R.I.P. Scout26
A SECURITY guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.
He also landed in court for using an illegal firearm, and was handed a 16-week suspended prison sentence.
But he said: “The best thing is that the wart has gone. It was giving me lot of trouble.”
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.”
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.”
With strong drink being involved, it's a good thing the troublesome growth was a finger wart rather than a hemorrhoid . . .
Hawkmoon - Never underestimate another person's capacity for stupidity. Any time you think someone can't possibly be that dumb ... they'll prove you wrong.
Viking - The problem with the modern world is that there aren't really any predators eating stupid people.
Dry ice actually works pretty good
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A condemnation of both gun control and State health care, all in one story!
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
I love that his own lawyer (oh excuse me, barrister?) Characterized him as victim to his own stupidity.
