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shake rattle and boom

2005 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

It was the day of the freshman football teams game aganst their biggest rivals. As you know the tradition at games like this is to see who has th emost support. Well one unexpecting darwin award nominee decided he would make more noise than any of us had imagined. You have probably heard of them, theyre called shakers and are basically a plastic tube filled with rice. This one happened to be filled with 9 mm. bullets all nice and cozy in their new home. Sadly to say this young man did indeed start to shake his shaker only to find out that bullets will fire when hit. This one happened to fire right into his shoulder and caused him greeat pain. So sad he still has his future in tact but watch out for him later.

Submitted on 09/15/2005

Submitted by: J.P. Bradley
Reference: 9-07-2005 personal account

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James said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'm surprised more bullets didn't go off! Anyway, this could use a funnier and more detailed write up, but for now I will accept it as a personal account, if only for yet another creative use for ammunition...

Kelly said:
Neutral: Other
I don't know that this is all that unique enough. It's pretty common for people to use bullets for all sorts of things, other than bullets, believing that if they aren't in a gun then they are perfectly safe toys. If the guy knew that they would fire when shaken, and fully intended them to do so, that would be a pretty stupid act, but based on what I know of most people, he almost assuradly didn't know this...which makes it an accident.

Greg said:
Neutral: Personal Account
Oh, go on then ... using bullets instead of rice is quite a trade!

Jack said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I'm a dubious, but considering that Murphy's Law and Darwin quite often go hand in glove, I'll go with this for a PA.

Charles said:
Neutral: Personal Account
I have to agree with James -- this is one of the more creative uses for ammunition I have run into. And I also am surprised that the explosion of the one shell didn't set off a few more...

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