Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
I'm just amazed this didn't take place down here in the south. Washington state better quit stealing our stories.
A 66-year-old man shot himself in both his legs Saturday afternoon while trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut with a 12-gauge shotgun. [...]
Deputies at the scene reported the man blasted "double-ought" buckshot at the wheel from "arm's length," Wilson said. The deputies described the man's legs as "peppered" from his feet to his mid-abdomen with pellets, pieces of the wheel and other debris. Some injuries went as far up as his chin.The man had been repairing the Lincoln Continental for two weeks, and had removed all the lug nuts on the right rear wheel except for one.
"He's bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said, who did not know how long the man had been trying to free the lug nut.
Next week, removing graffiti from your propane tank with a flamethrower.
Dumbass should've used explosives.
Reminds me of an old man I knew who got tired of seeing the squirrels steal from his birdfeeder, and decided to use some ratshot to remedy the situation. Did I mention it was a glass birdfeeder?
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at January 11, 2008 11:12 AMReminds me of when we first moved to SC. My wife wrote a story for the newspaper about a guy who was out shooting mistletoe off his trees for Christmas when he tripped and shot himself in the foot.
Posted by: spaz at January 11, 2008 11:14 AMDFL sheepishly admits to mistletoe hunting...
It's hard to hit the stalk with a 22. Really.
Posted by: drfranklives at January 11, 2008 11:20 AMJust, why go for the shotgun? That is so far from the most obvious tool for the job (which M/tch correctly identifies as explosives). How is shooting pepper shot at the nut going to loosen it?
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at January 11, 2008 11:22 AMI suspect he got frustrated to the point of shooting at the wheel in anger, rather than making a real attempt at loosening.
Posted by: apostropher at January 11, 2008 11:26 AMMaybe he just realized that his aim wasn't steady enough to hit the lugnut with a single bullet.
Or perhaps he thought, "Let's see, what's a lugnut more like, a duck, or a deer?" I'm not sure how he came up with the answer he did, though.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at January 11, 2008 11:34 AMwhat's a lugnut more like, a duck, or a deer?
I used to own two zebra finches named Shrimpball and Lugnut (true story!), so I'm going with duck.
Posted by: apostropher at January 11, 2008 11:37 AMI suspect he got frustrated to the point of shooting at the wheel in anger
Right, that's when explosives (or a cutting torch) become the correct/obvious choice of tool. I can't see small-caliber bullets having much of an effect.
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at January 11, 2008 01:22 PM