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Redneck Pest Control

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This is a personal account from the summer of 1988 in Tampa Florida. A former friend and I decided after having a few beers that we would take a walk in the woods next to where we lived and do a little target practice with a new shotgun I just purchased. After finding what I thought was a safe area we set up a few cans at about 25 feet away and used a number 6 bird shot "The cans never had a chance". My sense of reason completely shut down when my friend ask for the shotgun so he could take aim at a palmetto bug (cockroach) crawling up a palm tree. With my brain completely turned to slush and not responding, drool coming from my mouth, I gave him the shotgun. Now he was about 8 feet to my right and we where both facing the palm tree about 20 feet away and focused on taking this cockroach out. If you are not familiar with shotgun ammunition. The higher the number the smaller pellet and the more of them i.e. 00 (double odd has 2 pellets and about 10mm each in size) number 6 bird shot has a few hundred pellets at about 1mm in diameter. A palm tree could almost be called a rubber tree because the surface of the trunk in somewhat flexible and has smooth semi hard surface that on some type of palm trees is almost spongy. Yes you guessed it before I could reset my brain and think the situation through he had fired. Missing the cockroach but hitting the palm tree, the pellets bounced off the tree striking me in the chest and neck. Luckily I was spared and I remain in the gene pool, however I no longer own a shotgun and have not had a beer in 15 years and if I decide to buy another shotgun and take up drinking again, please place the Darwin award on my tombstone.

Submitted on 08/07/2003

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Personal account summer 1988

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Gregory said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I don't see it as that stupid, but a trip to the slush pile won't kill us, either.

Bill said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I agree with Charles on everything, but I still like it.

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Most of the submissions we get are because of people not thinking, and since we usually give more leeway to Personal Accounts, let the readers decide.

Bert said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Agree with charles, most people don't think, and it could be considered bystander hurt.

Charles said:
Maybe Toss: Other
I'm a little leery of judging this one as stupidity because so very few people think of the possibility of ricochet when they aim a gun... it could also be argued that it was the guy behind the trigger that was the stupid one, and the submitter who was the innocent bystander. But on the other hand, it could well be argued that there was plenty of stupidity to go around, there... so do keep us posted.

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