Shotgun Surgery

[cebeu]

Some people make strange choices...

Shoots finger off to remove wart (http://weirdnews.aol.com/2011/06/16/sean-murphy-shoots-finger_n_878378.html)

Sean Murphy couldn't stand the pain from his wart any longer. The 38-year-old English security guard decided to take drastic measures. He got drunk to numb his finger, then grabbed his shotgun and blasted off "almost his entire finger"...

[Molon_Labe-1775]

Wow... And the Darwin award goes to......

[jplove71]

Darwin award nominee right there.

[cstone]

This story is rich with irony.

The guy just could not wait for his socialized medicine to treat the problem?

It was his middle finger.

Afterwards he said that he is glad that the wart is gone.

Gun laws in Britain are just plain harsh. The man shoots his own finger off and, "The incident also left him facing 15 years in jail for the illegal possession of a firearm."

Wow!!!! Loss of finger, loss of freedom.

Makes NYC gun laws look downright permissive.

[rondog]

Good thing it wasn't a genital wart.....'course, that might have cleaned up the gene pool a tad too.

[Irving]

Reminds me of the story of the guy chopping his own wiener off with a 3 kilo hatchet.

[Byte Stryke]

I guess their "Ideal Medical system" wasn't so ideal...