Mmm...I've become reluctant to engage in these conversations since they
seem to accomplish nothing. One side says its piece, the other side says
its piece, neither side appears any more enlightened about its fellow, and
everyone ends up irritated.
A good time to interject some humor!
Okay, this is getting kinda complicated, this battery thing. I'm now
thinking about just mounting an OM-4 on my AR-15 and shooting whatever I
shoot, dragging it home, then comparing it with the transparencies later.
My garage may smell funky, but comparing film to subject should settle the
controversy about which is better, Velvia, Provia or Kodachrome.
Here is some more (of my sick kind of humor) edited from the 1999 Darwin
Awards. This is not edited to make a point, I just exclusively included
items about shooting:
NOMINEE No. 1 [San Jose Mercury News]: An unidentified man, using a
shotgun like a club to break a former girlfriend's windshield,accidentally
shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
NOMINEE No. 3: [Hickory Daily Record]: Ken Charles Barger, 47
accidentally shot himself to death in Newton, N.C. Awakening to the sound
of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone, but
grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew
it to his ear.
NOMINEE No. 5: Michael Anderson Godwin made news posthumously. He spent
several years awaiting South Carolina's electric chair for a murder
conviction before successfully having his sentence reduced to life
imprisonment. While sitting on a metal toilet in his cell and attempting to
fix his small TV set, he bit a wire and was electrocuted.
NOMINEE No. 6: [The Indianapolis Star]: A cigarette lighter may have
triggered a fatal explosion. A Jay County man, using a lighter to check the
barrel of a muzzleloader, was killed when the weapon discharged in his face
Sheriff investigators said Gregory David Pryor died in his parents' rural
Dunkirk home while cleaning a 54-caliber muzzleloader that had not been
firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when the
gunpowder ignited.
NOMINEE No. 8: [Unknown]: Poacher Marino Malerba shot a stag standing
above him on an overhanging cliff and was killed instantly when the dead
stag fell on him.
NOMINEE No. 10: [UPI, Portland, Oregon]: Doctors at Portland's
University Hospital said an Oregon man, shot through the skull by a hunting
arrow, is lucky to be alive and will be released soon. Tony Roberts, 25,
lost his right eye during an initiation into Mountain Men Anonymous, a
men's rafting club in Grants Pass Oregon. A member tried to shoot a beer
can off his head, but the arrow entered Robert's right eye instead.
Doctors said that if the arrow had gone one millimeter to the left, a major
blood vessel would have been severed and Roberts would have died
instantly. Neurosurgeon Dr. John Delashaw said the arrow went through 8 to
10 inches of brain, with the tip protruding at the rear of Roberts' skull,
yet somehow, it managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also
said that if Roberts had tried to pull the arrow out, he surely would have
killed himself. Roberts admitted that he and his friends had been drinking
that afternoon. Roberts said, "I feel so dumb about this."
NOMINEE No. 11: [The Calgary Sun (CP)]: A man arguing over a love
triangle accidentally shot himself in the groin, taking off his testicles
and part of his penis. Police said the man was waving a .357 Magnum
revolver around during a shouting match, but when he stuffed it back into
his pants, the gun went off.
NOMINEE No. 12: [Arkansas Democrat Gazette]: Two local men were
seriously injured when their pick-up truck left the road and struck a tree
near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc and
Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock are listed in serious condition at
Baptist Medical Center. The accident occurred as the two men were returning
to Des Arc after a frog-gigging trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole's
pick-up truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the
headlight fuse on the older model truck had burned out. A replacement fuse
was not available, and Wallis noticed that a .22 caliber bullet from his
pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering wheel column.
Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights began to operate and the two men
proceeded eastbound toward White River bridge. After traveling
approximately 20 miles and just before crossing the river, the
bullet apparently overheated, discharged and struck Poole in the right
testicle. The vehicle swerved sharply to the right and struck a
tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident, but
will require surgery to repair the other wound. Wallis sustained a broken
clavicle and was treated and released. "Thank God we weren't on the bridge
when Thurston shot his "things" off or we might both be dead," stated
Wallis. "I've been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but
this is a first for me,"said the reporting officer, Dovey Snyder. "I can't
believe those two would admit how this accident happened." Upon being
notified of the wreck, Poole's wife Lavinia asked how many frogs the boys
had caught and did anyone get them from the truck?
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