Ka-boom!

Wanna see something really scary?This belongs to our friend Patty, and she was shooting with us today in Greenville. She had a squib round (primer, but no powder) that ejected the bullet a short distance down the barrel. She then fired another round that struck the bullet already in the barrel. The result was nothing short of catastrophic for her after-market (not a Glock) barrel. I've seen a few KBs, but nothing that has split the barrel the entire length. This one was a doozy. Patty got a little bruise on her left hand, nothing more. Not sure if the rest of the gun was salvageable, but it appeared to be okay. I expect they're going to need to replace a few things (I'd have to replace my underwear...). I also expect they want to invest in a powder-checker. The rest of us hand-loaders are knocking on wood, because this really could happen to anyone.

Safety tip: if the round you just fired doesn't sound just right, go ahead and be paranoid. If there's no bullet stuck in the chamber, you'll get a reshoot if the RO thought so, too. If so, well - you probably just saved your gun. Safety/Range Officers: you should be watching the gun, not the targets. I don't know who the RO was during this incident, but I wonder if he/she recognized what was happening. If you've seen it once, you KNOW when it happens, and you need to react quickly to prevent a problem.

All in all, everyone was okay, but the gun is a bit of a mess. Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

Something Tells Me He Didn't Make It

The Six Most Feared but Least Likely Causes of Death

This article is just for my pal Catfish, who has a fear of at least 3 of these things. He's going on a trip, where he's liable to be in a plane crash and survive crashing into the ocean, only to be eaten by a shark. The shark will throw him up, and he'll wash up on shore, where he'll be kidnapped by terrorists, who will murder him by tossing him off a cliff, which will then cause an earthquake. But he won't care by then.

The Declaration of Independence

Happy Birthday, America.

Take a moment away from your beer and brisket today, and read the Declaration. Complain if you like about how things are today, but at least consider what got us here in the first place. It's a very powerful document, and helps us today to understand the outrageous wrongs foisted on the Colonies by the King of England. It's proof that people will only live under tyranny for so long before rising up against it.

U.S. Pins Wiener-Eating Hopes on Chestnut

The biggest challenge of his life awaits Joey Chestnut on the Fourth of July - and he doesn't want to choke.

Mercy. I want to write for a newswire.

Hey, Look! A Monkey!

Pigs die in trailers parked at Texas border

Texas One-hundred-thirty-five pigs en route from Ohio to Mexico have been found dead inside trucks waiting to go through border inspection in Texas.

I understand you can get a great deal on ribs at the local truckstop.

Texas Tops Nation's Dry-Eye Spots

We're number one!

Apparently, the eyes of Texas are red and itchy.

"With the heat, patients particularly spend a lot of time in air-conditioned environments. The air conditioning leads to less humidity, which in turn leads to the dry eye."

Well, that explains it. The transplanted, out-of-state weenies that can't take the heat go inside, then get all pasty white and red-eyed, and next thing you know, we've got a bad rap.

You kids need to go outside where I've been the last couple of days. Sure, it's hot - but at least it's really humid.

Mounties to marry in N.S. in first-ever union of two male RCMP officers

Reaction to the wedding - the first between two male RCMP officers - has befuddled the couple, who have been overwhelmed by interview requests from reporters and congratulations from well-wishers they've never met.

Brokeback Mounties? Dudley Do-right must be spinning in his cartoon grave.

Mom Accused Of Leaving Baby Home Alone To Buy Beer

Dammit, people. You cannot expect your children to buy your beer.

Doesn't anyone proofread anymore?

Operation removes lightbulb from anus

Fateh Mohammad, a prison inmate in Pakistan, says he woke up last weekend with a glass lightbulb in his anus. Wednesday night, doctors brought Mohammad's misery to an end after a one-and-a-half hour operation to remove the object.
"Thanks Allah, now I feel comfort. Today, I had my breakfast. I was just drinking water, nothing else,"
He swears he didn't know the bulb was there.

Maybe his colon got an idea about something.

There is a nice picture of the x-ray.

Me and You and a Really Horny Bear Named Boo

He said the bear bashed a nearly 400-pound steel door off its four bolts, destroyed an electrical box while tearing through two electric fences and scrambled over a 12-foot fence anchored with 2 feet of steel below ground.

"I think he just kept charging it (the door) and charging it until it broke off its bolts," Dalzell said. "Everything was completely trashed. We are dealing with a pretty smart and determined bear."

Poor Boo. Determined my arse - that bear wants a taste of something, and I'm betting it's not freedom.

Lucky #13

The great state of Texas has rid the world of one more useless wad of flesh. A real charmer, Resendiz was convicted of brutally killing Claudia Benton in 1998, and was linked to at least 15 murders near train tracks across the country.

Resendiz’s lead appeals lawyer, Jack Zimmermann, had argued that his client, who described himself as half-man and half-angel, told psychiatrists he couldn’t be executed because he didn’t believe he could die.

Heh. Guess he was wrong. Go Texas!

Gator-guzzling python comes to messy end - Science - MSNBC.com

Talk about heartburn. I just thought it was a bizarre picture and had to share.

Wait, Don't Shoot! I Forgot My Password!

@ Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech

Another brilliant plan to prevent evil guns from shooting people all by themselves.

The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself.

Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun using a tiny keypad matched one stored in the cartridge.

The best part of this article is the comment section. Looks like most geeks are pro-gun!

What a great idea! We could also use this technology on Rosie O’Donnell’s fork, Jimmy Swaggart’s Bible, Ozzie’s liquor bottles, Ted Kennedy’s cars, Dick Cheney’s shotguns, … We can finally eradicate stupidity and dysfunction without any twinge of personal responsibility. Sound familiar?

Smuggled Child Camel Jockeys Sent Home

Wow, that has to be the most racist headline I have ever read.

Larry The Cable Fraud

MILF to hunt down Islamic militants in Mindanao

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Redneck Hillbilly Video

True greatness.

Texas man earns $65,000 in Big Bass Splash

And just in case you're feeling too good about yourself, here's a story that shows how wrong life can be. In a sport where you can't be too drunk to compete, a mans pulls this down:

His 12.38-pound catch earned him the hourly first-place award of $1,500 during the noon "T-shirt bonus hour" on Friday plus a brand new Hummer and Triton TR176 bass boat at Sunday's ceremony -- almost $65,000 in cash and prizes

I have no idea what a "T-shirt bonus hour" is, nor do I want to know, but dammit all to hell - it pays off, apparently.

The second place overall bass for the weekend weighed in at 10.76 pounds and won a black Dodge pickup truck Ricky Broadman of Marthaville. Eddie Rhea of DeRidder won a Cherokee travel trailer for his third place 10.25 pound-catch and Alexandria's Tri Brewer placed fifth and received a Honda ATV for a 9.46-pound bass.

The last time I went fishing, all I got was a sunburn and an ass-chewing.

Life isn't fair, people.