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Title: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: vaskidmark on June 16, 2011, 07:37:39 AM
Even the professionals are not professional enough to do this.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/security_guard_tries_to_remove_wart_from_finger_with_a_shotgun_1_3479514

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A SECURITY guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.


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He also landed in court for using an illegal firearm, and was handed a 16-week suspended prison sentence.


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But he said: “The best thing is that the wart has gone. It was giving me lot of trouble.”

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Murphy, a security officer at Markham Grange Nurseries, Brodsworth, at the time of the incident in March, has since lost his job. He had suffered with the wart on the joint closest to the tip of his middle finger for more than five years.


He said: “It was hurting a lot and causing my finger to bend. I’d been to the doctors and tried all sorts of things but it wouldn’t go.


“I didn’t expect to lose my finger as well when I shot it but the gun recoiled and that was it. The wart was gone and so was most of my finger. There was nothing left, so no chance to re-attach it.”

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Martin Ward, prosecuting, said: “On the afternoon in question he had some drink.”


Richard Haigh, defending, said Murphy had been ‘a victim of his own stupidity’ when domestic pressures got to him.


District Judge Jonathan Bennett told the defendant: “I don’t know what was going on in your mind.”

There is nothing I can add except  :facepalm:.

stay safe.
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: HankB on June 16, 2011, 08:48:30 AM
With strong drink being involved, it's a good thing the troublesome growth was a finger wart rather than a hemorrhoid . . .  :O
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: TechMan on June 16, 2011, 08:59:48 AM
With strong drink being involved, it's a good thing the troublesome growth was a finger wart rather than a hemorrhoid . . .  :O

In general, it would probably be better for humanity if it was a hemorrhoid.
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: Tallpine on June 16, 2011, 07:00:23 PM
Dry ice actually works pretty good  ;)

Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: vaskidmark on June 16, 2011, 09:10:06 PM
Dry ice actually works pretty good  ;)

Dry ice on a hemorrhoid?  :O

stay safe.
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on June 16, 2011, 09:22:52 PM
Quote from: original article
.co.uk

A condemnation of both gun control and State health care, all in one story! [popcorn] [popcorn]
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: Sawdust on June 17, 2011, 01:51:10 PM
A condemnation of both gun control and State health care, all in one story! [popcorn] [popcorn]

Damn...beat me to it!  :P

Sawdust
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: Balog on June 21, 2011, 02:48:39 AM
I love that his own lawyer (oh excuse me, barrister?) Characterized him as victim to his own stupidity. :lol:
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: TechMan on June 21, 2011, 08:20:21 AM
I love that his own lawyer (oh excuse me, barrister?) Characterized him as victim to his own stupidity. :lol:

You have to give the barrister credit, he only has so much to work with.
Title: Re: Do Not Try This At Home
Post by: T.O.M. on June 21, 2011, 09:51:52 AM
I guess this answers the question of what caliber for a wart covered finger, huh???    :facepalm: