Thought for the day...

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
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https://www.kptv.com/news/shooting-...cle_8d95c798-d5e8-11e9-9ee1-43bc88bd3c6d.html

Shooting victim faults gun, not owner, for discharge during cleaning that left him with injuries

How is it the guns fault for firing a bullet in the chamber while some idiot was cleaning a live weapon? A negligent discharge is what it's called, not a malfunction or accident.
“The slide slid out of his hand, and the pin hit the bullet just right, and it went in me and out the back,” Carter said.
I don't even understand this "explanation".

Did the round accidentally fall into the chamber as well? Like, from off an adjacent table?
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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https://www.kptv.com/news/shooting-...cle_8d95c798-d5e8-11e9-9ee1-43bc88bd3c6d.html

Shooting victim faults gun, not owner, for discharge during cleaning that left him with injuries

How is it the guns fault for firing a bullet in the chamber while some idiot was cleaning a live weapon? A negligent discharge is what it's called, not a malfunction or accident.
You've got it all wrong, NSA... it was neither the gun nor the owner who were at fault, but rather the bullet that so blatantly disrespected them both...
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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I don't even understand this "explanation".

Did the round accidentally fall into the chamber as well? Like, from off an adjacent table?
It's more likely the idiot did a 'dry' fire on a loaded gun instead of using a 'snap cap' to properly test the action.
Many televisions have given their lives for the sake of dry firing.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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That is the euphemism for Failed Suicide Attempt!
The idiot that dropped the hammer on a live round didn't get shot. Failed negligent homicide attempt.



Angle Carter, of Southeast Yamhill Street, says he was shot Tuesday afternoon in his apartment doorway while returning inside from smoking a cigarette.

I blame the cigarette. The evil tobacco obviously put this person in the line of fire intentionally.
 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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Good Attitude is Overrated.
The first time I ever watched Mr. T was in some bouncer's competition long before A Team. The task was to break a door down. A couple of guys ran into it with their shoulders and maybe cracked it a bit and bounced off. Mr. T ran straight at it head down as fast as he could and slammed into it headfirst and destroyed the door and was bleeding some from the scalp wound that he just wiped off and ignored. He was indeed a BA in his heyday!
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Too good at your job.:( Pay me to 'break' into the records in a building, I break into the building.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...ial-branch-test-security-ia-crime/2292295001/
Two men arrested for breaking into the Dallas County Courthouse told law enforcement they were hired to do so by the judicial branch.
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Authorities later found out the state court administration did, in fact, hire the men to attempt "unauthorized access" to court records "through various means" in order to check for potential security vulnerabilities of Iowa's electronic court records, according to Iowa Judicial Branch officials.

But, the state court administration "did not intend, or anticipate, those efforts to include the forced entry into a building," a Wednesday news release from the Iowa Judicial Branch read.
I would bet that hire contract did not specifically exclude physical entry.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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Here's some more useful -- and not so sensational -- info about this (and the dangers of 'pen-testing' in general).
The Mens Rea and Scope of Work (SOW) is what's important here. IMO there's a lot more to the story that's not being said about the scope of the contract because of A$$ coverings on the governments end about authorizing by nod physical entry during security testing.

I wouldn't be breaking into government buildings no matter what the contract said because government security are armed, ready to shoot and are very unlikely to be held responsible for your demise.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Presenting Extrude Honing, which is a very interesting surface polishing process, used for inside finishing of a car's air intake manifolds, among other things:

 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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If it's doing that to the iron castings I wonder what the plumbing looks like. Impressive compared to old end-grinder burr porting and polishing used on heads and intake manifolds for racing. Was a lot of work grinding and measuring volumetric areas to keep it all balanced. Didn't need it for the exhaust since it was tubing which already had a smooth finish. I'm sure with CAD analysis the castings designs are much improved these days.
 
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