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JoeLee · 05-15-2007, 11:09 AM

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Man injured using screwdriver, hammer to discharge bullet

By DON LEHMAN, dlehman@poststar.com
Updated: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:15 PM EDT

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LAKE LUZERNE -- A man was hospitalized Saturday after he accidentally discharged a round of ammunition into his abdomen using a screwdriver and a hammer, police said.

The Warren County Sheriff's Office was called to 2073 Call St. at 5:05 p.m. Saturday, where they determined that Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds by placing them in a steel vice, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with a hammer, police said.

The round went about a half-inch into his abdomen, police said. Mosher was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released, police said.

Police said Mosher told them he was trying to empty the rounds so he could return the brass casings for scrap. He had set off approximately 100 rounds before being struck, police said.
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Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said the other rounds Mosher had fired "fizzled" because there was no gun barrel to focus the charge and propel the slug. But the one that injured Mosher was somehow sent with enough force to penetrate his body. It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly.

No charges were filed in the case.

An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday that the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings. Cleveland said the number of shells Mosher had would have amounted to just a few pounds.

Cleveland said he recalled a similar case years ago where a man in West Glens Falls who kept a .22-caliber round in the brim of his hat discharged the round when trying to swat a bug with the hat. The slug grazed his head and slightly injured him.

Mooseman684 · 05-15-2007, 11:19 AM

The dipstick could have made MORE money by selling the loaded ammo...
Now there is a candidate for the Darwin Award.
Rich

.22guy · 05-15-2007, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooseman684

The dipstick could have made MORE money by selling the loaded ammo...
Now there is a candidate for the Darwin Award.
Rich

That is exactly what I was going to say. What an idiot. The only bad thing is that it seems like his genes are not eliminated from the gene pool.

Oxford · 05-15-2007, 03:39 PM

Speaking of Darwin Awards...here's the last I've seen:

The Very Latest 2007 Darwin Awards are here:
In case you have been waiting breathlessly for this year's
Darwin Awards --- awards that are given each year to bestow
upon (the remains or estate of, in most cases) that individual,
who through single-minded self-sacrifice, has done the most
to remove undesirable elements from the human gene pool.

Just think... until these events occurred, these same people
were walking the streets just like normal people.

SIXTH PLACE: Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died
when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth mountain ski area
while riding down the slope on a foam pad. 22-year old David
Hubal was pronounced dead at Central Mammoth Hospital.

The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's
department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked
up a ski run called Stump alley and removed some yellow foam
protectors from lift towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the
Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect
skiers who might hit towers. The group apparently used the
pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a
tower. It has since been investigated and determined the
tower he hit was the one with its pad removed.

FIFTH PLACE: Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being
disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened
to call the police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into
his mouth and walked out without paying.

Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics
removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had
choked him to death.

FOURTH PLACE: Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who
shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was
killed instantly when it fell on him.

THIRD PLACE: "Man loses face at party " A man at a West Virginia
party (probably related to the winner last year, a man in
Arkansas who used the 22 bullet to replace the fuse in his
pickup truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down,
triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and
tongue.

Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank
during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. "Another
man had a blasting cap in an aquarium hooked to a battery and
was trying to explode it. It wouldn't go off and this guy said
I'll show you how to set it off." He put it into his mouth,
bit down and it blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue
off, Payne said. Stromyer was listed in guarded condition
Wednesday with extensive facial injuries, according to a
spokesperson at Charleston Area Medical Division. "I just can't
imagine anyone doing something like that," Payne said. (Note:
Maybe that's why they call these the Darwin Awards)

SECOND PLACE: Doctors at Portland University Hospital said an
Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky
to be alive and will be released soon from the hospital. Tony
Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation
into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous (probably known
now as Stupid Mountain Men Anonymous) in Grants Pass , Oregon.

A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow
entered Robert's right eye. Doctors said that had the arrow gone
one millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel would have
been cut and Roberts would have died instantly. Neurosurgeon,
Doctor Johnny Delashaw, at the University Hospital in Portland
said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain with the
tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed
to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said that had
Roberts tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would
have killed himself Roberts admitted afterwards that he and
his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts,
"I feel so dumb about this." No charges have been filed, but
the Josephine County district attorney's office said the
initiation stunt is under investigation.
Editor's note: he probably would have gotten first place, but he survived.)

THIS YEAR'S WINNER: John Pernicky and his friend, Sal Hawkins,
of the great state of Washington , decided to attend a local
Metallica concert at the George Washington amphitheater. Having
no tickets (but having had 18 beers between them), they thought
it would be easy to "hop" over the nine foot fence and sneak
into the show. They pulled their pickup truck over to the fence
and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky, who was 100 pounds heavier than
Mr.Hawkins, to hop the fence and then assist his friend over.

Unfortunately for (the late) Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot
drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over,
he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was abruptly
halted (and broken, along with his arm) by a large branch that
snagged him by his shorts.

Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and
saw some bushes below him. Possibly figuring the bushes would
break his fall, he removed his pocket knife and proceeded to
cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free,
Mr.Pernicky crashed into holly bushes The sharp leaves scratched
his ENTIRE body and now, without the protection of his shorts,
a holly branch penetrated his rectum.

To make matters worse, upon landing his pocket knife penetrated
his thigh. Hawkins, seeing his friend in considerable pain and
agony, threw him a rope and tried to pull him to safety by tying
the rope to the pickup truck and slowly driving away. However,
in his drunken haste, he put the truck into reverse and crashed
through the fence, landing on his friend and killing him.

Police arrived to find the crashed pickup with its driver thrown
100 feet from the truck and dead at the scene from massive
internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found John
deceased under it half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly
stick in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts
dangling from a tree branch 25 feet in the air.

Congratulations gentlemen. You win. Five more idiots have been
removed from the gene pool and we are richer because of your
supreme sacrifice.

JoeLee · 05-15-2007, 04:34 PM

Oxford,That #1 had me laughing but I didn't want to.

Big Dog · 05-15-2007, 06:13 PM

"He had set off approximately 100 rounds before being struck, police said."

This ol' boy worked at being stupid . . .

The sad thing is, the Brady Bunch will list this as another 'victim of gun violence' . . .

Choco · 05-15-2007, 06:26 PM

I have seen British kids doing something like that in a WW2 movie

just_a_car · 05-15-2007, 08:06 PM

*looks at first place on Ox's post*

*shakes head* Why'd it have to be Washington? Unnggh...

JoeLee · 05-15-2007, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by just_a_car

*looks at first place on Ox's post*

*shakes head* Why'd it have to be Washington? Unnggh...

just a car,Must be some additive in Washington Beer.

ArkansasHunter · 05-15-2007, 08:47 PM

How much did he he say brass was a pound ?...Hmmmm. lol...A.H

just_a_car · 05-15-2007, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoeLee

just a car,Must be some additive in Washington Beer.

Heh... that's why I drink Michelob Ultra. It helps that it's only 2.6 carbs per bottle, too. Since I've been on a low-carb diet for just over 4 years.

Full MeTal Jack · 05-15-2007, 10:31 PM

"No charges were filed in the case."
Super Stupidity should be a crime!

Bravo · 05-16-2007, 09:58 AM

I'm assuming that he didn't have a .223 rifle to go with it...if he did then it should be noted that he is an even greater idiot for not shooting the lead out of the brass.

I don't get it...a pound of empty casings is worth more than a pound of brass...quite a bit more....This guy is an idiot in more ways than one.

troy2000 · 05-16-2007, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bravo

I'm assuming that he didn't have a .223 rifle to go with it...if he did then it should be noted that he is an even greater idiot for not shooting the lead out of the brass.
I don't get it...a pound of empty casings is worth more than a pound of brass...quite a bit more....This guy is an idiot in more ways than one.

And take off around the corner with it. When the contractor caught up to him, he was busy kicking the glass out of the aluminum frame, so he could sell it as scrap.

Deersniper · 05-16-2007, 10:55 PM

But even more so with un-informed people. dumb is as dumb does.

05-15-2007, 11:19 AM	#2
Mooseman684 Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Alaska Wilderness Posts: 10,401 Images: 2	The dipstick could have made MORE money by selling the loaded ammo... Now there is a candidate for the Darwin Award. Rich __________________ You know you might be facing your doom,when all you get is a click when you're expecting a BOOM!

