Stupid Stunt (or a good way to get yourself shot)

[Jacobus Rex]

I thought that I would relay something that happened to me. It is a very stupid stunt that a teenager pulled. I'll call him "Bright Boy":

I had decided to grab a hamburger at a local fast food place a few years ago. As usual, I had a handgun with me. (In this case, a 1911 type .45.)

I pulled into a parking place and a teenager pulled in quickly beside me. I was on alert already because I noticed him "fixing" on me. Bright Boy then pulls a handgun from under his car seat and waves it at me.

However, in that brief moment that I had first seen the handgun, I realized that it was in fact a CO2 revolver instead of a firearm. (It was one of the Crossman's that look like a .357)

I give Bright Boy a "you must be a complete moron" look and he says something like "Ha, Ha. I bet I scared you."

I didn't choose to let him know that I was in fact armed. I only let him know how that was a good way to get killed.

Bright boy could have had a much different ending to his little joke if he had choosen a different person for his stunt.

Thanks,
James

 

[Josey]

I had an idiot "shoot" at me with a 22 blank pistol. I still have a 177 lead pellet in my left pectoral though. A idiot shot me with a pellet pistol. I have had MANY instances of pellet guns and blank guns used by dumb people. I haven't shot any of them in return though.

 

[clubsoda22]

he's lucky you're a very aware person. Personally, i would have called the cops and reported the youths scaring motorists with a pellet gun.

 

[grnzbra]

Better yet, play dumb and don't let the cops know that you realize it's "only" a pellet gun. Then we'll see who's scared by whom.

 

[EchoSixMike]

Honestly, it's better for society if people like that were killed. I understand and agree with your not doing the deed, but allowing fools like this to live and breed is hurting our society in the long run. This dolt will go on continuing to be a dolt and will have little stupid children. Hoping that he will see the error of his ways and reform is extremely naive, head in the sand, wishful thinking. Sadly, our societies laws encourage and reward stupid behavior and punish those who correct the stupid. S/F...Ken M

 

[fix]

What Ken said.

 

[Camel]

Wow, some people are just dumb :banghead:

I mean, Im a dumb teenager and even I wouldn't do something that stupid.

 

[TCD]

I just left the teens but sadly, I can say some of my friends would/have done that :banghead:


Although, I don't talk to them much anymore

 

[Chuck Jennings]

Sounds like a future Darwin award winner to me!

 

[HankB]

I did my share of dumb things when I was a teen, but even at my dumbest, it never occured to me to point a pellet gun at a stranger for laughs. (Oddly enough, like the kid in the first post, I too had a Crossman revolver, that looked very much like a .357.)

 

[Standing Wolf]

1. Write down license plate number, time, location, et cetera.

2. Dial 911.

 

[TamThompson]

There aren't enough parents disciplining their kids these days. A few months ago, I was down on the lower Guadalupe River kayaking near New Braunfels. On shore, at a campite, was a family with two young boys. These boys had BB pistols that they were indiscriminately shooting everywhere, and the mother was half-heartedly telling them to sort of watch it.

As I approached, I called out, "Cease fire!" They looked startled, but complied. Had I not been between runs of a whitewater slalom race, I probably would've given them a little gun talk.

 

[armoredman]

when working for an armored trucking firm, had a teenager jump out from behind a pillar outside a supermarket as I appraoched the truck. He had both hands out front, in a gunfighter's crouch, like he'd seen on TV, and I drew, and went off target just as fast, as I realized his hands were empty, and he was saying "bang, bang." He walked away laughing. The look straight down a loaded pistol barrel didn't faze him in the least. Shook me later when I realized I almost shot an unarmed kid....

 

[copaup]

You know, I actually registered an account to tell this one. True story follows. To get the true impact of the event a little set up is required that is deadly serious. There was an armed robbery here in town in which several subjects entered a local grocery store. Working inside this Krogers was a MPD officer working off duty security in full MPD uniform (this is allowed under current policy). The robbers saw the officer as they entered and immediatley shot and disarmed him. Fortunaltey he survived and all responsible parties were arrested within days. This occurance was all over TV and papers that night and the next day.
The next day a guy comes into a Krogers near the one that was robbed. Another MPD officer is working inside the Kroger in uniform. Brainiac decided to shoplift a roast. Thats it. A piece of meat. Its kind of hard not to notice a huge chunk of meat stuffed under a shirt so officer friendly decides to politely ask the gentleman to stop for a chat. Brainiac instead suggests that Officer Friendly commits an anatomically imposible act and charges for the door. Mildly annoyed that someone would run from him our officer starts after him. Brainiac then produces a silver handgun from under his shirt and points it at him. Officer takes cover and brainiac takes off running again. Now more than a little perturbed officer calls for cars and resumes a cautious pursuit. Brainiac, emboldened by his earlier success decides to again point his weapon at a good samaritan on the lot and then back at officer. Having had enough of this whole having a gun pointed at him our officer fires a single round at a running target at what was measured later at 39 yards. The round strikes our fleeing felon in the leg, shattering the femur (later resulting in the amputation of the leg). Suspect drops his weapon and meat and crawls up under a house where we quickly take him into custody. We find our suspects "weapon" which turns out to be a airsoft pistol. He loses a leg and gets charged with robbery (use of force in a theft), Aggravated assaut x2 (pointing a pistol at PO and Passerby), and being a moron.

Lessons for the day:
If you are going to steal from a store make sure there is no already amped up police officer there.

Dont steal from a store where a police officer was shot the night previous and the suspects are still out.

