Fun With Guns: Dude, Whaddya Smoking Edition
The sky can get frightfully dark at night in Arizona. And sometimes the moon draws first.
Police arrested an Arizona man after he apparently tried to shoot the moon.
Cameron Read was taken into custody Friday after his girlfriend told police he fired several shots from the window of their home, reported KPHO-TV.
Officers said the 39-year-old Read told police he had smoked marijuana and admitted trying to shoot the celestial body which orbits the earth.
Personally, I think the moon was just asking for it.
Thanks to Mike for the heads up.
A course it was, mooning him like that.
1A whole new definition for “shooting the moon”. Dumber, but new.
2The only mooning marijuana ever made me want to do was a different kind.
3Logistics nightmare,I’m telling you. Trying to figure out how fast the moon is traveling,it’s approximate line of travel,the effects of zero gravity on a speeding bullet,the approximate tonnage of powder needed to send a projectile that far,how big a lead you would have to allow for the moon and the bullet to impact,windage,elevation and the all important knock down factor so you could tell if you actually hit it or not. You’d still have to know the actual size of your quarry so you can design a bullet big enough to stop it in its tracks(if it actually leaves tracks). Ain’t any chance of setting up a tree stand close by to ambush the moon. Rattling antlers and grunt calls won’t work if the moon can’t hear. Besides the coasts would probably flood without the moon’s pull on tides. Now I need a gallon of apirins for my aching head.
4I don’t think his eyes look the same direction….that’s why he missed…
5Perhaps the moon was in a threatening posture and refused to back away. In a case like that he probably had to stand his ground. I don’t suppose he tried to pee on it before resorting to violence.
6Well…duh
7@ John Peter … smoking that whacky-tobaccy makes ones eyes go all cattywampus … so you are right … those brown, bloodshot orbs are not tracking in unison!
8It was actually the cow jumping over that he was after. Forget about the dish and that spoon.
9Ah! The cow jumping over the moon. That’s it.
10If you shoot your gun at the moon you are not going to hit the moon.
But you know what? That bullet (or those bullets) you shot upward are going to come downward somewhere near you on earth.
Let’s hope (1) they don’t hit anyone or (2) they only hit the shooter.
I know of a kid sleeping in his bed who was killed by “celebratory New Year’s Eve gunfire.”
11Apparently marijuana and guns don’t mix. At least not in Arizona.
12As stated by many….
13“never underestimate the power, breath, and depth of human stupidity.”
Oh OldMayfly, that is tragic.
14OldMayfly, the “issue” really is about gun safety. The NRA fails to get that message across, while promoting guns for the manufacturing owners of the NRA.
Jane and I live in the wild west and share turf with Cliven Bundy. Before the welfare rancher, we’ve had some rough years with holiday drunk cowboys celebrating and shooting their pieces into the air.
Like, D’uh, NRA can’t you teach simple physics to your clowns. If it goes up, it must come down. And, no you morons not only will your rounds reach the moon, the most likely landing sight is one of your neighbors. If there was a god or goddess, karma or some form of justice, your stupid rounds would land back on your stupid head.
Yeah, with the Fourth of July coming, Jane and I plan to be so far out on the ocean that all we need to worry about is Japanese radiation. We can sail around that. We cannot predict the ammosexuals with guns.
15Wow! On weed and he was that ambitious? I’ve known a few weedsters over the years, starting with undergrad school. Jane always left them so mellow they damn near purred!
16maggie, quite often when Jane and I walk her dog, we meet a couple with the neatest of golden doodles. His mommy calls him a “pot smoking hippie,” because he is so sweet and loves the snacks we carry.
But what too many wish to deny, whether it be prescription drugs or marijuana, one prescription doesn’t fit all. Last I knew some media whack ate a little too much pot in candy.
D’uh. Education, education about drugs and sex and whatever we next need to learn and teach our children, the GOP and their Reichskristallnacht Tea Baggers will take aim at their low information base to stop progress.
Guns kill and should be on the CDC agenda with immunizations. Sorry, GOP, but I am not in favor of diseases that kill or cripple children that were near extinction, until you ammosexuals and anti-science MORONS set us back 200 years. Really.
No problem. You want to live on the river of denial, cool. Kool, find a place that wants you. Bye bye!
17Smoking marijuana, got the munchies, a hankering for green cheese and he just figured he could shoot the corner off.
18Is it me or do guns have more rights than women,according to wingnuts?
19Or did he just mis-understand a card game phrase?
20Was I on the open ocean I’d keep my eyes peeled for nukular submarines piloted by dumbass dubya’s rich contributors. Seems like they sunk a Japanese research ship with students aboard back when and Senator Ron Wyden threatened to get to the truth of who was actually in command of our sub,but that info was labeled top secret and his inquiry ended and fortunes smiled once again on the most dilapidated dildo ever to set foot in the WH.(with apologies to Mama about the dilapidated part)
21Mike did the harmless,victimless type of “mooning”-the kind authorities frown on because there are no victims involved.
22This immediately made me picture George Melies’s early hand-colored film, A Trip to the Moon. If you haven’t seen it, you’ve seen the scene I’m remembering if you saw Hugo by Martin Scorcese. The man in the moon gets a bullet in the eye.
23“A Trip to the Moon”…it wasn’t a bullet that hit the man in the moon…it was the rocket ship.
24Let’s just stop beating around the bush, and call this what it is… LUNACY!
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