‘Responsible Gun Owner’ Blows Off His Own Leg After Turning His Lawnmower Into Exploding Target

[tabasco]

Source: Addicting Info per Atlanta Journal Constitution

Successfully proving that we will kill ourselves before ISIS ever gets the chance, a patriotic gun owner decided that the only way to make shooting his lawn mower better was to also rig the lawn mower to explode. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? The short answer is – a lot.

David Presley loaded up an old lawn mower with three pounds of Tannerite , which is a compound used to create exploding targets for use on shooting ranges. There’s no legitimate need for a target to explode, but hey – ‘Murica! Right?

Presley clearly didn’t read the instruction manual. Sheriff Joe Chapman told local news that you are supposed to use less than a pound of the explosive compound if you want to make an exploding target and you need to stand at least 100 yards away from it when you shoot.

Presley opted to use the 3 pounds and stand 25 yards away. The ensuing blast of liberty deprived Captain Dumbass of his left leg below the knee.

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/25/responsible-gun-owner-blows-off-his-own-leg-after-turning-his-lawnmower-into-exploding-target/

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Good thing he had a gun to keep himself safe!

[KamaAina]

1. Missed a Darwin Award by that much!

peabody mentioned he might be considered a runner-up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027715594#post3

[exboyfil]

4. He is not running any where without a leg

Beer, semiautomatic weapons, and explosives - What could possibly go wrong.

Hold my beer while I...................

[awoke_in_2003]

18. He doesn't have a leg to stand on. nt

[KamaAina]

25. Oh no you di'int!

[awoke_in_2003]

32. Oh yes I did

But then I am a twisted individual

[titaniumsalute]

48. His new nickname? Eileen!

[KamaAina]

55. And where does he work? IHOP!

[titaniumsalute]

59. Indeed

[riversedge]

2. Stupid will be stupid.

[Blue Owl]

3. Yard waste

n/t

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. These days, every Jackass feels compelled to film themselves,

Of course this jackass is no exception:

Here's to you dumbass suburban-warrior!

[pansypoo53219]

24. he DIDN'T say dammit.

MORE DARWIN!!!!

[C Moon]

33. I didn't watch video, but what the hell was he thinking? Wow!

[msanthrope]

37. "Oh I blew my leg off!" Um, yeah. nt

[llmart]

39. Wow!

That sheriff is about as brilliant as the dumbass who shot his leg off.

Georgia - vying to win the "stupid" award from Florida or Texas.

[tabasco]

67. "Look at me! I'm a big tough guy COMMANDO with my big assault rifle!"

"Except that I never served in the military and can't do 10 pushups."

[Blue_Tires]

73. Christ, what an asshole...

[Loki]

6. More powder to him.

[mak3cats]

14. Good one!

And your user name would be a great name for a cat! Just waiting to adopt one that it fits...

[Loki]

16. It is in honor of my late seal point Siamese.

He was the embodiment of Loki. Never a dull moment. I miss him still.

[Mbrow]

21. We named ours AC....

Antichrist.... But he's a snuggler.

[whereisjustice]

7. They should charge the son of a bitch as well and throw him in jail.

[Major Nikon]

15. He's already on his last leg

[Loki]

23. I really laughed at that, shame on me.

[cannabis_flower]

63. Now we have a leg up on him!

[Major Nikon]

64. Still have to put your pants on one leg at a time

[TeddyR]

57. Charge him with what?

Being a dumbass?

[geomon666]

8. Good, fuck him.

Enjoy those government disability payments, dumb fuck.

[AlbertCat]

9. Well that's one way to qualify for disability.

[HassleCat]

10. The only protection against an old lawn mower

Is some explosives and gross stupidity.

[SheilaT]

11. On the up side, at least he was the only one injured,

not his friends standing right behind him.

I have zero sympathy for this guy.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

47. Agree, he had no kids or dogs in toe.

[LiberalEsto]

12. This isn't LBN. It happened Sunday and I posted it two days ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018851133

[OnlinePoker]

13. How the hell can it be legal to buy high explosives?

Do people have to have some sort of training for using it? Obviously not in this case.

[christx30]

19. Legal to buy high explosives and flamethrowers.

Federally illegal to buy medical pot. <Yakov Smirnoff) What a country!

