18yo cleans gun, shoots own penis and testicle

[Kegg]

RB_Kandy - I've seen plenty of physical comedy, slapstick, and embarrassing situations used for female characters on sitcoms for what, ever?

And you know what? Google is my friend here. Women Darwin Awards recipients. Again, it's 'look at the inferior stupid people who thankfully will not breed', rather than aimed at men per se.

When I hear "eugenics," I think of governmental authority taking active measures to ensure that people with "desirable" traits have as many children as possible,

I just mean eugenics in the idea that humanity is better off if people are bred based with each other based on their intelligence, and this is preferable to stupid people breeding. The Darwin Awards at the very least carry the subtext that we're better off without people this stupid having children, which if not as explicit as eugenics it's certainly got a similarity to it.

If people render themselves incapable of having children through their own stupidity, that's a different matter altogether.

Not if you consider this a just turn of events. The man mentioned in the first post probably will never be able to have children (except through say adoption), and that is a consequence of choices he made, but if you consider this his 'just desserts' then it does have the similarity to eugenics I noted above. He's being excoriated not for being cruel or immoral or insensitive, but for making a mistake. And that rubs me the wrong way.

I would.

Okay, so I have a sick, perverted sense of humor.

I doubt you would if someone you knew personally was the guy who had his liver eaten. Hell, I doubt propita would find the post as funny if the young man was someone she knew. And so on.

 

[propita]

You're right. I would likely feel awful if I knew the guy. I DO feel bad for this guy. But...he was an idiot.

We all make mistakes, and sometimes we pay for those mistakes for the rest of our lives. As in this case with this guy. Fair? It happens to us all, maybe not this mistake and not this price, but I'm sure everyone here has made a mistake or a that they're STILL paying the price for.

It's the avoidable mistakes that leave me with little or no sympathy. Even when it's me making the mistake. Especially when it's me making the mistake.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I dunno, it's avoidable but dumbness doesn't help. I did some REALLY dumb things when I was 18 but nothing bad ever happened to me. That's sheer luck.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Well in one form or another he could be considered a Darwin award nominee??

 

[Mary Ann]

It's the avoidable mistakes that leave me with little or no sympathy. Even when it's me making the mistake. Especially when it's me making the mistake.

My thoughts exactly. If I met my death by playing on the railway tracks on dropping a plugged-in toaster in the bathtub I'd fully expect people at my funeral to be facepalming, if not outright laughing. I have next to no sympathy for this young man because this injuries were completely avoidable, and caused by his own stupidity. The fact that he shot himself in the nuts is neither here nor there, it's the fact that he shot himself, period.

 

[Trekker4747]

Well in one form or another he could be considered a Darwin award nominee??

Darwin Award nominees are required to remove themselves from the gene pool. If this kid's injuries render him incapable of fathering chidren then, yes, he's able to get a Darwin Award.

I dunno, it's avoidable but dumbness doesn't help. I did some REALLY dumb things when I was 18 but nothing bad ever happened to me. That's sheer luck.

There's dumbness like pulling stupid stunts in your car and then there's dumbness like cleaning a loaded weapon pointed at your junk.

 

[Mr_Homn]

My penis is so important to me, I can't possibly understand how someone could put it in immediate danger like that. It's so incredibly reckless that it's hard for me to sympathize. I'd rather lose an arm or a leg. At least those can be replaced. I don't find it funny at all, but I do feel almost kind of angry about it. Like, dude, how can you be so reckless with your penis? Time to revoke your man card... wait I guess we don't need to do that anymore...

 

[Kestra]

Pulling stupid stunts in your car can be even more dangerous and endanger others.

Put me down as someone who has done stupid (but avoidable) things. Thankfully I was never too reckless and luck carried me through.

 

[DonIago]

I think the closest I've come to doing anything this rampantly stupid was when I accidentally turned on a burner that I'd put a plastic lid on top of (wrong dial), and then went into the other room.

That said, I think what I did is still orders of magnitude less rampantly stupid.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Boy if we're talking kitchen accidents I could go on forever.

My most recent thing, as in this year, was when I went to clean out the hand held blender I was blending hummous with. As I was digging my finger into it to get the hummous out of the blades I squeezed the button somehow and of course the thing was still plugged in and turned on and I blended my finger with 4 razor sharp stainless steel blades. It was pulp. Works fine now though, I pushed it all back together and bandaged it and the magic powers of my body healed it other than some lumpy bits.

 

[propita]

Damn! That must've hurt!

I'm paranoid about that--I always double check that I've unplugged things like that before messing with them. So tell me...have you tried cleaning it with it plugged-in since this?

My avoidable accident? That stray Kitty I've been feeding? As I was pouring out some food for it, it lunged forward and bit me. Bruised about 2" and a couple of punctures. Washed them and put antibiotic before the bandaid. Bandaid's been off for days and no signs of redness besides the puncture. Hubby had me return the new bag of food; Kitty is losing its mealticket. This was avoidable in that, had I not been feeding Kitty, I wouldn't've gotten bit.