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FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:51 pm
by 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.

http://www.wpbf.com/news/24354452/detail.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:58 pm
by lowonair
i don't know where to start..... :headscratch

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:52 pm
by cougartex
:banghead: :headscratch :banghead:

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:11 pm
by OldCannon
lowonair wrote:i don't know where to start..... :headscratch
May I suggest here? http://www.darwinawards.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:57 am
by pcernuch
as they say......be careful what you ask for.

god bless.

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:34 am
by Purplehood
This whole thing just made me think of the movie, "Deliverance". No idea why.

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:46 am
by The Annoyed Man
Words fail me.

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:47 am
by USA1
Ask and ye shall receive. :cool:

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

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:52 am
by Keith B
USA1 wrote: Which guy is stupider? The one asking for it or the one giving it? :headscratch
Both are pretty equal IMO :roll:

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:02 am
by mctowalot
Purplehood wrote: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)

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:04 am
by 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!

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:07 am
by Pete92FS
mctowalot wrote:
Purplehood wrote: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.

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:13 am
by The Annoyed Man
Keith B wrote:
USA1 wrote: Which guy is stupider? The one asking for it or the one giving it? :headscratch
Both are pretty equal IMO :roll:
Well, going by the image sourced from the above article linked in the OP, the shooter was no Einstein....
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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.

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 9:19 am
by USA1
longhorn_92 wrote:
[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". ;-)

Re: FL: Shooting victim literally "asked for it"

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:23 pm
by jtran987
lkd wrote:
lowonair wrote:i don't know where to start..... :headscratch
May I suggest here? http://www.darwinawards.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
i second that lol