Blanks can hurt

[Rye Miles #13621]

Check out this idiot!

https://fox8.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-12-year-old-grandson-while-officiating-wedding-police/?fbclid=IwAR3shCgCE3YbnDAms91FZDGLYcDUx-XoE58IUqeUXpvtrJt7IYkAcL7UX40

[Presidio]

What a moron.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

I learned about the danger of blanks when I was nine or ten years old -- from Roy Rodgers. He had a safety demonstration that aired during or after one of his shows. He said something like, "Boys and girls, even though we shoot blanks on the show, they can still be dangerous." He then put a playing card flat on the ground and from a standing position fired a blank at the card which blew a hole right through it. Made an impression on me as I still remember it after 60+ years.

 

I remember other "Kids, this is just pretend, please don't try this at home." Too bad those kinds of messages have fallen by the wayside. Seems that back then, they knew their audience. Theses days it seems they don't care about their audience.

[Tell Sackett SASS 18436]

Blanks can KILL!!

Jon Eric Hexum.

’nuff said!

[Warden Callaway]

Jon-Erik Huxum was some study q duck on TV series Cover Up until he put a prop gun to his head and pulled the trigger. 

[Alpo]

When I was in high school I bought a starter pistol, that used those 22 acorn blanks. And one day, just for curiosity, I pointed it at a dried turkey oak leaf on the ground. Maybe 6, 8 inches away. Fired. The hole was about a half an inch. And the leaf around the hole was burned.

 

Hmmm

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

And George Reeves used to caution children on TV that only Superman can fly.

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

And George Reeves used to caution children on TV that only Superman can fly.

And must duck when revolvers are thrown at you. 
 

Me and my brother didn’t see this announcement that only Superman can fly. I liked Batman. My brother liked Superman. We made our own capes from bed sheets and put them on and ran and jumped from the roof of our garage. My other little brother was officiating from the ground to determine which of us went further. 
After we hit the ground, luckily on our feet and some very well executed rolls we found that our littlest brother was laughing too hard to determine who flew furthest. His laughter attracted my mother who thoroughly chastised us for tearing up bed sheets and trying to break our own necks. No dinner that night…

[Texas Lizard]

Superman can not fly....He leaps over tall buildings....

 

Texas Lizard

[Subdeacon Joe]

One Reenactor who owned a cannon, as part of his demonstration, would go into how even without a projectile it was still dangerous.  He would put a a raw chicken on a stake about 20 feet in front of the gun and a raw pork chop over the vent.   

 

When he fired the blank the tube from the friction primer and the hot gasses from the vent would blow about a 3/4 inch hole in the chop and sear the edges.

 

The chicken was always blown off the stake and usually the wings and legs were disjointed, if not blown off.

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Texas Lizard said:

Superman can not fly....He leaps over tall buildings....

 

Texas Lizard

Yes but he does fly as well.

[Texas Maverick]

I remember Brandon Lee being killed by a blank in 1993 when filming The Crow.

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1150034900/brandon-lee-killed-prop-gun-rust-shooting-death-alec-baldwin-halyna-hutchins

 

TM

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Texas Maverick said:

I remember Brandon Lee being killed by a blank in 1993 when filming The Crow.

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1150034900/brandon-lee-killed-prop-gun-rust-shooting-death-alec-baldwin-halyna-hutchins

 

TM

 

Not exactly...

 

In a film shoot prior to the fatal scene, the gun that was used as a prop (a real revolver) was loaded with improperly made dummy rounds, improvised from live cartridges that had the powder charges removed by the special effects crew, so in close-ups the revolver would show normal-looking ammunition. However, the crew neglected to remove the primers from the cartridges, and at some point before the fatal event, one of the rounds had been fired. Although there were no powder charges, the energy from the ignited primer was enough to separate the bullet from the casing and push it part-way into the gun barrel, where it got stuck—a dangerous condition known as a squib load.

During the fatal scene, which called for the revolver to be fired at Lee from a distance of 3.6–4.5 meters (12–15 ft), the dummy cartridges were replaced with blank rounds, which contained a powder charge and the primer, but no solid bullet, allowing the gun to be fired with sound and flash effects without the risk of an actual projectile. However, the gun was not properly checked and cleared before the blank was fired, and the dummy bullet previously lodged in the barrel was then propelled forward by the blank's propellant and shot out the muzzle with almost the same force as if the round were live, striking Lee in the abdomen.^[101][102]

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

Sounds like one of those stunts that, had it worked as planned, guests would have thought it pretty cool.  
 

Now he just looks like a fool.

[Ozark Huckleberry]

14 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

Superman can not fly....He leaps over tall buildings....

 

Texas Lizard

 

13 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Yes but he does fly as well.

 

So how do you know Superman's 'leap over a tall building' isn't actually him throwing a little flying into the mix to make it look more impressive?

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

7 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said:

 

 

So how do you know Superman's 'leap over a tall building' isn't actually him throwing a little flying into the mix to make it look more impressive?

…the trampoline on the sidewalk. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

[Sawhorse Kid]

On 10/5/2023 at 7:22 AM, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

I learned about the danger of blanks when I was nine or ten years old -- from Roy Rodgers. He had a safety demonstration.............

 

I learned when I was about 12 from a Buffalo Bill impersonator.

He demonstrated by putting a his gun point blank against a thick metropolitan phone book and blowing a hole thru it....had confetti bouncing of the gym ceiling.

 

 

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

 

You can't fool me. That was trick photography.

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

23 minutes ago, Alpo said:

 

You can't fool me. That was trick photography.

 

Really?? 

[John Barleycorn, SASS #76982]

On 10/5/2023 at 9:37 AM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Check out this idiot!

https://fox8.com/news/man-accidentally-shoots-12-year-old-grandson-while-officiating-wedding-police/?fbclid=IwAR3shCgCE3YbnDAms91FZDGLYcDUx-XoE58IUqeUXpvtrJt7IYkAcL7UX40

After reading the article I’m left to wonder if the charging authority also charges drivers that accidentally hurt someone. 
Sure Gramps is stupid but not sure if he’s a criminal. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

4 hours ago, Sawhorse Kid said:

 

I learned when I was about 12 from a Buffalo Bill impersonator.

He demonstrated by putting a his gun point blank against a thick metropolitan and blowing a hole thru it....had confetti bouncing of the gym ceiling.

 

Are you saying that that archbishop was a lackwit, or fat?

[Sawhorse Kid]

 

  My bad,    a thick metropolitan phone book.    

 

 

 

[Alpo]

8 minutes ago, Sawhorse Kid said:

 

  My bad,    a thick metropolitan phone book.    

 

 

 

I'm sure that was otto's bad.

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Are you saying that that archbishop was a lackwit, or fat?

My first thought was he was talking about a Nash.

[Subdeacon Joe]

19 minutes ago, Sawhorse Kid said:

 

  My bad,    a thick metropolitan phone book.    

 

 

 

 

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

You can't fix Stupid 

[watab kid]

On 10/5/2023 at 11:14 AM, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

And George Reeves used to caution children on TV that only Superman can fly.

and if i recall correctly a blank crippled superman on a movies set