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Teens Hospitalized After Using Sledgehammer To Extract Gunpowder From Shotgun Shells
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My penis is still intact.
I can't see the page, someone paste the article?
HOUSTON -- Two teenagers were injured in an explosion when they used a sledgehammer to extract gunpowder from shotgun shells and bullets, police said.
Authorities were investigating whether the 16-year-old boys were trying to make homemade fireworks the night of July 4.
The teens were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital with first-, second- and third-degree burns, Harris County Fire Marshal Mike Montgomery said. The hospital did not release any information about the victims.
Police said the teens were grinding powder from the shells and bullets with a hammer, setting off the blast in a Harris County home.
Investigators seized bullets, a homemade discharging device and a videotape the youths made to document their efforts, police said.
Where's Miguel lately?
Authorities were investigating whether the 16-year-old boys were trying to make homemade fireworks the night of July 4.
The teens were taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital with first-, second- and third-degree burns, Harris County Fire Marshal Mike Montgomery said. The hospital did not release any information about the victims.
Police said the teens were grinding powder from the shells and bullets with a hammer, setting off the blast in a Harris County home.
Investigators seized bullets, a homemade discharging device and a videotape the youths made to document their efforts, police said.
Where's Miguel lately?
Dagless M.D.
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I cant wait untill the video leaks
Had a dumb fuck in my Army unit take a 20mm round home from the range one evening.
Tried to use an electric drill to extract the powder from the casing.
Well......
He is now blind in one eye and blew off two fingers.
My 1st SGT. laughed at his sorry ass when seeing him at the hospital.
Tried to use an electric drill to extract the powder from the casing.
Well......
He is now blind in one eye and blew off two fingers.
My 1st SGT. laughed at his sorry ass when seeing him at the hospital.
*sigh*
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2663979
July 6, 2004, 6:56AM
Two teenage boys, 7-year-old girl hurt in Fourth accidents
Gunpowder mix, fireworks to blame
By PEGGY O'HARE
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
Two separate July Fourth accidents left a 7-year-old girl blind in one eye and two teens with serious burns, according to the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.
The child was struck by a bottle rocket during a fireworks show Sunday night at the First Baptist Church North Channel in the 13800 block of Force, said investigator Nathan Green.
The church's congregation had gathered for a carnival after evening services, and an impromptu fireworks display was held in a nearby parking lot, set back 100 feet from the crowd, Green said. Five minutes into the show, a container holding a bottle rocket tipped over, and the device shot into the crowd.
The girl was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital and is not expected to regain sight in her right eye, Green said.
The fireworks were being set off by adults and church officials, including the girl's father, who is a deacon at the church, he said.
Earlier on Sunday, two teens were burned by exploding gunpowder at a north Harris County home. The accident happened after a group of youths took apart hundreds of shotgun shells and concocted a dangerous homemade cocktail, Green said.
The 16-year-old boys were burned when a flash fire ignited around 7 p.m. at a home in the 20700 block of Greymoss Lane near Harvest Hill, officials said. Six other teens, ages 16 and 17, were present when emergency crews arrived.
Green said there was no adult supervision at the time of the accident.
The youths had taken apart 400 .22-caliber rounds and at least one box of 20-gauge shotgun shells, pouring the gunpowder into a bowl, Green said. They then added Crystal Drano to the gunpowder and poured the mixture into a rubber glove, he said.
The youths then used a sledgehammer to grind the substance into a fine powder, apparently generating enough heat to set off the gunpowder.
One boy suffered first-, second- and third-degree burns to his left leg, right arm and face and first-degree burns to nearly all the exposed portions of his body. The other teen suffered first- and second-degree burns to his face, right arm and right leg.
Earlier in the day, the teens had thrown homemade dry-ice bombs into the street and used a videocamera to film some of their antics, Green said.
Investigators seized the empty bullet boxes, shotgun shells, bullet casings, the sledgehammer, various fireworks, dry ice coolers and the video camera. All of the youths will be brought to the fire marshal's office to give written statements and interviews.
The condition of the injured teens was not known Monday evening.
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*moves and takes Rockets/Texans/Astros with him
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2663979
July 6, 2004, 6:56AM
Two teenage boys, 7-year-old girl hurt in Fourth accidents
Gunpowder mix, fireworks to blame
By PEGGY O'HARE
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
Two separate July Fourth accidents left a 7-year-old girl blind in one eye and two teens with serious burns, according to the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.
The child was struck by a bottle rocket during a fireworks show Sunday night at the First Baptist Church North Channel in the 13800 block of Force, said investigator Nathan Green.
The church's congregation had gathered for a carnival after evening services, and an impromptu fireworks display was held in a nearby parking lot, set back 100 feet from the crowd, Green said. Five minutes into the show, a container holding a bottle rocket tipped over, and the device shot into the crowd.
The girl was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital and is not expected to regain sight in her right eye, Green said.
The fireworks were being set off by adults and church officials, including the girl's father, who is a deacon at the church, he said.
Earlier on Sunday, two teens were burned by exploding gunpowder at a north Harris County home. The accident happened after a group of youths took apart hundreds of shotgun shells and concocted a dangerous homemade cocktail, Green said.
