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A 911 call released by officials in Cleveland County, North Carolina detailed how a man's arm was severely injured after his booby trap backfired. Edwin Smith, a 68-year-old identified by WCNC, was reportedly hit by his own shotgun Monday morning when the contraption he created misfired as he tried to feed squirrels through the back door. During the call, which was published by multiple media outlets, Smith told the emergency dispatcher: "I just blew my arm off." "Please hurry, I'm gonna die," he could be heard saying. "I'm gonna die. I'm in the driveway, I'm gonna die. Just tell everybody I love them, OK?" Smith explained that a trip wire he set up with his shotgun "went off and blew my arm off." The dispatcher asked if he could cover his arm somehow to control the bleeding, but Smith said he couldn't. Another unidentified man is then heard telling the dispatcher he's put a tourniquet on Smith's arm. A Cleveland County sheriff's deputy used a tactical tourniquet on Smith, according to the news outlet, but it's unclear if the man heard on the 911 call is the deputy. "F------- squirrels did me in, buddy," Smith seemingly told the other man, according to the audio. Smith was reportedly transported to a hospital. His condition was not immediately clear. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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Hey y'all, watch this! 7+1 Rounds of hope and change | |||
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Who in their right mind feeds squirrels on their property? Poor fella should have read Katko v. Briney. | |||
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If I were the medic that ran on him- “Were here to give you a hand buddy.” "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist" | |||
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"Here, hold my beer" is this guy's mantra. | |||
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Um... "Oops!"  God bless America. | |||
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_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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Sounds like he set a "spring gun" for protection purposes. I just knew that was a bad idea when I had it back in the day. The Islamic terrorist express: Go directly to Allah, do not pass hell. | |||
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I’m a little confused as to how the squirrels did him in; did one of the little welfare rats trip his device while he was feeding them? I’m afraid I would have involuntarily laughed at him for that line. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Feckin squirrels will do it everytime... don't trust the roof-rat! | |||
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Ah Cleveland County. Part of the Flori-DUH of North Carolina. ========================================== Just my 2¢ ____________________________ Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right ♫♫♫ | |||
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My maternal Grandfather owned a bar out on the edge of the Everglades back in the early 50's which was constantly getting burglarized when unoccupied. He rigged some kind of wire-to-shotgun-trigger device and subsequently shot himself in the knee. When I was a kid the story was "Grandpaw got wounded in Korea." (He did fight in Korea, but this was after his discharge). He confided the real story to me after I joined the Navy. "I was pretty hungover that morning and went to open the bar to do inventory, I was kind of on autopilot, I unlocked the door and realized, just before the gun went off, that I had left it rigged up the night before..." Dr's were always after him to get it amputated and get a prosthetic, but he never would. The leg did him in eventually (30 years later) via sepsis. He was quite a character. MOO means NO! Be the comet! | |||
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Too bad it didn’t hit him in the head. He apparently wasn’t using that. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Caddyshack sequel? . | |||
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sheesh not too bright - that one. ------------------------------------ Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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