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Wasn't this in the news months ago?
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yup - and that's really sad - heck, I can remember playing 'splits' with knives when we were kids, but we never played with guns (with my cousins on various farms)
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And I think that highlights the problem. When I was a kid we were taught about risk and consequences the hard way, but today kids are overprotected by parents to the extent they never learn any risk and consequences lesions. When they turn to become teenagers and given something potentially dangerous ( cars etc) they are ignorant about spotting risks and dangers.
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While I happily agree with you in general, in this case it's pure and utter stupidity. What kind of education do you need to know at the age of 19 that a bullet that you put into a gun will fire eventually?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I feel no pleasure in, find no humor in, reading about a 19 year-old person who may die or have permanent neurological damage.
Even if the person is a budding criminal (he's in the driver's seat of a car with his mates with an unregistered, loaded, hand-gun ... near a shopping center ... doesn't exactly sound "innocent"), I wish him all the best.
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«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I sorry to have offended you Bill - at least that's how I interpret what you've written - I find no pleasure or humour in his or his family's pain either, although I guess that's not evident by my responding 'yup' to the comment about him being a candidate for a Darwin Award - my 'yup' really indicates that its tragic 
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Hopefully he dies soon before costing taxpayers even more money for his stupidity.
Marc
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After a bullet to the temple there will only to stupid left in his brain
modified 16-May-15 22:22pm.
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I suspect there was little but stupid in there to start with.
It's possible he shot the stupid bits and will end up brighter? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I fear he probably got rid of both the bright and stupid. Just the vegetables left!
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So he'll do fine asking questions in QA then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Plus as a bonus we can get him to answer some of the strange Q as well
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Well.. if he survives shooting himself in the temple....
He is clearly NOT an award nominee!
I mean, common, who can survive that?! 
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To quote the article:
"His three passengers all claim the teenager was playing the lethal game and it went horribly wrong when the single bullet in the gun fired on the first pull of the trigger."
Statistical probability does not play the game of 'right' or 'wrong', the moron had a 16.6% chance of shooting himself and after weighing up the probability he obviously decided that a 16.6% chance of blowing his brains out was a risk worth taking.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Assuming it's the first time he played game.....he may have been overdue!
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He would have had a 16.6% chance each time he took a bullet and placed it into the barrel for the first shot.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I guess statistics wasn't his best skill.
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the teenager was playing the lethal game and it went horribly wrong
That caught my attention as well. It didn't "go horribly wrong", it went exactly as you would have expected it to.
Translation: It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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They also say it was a "dangerous game" of Russian Roulette. What the hell is a safe game?
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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One where you cheat and remove all the bullets?
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Total bloody competent, dammed fool can't even shoot himself in the head! Hopefully recovery is negative.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Quote: 'It's a tragic incident, we feel for the young man, we feel for his family, we feel for the people there at the time.'
I agree with the detective about one of those points anyway. Being related to a moron like that would be horribly embarrassing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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