Don't point guns at police. We don't like it.

A man with a toy gun is at a severe disadvantage when in a gunfight with a man with a real gun.

180 grain Ranger SXT will seriously mess you up.

And finally, don't annoy the nice people in the ER. A dry catheter really hurts, Much to the amusement of the mildly sadistic officer forced to stand guard over your shot ??? when he'd rather be finishing the meal he had just ordered when the call for cars went out.

 

[c_yeager]

And finally, don't annoy the nice people in the ER. A dry catheter really hurts,

I work in an ER and it never ceases to amaze me that some scumbags will call a nurse every name in the book knowing FULL WELL that the very same nurse is the one who is going to be sticking tubes and needles in them for the next 6 hours.

 

[Chuck Jennings]

And finally, don't annoy the nice people in the ER. A dry catheter really hurts,

 

[clubsoda22]

And finally, don't annoy the nice people in the ER. A dry catheter really hurts, Much to the amusement of the mildly sadistic officer forced to stand guard over your shot

I'll one-up you on that.

Cops bring in a guy who's intoxicated on several levels, and the cops want blood samples tested for drugs and such. Well, this guy goes ahead and calls the ER nurse the "C" word and refuses the needle so she tells the officers to cuff his arms to the bed and tie down his legs. They do so and she closes the curtain, for the next three minutes a agonizing scream fills the emergency room. After the painful squeeling ends the cops hear the nurse say "call me a C*** again and i'll cut it off!" she then opens the curtain, revealing the guy with his pants down and a foley catheter inserted. She hands the officers a urine sample. The cops state that they asked for bloods and the nurse quickly remarks, "oh, thought you wanted urine." One cops says, "I've never heared of a cath hurting that much!" to which the nurse responds, "Yeah, well, it does if you dip it in alcohol first."

-Marc (Future Trauma Nurse)

 

[The_Antibubba]

New smilie needed

To symbolize sick laughter combined with assuming fetal position and involuntary ascension of certain "parts" into abdominal cavity.

 

[PATH]

I worked in a hospital security department through my college years. Met my wife, an ER nurse there. I affirm that you will be treated less than gingerly if you are abusive to the medical personnel. If you think the catheter is bad, and it is, try a blood gas from someone who is less than pleased with you.

Lesson for all concerned: The words please and thank you will see you through your stay at an ER better than cuss words and attempting to strike the staff.

Oh and as for Darwin Awards, there was a young fellow who jokingly came into the store and announced a stickup. Yes he was joking. The off duty cop, the retired cop, and the off duty court officer with their backs to the door were not in on the joke. The smiles left their faces and the hands started to move. Before an ambulance was needed the boss yelled at the kid in a manner that may not be repeated on this board. Needless to say he was not spoken to kindly by the three gents at the counter. I daresay the young lad could really have had a bad day. The lesson is that it is not smart to yell, "this is a stickup", in a gun store.

 

[EchoSixMike]

All these stories confirm one of my core beliefs. Life is SUPPOSED to be hard if you are stupid, it's how humans evolve(both biologically and socially/educationally) It's when life is too easy that problems get out of control. The bottom 10% that ought to have perished is now out and about in the mainstream society.

Scientists have opined that natural selection has essentially stopped in Western society. I partially agree, natural selection HAS slowed to a crawl, but there is selection occuring. It's voluntary selection, but it's selection nonetheless. S/F...Ken M

 

[Shaughn Leayme]

I was in a convienence store with a friend when a young man walked in pulled down a stocking cap and with a hand in his pocket, yelled give me all the money......He wet himself when a large steel object was placed rather forcefully behind his right ear and a cold voice (based on witness testimony) told him that if he moved that he would die right there......

Turns out it was a stupid (use your imagination to insert epithets here) joke. I didn't take it as one and since my friend (who was also 8 months pregnant) was up near the counter in harms way and I wasn't going to take the chance, since the last robbery that had happened there the Bg had just stated shooting, no was was killed or seriously injured that time.

The store owner, who was in back had already called the police when on closed circuit he witnessed the .......Idiot start his song and dance routine and arrived shortly thereafter and arrested him, took my statement and had a paramedic look my friend over (she went into labour about 4 hours later, delivered a healthy baby girl) The officer read him the riot act and even marched him over to a video monitor and played the security tape and told him exactly how close he came to departing the world.

He plead guilty to several charges and got probation and community service and had to write letters of apology to my friend and myself.

I really don't know about young people today.................

 

[WR Olsen]

Adding to the medical sub-thread I was working in a military hospital many years ago when a field grade officer came in for a blood draw. He was unhappy with having to do so and as a twit to boot when he started giving me (and everyone else) a hard time.

He was at full volume and high speed when he noticed I was tapping the needle on the desk. It took him about thirty seconds to realize what I was doing and to slowly taper off to silence. I DID use the needle to take the draw.

 

[cracked butt]

*cringe*
Dry catheter, or a catheter dipped in alcohol? GAH!
I had a catheter done once the nice way and it still was one of the least pleasant experiences that I can remember.

 

[W Turner]

Cracked....I was just about ot post the same thing. A catheter done the right way hurts bad enough, I can't imagine it done dry. I it was dipped in alcohol first.......well the cussin' would definitely start then....


Mino

 

[fslflint]

uummm, this thread hurts. had my girlfriends ex point a pellet gun at a few of her farmer friends from school. unfortunatly for him they all hunt and knew the diference between a real gun and a toy. did I mention that they were TOUGH farm boys. lets just say that he now turns around swiftly walks away when he sees me or any of those boys.