Weightlifter shot, says dumbbell dropped on bullet

[robheath]

How bout duct taping a 12 ga shotgun shell to the top rail of a fence and taking aim with your new bejamen pellet gun...Then watching the air condition repair men the next day at the conveniant store behind the house. Note the halo over my head...Dad would have killed me if he had ever known.

[tombogan03884]

Was it the "dumbbell" getting lifted ?
Or the one doing the lifting ?   

[blackwolfe]

Or the .22 cartridge on the rail road tracks.  Try to explain the casing imbedded in the calf at the emergency room.

[sledgemeister]

Comes down to physics and whilst one is not a professor Newtons third law still applys. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". If there was nothing behind the case or the bullet even if it discharged the force wouldnt be that great, and I doubt very much enough to embed in someones shoulder. Who has thrown a 22 in a fire  when the bullet lets go the case goes a little way and the projectile not so much. I call BS on this dudes story.

[MikeBjerum]

Sledge, you forget that the dumbbell - heavy metal weight - is most likely still on the case.

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[crusader rabbit]

Or, how about finding a live .22 long cartridge and repeatedly throwing it against the patio slab until something--I don't know what--goes zinging past your ear?

Nope...  I don't know about that, either.

I do know a little about gyms and weights, though...  and cartridges.

A .22 cartridge would tend to lie flat on the floor--those little guys don't really like to stand on the pointy end which would more fully expose their cute little primer rims.  And any weight (dumbbell, barbell, or plate) falling on it or set down on it would almost have to cover a significant portion of said cartridge in order to provide enough force to fire the primer in the rim. 

The physics involved would then suggest that the discharged cartridge would force the bullet along a path roughly parallel to the floor.

So, my question would be:  What sort of exercise were you doing while lying on the floor that allowed you to drop a weight with enough force to discharge the .22 cartridge that would have to be within inches of your shoulder?

None of it computes.

On the other hand, if the dude involved doesn't care, why is ANY attention being paid to this by the polizia?  Don't they have jay-walkers to write up or something?

[Timothy]

I had a friend that was using a .22 lr Hilti years ago.  He failed to insert the cartridge fully, the gun still fired shooting a sizable chunk of brass out of the side and into his pectoral muscle.

He came home that day and showed us his chest and said he thought he got shot.  We were in our early twenties and Pat was a big guy in very good shape!  A few hours later he was noticeably bruised so we took him to the hospital and they cut it out of him.

I wonder if something similar happened to this maroon...