Pitty Smaat Kid Puts Bullets In Vise, Then Whacks ‘Em With Hammer. Guess What Happens Next?

Damion M. Mosher, 18, had been discharging .223-caliber rounds, placing them in a steel vise, putting a screwdriver on the primer, and striking the screwdriver with the hammer, deputies said.

Deputies were called to his home in Lake Luzerne shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday when one bullet went about a half-inch into his abdomen. He was treated at Glens Falls Hospital and was released. No charges were filed.

Mosher told authorities he was trying to empty the rounds to collect the brass casings for scrap.

Sheriff Larry Cleveland said about 100 other rounds that Mosher hit had “fizzled,” but one was somehow sent with more force. It was unclear if the bullet ricocheted or hit him directly.

An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

Cleveland said Mosher’s shells amounted to just a few pounds.

Lake Luzerne, at the southeastern edge of the Adirondacks, is 45 miles north of Albany.

JOKESTARTERS:

• This story is posted as a tribute to my Dad, who did a similar thing, albeit not with bullets – for the 4th of July, we used to buy those Whistling/Piccolo Pete fireworks; if you pinched them in the correct spot they’d explode after whistling. We thought that was cool. Dad forgot the pliers one time down at the beach so he took a big rock and smashed one. You can guess what happened when force met gunpowder. BOOM! (Dad was okay and often joked that it “was the second stupidest thing he’d ever done”; he never told us what the stupidest thing was…)
• It took this Einstein 100 whacks with a hammer to ‘splode one of the bullets? All for around $1.70 per pound? Oh now that’s pitty goooood…

SOURCE:

• WRAL