"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
05/30/2018 at 02:07 • Filed to: Dubious
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"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
05/30/2018 at 02:07 • Filed to: Dubious | 3
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The “what” is not much of the headline, it’s the “how” that gets me.
“Sydney had just shot the rifle and wanted to go check the target so she had laid the rifle down on the deck railing so she could (run) down the hill. Mr. Frick noticed she had left the rifle loaded with the hammer cocked back so he attempted to make the rifle safe. The gun went off when he attempted to lower the hammer. Sydney … had walked off the deck and was right in the direct path of the round.”
So this grown man who allegedly knows something about guns, claims he noticed a gun was still loaded. So he picks up the gun, and just happens to point the barrel at the girl. And then, the gun just accidentally goes off. This is mom’s boyfriend, by the way. At best, this man is a fucking negligent dumbass who has no business near a gun. At worst, this is the most unlikely story ever and this man is a murderer. Virtually every news outlet is calling it accidental... Handling a gun with someone in the field, and pointing the barrel towards them? Those are like... the only two things you’re NOT supposed to do during target practice.
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Berang
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 02:14 |
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Why would he try to lower the hammer? Does he not understand what the hammer does, or what a safety does to the hammer?
Everything about this story stinks.
Wagon Guy drives a Boostang
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 02:17 |
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Agreed, he’s either a dumbass with no business around firearms, or a murderer.
DipodomysDeserti
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 02:28 |
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The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun...is a fucking moron with a gun.
Fucking tragic story. Only thing I can hope for is that she passed peacefully. Rest in peace, Sydney.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 05:05 |
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*facepalm*
i’ll take a punt and say he’s white
StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 07:59 |
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This is either the saddest story I’ve heard, or one hell of an elaborate cover-up. Either way, horrible.
Maxima Speed
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 08:13 |
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I made it standard practice year ago to always take my gun down range with me. Can’t get shot with your own gun if no one can get to it. I find it hard to believe this isn’t just plain old murder.
ttyymmnn
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 08:40 |
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If he didn’t outright kill her—and I’m not sure how that’s going to go over with mom, unless they plotted to get rid of her so they could be on their own—then he did something monumentally careless and this is the best story he could come up with in a pinch.
Urambo Tauro
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 08:47 |
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Rule number one: never point where you don’t intend to shoot. You had one job!
Shane MacGowan's Teeth
> Berang
05/30/2018 at 10:13 |
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Uhhhhh. Because the hammer is what makes it go bang, lever guns often don’t have manual safeties, and the way to safe them is to lower the hammer, so it isn’t cocked and unlocked? He did it wrong, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t the right idea.
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Berang
> Shane MacGowan's Teeth
05/30/2018 at 14:25 |
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Assuming the guy knows anything at all, and isn’t a murderer, he may have been trying to put the hammer in the half cocked position but like an idiot let the hammer go all the way, and like an even bigger idiot was holding the gun so it was pointed towards a person. And if it had a safety, he didn’t need to F with the hammer at all.
Shamoononon drives like a farmer
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/30/2018 at 17:55 |
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Oh gawd, that’s terrible :(