[NickB79]

53. Tannerite isn't considered a high explosive because of a few quirks it has

It's sold as two separate, non-explosive ingredients that must be mixed before use, and is not flammable or able to be detonated with a fuse or spark. Only a high-velocity impact (such as that from a rifle) can set it off.

That said, it is pretty fucking dumb shit to play with, IMO.

[jmowreader]

66. It's considered a binary explosive

Since it doesn't go boom until it's mixed, the feds don't regulate it as an explosive.

[Sunlei]

69. so the 'high impact' from an electric hand size bolt gun would set it off?

[NickB79]

71. Is the bolt traveling over 2000 feet per second?

Tannerite requires a bullet traveling at least 2000 fps to ignite. Thus, handgun rounds don't set it off, only rifle rounds.

[Xithras]

77. Someone did a Youtube demo a while back.

He modified a bullet casing by replacing the primer with a modified model rocket ignitor, and then hand loaded the bullet and powder. The whole thing was hot glued to a slab of scrap iron to give the bullet casing more mass. The entire project took him about 30 minutes. When he was done, he dropped it into the middle of a bag of Tannerite, hooked the ignitor up to a battery, and BOOM. The electrical charge set off the bullet, which fired with enough force to detonate the Tannerite.

Not the most straightforward detonator ever built, but still fairly simple.

At some point, some terrorist is going to build a Tannerite based bomb. That's just the reality of our modern world. Tannerite will be banned within a week of that happening.

[Sunlei]

82. Thanks, that's exactly what I think will happen.

[madokie]

17. A brain is what he really needed.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

72. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? A Teabagger Wizard of Oz remake. We'll split the profits.

I like your plot twist. Our Einsteinian hero will seek out the Wizard because he needs a leg, but in the final shot, he'll find out that what he really needed was a brain. We'll need to cast an Ernest-Goes-to-Camp-level actor. Sadly, I believe Ernest himself has passed.

But he'll need to run into other f-ed up 'baggers along the way--maybe a sociopath devoid of empathy, one looking for the courage to wash off the Chee-toh dust and come out of the basement, that sort of thing.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Heartbreaking.

A man victimized by his own firearm. Isn't there anything you can trust these days?

[NBachers]

22. Who paid for the rescue team? Who paid for the police? Who paid for the emergency medical care?

Who pays for the ongoing medical care? Who pays for him to live out the rest of his days disabled? Who pays for his food from now on? Who pays for his housing from now on? Who's going to pay for his booze from now on?

Freedumb from govmint interferince!

[Major Nikon]

26. That's going to cost an arm and a leg

[Coventina]

43. LOL!!!

[elljay]

31. You know he's still gonna vote for Trump

I'm sure irony is another thing missing from his body.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. "You know he's still gonna vote for Trump"

Why did I read that as sTump?

[elljay]

35. Ha! The puns write themselves! nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

40. I look forward to his stump speech

"Tibia or not Tibia ..."

[Coventina]

44. !!!

[Jesus Malverde]

75. DUZY...nt!

[kjones]

27. NRA: "Gun didn't do it *shrug*." nt

[thesquanderer]

54. Clearly, we need more regulation of lawnmowers. (n/t)

[kjones]

58. "Lawnmowers are nature's most dangerous game..."

"You see this beauty?" *gestures at the headlights of a John Deer mounted on the wall above the fireplace*
"Excellent specimen...I tracked her through the bush for nine days before she ran low on fuel. Even then,
she put up a fierce fight; charging...churning through the underbrush...blades whirling. By the end of the day,
she'd cost me my eye." *lifts eye patch, revealing a grisly, scarred socket*

"Still, I'd give my remaining eye for one more hunt as invigorating as that day..."

[Aristus]

28. Jesus Christ. The ways the rubes choose to amuse themselves out in the provinces...

If you fuckheads would learn to read, you could pass the time pleasantly without blowing your fool legs off...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

41. Switching to de-calf might calm him down.

[Coventina]

45. This thread is a thing of beauty!

[doc03]

29. I heard an explosion a couple weeks ago, being that there

is a lot of gas well drilling around I thought a well blew. It rattled the widows and shook the ground, I found out the next day
a neighbors teenage grandsons were shooting that stuff about a half mile away. That stuff shouldn't even be legal especially for teenagers.

