Georgia man loses his leg after shooting lawnmower packed with explosive

[LiberalEsto]

The Florida is creeping north

Arturo Garcia
23 Mar 2016 at 22:45 ET

"A 32-year-old Georgia man lost his leg below the knee after trying to blow up his lawnmower by shooting at it, earning him a rebuke from local authorities, Online Athens reported.

“Yes, it is legal and no, we can’t make people stop doing it,” the Walton County Sheriff’s Department said on its Facebook page. “But why folks, just why?”

Deputies were called to a rural area near David Thomas Presley’s home in Monroe on Sunday after the incident. Presley was with a group of friends when he shot the lawnmower, which was packed with three pounds of an explosive sold under the name Tannerite.

It is a patented combination of ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder that is supplied as two separate powders that are mixed and shaken to produce an explosive,” local fire Battalion Chief Craig League told the Loganville Local News."

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/georgia-man-loses-his-leg-after-shooting-lawnmower-packed-with-explosive/

So WHY did he pack the lawnmower with explosives in the first place?

[benld74]

1. Darwin Award contestant for sure

[KamaAina]

8. Alas, amputees can still reproduce

so no Darwin for him. Maybe next time.

[randr]

2. An explosive is available to purchase by someone this stupid?

How in the hell does this happen in a world being held captive by terrorists?

[LiberalEsto]

3. We don't need terrorists in the US

Our own crazies can blow things up perfectly well.

[baldguy]

7. And they can buy guns & vote, too.

[Orrex]

4. You'll never hear a mower idiotic story than this.

[LiberalEsto]

5. lol

[Phentex]

6. He shot the lawnmower and the lawnmower won...

[KamaAina]

9. He shot the mower, but he did not shoot no deputy

[gratuitous]

10. "Yes it is legal, and no, we can't make people stop doing it"

As good a reason as any for instituting a few new laws. Will nitwits continue to do this if there's a law against it? Possibly, even probably. Will law enforcement have some recourse for the next David Thomas Presley if there's a law against it? Oh yeah. As it is, if some dumbass in Monroe, Georgia sets up his own Presley Shooting Thingamabob, and dumbass's neighbor calls 911, the authorities can only shrug and hope dumbass doesn't kill anyone with the inevitable explosion. Well, they can "rebuke" him afterwards. Pass a law, and the cops can come out before dumbass blows his leg off (and causes whatever other collateral damage that may result).

We have laws about driving on the right side of the street. Everybody knows that's where you're supposed to drive, but we have the law on the books anyway. The law enables the police to intervene in a dangerous situation before someone gets hurt or killed. There apparently needs to be a similar law against packing your lawnmower with explosives and squeezing off a round or two.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. The more laws against stupid behavior we have

the less natural selection can take place.

May explain why we end up with people like Trump being so popular.

[onethatcares]

11. good thing

He wasn't Muslim.

[kentauros]

12. "So WHY did he pack the lawnmower with explosives in the first place?"

To get to the Other Side


And that explosive is mixed like a James Bond martini: it's shaken, not stirred.

[So Far From Heaven]

13. Why? Because he could.

It's a love-hate thing mixed with a large dollop of stupid.

[kentauros]

14. My jokes were butter.

[So Far From Heaven]

16. Butter is as butter does.... (nt)

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. That blowed up real good.

[Kaleva]

17. Articificail Intelligence will never be able to enslave us

Humans have the ability, as shown by the article in the OP, to think waaaaaaay outside the box.

[Kaleva]

18. Update: David Thomas Presley intends to sue lawn mower manufacturer

It didn't have a warning label saying "Packing the lawn mower with explosives and then shooting it may cause serious bodily injury or death".


j/k!

[LiberalEsto]

19. Safety warnings are for wusses

Real Americans don't need these nanny state warnings.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

20. Just wondering but...

...right before shooting the mower did he happen to remark, "Hey y'all, watch this."?

[MH1]

22. I'm wondering how much alcohol was involved. nt

[femmocrat]

23. That is a man who really hated mowing the lawn.

[LiberalEsto]

25. He could have just blown up the lawn instead

There's nothing quite like a house surrounded by shrapnel and random body parts.

?no-auto

[Iggo]

24. It's not illegal to pack 3 lbs of explosive into something...

...and blow it up for your own entertainment?

Go Georgia!!!

[LongTomH]

26. When exploding lawnmowers are outlawed, only outlaws will have exploding lawnmowers.