When you play Russian Roulette, don't hog the gun.

shemp

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shemp
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Let others have their turn. If you don't, you might end up like this:

PRAIRIEVILLE -- Six people were booked on drug and weapons charges after a 16-year-old apparently shot and killed himself during a game of Russian roulette, authorities said.

Jacob White, of Prairieville, and the older friends were playing the game and smoking marijuana when White apparently shot himself Wednesday at White's home, said Ascension Parish sheriff's Lt. Paul Robert.

While White and his friends smoked the drug, they passed two handguns around. Robert said White took one of the two guns, and loaded it with at least one live round and put the weapon to his head. It discharged after he pulled the trigger several times, Robert said.
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Maybe he should have read the rulebook before playing the game?
 
shemp said:
Let others have their turn. If you don't, you might end up like this:



Maybe he should have read the rulebook before playing the game?
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Does the fact that he cheated invalidate the fact that he won?

Of course, he already got the prize...;)

Maybe things like this are why the penalties for possession are much higher when a gun is involved. To discourage this type behavior?
 
What? He shot himself. No one else was hurt. It may be stupid, but I'm not sure we need to make a crime of it. Who do we throw in jail?
 
I'm going to ask a semi-serious question here: Where did a sixteen-year-old get a handgun and ammo from?

Also, killing people is a worth a death sentence, ain't it. So I'd have him tried and convicted, and then have him offed immediately!
 
Zep said:
I'm going to ask a semi-serious question here: Where did a sixteen-year-old get a handgun and ammo from?
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Zep, Zep, Zep, Zep, Zep. This is America.
We have all kinds of unenforcable laws that don't accomplish doodly squat.

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Same place he got the marijuana.
 
Zep said:
I'm going to ask a semi-serious question here: Where did a sixteen-year-old get a handgun and ammo from?
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No, no, no! It's not the gun, it's him. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Remember?

If he hadn't had a gun, it would have been something else. They would have played Russian roulette with knives!

Zep said:
Also, killing people is a worth a death sentence, ain't it. So I'd have him tried and convicted, and then have him offed immediately!
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You can't. He would have to be in good health to be executed.

fishbob said:
Zep, Zep, Zep, Zep, Zep. This is America.
We have all kinds of unenforcable laws that don't accomplish doodly squat.
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That begs the question: What laws do you have that are enforceable and accomplish something?
 
That begs the question: What laws do you have that are enforceable and accomplish something?
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None, CFL, we're a complete and utter anarchy.:rolleyes:


And yes, people kill people, or in this case people kill themselves.
The Gubbermint can't protect you from your own idiocy, nor should they try.
 
clarsct said:
None, CFL, we're a complete and utter anarchy.:rolleyes:


And yes, people kill people, or in this case people kill themselves.
The Gubbermint can't protect you from your own idiocy, nor should they try.
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You know, I can't really tell if there was any part of that that wasn't sarcastic.
 
BPSCG said:
Don't put too much credence in the Darwin Awards. The same people who killed themselves in 1998 managed to become repeat winners in 2002 and 2003.
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Yeah! It's amazing the number of emails I've gotten over the years from people citing the "prestigious(sarcastic mode on) Darwin Awards" for that year, repeating something I'd received years ago. This year it was the conspitated elephant episode, received just a couple of weeks ago. That one dates back to the mid-90's, I'm sure.

For years there were numerous contenders for the "official" Darwin Awards, because, regardless of what each email stated, there was no such actual organization, and many websites offered themselves out as the source. DarwinAwards.com has captured the title by perspicacity, (and possibly by registering the best domain name). She's the publisher of the several books on the "awards". But, the origins are still foggy. I believe, from everything I've read, it was just a witty term that caught on, and was used as the opening paragraph on numerous emails back in the early 90's. It was such a snarky/clever idea that people re-used it. And like the Energizer Bunny, re-used it, and re-used it, and re-used it......

:spjimlad:
 
SezMe said:
Has anybody nominated this jerk for a Darwin Award?
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In Denmark he would stay alive to reproduce.

[Martha]
Stupid people dying in stupid ways before they reproduce, it's a good thing.
[/Martha]
 
I'd just as soon throw Hollywood in jail since the hero never shoots himself in the movies, and is all the bigger, emulatable badass for it.

For a real rush of proving your badassedness, though, you should play the roulette while lying on the lines in a busy highway and some guy brands you on the ass with Chinese letters.
 
Reminds me of pretty much every "Say NO to drugs" add of the 1980s.

The movie Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle had a good spoof.
 
Zep said:
I'm going to ask a semi-serious question here: Where did a sixteen-year-old get a handgun and ammo from?
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I had my own gun and ammo at that age, accessible at any time, without supervision.

It was a heck of a lot safer than giving me a license to drive, which my parents refused to do at that age.
 
What a jerk to bogart the gun like that! If he pulled that crap at my party, I'd-a killed him!
 
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