I hope that kid that lived gets locked up for felony accessory to murder.

Rim fire cartridge = bad idea.

That must have been one unlucky kid. A .22 slug coming out of a shell with no barrell to speed it up isn't going that fast. It'd have to hit you just right to kill you I'd think.

one of them went off, hitting a boy in the chest and killing him

Shot through the heart
And you're to blame

Jesus farkingchrist. I hope they at least list the cause of death as being a complete dumbfark.

Paging Mr. Darwin...

Is this the right room for a sympathetic hug?

namatad: SWEET DARWIN !!!!

Sweet Darwin of Oregon!

/it kind of rhymes if you say Oregon right
//goddamned limboing Rastafarian accountants

ha haw - when I was about 8 or 9 I remember stealing 22 caliber bullets from the rifle range at summer camp. We tried throwing them against shiat in an effort to make them fire. We were unsuccessful and obviously kind of dumb.

Needless to say I applaud that Darwin won out in this kid's story but was apparently asleep at the wheel back when I was trying to fire .22 caliber bullets off in something other than a gun that was pointed down-range.

I used to do this all the time as a kid. The problem is that smokeless powder isn't explosive. It just burns. So this poor kid died for nothing.

After we figured out the smokeless powder deal we moved on to scraping the powder out of roll caps into empty 9mm casings. Occasionally we'd fill one up but more often then not we'd get a casing half full and it would explode while we were scraping a cap into it. Moved to Pyrodex after that and was satisfied.

Explodo: That must have been one unlucky kid. A .22 slug coming out of a shell with no barrell to speed it up isn't going that fast. It'd have to hit you just right to kill you I'd think.

this

/used to open shotgun shells. PS, the caps are really loud when hit with hammer.

Explodo: That must have been one unlucky kid. A .22 slug coming out of a shell with no barrell to speed it up isn't going that fast. It'd have to hit you just right to kill you I'd thi

I'd wager he was shot with the rifle while they were unloading it. I've popped primers on a number of 22's in vices and the bullet never left the casing. The side of the casing just exploded.

Well that's a shame. (said like Seinfeld)

"two teens at a house on Susan Street in Clifton were taking apart 22 caliber shells to use the gun powder to blow things up, when one of them went off, hitting a boy in the chest and killing him."

That's the other teen's story and he's sticking with it.

The parents will soon be multi-millionaires because the ammunition manufacturer didn't put a warning on the box about manually taking apart cartridges so you could blow things up.

did this with those snap-pop firework things.

on a napkin.
/in the middle of the national mall, Washington DC.
//pre-9/11.
///still farkin stupid.

The Mesa County Sheriff's Office says around 3:30 p.m. they were called to the scene on reports of someone with a gunshot wound to the chest. Investigators remain on scene, and the Mesa County Coroner is also there, trying to determine the cause and manner of the boy's death.

Well, if it's as-stated, it's not a "gunshot wound", is it?
It's an explosive device at that point, I guess.

Yeah, I also find it unlikely. This has been demonstrated time and time again, ammunition "cooking off" without a barrel doesn't throw the bullet at speeds which would generally be considered lethal. Usually, far below.

FTFA: "Teen killed while removing bullets from gun"


"two teens at a house on Susan Street in Clifton were taking apart 22 caliber shells"



These are two completely different things.
Thats some fine reporting there.

Fark needs a Darwin tag.

You know the blanks, that look like 22LRs, that are used to put nails into cement?

Yeah, as a kid I hit those w/ hammers. Holy crap it was fun and awesome until one exploded and sent shrapnel into my leg.

Yeah. I feel for these kids :(

Epiphany: I hope that kid that lived gets locked up for felony accessory to murder.

Kinda early in the thread for this much stupidity isn't it?

Pace yourself.

ParagonComplex: Fark needs a Darwin tag.


If it did, you know it would be overused and abused.

Explodo: That must have been one unlucky kid. A .22 slug coming out of a shell with no barrell to speed it up isn't going that fast. It'd have to hit you just right to kill you I'd think.

Indeed, I can't see how anything from a 22 going off would give you more then a scratch. The force mostly takes the path of least resistance, and goes through the casing, the bullet does not get accelerated all that much. Maybe they had it inside pliers something that let the force of the explosion accelerate the bullet.

/yeah I know, deflageration

tankjr: I used to do this all the time as a kid. The problem is that smokeless powder isn't explosive. It just burns. So this poor kid died for nothing.


I'm guessing you are not a scientist..... or a high school grad.

Hope ya'll are happy. Now comes the payback bishes.....

Waddayamean didn't end well, Subtard? Says they were trying to blow stuff up, and sounds like they succeeded in blowing up a few pieces of live ammo.

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: tankjr: I used to do this all the time as a kid. The problem is that smokeless powder isn't explosive. It just burns. So this poor kid died for nothing.


I'm guessing you are not a scientist..... or a high school grad.

herp a derp

Epiphany: I hope that kid that lived gets locked up for felony accessory to murder.

