She needed that cup of tea like she need another hole in her head.

While it's astonishing that she survived, I still don't understand why people who are going to commit suicide anyhow, don't just go ahead and kill themselves without killing other people first.

I mean come on. Just skip to the final step and don't hurt anybody else.

Did he shoot her in the teeth?

/why yes, I actually did RTFA.

Now he has another reason to shoot her again

No wonder she turned British: he gave her a quick short, sharp shock.

No telling if she was awaiting the sensation.

fuzzwell: While it's astonishing that she survived, I still don't understand why people who are going to commit suicide anyhow, don't just go ahead and kill themselves without killing other people first.

I mean come on. Just skip to the final step and don't hurt anybody else.

I think it probably has something to do with the fact that some people who are going to kill themselves are doing it because they think that others have wronged them and made their life miserable. Could be humanity in general.

daywin: Now he has another reason to shoot her again

Way to read that there article.

FTFA: She is expected to make a full recovery, while her husband shot himself dead after the attack on his wife.

Ohhhh, subby, that tag was just sitting on the bench, ready to be put in the game. You went with the veteran, but man, that kid was ready to play.

If he had shot her again, she would have turned into Swiss Cheese.

fuzzwell: While it's astonishing that she survived, I still don't understand why people who are going to commit suicide anyhow, don't just go ahead and kill themselves without killing other people first.

I mean come on. Just skip to the final step and don't hurt anybody else.

No, the guy was already on probation for domestic violence, and they were going to serve him up with a protective order. I guess he meant to take the coward's way out after he killed his wife, but she's alive and drinking tea, and he's in the boneyard. A satisfactory was for this to turn out.

St_Francis_P: he gave her a quick short, sharp shock.


I don't know, he was really drunk at the time.

fuzzwell: While it's astonishing that she survived, I still don't understand why people who are going to commit suicide anyhow, don't just go ahead and kill themselves without killing other people first.

Well, if you're on your way out anyway, it's a unique opportunity to do whatever you want without fear of punishment or consequences of any kind.

Most people probably do go quietly, since they don't have any perceived enemies (at least, none who they feel deserve death), but there will always be some who feel otherwise...

threadlines:
Ohhhh, subby, that tag was just sitting on the bench, ready to be put in the game. You went with the veteran, but man, that kid was ready to play.

And he would have knocked it out of the park.

Wait! Guy Ritchie shot Madonna?

She was holding a rag on her head and talking.

"it's only a flesh wound."

Her response was a sort of denial.

She made the tea and acted as if nothing had happened, that everything was normal, nothing to get upset about.

It was a sort of defense mechanism.

"Oh, my husband just shot me in the head, and killed himself, I think we should sit down and have a bit of tea, don't You? "

Classic.

thereadlines: Ohhhh, subby, that tag was just sitting on the bench, ready to be put in the game. You went with the veteran, but man, that kid was ready to play.

Actually, I would argue for a "success" tag, as the person who really needed to die, died. The person who didn't deserve to die, stayed alive.

Too bad he wasted a bullet in the process. It would have been much more efficient if he had taken himself out, first.

She was holding a rag on her head and talking

If my wife walked around wearing maxi-pads on her head, I'd consider a Frontal lead lombodomy for her as well.

Drammach: Her response was a sort of denial.

She made the tea and acted as if nothing had happened, that everything was normal, nothing to get upset about.

It was a sort of defense mechanismMonty Python skit.

"Oh, my husband just shot me in the head, and killed himself, I think we should sit down and have a bit of tea, don't You? "

Classic.


FIFY

fuzzwell: While it's astonishing that she survived, I still don't understand why people who are going to commit suicide anyhow, don't just go ahead and kill themselves without killing other people first.

I mean come on. Just skip to the final step and don't hurt anybody else.

If you're not going to be alive to face the consequences of your action, you get to at least die with the final satisfaction of knowing that you took power over the person(s) who hurt you.

