Fat Inmate Hid Gun in Fat Rolls

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Weapons & War on August 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm

We’ve posted some creative prison smuggling schemes before on Neatorama, but never one this … beefy:

An obese inmate in Texas has been charged after officials learned he had a gun hidden under flabs of his own flesh. [...] The 500-pound man was searched during his arrest and again at a city jail and the county jail, but officers never found the weapon in his rolls of skin. Vera admitted having the gun during a shower break at the county jail.

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A Cupholder For Your Rifle, And Other Gun Accessories

Posted by John Farrier in Gadget, Weapons & War on July 15, 2009 at 7:52 am

Wired has a photogallery unusual accessories that you can mount on a firearm, including a cupholder and an iPhone mount. The latter includes an app that makes ballistics calculations based upon wind, distance, air pressure, humidity and temperature. Take your shot, then sip your beer.

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Would-Be Gangster Shot Off Own Manhood

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Weapons & War on May 23, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Here’s a lesson for all you tough guys: don’t stick a gun in your pants to impress friends, lest you shoot off your manhood!

Lukas Neuhardt, 27, had forgotten to put the safety catch on when he stuffed the gun into his trouser pocket to impress pals in Saarbruecken, Germany.

He told paramedics that a masked mugger had blasted him in the crutch in a bungled robbery.

But police found a hole in his statement when they saw that the gunshot had miraculously left his trousers intact.

"Instead there was a charred hole in his pocket so either it was the shot of the century or he did it himself," said a police source.

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What Is It? Game 91

Posted by Alex in What Is It on February 19, 2009 at 7:06 am

W00t! It’s time for our collaboration with the ever-awesome What Is It? blog – this week’s mystery object is this gun: can you tell us what it is for? (It has a very specific function)

Place your guess in the comment section – the first to guess correctly will get a Free Neatorama T-Shirt. If no one got it, then the funniest guess will win. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many times as you wish.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog – good luck!

Update 2/20/09 – The answer is A Rokuoh-Sha Type 89 machine gun camera, used to train Japanese aviators in aerial gunnery. The first guess that’s specific enough was #15, by “Give the shirt to the funniest answer :) ” So, per that request, the free shirt goes to: Melphistopheles for his guess of early colonoscopy device!

Congrats Mel – and thank you to everybody for their awesome guesses. That was fun!

 
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Man Shot Self ... Without a Gun!

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Medicine, Weapons & War on January 13, 2009 at 2:41 pm

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.

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Why settle for a boring computer mouse when you can surft in style with Road Mice, a cool wireless computer mouse that looks just like the car of your dreams?

Road Mice is available in various Chevy, Chrysler, Dodge, and Ford models including the popular Black Mustang with White Stripes shown to the left.

It's the perfect gift for the auto-enthusiast in your life!
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Papercraft of Hellboy's Revolver

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Movies & SciFi, Pictures on November 25, 2008 at 3:05 am

This fantastic papercraft model of Hellboy’s revolver The Good Samaritan features a working hinge and loadable bullets. It probably takes dozens of hours of tedious cutting and gluing, so why don’t we just gawk appreciatively at the pictures?

Link (in Japanese) – via Geekologie

 
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Cutting Down A Tree With A Minigun

Posted by Algonkin in Everything Else on February 28, 2008 at 7:56 am

The folks at Mythbusters are at it again. This time Kari Byron tested to see how long it would take for a M-134 Minigun to fell a tree. This neat clip demonstrates the gun’s amazing rapid rate of fire. Oh! and yes…it took 45 seconds to bring down the tree!!

Links: Liveleak

 
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