Seems to be an accessory to idiocy, and the punishments already been dealt out. Why ruin another kids/family's life over it?

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: FTFA: "Teen killed while removing bullets from gun"


"two teens at a house on Susan Street in Clifton were taking apart 22 caliber shells"



These are two completely different things.
Thats some fine reporting there.

Yeah I'm a bit confused.



/took powder out of rounds when I was a kid
//still here
///yes it was a farking stupid thing to do

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: FTFA: "Teen killed while removing bullets from gun"


"two teens at a house on Susan Street in Clifton were taking apart 22 caliber shells"



These are two completely different things.
Thats some fine reporting there.

Yeah but it's typical of journalists and non-gun-owners in general, thanks to the hysteria and ignorance that abounds about firearms.

Reminds me of this incident. The woman in question claimed her car was shot so many times by US forces that she was able to collect "handfuls of bullets from the seats" of the car she was in.

It's easy for people who don't know what they're talking about to make claims about 300-400 being fired at their car in the space of a minute or two. Not to mention that those bullets reach their destination scorching hot.

When I was a kid and wanted to blow stuff up with .22 rounds, I just put them IN THE GUN!

tankjr: The problem is that smokeless powder isn't explosive. It just burns.

The rate at which it burns is proportional to the pressure. If you put it in a sealed can and ignited it, it'd explode.

But yea, taking apart the cartridge isn't why the kid died.

WWSBS?



A CHILD BLEW A CHILD AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

/Thanks for your input Sebastian.

Not gonna say how I did it, but back when I was a shooting instructor with the Boy Scouts of America I removed the powder from thousands of rounds. Heck, I once did 2,000 in one sitting! There is a very safe way of doing this (relatively speaking, of course).

Oh, because I am sure someone will ask, I never did this in front of any of the Scouts.

Also, one should never have a small pile of gunpowder and one should never have about a 100 empty .22 casings mixed in with the gunpowder and one should never then set it on fire. Because doing so would be incredibly dangerous and stupid.

Couple of brothers tried this in our town when we were kids. They decided to make a pipe bomb with the powder. Things were going fine until they decided to *hammer* the ends of the pipe shut.

Some damage ensued but fortunately darwin gave them another chance.

Damn I hate to see local news show up on Fark. On the upside, the Western Colorado gene pool is now a tiny bit deeper.

I remember way back when, used to do stuff like take the powder out of bullets and experiment with it. Was pretty common at the rez, I'm pretty sure kids down there still do it. But there was 1 guy who isn't the sharpest marble in the closet, he thought it would be fun to smash 22 shells between rocks. I don't know how many he did before he shot himself in the leg. I didn't see it, but I did laugh when I heard about it.

Still, dumb kids learn not to dumb things the hard way and this kid paid his price. I feel bad for the guy and his friend, worse for his parents who will have to carry that load the rest of their lives.


Wait... I'm on fark.... LOLz... hahahaa darWIN!!! klorine in the jean poolzwarz!! rolfmao derp derp

Mrbogey: tankjr: The problem is that smokeless powder isn't explosive. It just burns.

The rate at which it burns is proportional to the pressure. If you put it in a sealed can and ignited it, it'd explode.

But yea, taking apart the cartridge isn't why the kid died.

We were never able to achieve high enough compression with smokeless to get an explosion. Pyrodex, by contrast, you could dump in a sandwich bag and wrap in some masking tape and make cherry bombs. Good times, man.

This is how my brother lost one of his fingers. He was emptying small caliber into a spent CO2 cartridge to make some kind of bomb.

If the blast went the other way, it would have killed him.

You can't "blow stuff up" with gunpowder. It burns too slowly for that. Gunpowder is a propellant, not an explosive.

Man, we used to do this in Dad's workshop when we were kids. Still here.

The_Sponge: realityVSperception: Couple of brothers tried this in our town when we were kids. They decided to make a pipe bomb with the powder. Things were going fine until they decided to *hammer* the ends of the pipe shut.


Junior High:

Some dipshiat in my neighborhood blew off his thumb via a homemade bomb made with gunpowder and an empty CO2 cartridge.

/Bonus:
//My Mom heard the explosion, and since Moms excel at worrying, she called my friend's house while I was there.
///To make sure we weren't involved.

...did you grow up in Bridgeport?

When I was about 13 years old, my 14yo neighbor, my brother and myself found ourselves one afternoon in my neighbor's grandparent's garage with a bench vice and a 12 gauge shell. He was attempting to strike the shell with a hammer and a nail.

Without really thinking long and hard, I realized what would happen if he were to successfully strike that primer with that nail and hammer. My brother and I left, and went home and just waited.

He never was able to make it go off. He was convinced that the shot would simply exit the end of the shell. We argued about this for a good 20 minutes.

Later on that day, we continued our earlier day efforts of attempting to jump a record thirteen empty 5 gallon buckets with our dirt bikes.

My younger brother broke his arm that evening attempting our 5 gallon bucket stunts.

Ahhh.. to be young again.