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Posted: 5/5/2004 6:46:43 AM EDT
WTF? How did it "just go off", six times?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3685791.stm
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 6:52:11 AM EDT
[#1]
Ouch.
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 6:54:36 AM EDT
[#2]

"His colleagues said Isidro was using a nailgun that has both manual and fully automatic settings," said deputy sheriff Dan McPherson.


It looks like the UK is going to have to do something about those assault nail guns!
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 6:56:55 AM EDT
[#3]
If you read the end of the article, it says the nailgun has semi and full-auto settings.  That's how the person accidentally shot him six times.  But I sure hate when reporters say that something "went off".
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:01:18 AM EDT
[#4]
That's it folks..............The UK will ban them for sure.

tj
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:05:36 AM EDT
[#5]
Typical BBC drama queen

Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:19:13 AM EDT
[#6]
WTF would you do with a full auto nailgun?
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:31:40 AM EDT
[#7]
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:33:45 AM EDT
[#8]
Natural selection doin' its thang.

Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:37:17 AM EDT
[#9]
Ever notice it's people like this guy that breed the most......
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:39:02 AM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:
WTF would you do with a full auto nailgun?



It's for indiscriminately spray-firing from the hip to mow down lots of boards.
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:39:33 AM EDT
[#11]
auto refers to the fact that it shoots when pressure is applied to the plate on the front of the gun, so you can just push it against what you want to nail, instead of  by manually squeezing the trigger
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 7:41:29 AM EDT
[#12]
He's going to feel that when he wakes up!
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:15:42 AM EDT
[#13]
When attempting acupuncture, small needles work best!
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:20:04 AM EDT
[#14]
WTF?! How do you accidentally shoot yourself SIX TIMES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD?! Didn't anybody notice he shot himself in the BACK of his head?????
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:21:58 AM EDT
[#15]

Quoted:
WTF?! How do you accidentally shoot yourself SIX TIMES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD??



Union training.

Sgtar15
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:27:14 AM EDT
[#16]
We had full auto pneumatic staple guns when I worked in the furniture industry. It made upholstering a dream.
Also worked for shooting birds that sometimes flew into the factory. We would diasble the safety plate in order to get the staples into the corners better. They had a button on the side that when you pressed it, it was semi auto only...but most of the time, they were full auto. AND FUN!
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:40:07 AM EDT
[#17]
They do that sometimes you know. Nail guns that is.

Oh, and this was in Los Angeles, not the UK.
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:50:51 AM EDT
[#18]


 Looks like an attempt to claim worker comp to me.

 Glad he's ok, though.
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 8:58:40 AM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:
WTF?! How do you accidentally shoot yourself SIX TIMES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD?! Didn't anybody notice he shot himself in the BACK of his head?????



That's what I was wondering.

How do you shoot your self in the back of the head?
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 9:00:42 AM EDT
[#20]

Quoted:
WTF?! How do you accidentally shoot yourself SIX TIMES IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD?!
Didn't anybody notice he shot himself in the BACK of his head?????



Yeah, I noticed that too.... "It was an accident...."

Same line of thought evidently, as the two "detectives" with Fairfax County who asked me if I thought that my fiancee had
committed suicide. "Oh yeah, sure. She shot herself that many times in the back...W(here)TF are your brains?!?!"
They weren't amused....
Link Posted: 5/5/2004 9:46:09 AM EDT
[#21]











*ps... yes, they are PS'ed.
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