Fun With Guns: Not THAT Kind of Snake Edition
It happened in Florida.
Eighteen year old Brandon Rapé was out with some friends in a pickup truck at 11:00 one night and need to use the bathroom. They pulled over and he proceeded to take care of business.
As they were pulling over, 18 year old Jared Hemphill saw a snake in the road and borrowed the semi-automatic rifle of a 21 year old friend who was with them to shoot the snake. Jared heard rustling in the bushes and suspected that was the snake. So he fired the Remington Speedmaster and hit … you guessed it … Brandon.
Luckily, Brandon was hit in the thigh and will live. He is not pressing charges but will retain bragging rights for his stuff being mistaken for a snake.
And a week before that a 75 year old man in Florida shot himself in the finger while aiming for a water moccasin on his front porch. The water moccasin got away.
It seems to me that the snakes are winning and they don’t even have guns.
Somebody alert the NRA.
Thanks to Carl for the heads up.
Now isn’t that the darndest thing! Not that these yoyo’s are total misfires themselves, but that the NRA ain’t interested in such reports! Can’t imagine why!
1Sad, terrible article from this morning’s NYTimes:
2http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/children-and-guns-the-hidden-toll.html?hp
Rilly unfortunate their parents weren’t shooting blanks or is this another Darth Cheney in the making? Hunter safety courses must have been rilly dumbed down.
3The only way to stop a stupid guy with a gun is a smart snake with a gun.
4Whatever happened to chopping snakes in half with hoes?
5Ah, the dreaded Pants Snake. Most dangerous of its kind.
6I see a sequel to “Snakes on a Plane” – “Snakes With Guns!!!”
The NRA’s catch phrase will be “the only way to stop a bad snake with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” The fact that the snakes don’t have trigger fingers won’t be mentioned.
Seriously, though – what is the deal with shooting snakes? What’s wrong with leaving the snake alone – or using a stick to shoo it away? I can see getting rid of Burmese pythons in Florida, but why start blasting away with a rifle or a pistol? Why not a shotgun with birdshot?
7I see a SyFy movie on the very near horizon.
8No minimum IQ required to shoot your friend who you knew was going into the bushes.
9Sounds like snakes shooting snakes.
10Always put a finger in front of the barrel when trying to shoot a snake. Right?
11Real Men don’t shoot snakes– they use their bare hands. Of course that’s why Real Men get snakebit a whole lot more often than women do, and usually on the hands, not the feet or lower legs.
Yes, it’s a snake. Leave it alone.
12Another candidate for National Moron Insurance coverage. Meets all the requirements.
13Wow.
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