05-15-2007, 03:39 PM	#4
Oxford Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gladstone, Missouri Posts: 13,073 Blog Entries: 4	Speaking of Darwin Awards...here's the last I've seen: The Very Latest 2007 Darwin Awards are here: In case you have been waiting breathlessly for this year's Darwin Awards --- awards that are given each year to bestow upon (the remains or estate of, in most cases) that individual, who through single-minded self-sacrifice, has done the most to remove undesirable elements from the human gene pool. Just think... until these events occurred, these same people were walking the streets just like normal people. SIXTH PLACE: Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad. 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central Mammoth Hospital. The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump alley and removed some yellow foam protectors from lift towers, said Lt. Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower he hit was the one with its pad removed. FIFTH PLACE: Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out without paying. Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to death. FOURTH PLACE: Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him. THIRD PLACE: "Man loses face at party " A man at a West Virginia party (probably related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the 22 bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. "Another man had a blasting cap in an aquarium hooked to a battery and was trying to explode it. It wouldn't go off and this guy said I'll show you how to set it off." He put it into his mouth, bit down and it blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue off, Payne said. Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with extensive facial injuries, according to a spokesperson at Charleston Area Medical Division. "I just can't imagine anyone doing something like that," Payne said. (Note: Maybe that's why they call these the Darwin Awards) SECOND PLACE: Doctors at Portland University Hospital said an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky to be alive and will be released soon from the hospital. Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous (probably known now as Stupid Mountain Men Anonymous) in Grants Pass , Oregon. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Robert's right eye. Doctors said that had the arrow gone one millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel would have been cut and Roberts would have died instantly. Neurosurgeon, Doctor Johnny Delashaw, at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain with the tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said that had Roberts tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would have killed himself Roberts admitted afterwards that he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts, "I feel so dumb about this." No charges have been filed, but the Josephine County district attorney's office said the initiation stunt is under investigation. Editor's note: he probably would have gotten first place, but he survived.) THIS YEAR'S WINNER: John Pernicky and his friend, Sal Hawkins, of the great state of Washington , decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the George Washington amphitheater. Having no tickets (but having had 18 beers between them), they thought it would be easy to "hop" over the nine foot fence and sneak into the show. They pulled their pickup truck over to the fence and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky, who was 100 pounds heavier than Mr.Hawkins, to hop the fence and then assist his friend over. Unfortunately for (the late) Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was abruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm) by a large branch that snagged him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and saw some bushes below him. Possibly figuring the bushes would break his fall, he removed his pocket knife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free, Mr.Pernicky crashed into holly bushes The sharp leaves scratched his ENTIRE body and now, without the protection of his shorts, a holly branch penetrated his rectum. To make matters worse, upon landing his pocket knife penetrated his thigh. Hawkins, seeing his friend in considerable pain and agony, threw him a rope and tried to pull him to safety by tying the rope to the pickup truck and slowly driving away. However, in his drunken haste, he put the truck into reverse and crashed through the fence, landing on his friend and killing him. Police arrived to find the crashed pickup with its driver thrown 100 feet from the truck and dead at the scene from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found John deceased under it half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly stick in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts dangling from a tree branch 25 feet in the air. Congratulations gentlemen. You win. Five more idiots have been removed from the gene pool and we are richer because of your supreme sacrifice. __________________ "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right".

05-15-2007, 06:13 PM	#6
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,359	"He had set off approximately 100 rounds before being struck, police said." This ol' boy worked at being stupid . . . The sad thing is, the Brady Bunch will list this as another 'victim of gun violence' . . . __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

05-15-2007, 08:06 PM	#8
just_a_car Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Edmonds, WA Posts: 3,635	looks at first place on Ox's post shakes head Why'd it have to be Washington? Unnggh... __________________

05-15-2007, 10:31 PM	#12
Full MeTal Jack Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Southeast Texas Posts: 1,466 Images: 5	"No charges were filed in the case." Super Stupidity should be a crime! __________________ [IMG]http://img287.echo.cx/img287/63/9130110x100a4vb.jpg

05-15-2007, 11:09 AM	#1
JoeLee Banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: North New York State. Posts: 1,241	Recycling Brass Teckneek!"Don't Do It" PostStar.com This fool would have to live New York State. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Man injured using screwdriver, hammer to discharge bullet By DON LEHMAN, dlehman@poststar.com Updated: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:15 PM EDT Larger Text Smaller Text Print Email RSS LAKE LUZERNE -- A man was hospitalized Saturday after he accidentally discharged a round of ammunition into his abdomen using a screwdriver and a hammer, police said. The Warren County Sheriff's Office was called to 2073 Call St. at 5:05 p.m. Saturday, where they determined that Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds by placing them in a steel vice, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with a hammer, police said. The round went about a half-inch into his abdomen, police said. Mosher was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released, police said. Police said Mosher told them he was trying to empty the rounds so he could return the brass casings for scrap. He had set off approximately 100 rounds before being struck, police said. Advertisement Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said the other rounds Mosher had fired "fizzled" because there was no gun barrel to focus the charge and propel the slug. But the one that injured Mosher was somehow sent with enough force to penetrate his body. It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly. No charges were filed in the case. An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday that the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings. Cleveland said the number of shells Mosher had would have amounted to just a few pounds. Cleveland said he recalled a similar case years ago where a man in West Glens Falls who kept a .22-caliber round in the brim of his hat discharged the round when trying to swat a bug with the hat. The slug grazed his head and slightly injured him.

05-15-2007, 04:34 PM	#5
JoeLee Banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: North New York State. Posts: 1,241	Oxford,That #1 had me laughing but I didn't want to.

05-15-2007, 06:26 PM	#7
Choco Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 199	I have seen British kids doing something like that in a WW2 movie

05-15-2007, 08:47 PM	#10
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas Posts: 10,912	How much did he he say brass was a pound ?...Hmmmm. lol...A.H

05-16-2007, 09:58 AM	#13
Bravo Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Maine, USA Posts: 1,987	I'm assuming that he didn't have a .223 rifle to go with it...if he did then it should be noted that he is an even greater idiot for not shooting the lead out of the brass. I don't get it...a pound of empty casings is worth more than a pound of brass...quite a bit more....This guy is an idiot in more ways than one.

05-16-2007, 10:55 PM	#15
Deersniper Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,871	Accidents happen But even more so with un-informed people. dumb is as dumb does.