Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Potato Fatality



Here's one for the bizarro files:

Western Iowa Man Killed After Potato Gun Explosion

Now don't go and throw away your potato gun. Potato guns are safe when you use potatos. Hence the name.

It's hardly rocket science... but this 21-year-old stuffed a potato gun with explosive powder and ignited it. The gun erupted and killed him.

Weird, huh?

8 comments:

Jay Noel said...

Sounds like the guy watched too many Beavis and Butthead shows.

He'd make a great candidate for a Darwin Award.

birdwoman said...

we have a couple of thost things. Send the boys out back with a spud and their gun... lots of fun. Of course, this is the kind of thing that they'll say - god, do you remember when we were little and you made us play with potatoes?

(*)>

Shover Robot said...

What the heck was this guy thinking?

not too smart.

cube said...

phoenix: Well he's out of the gene pool now.

bw: It's all fun and games until someone gets shot in the eye with a puny potato projectile!

shover: He wasn't thinking about the basics of gunpowder.

WomanHonorThyself said...

o gosh Cube..that IS weird!

nanc said...

i know a guy who put a .22 bullet into a vise and hit it with a hammer - yup - we called him "gimpy" after that...

*;]

Brooke said...

It seems it really IS rocket science for some people.

cube said...

nanc: He's lucky he's not called ghost.

brooke: Sometimes it seems as though the cretins outnumber the clever.