People who shouldn't touch guns, from the Darwin Awards

[sbryce]

from the official Darwin Awards web site: www.darwinawards.com

28 February 2000, Texas

A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian Roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol on Monday. 19-year-old Rashaad was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian Roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered.


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Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked.
Nehemiah 4:17,18

 

[Coinneach]

Didn't this story make the rounds (npi) a few years ago?

 

[jcoyoung]

Maybe if he used a crappy Lorcin, he might have had a chance.

[This message has been edited by jcoyoung (edited March 22, 2000).]

 

[Gopher a 45]

No, it was a recent phenomenon, printed in our daily excuse for a newspaper. I remember reading it ~2 weeks ago. You know, if people were more educated about guns, this guy may have still been alive today. Instead, Star, Llama or whoever made the gun will probably be sued for this moron's stupidity. Of course, one could argue that anyone this dumb may have simply found another way to earn a Darwin award other than a firearm. I guess it may not even be a Darwin award, since with teen pregnancy rates these days, he may have already passed on his genes. I know it sounds heartless, but DNA is pretty selfish stuff.