[Alkene]

30. This problem has me stumped.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. You just kneed a clue. nt

[Major Nikon]

38. Just kneeds to do the leg work

[mark67]

42. When I was 18 over 25 years ago...

Some friends and I built a chemical bomb with the intent to blow it up out in the woods. Yes, there was alcohol involved and we were young and dumb...but we all walked away intact...by the grace of God.

Nowadays I read these types of stories and the guys involved are between 30-50 years old. It seems that adolescence in the US now extends up into the 50s. Same when I get cut off or nearly sideswiped in traffic or have a guy make a left turn in front of me with no into oncoming traffic with no turn signal...not teens...all in their 30s-50s...all in a hurry, all angry.

I don't know if I've become the overly cautious grumpy old man I used to make fun of when I was younger or if something has changed in society. Any thoughts?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

46. One thought: There but for the grace of God go I.

I, too, have survived much stupidity.

[packman]

49. He's really going to be pissed buying shoes now

Have to throw away one of them. Maybe he can apply for a membership in the Brotherhood now -

"Aye, how be it ye lost yer leg matie"
"I blew it off exploding my lawnmower"
"Lawnmower, ah. That be some sort of ship?"
"No, a thing to cut grass"
"Cut grass, ye say- that be no qualification for the Brotherhood. Ye preamble down the street and see about the Joker Guild for Dumbassery"


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The thing that pisses me off is now he will qualify for hospital care and probably some sort of disability for his stupidity, stupidity we will have to support him for.

[struggle4progress]

50. Walton County GA Sheriff's Office added 2 new photos.

March 20 at 5:27am ·

Yes, it is legal and no, we can't make people stop doing it. But why, folks, just why?

The dangers of tannerite were more than words Saturday afternoon for a 32 year old resident of eastern Walton county. He was dangerously close to the object containing the tannerite when the final gun shot round caused it to explode sending a piece of shrapnel through his leg severing it below the knee. Yes, completely taking his leg.

Please adhere to the warnings and use this dangerous material with caution or maybe consider other less dangerous hobbies. It's just not worth it for a loud boom!

https://www.facebook.com/Walton-County-GA-Sheriffs-Office-1650011495220852/

[Agnosticsherbet]

51. Responsible? "You keep saying that word. I don't think it means what you think it means." nt

[yurbud]

52. he need a gun to protekt hissef from hissef

[valerief]

56. I love these stories. Continues to prove ammosexuals are morons. nt

[pallidin710]

60. Guess he wasn't really a "responsible" gun owner,

[madinmaryland]

61. He was, until he wasn't.

[PaddyIrishman]

62. Dead Kennedys Anyone

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[Mendocino]

65. Maybe he'll try to sue the tannerite manufacturers

but he doesn't have a leg to stand on and now he's hopping mad.

[TexasBushwhacker]

81. It seems some people have been killed

It's legitimate use is to make exploding targets for long range target practice, but some people are using it to blow up feral pigs. It seems like an awful risky substance to have available to the general public.

[Sunlei]

68. never knew explosives for gun 'targets' were sold to anyone with cash.How big is the explosion with

100 pounds of explosive?

[sir pball]

74. Guy in MN stuffed the whole 100# into a truck a few years ago..

Pretty sure he lost his guns for good for that one.

[Xithras]

78. This big...

[workinclasszero]

70. You can take my left leg below the knee

But u can never take muh gunz!!!!!

[SoCalMusicLover]

76. Clearly We Need To Outlaw Lawnmowers

Guns are fine though.

[TeddyR]

79. This guy

Needed to follow some basic safety instructions and probably shouldn't have a gun. Disappointed in all the posts celebrating someone else's misfortune though.

[DiverDave]

80. Misfortune?

When you cross at a crosswalk and some idiot blows through and hits you, THATS misfortune.
What he did was not misfortune it was straight up moronic.
No sympathy here.

[TeddyR]

86. Not expecting sympathy

But disappointed that people who claim to be "progressive" and Dems celebrate or mock someone losing a leg.

[MillennialDem]

84. Sucks that he will probably get a leg transplant

[Aristus]

85. How is this a misfortune?

He shot at an explosives-laden lawnblower, intending to blow it up. And it did blow up. Where's the misfortune?

[MillennialDem]

83. I'm sure this fella heard all the statistics "you're more likely to hurt yourself with a gun" and

thought "nah, that'll never happen to me" just like our own gungeoners.