Cascade Crew

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: Darwin Strikes again!

"Man's choice to use shotgun to loosen lug nut turns out bad

SOUTHWORTH, Wash. (AP) - A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's deputies said.

The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.

"He's bound and determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said.

From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was "peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as high as his chin, according to a sheriff's office report.

"Nobody else was there, and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said.

The man was taken to Tacoma General Hospital with injuries Wilson described as severe but not life-threatening."

http://www.katu.com/news/local/11200761.html

Kage87Z · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

He was just a little tired.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

Those damn lug nuts.

I'd probably give myself a hernia trying to get them off before I'd start pulling out firearms to solve the problem.

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

Insanity.

What I want to know is how he had been working on it for two weeks, and only managed to get four lug nuts off.

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

Here all this time I though I was the only one who keeps a loaded 12 guage riot gun hanging over the door of the shop. Shrug

Porting heads with #8 shot FTW!!

iansane · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject:

Sad thing is, that was probably 5 miles from me. Shocked

alloy · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:55 am Post subject:

Funny, we have a guy at work and his name is Darwin.......no joke. He runs the training center and this totally reminds me of him working on his 57 Chevy Duh

Sellmanb · Member Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 727 Location: Tigard, OR

lol, i bet that an harbor freight's impact gun, impact socket set and a air compressor (just big enough to take tires off with) and the tubing/fittings would have been cheaper than his doctors bill, and I'm sure the shotgun didnt even take the lugnut off lol.

91RSVert · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

I thought Darwin required them to die?

anyway, funny none the less Laughing

Dewey316 · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:32 am Post subject: