Florida Man Aims at "Snake" - Shoots Friend

[Old Bookaroo]

Man aims at snake, shoots friend instead

By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel September 27, 2013

An 18-year-old Seminole County man will have a permanent souvenir of a late-night encounter with a snake: a bullet in his thigh.

Brandon Rapé was in a pickup truck with two friends Thursday about 11 p.m. when they pulled to the side of Sylvan Lake Drive near Sanford so that Rapé could answer the call of nature, a Sheriff's Office report states.

The men saw a large snake in the road, and Jared Hemphill, also 18, decided to shoot it with a semiautomatic rifle that belongs to Dustin Downer, 21.

Hemphill heard a noise in the bushes and assumed it was the snake, so he fired the Remington Speedmaster and accidentally struck Rapé in the left thigh, he told investigators.

Man aims at snake, shoots friend instead - Orlando Sentinel

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

 

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[L.C. BAKER]

Man aims at snake, shoots friend instead

By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel September 27, 2013

An 18-year-old Seminole County man will have a permanent souvenir of a late-night encounter with a snake: a bullet in his thigh.

Brandon Rapé was in a pickup truck with two friends Thursday about 11 p.m. when they pulled to the side of Sylvan Lake Drive near Sanford so that Rapé could answer the call of nature, a Sheriff's Office report states.

The men saw a large snake in the road, and Jared Hemphill, also 18, decided to shoot it with a semiautomatic rifle that belongs to Dustin Downer, 21.

Hemphill heard a noise in the bushes and assumed it was the snake, so he fired the Remington Speedmaster and accidentally struck Rapé in the left thigh, he told investigators.

Man aims at snake, shoots friend instead - Orlando Sentinel

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

Guns don't kill people. Stupid people with guns do.

L.C.

 

[onfire]

He might have thought his buddy was studying LAW most resemble snakes. Biddy eyes slimy and no Ba!!s What's the point just another idiout who shots at sounds.

 

[xr7ator]

Wow. What a downer. These guys do sound intelligent enough. I know! I'll bet if instead of a rifle, if they had, say, a cross bow, or a baseball batt, or a blow dart....I'm sure there would have been a much better ending to this story.
That darn gun....we need to get "it".

 

[Unclebuck257]

OB,

You forgot to mention the many, many, idiot DRUNK teenagers and others who kill and mame others while driving every year. That total number far exceeds the number shot by a friend while peeing in the woods. Now, if you had posted a story about a teenager who was shooting from his pick up truck, while driving drunk across railroad tracks in front of a train, and then shot his buddy who was peeing in the woods, you might have the beginnings of another "perfect country song"!! Add a grandmother, and mention prison and you'd have one, I think! LMBO!!

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Unclebuck257:

If you like country music, rent The Last Ride (2012). I highly recommend it!

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

PS: I didn't forget to mention anything. The story speaks for its own self.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye!

Any person who handles firearms should complete a hunters safety course. I am pretty sure they cover "Don't Shoot at A Noise in the Bushes, it might be your buddy taking a leak". Thankfully these idiots never killed each other........but that means they will only reproduce. One can only hope they learned from their mistake, that way they can teach their children the right way to handle a firearm.

L.C.

 

[worldtalker]

Sounds like something Dick Cheney would do!

God Bless


Chris

 

[Red James Cash]

Its just Darwins theory in action.Nothing more nothing less.

 

[Chadeaux]

Its just Darwins theory in action.Nothing more nothing less.

Nature's way of thinning the herd of folks who constantly pick stupid friends.


Hey, at least he's alive so that he gets a second chance to pick better friends, or ---

Maybe next time they'll go out joyriding with a few sticks of TNT...

 

[Red James Cash]

Maybe play hot potato with a live grenade,sounds like fun.

 

[TheCoinKid]

Now, if you had posted a story about a teenager who was shooting from his pick up truck, while driving drunk across railroad tracks in front of a train, and then shot his buddy who was peeing in the woods, you might have the beginnings of another "perfect country song"!! Add a grandmother, and mention prison and you'd have one, I think! LMBO!!

I was drunk, the day my mom got out of prison.................

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Hardly accurate representations of Darwin's Theory.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

 

[Peyton Manning]

they sound like gator food waiting for the dinner bell

 

[worldtalker]

Hardly accurate representations of Darwin's Theory.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

You're right in what you say,but there again too,what did He know of Creationism!

 

[Unclebuck257]

I was drunk, the day my mom got out of prison.................

Now, that's what I'm talkin' about CoinKid!!! LMBO!

 

[Crispin]

I hate snakes. I would have opened fire as well. In this war against snakes we will suffer a few casualties.

 

[Chadeaux]

As a friend once said when the cop wanted him to describe the snake he shot at in his yard (with a bb gun, but still illegal within the city limits):

Floyd said: "They's only 4 kinda snakes I know of ... BIG uns, little uns, live uns and dead uns. That'n was BIG and alive."

 

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

In the words of some unknown wise person......"Life is hard.....but it's harder if you're stupid."

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

Whatever the other 9 opinions were, whatever dumazz ain't gotta enough sense to determine a real life threat and shooting of an aquatainance, well, good luck, to ya!
some ppl should have enough sense not to pick up their guns!