"Just when I thought you yanks had cornered the market in stoopid, this little gem
occured virtually in my own backyard.
After spending a considerable time in our village pub, a couple of tourists headed
back to their accomodations several
kilometers from the town.
Along the way, their car got a flat tyre. No problemo! He gets out, jacks up the
offending wheel, removes the wheel nuts...
and the car falls off the jack. Not wishing to go to all the bother of jacking it up
again, this cheery couple decides to
proceed on the flat. Only they don't get very far because, as I mentioned, the wheel
nuts have been taken off and the wheel
falls off the car.
When you are faced with a missing wheel in the gathering darkness in a fairly remote
area, there are not a lot of options
open to you. This clever chappy, however, exercised an option that would not have
occurred to the rest of us. He grabs a .22
rifle, sticks it under his chin, hollers "I've had enough of this!" and pulls the
trigger. The hollow-point bullet travels up
through his mouth, doing awful things to his tongue along the way, and lodges
somewhere behind his nose. Fortunately (?)
another car happens by shortly after the event, and the 'victim' is transported back
to the pub where we started this tale.
First aid is given, an ambulance arrives and our hero is whisked off to the nearest
hospital thirty kilometers away.
Now here is the kicker. When the medicos get to work to remove the slug and repair
chummy's head they find a second
projectile, one that has been in place for a considerable length of time. This second
bullet had been fired from an air rifle
in an earlier attempt to escape from life's vexations.
This guy doesn't qualify for an award yet, but he is a rising star. Next time he might
just get hold of a 12 gauge shotgun...
"
-Gel
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