Unless you're this poor sap. He couldn't even do that.

Also, it seems likely to me that a lot of murder/suicides are crimes of passion, followed by a reflection that death is better than life in prison.

Drammach: Her response was a sort of denial.

She made the tea and acted as if nothing had happened, that everything was normal, nothing to get upset about.

It was a sort of defense mechanism.

"Oh, my husband just shot me in the head, and killed himself, I think we should sit down and have a bit of tea, don't You? "

Classic.

Methinks it was more likely outright shock than denial.

fuzzwell: While it's astonishing that she survived, I still don't understand why people who are going to commit suicide anyhow, don't just go ahead and kill themselves without killing other people first.

I mean come on. Just skip to the final step and don't hurt anybody else.

A [insert stereotypical race/region of stupid people here] robber was pinned down by a SWAT team after a foiled bank robbery. He was holed up with 3 hostages. The [insert stereotypical race/region of stupid people here] robber finally shouts out the window to police "I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF AND EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM!" He turns from the window and puts his gun to his temple. The hostages break out in laughter. The [insert stereotypical race/region of stupid people here] robber yells at them "What are you laughing about? You're next."

Actually not impressed at all.

He held the gun to his own head and she giggled.
He screamed "Don't laugh, you're next."

SharkTrager: Wait! Guy Ritchie shot Madonna?

10/10 - Hilarious..

As many a person has discovered when they woke up in a wheel chair after failing to commit suicide, it's actually not as uncommon as you'd think to survive a shot to the head.

abigsmurf: As many a person has discovered when they woke up in a wheel chair after failing to commit suicide, it's actually not as uncommon as you'd think to survive a shot to the head.

Yup, so coat the bullet in ricin before firing it, then take a bunch of sleeping pills before shooting yourself while sitting in the garage with the car running. Problem solved.

Phineas Gage is not impressed.

/shooting for maximum obscurity

I'd be curious to see the scan image to see where it went. I look at MRI images everyday (some from Stroke or Tramatic Brain Injury). I know she had some sort of damage, it just didn't kill her. I guess she was old enough that she might have more space between her brain and her skull than normal (filled with CSF), and it could have passed mostly between the hemispheres. But, I'm sure it at least grazed the medial part of her brain between the hemispheres... could have knicked her somatosenory/motor cortex around the area where feet/genitalia are
somatosensory:


or leg-foot of motor:


It probably would cause bilateral damage as well.

/very curious

berylman: Phineas Gage is not impressed.

/shooting for maximum obscurity

Not obscure at all. :)

/researcher in Neuroscience and Psychology
//my engineering friends even know about it

American man inadvertently turns his wife British by shooting her in the head

She lost 70lbs and her IQ doubled?

Cup of tea, my ass. In Alabama, she offered them iced tea, probably with enough sugar in to give you diabetes.

Zarkin Frood: Did he shoot her in the teeth?

I have a friend who was shot point-blank in the right temple during a mugging. The bullet followed the line of his lower jaw and exited through the other cheek. Apart from loosing most of his teeth he suffered very little trauma. He's the luckiest guy I know.

erewhon: Cup of tea, my ass. In Alabama, she offered them iced tea, probably with enough sugar in to give you diabetes.

Vala0128: I'd be curious to see the scan image to see where it went. I look at MRI images everyday (some from Stroke or Tramatic Brain Injury). I know she had some sort of damage, it just didn't kill her. I guess she was old enough that she might have more space between her brain and her skull than normal (filled with CSF), and it could have passed mostly between the hemispheres. But, I'm sure it at least grazed the medial part of her brain between the hemispheres... could have knicked her somatosenory/motor cortex around the area where feet/genitalia are
somatosensory:


or leg-foot of motor:


It probably would cause bilateral damage as well.

/very curious

Yes, yes, quite sure my good man.
Perhaps some ladies on line will send us some pictures to relieve the pressure of our massive curious brains.
Pip, pip and all.
/Curiouser and curiouser

Gussie Fink-Nottle: Zarkin Frood: Did he shoot her in the teeth?

