Mugato: This was a Final Destination scene, right?

I came here to make the same quip.

Wow. Just wow.

Wait'll he gets the gas bill, he'll blow his top again.

And this is why we don't keep the gun loaded until AFTER WE'VE LEARNED WHERE THE DAMN SAFETY IS.

Narrowly missing giving themselves a Darwin Award. Better luck next time.

you can have my gas pipeline when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

FTA: Neighbors the Wrights didn't even know offered to let them house-sit their home while the homeowners are out of state.

Me thinks the article writer had a stroke at the end.... punctuation and verbage(?) loss is killing America.

/biatch, biatch, biatch...

Negligent discharge.

This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses, and if you were to build a house over an existing pipeline you would damn sure know that before starting construction. Not to mention a bullet penetrating the floors of the house, the 4' minimum earth cover, and rupturing a carbon steel pipeline; are next to zero. People shoot at natural gas pipelines all the time with high powered hunting rifles to little effect.

True natural gas pipeline explosions are not localized to one house. The fact that the residents all had an immediate alibi and phrased those alibis in such ways like, "wow I just barely escaped this!" just screams insurance fraud.

Dammed article doesn't tell what gun it was.

I need me one o' them for gaspipe huntin' season.

Ed Finnerty: Guns don't kill people. Ruptured gas lines kill people.

Not in this case.

/I loled though, so +1

jso2897: eatin' fetus: This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses, and if you were to build a house over an existing pipeline you would damn sure know that before starting construction. Not to mention a bullet penetrating the floors of the house, the 4' minimum earth cover, and rupturing a carbon steel pipeline; are next to zero. People shoot at natural gas pipelines all the time with high powered hunting rifles to little effect.

True natural gas pipeline explosions are not localized to one house. The fact that the residents all had an immediate alibi and phrased those alibis in such ways like, "wow I just barely escaped this!" just screams insurance fraud.

I'll bet you're a blast at parties.

Tough to party when you work a pipeline 70 hours a week. It's like running away with the circus.

/best job ever

Don't touch the goddamned trigger unless you are ready to fire, and you know what the gun is pointing at. How f*cking hard is that?

/not a gun owner (yet), still knows the basic safety rules

"For a person as familiar with firearms as I was, this represented no commitment whatsoever. I could let down the hammer gently, without firing the cartridge. And then I could withdraw the bolt, which would extract the live cartridge and throw it away. But I squeezed the trigger instead."

Dead Eye Dick

jbuist: eatin' fetus: This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses...

Uh, gas pipes run into people's basements. That's how we utilize it.

Yea, those are service lines, very different from a pipeline as described in the article. They make it sound like dude blew up a 24" mainline. If that had happened, it would be national news.

eatin' fetus: They make it sound like dude blew up a 24" mainline. If that had happened, it would be national news.

And he would be under arrest for a long list of terrorism-related charges.

It wasn't a gun.. I admit...I was in the basement after eating refries. Sorry about the house.

Diane Wright said after her husband left to go hunting she smelled an odor, but thought it was from the gun.

She doesn't know the difference between the smell of a gun being fired and natural gas????

Hey lady, do you know the difference between a salad and a blow job?

You don't?

Want to have lunch with me?

What is 'insurance fraud', Alex?

/correct, select again

AntiNorm: Don't touch the goddamned trigger unless you are ready to fire, and you know what the gun is pointing at. How f*cking hard is that?


Bingo.

Awe shucks.

The gun education over gun prohibition platform just lost a few points off the board.

There goes my evening. Maybe I can watch a movie instead.

eatin' fetus: jbuist: eatin' fetus: This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses...

Uh, gas pipes run into people's basements. That's how we utilize it.

Yea, those are service lines, very different from a pipeline as described in the article. They make it sound like dude blew up a 24" mainline. If that had happened, it would be national news.


Gas line ruptures, basement or crawlspace filles with fumes, water heater kicks on and KA-BOOM!

numbone: "For a person as familiar with firearms as I was, this represented no commitment whatsoever. I could let down the hammer gently, without firing the cartridge. And then I could withdraw the bolt, which would extract the live cartridge and throw it away. But I squeezed the trigger instead."

