Posts Tagged ‘man’

The article Man arrested in Texas for trying to cash $360 billion check from Yahoo! caught my eye. A 21-year old North Texas man named Charles Ray Fuller walked into at a Fort Worth bank and handed a teller a check with a lot of zeros on it. For some reason, the teller found this suspicious and decided to report the attempted withdrawal.

Fuller was arrested, primarily for being a dumbass but also for forgery. He claims his girlfriend’s mother gave him the check to help him start a record company; his mother, realizing that her daughter’s boyfriend is more of an idiotic loser than he first revealed, denies that she did any such thing. The fact that Fuller was also carrying marijuana and a gun makes me believe the mother.

A $360 billion check? Are you kidding me? How stupid can you get???

This isn’t movie news, but this is local news for me… local news I can’t help but share with my readers. Down in Tacoma, Washington, a man found himself frustrated by the fact that he couldn’t get the last lug nut off one of his tires of his Lincoln Continental, so much so that he decided to grab his trusty 12-gauge shotgun, stand at about arm’s length away from the car and pull the trigger.

Now, as this man apparently didn’t know, firing buckshot at a rather solid object usually results in some of that buckshot bouncing back in the direction it came. It’s simple cause and effect, the theory of momentum, et cetera, et cetera. A mixture of buckshot and debris reflected off his car and struck him badly in both his legs, causing “severe but not life threatening” injuries (okay, so he didn’t almost kill himself, but that made for a more dramatic title). While his legs got the worst of it, he got hit as high as his chain.

Alcohol was not involved.

Now, I’ve never had to remove a tire or a wheel and have never tried to remove lug nuts, but I didn’t even know that using a shotgun was an option. I mean, how f**king stupid can you get?

*Image from The Huffington Post.