I have a friend who was shot point-blank in the right temple during a mugging. The bullet followed the line of his lower jaw and exited through the other cheek. Apart from loosing most of his teeth he suffered very little trauma. He's the luckiest guy I know.

No, he isn't.

The ones who were never shot in the head are luckier.

I love how dipshiat Xtians like to claim some weird survival is a miracle from God but the millions of other victims of violence weren't worthy somehow. The 45k people a month dying in DRC surely could do for few miracles from god. Or maybe God only wants to save redneck hicks from the South.

tarvuz: I love how dipshiat Xtians like to claim some weird survival is a miracle from God but the millions of other victims of violence weren't worthy somehow. The 45k people a month dying in DRC surely could do for few miracles from god. Or maybe God only wants to save redneck hicks from the South.

Xtians - what are you twelve?

Agent Nick Fury: Xtians - what are you twelve?

jshine: Agent Nick Fury: Xtians - what are you twelve?

Jesus,
As you have commanded me, if jshine and tarvuz (must have been tough coming up with those names) donate $100 to the church that is closest to where they live, you will bless them by having them win the lottery on the next dollar they spend.
If not, we will see them yappin' again on FARK.
/Amen

Gordon Bennett: No, he isn't.

The ones who were never shot in the head are luckier.

The .44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world - it could blow your head clean off.

Now Gordon, you've got to ask yourself one question, 'Do I feel lucky?.

Well, do ya, punk?

Yeah, I'm trying to trace a line through her head that doesn't destroy some major bits of cortex. Maybe it penetrated above the orbitofrontal area and passed through while doing some white matter damage? Unilateral damage to deep white matter tracts is better tolerated than cortex damage. Still, in through dorsolateral prefrontal, through the parietal, and out the occipital seems to be a fark-ton of tissue damage to still be up and around.

ophite: Yeah, I'm trying to trace a line through her head that doesn't destroy some major bits of cortex. Maybe it penetrated above the orbitofrontal area and passed through while doing some white matter damage? Unilateral damage to deep white matter tracts is better tolerated than cortex damage. Still, in through dorsolateral prefrontal, through the parietal, and out the occipital seems to be a fark-ton of tissue damage to still be up and around.

You sound as if you may have been shot through the head.
/Very recently.

Gussie Fink
The .44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world - it could blow your head clean off.

The Smith & Wesson Model 500 .50-Cal and the Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Magnum both beg to differ.

grinderman: Gussie Fink
The .44 Magnum is the most powerful handgun in the world - it could blow your head clean off.

The Smith & Wesson Model 500 .50-Cal and the Pfeifer-Zeliska .600 Nitro Express Magnum both beg to differ.

You are supposed to put some slashies at the end and say something like "I know he was quoting Dirty Harry"

Otherwise the entire Intarwebs will go on thinking you're a moron.

Sorry....forgot this is fark...I mean "moran"

I like the direction this thread is taking.

If ever a thread was begging for the tag, this is it. Fark that guy. For once, the world worked out as it should. Total cawksmoker tries to take out person they once claimed they loved more that Mars bars and they end up wasting themselves (God is in Heaven, taking care of business) and their would-be victim ends up operating like an even nicer human - awww yeah!

Vala0128: I'd be curious to see the scan image to see where it went. I look at MRI images everyday (some from Stroke or Tramatic Brain Injury). I know she had some sort of damage, it just didn't kill her. I guess she was old enough that she might have more space between her brain and her skull than normal (filled with CSF), and it could have passed mostly between the hemispheres. But, I'm sure it at least grazed the medial part of her brain between the hemispheres... could have knicked her somatosenory/motor cortex around the area where feet/genitalia are
somatosensory:


or leg-foot of motor:


It probably would cause bilateral damage as well.

/very curious


That was sooo sexy.

/Science nerd
//Neurology not my area of expertise