Dead Eye Dick

Vonnegut didn't know much about rifles. Virtually all of them (including the Springfield that's the subject of the quote) use strikers instead of hammers and I don't know a single one that needs to be decocked before ejecting a chambered round.

jso2897: eatin' fetus: jso2897: eatin' fetus: This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses, and if you were to build a house over an existing pipeline you would damn sure know that before starting construction. Not to mention a bullet penetrating the floors of the house, the 4' minimum earth cover, and rupturing a carbon steel pipeline; are next to zero. People shoot at natural gas pipelines all the time with high powered hunting rifles to little effect.

True natural gas pipeline explosions are not localized to one house. The fact that the residents all had an immediate alibi and phrased those alibis in such ways like, "wow I just barely escaped this!" just screams insurance fraud.

I'll bet you're a blast at parties.

Tough to party when you work a pipeline 70 hours a week. It's like running away with the circus.

/best job ever

I had about a half-dozen friends who went up to Alaska to work the pipeline, back in the seventies. The one who survived is a total cripple, but at least he has good benefits. The rest were all killed in accidents or drank themselves to death from terminal boredom.
Served them right for raping our Mother.

Appreciate your humor.

The Trans-Alaska pipeline is an amazing feat of engineering, and us types don't take for granted the lives that were lost. I assume you've filled your gas tank once or twice since the 70s, so of course you could afford those souls a tip of your hat.

I've also lost friends. When the wife brings his boots and hard hat back to the lay down yard, two young daughters in tow, with 300+ people waiting with their heads bowed, you know you've seen more than you could ever hope to handle.

adeist69: Gas line ruptures, basement or crawlspace filles with fumes, water heater kicks on and KA-BOOM!

I clearly need to go to bed. I read that as "Gas line ruptures, basement or crawkspace fills with furries, water heater kicks on and KA-BOOM!"

jso2897: You'll get over it.


Nah, I probably won't.

jso2897: eatin' fetus: jso2897: eatin' fetus: This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses, and if you were to build a house over an existing pipeline you would damn sure know that before starting construction. Not to mention a bullet penetrating the floors of the house, the 4' minimum earth cover, and rupturing a carbon steel pipeline; are next to zero. People shoot at natural gas pipelines all the time with high powered hunting rifles to little effect.

True natural gas pipeline explosions are not localized to one house. The fact that the residents all had an immediate alibi and phrased those alibis in such ways like, "wow I just barely escaped this!" just screams insurance fraud.

I'll bet you're a blast at parties.

Tough to party when you work a pipeline 70 hours a week. It's like running away with the circus.

/best job ever

I had about a half-dozen friends who went up to Alaska to work the pipeline, back in the seventies. The one who survived is a total cripple, but at least he has good benefits. The rest were all killed in accidents or drank themselves to death from terminal boredom.
Served them right for raping our Mother.


Hey, it's your mom. Who hasn't?

adeist69: Gas line ruptures, basement or crawlspace filles with fumes, water heater kicks on and KA-BOOM!


A pilot light going out can get you too.

eatin' fetus: This story sounds like complete BS. Gas pipelines are not bored under houses, and if you were to build a house over an existing pipeline you would damn sure know that before starting construction. Not to mention a bullet penetrating the floors of the house, the 4' minimum earth cover, and rupturing a carbon steel pipeline; are next to zero. People shoot at natural gas pipelines all the time with high powered hunting rifles to little effect.

True natural gas pipeline explosions are not localized to one house. The fact that the residents all had an immediate alibi and phrased those alibis in such ways like, "wow I just barely escaped this!" just screams insurance fraud.

So... the pipe that comes out of my wall and goes into my stove... what do you call that? A natural gas pipe? Guess where it goes after it hits the wall? It goes down, and under the floor and over the garage, and over to the other side of the building.

So... everything you just said is idiotic, because we aren't talking about a 3 foot pipeline (new window)