As anyone over the age of 22 is well aware teenagers exist in their own mental state and seem to know everything. Here's the story of one teenager who may want to reconsider his mental acumen and finally admit he doesn't know everything and, in fact, doesn't have the mental capacity to really know anything.

In a 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon entitled "Falling Hare" the wascally wabbit matches wits with a gremlin at a U.S. airbase. In one scene the gremlin is hitting a bombshell with a mallet in an attempt to detonate it. Bugs Bunny comes up and asks if he can have a "whack at it". Just before the mallet hits the head of the bombshell Bugs stops and screams; "WHAT AM I DOING!!"

The subject of this story never had the epiphany Bugs had and so he has earned a Darwin Award Honorable mention (possibly).

Our 18 year old subject decided he needed money. Probably, though underage, to buy beer. I recall being 18 once.

The problem now becomes how to raise said money for said beer?

He knew that scrap brass shell casings could be sold for $1.70 per pound to the Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany. The problem was he didn't have any scrap brass shell casings and so he decided that he would make his own scrap brass shell casings by emptying full brass shell casings.

Our protaganist began discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer. The police were called to his home in Lake Luzerne, NY Saturday when one bullet went about a half-inch into his abdomen. He was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released.

Since the abdomen contains the reproductive organs one can only hope this brilliant fund raising idea of his has rendered him sterile. Unfortuantely there is no word on whether or not this is in fact the case.

The total amount of money he would have received for these shell casings was approx. $6.00. We can only hope that his Jr. is never to grace this earth.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=589255

Submitted on 05/14/2007

Submitted by: Jonathan Brown
Reference: timesunion.com May 14th 2007

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James said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
The BEST write-up yet on this story! I think this one should take precedence! Thanks, Jonathan, I like the Bugs analogy and thought the SAME thing when I read this story!

Graham said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
A much better write-up on this story, Jonathan. Thanks.

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