Warren County deputies.

Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer, deputies said.

Deputies were called to his home in Lake Luzerne shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday when one bullet went about a half-inch into his abdomen. He was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released. No charges were filed.

Mosher told authorities he was trying to empty the rounds to collect the brass casings for scrap.

Sheriff Larry Cleveland said about 100 other rounds that Mosher hit had "fizzled," but one was somehow sent with more force. It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly.

An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

Cleveland said Mosher's shells amounted to just a few pounds.

Lake Luzerne, at the southeastern edge of the Adirondacks, is 45 miles north of Albany.

I guess he never heard of a bullet puller...

 

[SoCalShooter]

Why the hell would he be doing that? Its a lot safer and easier just to shoot the stuff if you want the brass. Stupid kids. Seriously by a 15 dollar bullet puller and di it that way.

 

[oweno]

My Uncle Billy did this very thing when a boy (around 1900). He literally put out his eye which was a godsend for generations of mothers in Chicopee Falls who used him as an example as to what would happen if you did anything dangerous. "You know why Billy Murphy has that glass eye? Stop doing <fill-in-blank>.

Billy was, btw, a cousin not an uncle but in those days children addressed elder cousins as 'aunt' and 'uncle'.

When I was 12 or so, Uncle Billy showed up at Christmas with a single-shot
.22 for me and he, at once, zoomed to the top of my list of favorite relatives. He worked at Stevens Arms and I'll bet he got a 'good deal' on that rifle.

 

[Mr White]

Damion Mosher, you're still alive and therefore are disqualified from receiving your Darwin Award, but, as a consolation prize...

Here's your sign.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Here's Your Sign



Indeed.

 

[budney]

My thesis advisor (a certified genius) grew up in Poland after WWII, and there kids could find oodles of unexploded ordnance in the woods. They actually had safety lectures to warn kids not to play with that stuff, and a common way for kids to kill themselves was to try and remove the shells from their casings.

My advisor responded to the lecture by going out and finding a mortar shell, putting it in the stove, and blowing up the family's kitchen. He was five at the time.

--Len.

 

[TallPine]

We need to regulate screwdrivers and hammers ...

 

[Geno]

Do the math with me...

1) Endanger one's life 100 times to sell for scrap and net approximately $3.00 to $5.00?!

2) Post them for sale at THR for $40.00 + shipping?!

The net for life endangerment...a reduction of $35.00 to $37.00! Am I wrong in my thinking? Obviously the gentleman will never earn an M.B.A.

Doc2005

 

[M249MachineGun]

What a terrible waste of ammo.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

A teenager who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings was wounded in the abdomen by approximately the 100th bullet he hit, according to Warren County deputies.

You there... out of the gene pool!

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

Wow.

You there... out of the gene pool!

+1,000,000

Someone definately needs to keep this genius from reproducing.

 

[Zen21Tao]

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Someone should tell him the correct way to do that. Instead of using a vice just hold the rounds between your legs. Might make the gene pool a little cleaner.

 

[Warren]

What are the odds he stole the ammo?

 

[Flintlock Tom]

If he has .45 ACP, I'll pay $2.00 a pound! If he has 7.35 Carcano I'll pay $10.00 a pound!

All those poor, homeless cases being melted down, Oh, the humanity!

 

[jpk1md]

Darwin Awards Candidate for sure!

darwinawards.com/personal/personal2007-02.html

Bucket of Dynamite

An unnamed patient at the local clinic told my neighbor that he had serious internal injuries, including a ruptured eyeball, total hearing loss in one ear, and both legs amputated mid-thigh, as the result of a fishing accident. Also the man damaged both gonads, qualifying him for the Darwin Award.

He had been standing at the end of a dock with a bucket of dynamite, 2-inch chunks each fused and capped. He lit the fuse, cocked his arm for the throw, and dropped that chunk of dynamite into the bucket of dynamite.

Instantly recognizing the serious situation he was in, the man dove off the dock. But water is incompressible. It transferred the force of the explosion, in line with the blast, against his body.

One doctor was heard to remark that it was good that this patient had lost his balls, as it removed him from the gene pool.

 

[eliphalet]

Another reason to have gun safety classes mandatory in every school in America.
Hundreds of millions of guns, billions upon billions of ammo rounds. Sooner or later every boy is going to come in contact with one or both.

 

[Whatsit]

 

[bensdad]

Two duck hunters on or near Lake Michigan needed a honey hole (winter), so one of them threw a stick of dynamite out where they wanted it. Lab retriever fetches the dynamite. Other guy, recognizing the pending doom, shoots the dog... twice. Tough to kill a lab with birdshot, dog limps under their brand new Suburban. Dog dead. Suburban sunk. Insurance? no way. The article I read said that the owner was still making payments on a blown-up truck two years later. Don't know if it's true. When I read it I giggled (sad about the dog though).

 

[gunsmith]

this isn't the first time we have talked about this

I can not find the old thread though, the same thing happened a year or so ago.

Why would you buy ammo to destroy it and sell to a scrap dealer?
why not sell it to a gun owner for more or just use it?

 

[tasco 74]

heck i've been whackin hundreds of .22 rimfire cartrages with a rubber hammer to use my paco tool hollow pointer accurizer....... if you've never heard of one it's a tool that does work to make .22 rimfires more accurate and it puts a nice deep hollow point in so they expand much better in game... if you need to find your own PACO TOOL go to rimfire central and do a search.... doc 2005......sorry but i'm almost computer illiterate.........

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

That Darwin site is pretty funny. Apparently this kid isn't the only person to get into the scrap metal game by disassembling ammo...

(August 2006, Brazil) August brings us a winner from Brazil, who tried to disassemble a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) by driving back and forth over it with a car. 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.
14 more RPG grenades were found in a car parked nearby. Police believe the ammunition was being scavenged to sell as scrap metal. If it wasn't scrap then, it certainly is now!

 

[heron]

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eliphalet
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Another reason to have gun safety classes mandatory in every school in America.
Hundreds of millions of guns, billions upon billions of ammo rounds. Sooner or later every boy is going to come in contact with one or both.

I've been saying this for years.

 

[The Deer Hunter]

No charges were filed?

Who would they be filed against? The moron kid for self endangerment?

 

[telomerase]

Another reason to have gun safety classes mandatory in every school in America.

Whoa there, cowboy. The schools have reached the point where millions of Americans can't read, make change, or speak in grammatical English. Now you want to let it get to the point where millions of Americans can't shoot?