Man blows arm off with shotgun

[American123]

Great video to use for "follow firearm safety rules" example. Bad stuff can happen when you don't.

 

[RVTECH]

Same man later goes into a car dealership and inquires about the price of something.

Salesman says, 'It'll cost you and arm and a leg'

Man says, 'I'll take it!'

 

[P7M13]

Reminded me of ~25 years ago when the owner of Salem Prudential Real Estate blew his own head off by accident at Mid Valley Clays.

 

[titsonritz]

Reminded me of ~25 years ago when the owner of Salem Prudential Real Estate blew his own head off by accident at Mid Valley Clays.

Did it go down something like this...

 

[Nosferatu]

I guess now he's the no-so-long arm of the law.

 

[Yarome]

I could be wrong, but in the U.S. doesn't the adage say you'll only get hairy palms??

I dunno the adages where that guy lives, but I guess the U.S. really isn't so bad, hu!

 

[ilikegunspdx]

It's grainy AF , what's the string/lanyard thing that seems to be present?

Definitely qualifies as a bad day on the job. And something tells me L&I claims are nonexistent in second world countries.

I had same question. Looking at it frame by frame on phone, the gun was not moving but his right foot and lower right leg were moving toward the gun right before shot.

Assuming he didn't have an ankle holster or something on his leg that caught the trigger, it looks to me like his leg pulled on the "string" which appears to be wrapped around the barrel numerous times near the muzzle and the other end of it appears to be tied to the trigger guard (as far as I can see).

That is one really screwed up "sling". One guess is his movements before caused the loose string "sling" to wrap around the trigger. The video shows the lightweight string flopping around. And then leg pulled on the string somehow. But that is going off some poor video only. Maybe if I watched it more I would see something different but that's my best guess fwiw.




Edit: looking at it several times at full speed I'm thinking the right leg/shoe? Pushed on the knot of string on the trigger guard. That seems likely to me if there is a big knot of string there on the trigger guard. It matches his leg movement direction and location (leg moving backwards and in towards the gun trigger area). If string was wrapped around trigger from prior flopping around that would make it even easier to bump the trigger causing it to fire.

 

[P7M13]

Did it go down something like this...

The detectives reconstructed the scene and said it looked like he was tying his shoe at his bumper with the shotgun leaning up against it too. He died after the gun discharged into his face.

 

[titsonritz]

The detectives reconstructed the scene and said it looked like he was tying his shoe at his bumper with the shotgun leaning up against it too. He died after the gun discharged into his face.

Holy crap, yeah, I remember that now.

 

[arakboss]

Huge oops (NSFW) - ArizonaShooting.ORG

Nepal?

Well that behaviour cost him an arm and a leg.

 

[Flopsweat]

Can't see video on original site.

The text in the first post is a link. It doesn't look like one. I only noticed it after I moved my mouse over it and the cursor changed.

 

[Glizzy Goblin]

Bloody Fookin Hell M8!