Dont use a 12 bore to loosen stubborn wheelnuts !

Post by **Orkney** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:49 am

Common sense you might think - but not apparently for this guy in the states

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7091904.stm

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:27 pm

What on earth was he thinking about

Post by **MoggyTech** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:36 pm

One for the Darwin awards me thinks

Post by **mal** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:42 pm

Pity he didn't kneel down to do it

Mal

Post by **dalebrignall** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:50 pm

words fail me

Post by **MoggyTech** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:58 pm

If you think about this for minute (which Mr Lug Nut obviously didn't) a car wheel is possibly the worst shaped object to fire a 12 bore at at close range. Guaranteed to get multiple richoches in all directions. Someone needs to send him a Faulty Towers video while he recovers in hospital. Beating an Austin with a tree branch is just a wee bit safer.

Post by **les** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:40 pm

66years old, what chance have some people got! How did he reach that age?

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:56 pm

I guess he wanted the wheels off to 'shot blast' and paint them...

Post by **MoggyTech** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:59 pm

rayofleamington wrote:I guess he wanted the wheels off to 'shot blast' and paint them...

Just spat a mouthfull of tea all over the monitor screen

Post by **Peetee** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:24 pm

Obviously not his turn for the family brain cell.

Post by **RogerRust** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:17 am

Oh come on guys haven't we all wanted to o it!

The question is did it loosen the nut? Is so .................

Post by **MoggyTech** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:24 pm

RogerRust wrote:Oh come on guys haven't we all wanted to o it!

The question is did it loosen the nut? Is so .................

Yes, but not the one on the wheel

Post by **RogerRust** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:06 pm

sorry to pick on our friends over the pond but,

I read in the shooting press a while ago about a man out in his chevvy pick up late one night when the lights went out. He managed to trace the problem to a blown fuse by the light of his zippo lighter. He didn't have a spare so he looked for something else to fit the fuse holder after a while he descovered that a bullet from his browning was just the thing! Problem solved he set of on his way home. Unfortunatly the problem that had blown the fuse was still there so the bullet got hotter and hotter and hotter .... until it shot him in the groin!

I'm reminded of the clever/stupid balance that means for every clever thing done a stupid action of similar magnitude happens elsewhere in the world.

Post by **alex_holden** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:22 pm

Am I going to have to link to Snopes again?
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/fuse.asp

Mythbusters also covered this one.

Post by **RogerRust** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:57 pm

shame - that was another good story