The 16-year-old boys were burned when a flash fire ignited around 7 p.m. at a home in the 20700 block of Greymoss Lane near Harvest Hill, officials said. Six other teens, ages 16 and 17, were present when emergency crews arrived.
Green said there was no adult supervision at the time of the accident.
The youths had taken apart 400 .22-caliber rounds and at least one box of 20-gauge shotgun shells, pouring the gunpowder into a bowl, Green said. They then added Crystal Drano to the gunpowder and poured the mixture into a rubber glove, he said.
The youths then used a sledgehammer to grind the substance into a fine powder, apparently generating enough heat to set off the gunpowder.
One boy suffered first-, second- and third-degree burns to his left leg, right arm and face and first-degree burns to nearly all the exposed portions of his body. The other teen suffered first- and second-degree burns to his face, right arm and right leg.
Earlier in the day, the teens had thrown homemade dry-ice bombs into the street and used a videocamera to film some of their antics, Green said.
Investigators seized the empty bullet boxes, shotgun shells, bullet casings, the sledgehammer, various fireworks, dry ice coolers and the video camera. All of the youths will be brought to the fire marshal's office to give written statements and interviews.
The condition of the injured teens was not known Monday evening.
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Not the first- or last- people to do something like this. Truth is, if a bullet goes off outside of the chamber of a gun, the bullet won't be protected at and deadly speed. Of course, the gun powder will still catch fire (or explode) if the primer goes off...
Personally, I would use a knife to 'extract' powder from a shotgun shell, since they're made of plastic
Ah, see, they weren't using the sledge on the shell itslef...they weren't totally incompetent
Personally, I would use a knife to 'extract' powder from a shotgun shell, since they're made of plastic
Ah, see, they weren't using the sledge on the shell itslef...they weren't totally incompetent
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If Will Smith was here he'd say something funny, like "WELCOME TO EARF" or "GET OFF MUH CAR" but he's not.
Story reminds me of one Lewis Black told in one of his stand ups about two hicks using a bullet to replace a fuse in their truck and it went off and tore open one of the man's genitals.
Story reminds me of one Lewis Black told in one of his stand ups about two hicks using a bullet to replace a fuse in their truck and it went off and tore open one of the man's genitals.
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darscot said:
Why's that? I've never done anything like this, and never will. idot indeed...
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I was takling about what I would do if I were going to get gunpowder from a shotgun shell. If you know anything about it, you would know that doing it in such a manner is pretty safe. However, I wouldn't do it anyway since I value every digit on my hand
P.S. Look up 'hypothetical situation' sometime
P.S. Look up 'hypothetical situation' sometime
Thaedolus said:
First off, bullet cartridges are made of metal. If it ignites, that metal goes flying in all directions. You can be killed by a shot from a blank, did you know?
Second, shotgun shells also house the powder in a metal cartridge. The plastic part just holds the shot pellets.
Please don't go handling any of these before you learn a lot more.
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You can gain access to the powder in a shotgun shell by opening the top of it via cutting through the plastic. I've seen it done before on one shell, by someone who knew what he was doing, while I stood 10 feet away
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You go in right above the metal part. I can't remember if it was sealed from there, but that's how he did it without setting off the primer
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You go in right above the metal part. I can't remember if it was sealed from there, but that's how he did it without setting off the primer
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This guy frequently reloaded his own shotgun shells and is a gun safety teacher. He knew what he was doing. I, however, don't know enough to go ahead and try it, therefore I haven't and won't. I was just saying, if I were in a hyopthetical situation that required extracting powder from a shell, I would cut into the shell rather than sledge-hammer it open.
Geez, it's not that hard to understand.
Geez, it's not that hard to understand.
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Haha, I'm glad you got banned so I don't have to keep responding to your idiocy, less I look like a pussy:
Fired shotgun shells can be reloaded if you want to. I've never bothered since they're not expensive enough to be worth my time. But if you want to customize your load exactly, or save a bit of cash, it's supposedly pretty simple. You replace the primer, fill the metal part with powder, insert a wad and then the pellets. He explained the process to me several years ago, so there's probably more to it. Now, I would assume cutting open a shotgun shell could set it off, however unless you generate the heat required to combust the poweder OR somehow set off the powder, it's not very likely. You'll notice the boys in the article weren't injured from extracting the powder, but from setting it off after trying to crush it into a finer poweder.
If you look at the facts rather than simply writing it off as 'OMG U CUTZ TEH SHELL?!?! YOUR DUMBASS!!!11" then you'll understand the process.
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Also, a simple Google search brought up many guides to reloading shotgun shells, d00d
Fired shotgun shells can be reloaded if you want to. I've never bothered since they're not expensive enough to be worth my time. But if you want to customize your load exactly, or save a bit of cash, it's supposedly pretty simple. You replace the primer, fill the metal part with powder, insert a wad and then the pellets. He explained the process to me several years ago, so there's probably more to it. Now, I would assume cutting open a shotgun shell could set it off, however unless you generate the heat required to combust the poweder OR somehow set off the powder, it's not very likely. You'll notice the boys in the article weren't injured from extracting the powder, but from setting it off after trying to crush it into a finer poweder.
If you look at the facts rather than simply writing it off as 'OMG U CUTZ TEH SHELL?!?! YOUR DUMBASS!!!11" then you'll understand the process.
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Also, a simple Google search brought up many guides to reloading shotgun shells, d00d
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