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Only In America, Thats A FACT!

  • 27-03-2008 09:52PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭


    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1310857,00,00.html

    Man Shoots Wife Dead Trying To Install TV
    Updated:11:45, Thursday March 27, 2008

    A man who tried to use a gun to install a satellite television system ended up shooting his wife dead by accident.

    Ronald Long tried to make a hole in the exterior wall of his house in Missouri, US, to install the dish for the system.

    After several unsuccessful attempts, he got a .22-calibre handgun and blasted two holes in the wall.

    The second bullet hit his wife, Patsy, in the chest, fatally wounding her.

    She was standing outside the house at the time, but Long reportedly thought she was inside.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    Steyr wrote: »
    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1310857,00,00.html

    Man Shoots Wife Dead Trying To Install TV
    Updated:11:45, Thursday March 27, 2008

    A man who tried to use a gun to install a satellite television system ended up shooting his wife dead by accident.

    Ronald Long tried to make a hole in the exterior wall of his house in Missouri, US, to install the dish for the system.

    After several unsuccessful attempts, he got a .22-calibre handgun and blasted two holes in the wall.

    The second bullet hit his wife, Patsy, in the chest, fatally wounding her.

    She was standing outside the house at the time, but Long reportedly thought she was inside.


    The stupid **** gets everything he deserves.



    -VB-


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    LOL at this story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭KatiexKOUTURE--


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    LOL at this story.

    eh, not really somthing to lol at. someone died, but I know what you mean.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    I laughed at the story, not the death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    at least they can't breed...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭buckfast4me


    lol this reminds me of the simpsons episode where homer joins a gun club and is using the gun to turn off light switches, close doors, etc and cletus says "Are you some kinda moron" (say it in cletus voice). lol @ american gun culture, not the poor wife in question.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    ^ was just about to post that. :D Awful stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Lol at the picture on the sky site with the caption 'The correct way to install dish' :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    lol @ american gun culture
    I'm not sure what part of American gun culture says that a handgun is an acceptable replacement for a power drill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    at least they can't breed...

    They already have:
    "I was in the shower, and the son came in and told me his mom had been shot, so we went up there to see if we could help,” Lassince said.

    Actually, I meant to add that it's a silly point to make. It was the hubby's stupidity that killed her, but nothing is stopping him from breeding.

    Anyway, the whole point of Darwinian selection in Humans is silly (i.e. the 'Stupids' remove themselves from the gene pool), as it requires no intelligence to breed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    eh, not really somthing to lol at. someone died, but I know what you mean.

    wtf? that's hilarious!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭supertramp


    Bullets don't kill. It's the cardiac arrest that follows that is a killer..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭electric69


    America ftw!!

    Gonna get me a gun and do some shootin!


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    DUUUUURRRRRRRHHHHHHHH. Hick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭internelligent


    Depending on what mood I'm in I could laugh at that story or get angry. As innocent the man was in the death, he's the stupidest f***er. 10/10 for improvisation but I feel he scores a 1 on the whole safety part.
    I wouldn't say he deserves everything he gets. Stupid people **** up all the time. In this case however, you gotta wonder what he was thinking. Reminds me of the gun being discharged by the pilot in the cockpit. Moron!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Another contestant for the Darwin awards :D

    http://www.darwinawards.com/


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Thats actually a two birds with one bullet situation. A domestic hat-trick. I mean he gets the wife out of the way, has a cast iron excuse, and can finally install a satellite without being subjected to endless sex and the city reruns and demands to flick to America's next top model during the football game.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,748 Mod ✭✭✭✭The Real B-man


    LMAO :D +1 For all Americans are tick debate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    LMAO :D +1 For all Americans are tick debate.

    Hahahahaha

    -1 for you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭allybhoy


    Slow coach wrote: »
    Actually, I meant to add that it's a silly point to make. It was the hubby's stupidity that killed her, but nothing is stopping him from breeding.

    He wont be doing much breeding in jail tbh, he might be tossing a few salads though...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    LMAO :D +1 For all Americans are tick debate.

    You're a moderator?

    Go volunteer to drill a hole, and piss off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭mad m


    Are we sure the hubby didn't work as an N*L installer at some stage in his life?....Mad Americans.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    And while you're contemplating the cost of getting a professional to install your sattelite dish or buy a drill,
    consider the gun cost more than both :rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,261 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Overheal wrote: »
    You're a moderator?

    Go volunteer to drill a hole, and piss off.
    Try not to be so aggresive to other posters please, Overheal.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,703 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Id hate to see what he would use if he needed a hammer...

    "Wifey, come here, I need your head for a minute"

    (Yes, I know shes dead, but still...)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    At least she wont feel it when she is used as a hammer.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,703 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Aye! Plus he'l have a fair amount of fertiliser for the garden in a few weeks..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Try not to be so aggresive to other posters please, Overheal.

    I refrained from commenting on his avatar at least :)

    to be fair though, less of the racial generalities please:
    all Americans

    And yes, only in America -_-


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,261 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Overheal wrote: »
    to be fair though, less of the racial generalities please:

    If you've got a problem then feel free to pm me or one of the other after hours mods about it or start a thread in feedback but I don't want it discussed on thread as it just takes threads off-topic.


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  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Does anyone remember the story ages ago where a guy wanted to change his tyre, but couldnt get the nuts off. So he tried and blasts it with his sawn-off shotgun only to be blasted in the leg and abdomen by the debris


    Here's
    the story


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