Many members have been frustrated in trying
to remove stubborn parts, especially rear brake drums on 50's Imperials.
Hopefully, we do not do like the gent below.
Go figure, he was working on a Lincoln.
Mark
MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 3:44
p.m. ET, Mon., Nov. 12, 2007
SOUTHWORTH, Wash.
- A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a
12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, sheriff's
deputies said.
The 66-year-old
man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home
in Kitsap County northwest of Southworth, about 10 miles southwest of
Seattle, and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear
wheel by Saturday afternoon, Kitsap County Deputy Scott Wilson said.
"He's bound and
determined to get that lug nut off," Wilson said.
>From about arm's length, the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was
"peppered" in both legs with buckshot and debris, with some injuries as
high as his chin, according to a sheriff's office report.
"Nobody else was
there, and he wasn't intoxicated," Wilson said.
The man was taken
to Tacoma General Hospital with injuries Wilson described as severe but
not life-threatening.
The deputies did
not take a statement from the man beyond what they were able to gather
while he was being treated by medics, The Kitsap Sun reported on its
Web site.
"I don't think he
was in any condition to say anything," Wilson said, according to The
Sun. "The pain was so severe, and the shock."
It was not
immediately clear whether the shotgun blast loosened the lug nut.
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