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Is it inappropriate or genius? Or maybe it's both. David S. Palmer used
a torch to create portraits of people killed by a bullet, on a canvas
of bullet shells casings.
David wrote:
The materials I have chosen to use serve my purpose because of the blatant and emotionally charged response they evoke. These mediums already have a strong mental imagery that is attached to them. Around the world they are still used to either help build dreams or destroy the dreamers. My hope is that you will feel the agony and then see the miracles that can arise from choosing to create rather than destroy.
His painting of John Lennon shown above, called "Walking in the Light," used 8,000 spent shell casings. David has also drawn Tupac Shakur, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy - all killed by gunfire.
Oddity Central has the gallery: Link | David's official website
"Guns
don't kill people, bullets do" or so the saying goes, but 59-year-old
Verlin Q. Alsept was a bit unclear of the concept that you still need
that gun:
Rather the fellow who entered a Family Dollar Store in Dayton on Tuesday threatened the cashier with a bullet — a single .38 caliber round he pulled from his pocket.
The 59-year-old man asked the cashier for all the money in the cash register. Unfazed by the threatening bullet, she declined, and he left the store empty-handed. A nearby private security guard at the Westown Shopping Center — alerted by the cashier — quickly ran the man to ground as bystanders called police.
Link - via News of the Weird
The pen is mightier than the sword, especially when it’s made of a bullet. Behold, the Bullet Pen by Dorian Creations:
Dorian Creations Bullet Puns have clips in the shapes of rifles and are sometimes adorned with camo paint, but that’s not where the gunpowder stops. Each pen is crafted from a real life bullet. Not an artist’s representation of a bullet, a dyed in the wool, could-kill-someone .308 Winchester rifle round. Now you can – quite literally – seal the deal with a bullet.
65-year-old Hou Guoying recently had a bullet removed that had been lodged in her face for 42 years! She was shot accidently during the Cultural Revolution in China in 1967.
The bullet apparently hit her when it ricocheted through a wall during a fight in between rival factions of Red Guards.
But doctors initially told her that her wound was only superficial, the Chongqing News reported.
Constant headaches and difficulty eating eventually led to an x-ray in 1978 that revealed the bullet.
She had refused an operation because of poor medical facilities in Chongqing at the time – resulting in three more decades of discomfort.
This year, the pain began to spread to the rest of her body, so the bullet finally came out. Hou is recovering from the surgery. Link -via Arbroath
Whatever you do, don’t get into a fight with Japanese samurai Isao Machii! If he can cut a rubber bullet fired straight at him in two, then chopping off your noggin is trivial. Yup, you read that right: he can cut a bullet in two.
Link [embedded YouTube clip]
IBM has filed for a patent on technology that would heighten reflexes, making it possible to actually dodge bullets. This body armor continuously scans the area for incoming projectviles. When one is detected the system delivers a shock to the body’s muscles, thus creating a reflexive movement away from the incoming bullet.
The present invention relates generally to the protection of an individual against a projectile propelled from a firearm. More particularly, the present invention relates to a body armor system and its method of use that is capable of detecting a projectile propelled from a firearm, computing the trajectory of the projectile, and moving the individual out of the path of the projectile to avoid being hit.
From the Upcoming 
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It’s just stupidity to shoot yourself, but it takes real talent to shoot yourself … without a gun! Here’s the bizarre story of one Howard Sheppard, 30, of Deltona, Florida who somehow shot himself in the arm without any firearms present:
Sheppard, who works at DeLand Memorial Gardens, told a nurse he picked up six rounds of ammunition and one of them discharged and struck him in the arm, Hudson said. When Sheppard said the other five rounds were in his shirt pocket, a security guard took the shirt and called police.
Sheppard initially said the ammunition was on a shelf and one of the bullets may have discharged because he threw a hammer and a string trimmer on the shelf, police said. After being pressed, he told Hudson that he secured the sixth bullet in a vise clamp, placed a metal punch into the cartridge primer and hit the punch with a hammer.
Link – via Dave Barry’s Blog
A man who was shot in the head Tuesday is back at work already -with the bullet still in his skull! 74-year-old E.T. Strickland was hit during an armed robbery at a convenience store.
Strickland was told by his doctors not to have the bullet removed unless it was pressing on any arteries or causing health problems. He does plan to see a neurosurgeon though because he wants it taken out if possible.
Strickland says it hurts, but not enough to keep him from going to work. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!
If you must know, the first is a .223 Remington and the last two are .444 Marlin. Probably didn’t make much difference to the orange. Link |
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