FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

[seamusTX]

In Vero Beach, Florida (Miami area), Wednesday, an employee at a junk yard reportedly dared another employee to shoot him. The other employee did so, with a shotgun, in the face.

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- Jim

[lowonair]

i don't know where to start.....

[cougartex]

[OldCannon]

i don't know where to start.....

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[pcernuch]

as they say......be careful what you ask for.

god bless.

[Purplehood]

This whole thing just made me think of the movie, "Deliverance". No idea why.

[The Annoyed Man]

Words fail me.

[USA1]

Ask and ye shall receive.

Which guy is stupider? The one asking for it or the one giving it?

[Keith B]

Which guy is stupider? The one asking for it or the one giving it?

Both are pretty equal IMO

[mctowalot]

This whole thing just made me think of the movie, "Deliverance". No idea why.

Perhaps because the shooter in the story was an extra in the film? (Insert banjo riff here)

[longhorn_92]

This is the un-official transcript of the conversation leading up to the shooting:

Dumb: You're full of it!
Dumber: Oh yeah?
Dumb: Yeah!
Dumber: Well I double-DOG-dare ya!

[narrating] NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare you"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.

Dumber: I TRIPLE-dog-dare ya!
Dumb: (clicks off safety) Well, ok... BOOM!

[Pete92FS]

This whole thing just made me think of the movie, "Deliverance". No idea why.

Perhaps because the shooter in the story was an extra in the film? (Insert banjo riff here)

That's one scary looking dude. When I first saw the picture I thought he was the one hit in the face.

[The Annoyed Man]

Which guy is stupider? The one asking for it or the one giving it?

Both are pretty equal IMO

Well, going by the image sourced from the above article linked in the OP, the shooter was no Einstein....


Being perfectly honest, I actually feel kind of sorry for the guy. I mean, look at him. He doesn't look like a guy who's made a lot of good decisions in life, but he also looks like someone to whom bad things happened - loss of an eye, deformation of right side of face, broken nose, huge (possibly surgical) scar on left forehead - and the more I look at him, the more I can see where that bad stuff could possibly have not been all his fault. It could have been his fault, but possibly not. He's old enough to be a Vietnam vet. Could those have been battle injuries? Was it a car accident or an industrial accident? Who knows?

None of that excuses what he has done, and we are all certainly responsible for the choices we make in life - even those choices following some traumatic event - but what a sad, pathetic shell of a man he looks like. And now he's going to pay a (deserved) price for being such a loser. He deserves it, but I still feel kind of sorry for him. It's pathetic.

[USA1]

[narrating] NOW it was serious. A double-dog-dare. What else was there but a "triple dare you"? And then, the coup de grace of all dares, the sinister triple-dog-dare.

Reminds me of "The Wonder Years" or "A Christmas Story".

[jtran987]

i don't know where to start.....

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i second that lol