Dangerous Bob, the Roommate

[Leedavisone]

Way back in 1968, My roommate in College was Bob. I owned a Ruger Single six, and I bought a Semi-auto shotgun, so what did Bob do? He bought the same pair of arms... we were Wildlife Science majors, so it seemed the natural thing to do. Our other two roommates, Don and Walter were hunters, and it was Don who introduced me to quail and dove hunting in southern New Mexico.
One afternoon, Bob decided that he wanted to make a tranquilizer round. He emptied the shot from a 12 guage shell, slid a glass syringe down the barrel, and blew a clean hole the size of a baseball in the back of our couch. We were all furious. Then another day Don came back to the apartment and turned on the TV... nothing. He spotted the neat .22 hole in the side of the TV. That one was never explained.
Walter had a 20 guage, Don and I had 12's. All of us noticed that our ammunition had a habit of disappearing, a little here, a little there. We all went duck hunting down by the Rio Grande when the season was on, and a funny thing happened: Bob was shooting a trio of rounds at some ducks when he was knocked on his ass by the recoil. We walked over to see what had happened, and his 12 guage barrel had a surprising bulge right where the chamber is... I mean, about a 1/2" outward bulge! The 20 guage shell he had loaded hadn't ejected, and had simply slid forward with the loaded 12 guage shell that came next. Walter never had a shell go missing after that.
Bob is now a consultant for the government, I believe.


-" I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake- which I also keep handy." WC Fields

 

[Biker]

Dangerous Bob is obviously Cheney's alias. That explains a lot...

Biker

 

[redneck2]

There are more people slightly to severely "unbalanced" than one would suspect

I had a "roomie" my senior year that was a real piece of work. Total absolute pig. Left trash in the living room, thought it was real neat to spit tobacco juice on the wall of the bedroom.

I bought a brand new calculator (which at the time was $150 in 1973). While I was gone over the week-end he pulled it apart and then just dumped the parts in the housing. My other roomie knew about electronics and re-assembled it, or I'd have killed the guy. As in get my 12 gauge and blow a hole thru him.

About 50% of the women in the US are on happy pills. Ought to tell you something.

Look at internet viewing habits and see what people do in the privacy of their homes.

 

[Long Knife]

That was brilliant, Biker, a real Einstein.

 

[Pa. Patriot]

Bob is now a consultant for the government, I believe.

Perfect.

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

Good lord, I hope you're kidding!!!

 

[Biker]

Thank you, Long Knife, I'll be here all week. Try the veal...

Biker

 

[Phaetos]

So he runs the ATF division that distributes C&R applications and approvals?

 

[2TransAms]

I had a roommate who thought it was funny to shoot at me in the house with a BB gun. Not a Red Ryder, but a pumped up Crosman 760. Stung like hell. Besides the holes in the walls and losing the deposit because of potentially broken windows, I was more worried about my eyeballs. After taking cover and shouting warnings didn't work, I risked permanent blindness by jumping over the couch and drilled him right in the nose as hard as I could.

He never shot at me again, and moved out shortly after. Said I was too hard to live with .

 

[steveno]

Rule # 1 : never have a roommate if you have guns ever

 

[Master Blaster]

When I was a freshman in 1979 I had 7 room mates in a Quad.

One of them was Joey, he Gene, and Mike were all from staten Island NY.
All of their dads were in the Carting and Hauling and waste management business.

Anyway Joey was also a weight lifter, He was my good friend and a great guy, and the girls he and his girlfriend would bring down for parties were.. not girls looking for a commitment.

There were no guns at Muhlenberg College, not in my dorm freshman year

Anyway we were playing darts, last week of school, and a yellow jacket flew in the window. It flew straight at me I swatted it to the floor and stomped on it. Joey threw a dart at it, which ended up embeded in the top of my sandal clad foot about 1/2".

He did help me pull it out which was not easy, and drove me to the infirmary for a tetnus shot.

After all he was my friend.:banghead:

 

[CWL]

Coming back from classes freshman year, I noticed all the firetrucks parked in front of my dorm. "Some idiot probably pulled the fire alarm" I thought, but it became apparent that the firemen were coming out of my room. They were all pretty pissed.

Turns out my roommade had taken out my crossbow and decided to use the fire sensor/alarm at the top of our 20' wall for target practice. Set off the entire system, emptied 900 residents into the streets.

 

[Leedavisone]

More shooting friends

In addition to Bob, the roommate who was poor with his judgement about firearms, I have had two friends that have shot themselves. One, Doug, had a High Standard Semi Auto .22 with a hair trigger. While riding in the car to go out rabbit hunting, he shot a round down into his calf... struck the leg bone and shattered the bullet. It was a different age back then (1969), for when we went to the hospital in Albuquerque a Sheriff's deputy showed up to ask a few questions )the hospital routinely called in a gunshot wound. The deputy filled out a brief form and found the whole business somewhat amusing, as did we, later. The fragments are still in Doug's leg.
Kent, a friend from work went out camping in Eastern New Mexico... hiked in to a nice spot about ten miles from the car, with a buddy. Around the campfire he was twirling his .22 revolver on his finger, and yep, you guessed it, it went off. Shot cleanly through his right nut. He walked back to the car, what he said was the toughest ordeal of his life, for his nut swelled up to the size of an orange. The doctor removed the offending nut. What surprised me about it all was that he told me the story of what had happened! Not to worry though... he got married and has kids now.
I am a very careful firearms owner... never any problems. But then I have had a lot of help learning what can go wrong. After all, what are friends for?



"There is nothing more exhilerating than to be shot at without effect" -Churchill

 

[Adam Selene]

Rules for living;

#5, Never have a roommate who is crazier than you are...

 

[Lonestar49]

...

it went off. Shot cleanly through his right nut. He walked back to the car, what he said was the toughest ordeal of his life, for his nut swelled up to the size of an orange.

The doctor removed the offending nut.

What surprised me about it all was that he told me the story of what had happened! Not to worry though... he got married and has kids now.
........................

In horse country, they call that being "Proud"


LS

 

[ProguninTN]

steveno

I guess I'm the exception. Mine shoots with me. In fact I let him shoot my shotgun, and he lets me shoot his rifle.

 

[JohnL2]

Kind of figures he works in government now huh?

 

[SecuritySixShooter]

Does rule #1 apply if both of your roomates are into guns as well? Did I mention that I laid down the law concerning my guns and ammo 2 months prior to moving in?

 

[Bart Noir]

One of them was Joey, he Gene, and Mike were all from staten Island NY.
All of their dads were in the Carting and Hauling and waste management business.

Is this a review of a Soprano's episode

Bart Noir
Who has some crotch discomfort after reading about that long, painful walk. Sympathetic pains, donchaknow.

 

[Chuhhuniban]

I had a roommate in college in Georgia who was from Chicago and who had never, ever fired a gun in his life. At the end of our first school holiday, I got back first and I was sitting in our room (in the dorm), in the dark, field stripping and reassembling my M1911 (while drinking a beer - I'm sure prohibited, but I conveniently don't remember - and eating jalapeño peppers out of a mason jar).

He did finally get over the shock of it and actually learned to shoot (sort of), and got a lifetime of amusement out of telling people about his facial expression when he walked in and flipped on the light.

We stayed roommates until I got married, so I guess I didn't warp him too much.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

He wanted a tranquilizer...Thats priceless. Thanks for sharing that...Its just fitting that he works for the government now.

Are you sure it wasn't "dangerous Donald"? because he doesn't work the the gov't anymore.