Note to self: shotguns are not surgical instruments

[Ombligo]

Bedeviled by a painful wart that no cream, ointment or doctor could cure, Sean Murphy reportedly decided to try a radical — and permanent — at-home procedure. His surgical tool: a 12-bore Beretta shotgun.
In a move that seems fitting of the Wild West, rather than modern England, the security guard fortified himself with a healthy dose of the local anaesthetic — in lager form, naturally — stretched out his left hand, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

Read the rest yourself.. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43423785/ns/...eird_news/

Good thing he didn't have a cold sore on his tongue, or hemorrhoids... :booty:

[Paul F.]

You can't fix stupid...

If you take the guns away, he'd just have picked up a chainsaw, wood-chipper, or belt sander....

[Racer X]

jeez, a vegetable peeler would have been easier.

[GGD]

Paul F. wrote:
You can't fix stupid...

He tried to fix that with alcohol.

[Paul F.]

GGD wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
You can't fix stupid...

He tried to fix that with alcohol.
Sadly, alcohol has the opposite effect :-)

[bazookaman]

Was he a Hobo?

[Z]

Hey, that's showing here tonight!

[Racer X]

Now, this has been bugging me since I first read it. This guy is full of crap.

"Murphy told the Telegraph that the beer wasn't to blame for his shot taking off more of his finger than he intended. He places blame on the weapon's recoil."

So, the average shotgun shell will throw the the shot at roughly 1200-1800 feet per second. Let's average and say 1500. Most barrels are between 18.5" and 28". Let's say 24". Now the recoil impulse lasts about 10 milliseconds (or 10 1/1000ths of a second).

So the shot is traveling 1.25 feet per ms. It is out of the 24" barrel in 1.6 milliseconds. You need to throw in time to max velocity, but that is reached as it exits the barrel, and the gas expansion bleeds off pressure as the shot column leaves the barrel and stops being pushed by the gas. So that number is negligable.

the pellets are out of the barrel during the first 1/6th of the recoil impulse. I rounded up a bunch of microseconds to make the math simpler.

Lengthen the barrel and slow down the shot, it really won't change the results significantly. If you slow down the shot, you slow down the recoil. How in the heck is the barrel going to jump?

I do this stuff for a living, and I caught the BS before I was done with the article. Can't the drunk man up and say he couldn't even shoot his own finger accurately?

[Trouble]

The problem was the shotgun doesn't cut like a scalpel. That finger is going to pull as much meat and bone off as it can.

[Paul F.]

Racer is right on, by the way...

The shot was WAY past his finger before the shotgun started to move to any significant degree...


Should have just handed the guy a cheese grater...