Mr. Gunwrench
This article will satisfy neither camp in the culture wars. While it seems to indicate that Darwin is losing influence (the guy lived), it also resoundingly refutes the concept of Intelligent Design. From today’s P-I:
SOUTHWORTH — A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies said.
The 66-year-old man had been repairing the car for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth and east of Port Orchard and had gotten all but one lug nut off the right rear wheel before getting frustrated Saturday, Deputy Scott Wilson said.
From about arm’s length the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was “peppered” in both legs with 00 buckshot and other debris.
Wilson described the injuries as “severe but not life-threatening.”
My god, I need to watch myself…that sounds like my frustration taking wing.
Wait. That couldn’t be me. I don’t own a gun.
John - Dude, you live in Tejas. If you tell me you own an impact wrench, I’m all ho-hum if you can’t show me your gun cabinet and collection of heads.
I heard this story. It reminded me of my husband’s father. He was prone to little fits like this. He was a wonderful man to his wife, children, family and friends–never getting angry. But if he was working on something or trying to fix something that was not cooperating, he’d throw it through a wall.
“Throw it through a wall? I’ll blast the m#$^%#$^er to Kingdom Come!”
LOL, you beat me to this post, Phil. And intro’d it better.
Seriously, his big mistake was using the buckshot. He mighta thought his gun was loaded with a slug, which, from the proper distance and angle, would’ve worked on your standard Lincoln Continental frozen lug nut by lopping the top off so you could then drill out the threads. Of course, by relating this bit of trivia, I realize what it discloses about my socioeconomic and regional background. In my high school, the principal came on the loudspeaker one morning and told us boys we were to never, ever, ever leave our rifles and shotguns in our cars. as someone might be tempted to steal them, it was irresponsible and unsafe. We were henceforth only allowed to store them in our lockers.
Only in America..!
This even made it on to Car Talk this week.