Man Shot Self ... Without a Gun!

Alex

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.

http://www.bradenton.com/331/story/1145715.html - via Dave Barry's Blog

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I think he tried to kill himself on propose. idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah i could see how the shrapnel theory would apply as weak as brass is (for metals); otherwise, the casing itself will project the bullet 'on a path.' and i'm sure it sort of still did, but far weaker; no defect or deformity upon stiking something (hard) probably...
did the guy get struck by case fragments? or by actually forgetting where his arm was? who's to say...let's give him SOME credit as a man who tests his own half-assed theories...right after we call him !!!STUPID!!!
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As one who has been on the receiving end of a few packages delivered by FedEx and found some of my packages ruined/broken I don't find this clip at all funny.
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The sad thing is despite all of these "time saving measures", I imagine their bosses were hassling them for taking too much time. Time is money!

The only one that made me actually laugh was the first one with the oven plastered to the front of the truck. That was legit funny to me. The rest just seemed... incredulous. I stand by my earlier statement though. Even doing all that horrible stuff, they were probably still hounded for being late.
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Makes me feel a lot better about Australia Post who don't even try to deliver to my house - they just put a "sorry you were out" card in my mailbox so I have to collect it from the Post Office.
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