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Dont use a 12 bore to loosen stubborn wheelnuts !
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:49 am
by Orkney
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:27 pm
by Kevin
What on earth was he thinking about
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:36 pm
by MoggyTech
One for the Darwin awards me thinks
Dont use a 12 bore to loosen stubborn wheelnuts !
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:42 pm
by mal
Pity he didn't kneel down to do it
Mal
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:50 pm
by dalebrignall
words fail me
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:58 pm
by MoggyTech
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:40 pm
by les
66years old, what chance have some people got! How did he reach that age?
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:56 pm
by rayofleamington
I guess he wanted the wheels off to 'shot blast' and paint them...
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:59 pm
by MoggyTech
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:24 pm
by Peetee
Obviously not his turn for the family brain cell.
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 8:17 am
by RogerRust
Oh come on guys haven't we all wanted to o it!
The question is did it loosen the nut? Is so .................
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:24 pm
by MoggyTech
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
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:06 pm
by RogerRust
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.
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:22 pm
by alex_holden
Am I going to have to link to Snopes again?
http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/fuse.asp
Mythbusters also covered this one.
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:57 pm
by RogerRust
shame - that was another good story