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Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:16 am
by seamusTX
An 18-year-old Shreveport, LA, man shot off his "family jewels" when a handgun that he was carrying discharged.

Adding insult to injury, police plan to charge him with illegally discharging a firearm when he is released from the hospital.

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- Jim

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:24 am
by Oldgringo
seamus wrote:

Adding insult to injury, police plan to charge him with illegally discharging a firearm when he is released from the hospital.
Perhaps it's best that this one doesn't reproduce? :smilelol5:

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:24 am
by Keith B
All I can say is OUCH! :cryin

How much anyone want to bet he was carrying IWB sans holster (now called Plexico Carry.) :biggrinjester:

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:32 am
by bryang
Wow, that's gotta hurt. I have to agree with Oldgringo on this one....
Perhaps it's best that this one doesn't reproduce? :smilelol5:


-geo

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:41 pm
by Rokyudai
Alternate heading: "Shreveport teen falls when shot in the....car" ;-)

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:33 am
by barres
seamusTX wrote:An 18-year-old Shreveport, LA, man shot off his "family jewels" when a handgun that he was carrying discharged.

Adding insult to injury, police plan to charge him with illegally discharging a firearm when he is released from the hospital.

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S= ... v=menu50_2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim
Are you sure they can still accurately refer to him as a man? :smilelol5:

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:42 am
by seamusTX
Now that's adding even more insult to injury. ;-)

- Jim

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:06 pm
by iratollah
He prolly thought carrying a gun would make him more impotent. He was right.

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:03 am
by baseballguy2001
The story says the gun is missing ... wonder where it went?

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:02 am
by seamusTX
The most likely explanations are that in his agony he flung it, and it's in the bushes somewhere, or someone who was with him ran with it.

- Jim

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:32 pm
by bryang
It couldn't be stolen....reckon? ;-)

-geo

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:28 pm
by KC5AV
Surely not... :roll:

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 4:17 am
by Fangs
No one with a stolen gun would have a holster... oh, wait... :smilelol5:

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:43 am
by Vic303
Ya gotta die to win a Darwin Award...

Re: Shreveport teen wins unusual Darwin award

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:53 am
by LarryH
The qualification for the Darwin Award is usually expressed as "removing himself from the gene pool". If he did actually remove his ability to reproduce, I believe that would qualify.