18-year old Florida guy accidentally shoots penis while cleaning gun

[TroyD]

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Another example of our gun-crazy nation?

Monday, September 10, 2012

An 18-year-old man reportedly shot himself in the penis and testicles at a party last Thursday in Port St. Lucie, Florida while he was cleaning a recently purchased gun.

Michael Smeriglio initially told police that he had been shot by someone while walking down the street, but police said he changed his story after questioning, according to WKMG Local 6.

According to WTSP, the police also found marijuana in the house when they responded to the call about the gun going off, leading to police arresting the owner of the house, 22-year-old Joseph Lamar James.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/10/florida-man-accidentally-shoots-penis-while-cleaning-gun/

[2on2u]

1. You know that's gotta hurt like hell. n/t

[FarPoint]

3. This indeed can result in a life changing injury.

It could affect his ability to urinate and have intimacy. Very tragic.

[Hoyt]

2. At what kind of "party" do people sit around cleaning guns?

I can think of millions of things to do other than that.

[TroyD]

4. An NRA party?

I'm sure when the NRA hears this story they will say it just shows how more people should buy guns and learn how to use them.

[BeyondGeography]

6. NRA member party

[HooptieWagon]

9. Probably not.

Only 4% of gun-owners belong to the NRA.

[BeyondGeography]

10. But every member is happiest as a gun

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Throbbing%20Member%20%5Bsabage%5D

[Hoyt]

11. A lot more are free riders, enjoying NRA lobbying for right wing causes.

[HooptieWagon]

14. Link or shread of evidence for that assertion?

[Hoyt]

20. What assertion? You don't think NRA's leadership like Grover Norquist are pushing right wing causes

along with guns? Or, do you think NRA's efforts to defeat Obama and other good Democrats are acceptable because they do it under guise of promoting guns?
Maybe you just haven't looked closely at NRA.

[Fridays Child]

5. Here's an "interesting" picture of the guy...

[HooptieWagon]

7. Darwin Award?

Who's so stupid as to clean a gun without unloading it?

[2on2u]

8. If only more penises carried guns, then perhaps this wouldn't have happened. n/t

[rfranklin]

12. Talk about going off half cocked....

As the mohel* said, "It won't be long now!"


*The noun mohel (mohela in Aramaic) "circumciser", is derived from the same verb stem as milah "circumcision."[1] The noun appeared for the first time in the fourth century as the title of a circumciser (Shabbat 156a).[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohel

[left on green only]

16. Love it!!

He musta figured that as long as he was holding a big gun, he no longer really needed his little one. The subconscious mind does indeed work in strange ways.

Upon edit to add, After looking at the picture, he is definitely not the kind of guy I would ever buy a discounted sports ticket from.


His next best chance of employment may very well be as a counter tenor in the church choir.

[rateyes]

13. I bet he won't have

the balls to do that again!

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Who the hell cleans a gun at a party?

Maybe he thought his dick was threatening him.

[Doc Holliday]

21. Sketch comedy

Dumbass: Hey... I'm gonna clean my gun now! Yo, check it out! Ain't my gun cool?

Dick: Yo, moron...pull the magazine out and clear the chamber if you're gonna wave that thing around. You could hurt somebody.

Dumbass: Shut up, dick. [mumbling to self] Where's that damned cleaning kit, anyway...?

Dick: Dude, I mean it-- you're gonna hurt someone. Take the magazine out--

Dumbass: Look, dick...shut the fuck up or I'll bust a cap in your ass. Got it?

Dick: That would be one of the absolute dumbest things you've ever done in a life full of dumbshit.

Dumbass: Ok, smartass. That's it.

BANG

(sound of handgun clattering to the floor)


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

(blackout)

[LiberalFighter]

17. He would have to be an expert marksman to shoot something that small.

[LiberalFighter]

18. He should demonstrate how to do that again.

[bulloney]

19. If guns are banned from dicks, only dicks will have guns. Or something like that.

What kind of a mental midget cleans a LOADED gun?

[zbdent]

22. he mistook the bag his penis had for a bag of Skittles ...

and it was lemonade, not iced tea.

[cyberswede]

23. Locking...

This isn't really about "politics, campaigns, and elections."

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