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Tuesday, 1st of April 2008
This year’s hall of famer involves a classic act of idiocy, and is quite well known in the annals of gun safety. It took place on February the 28th 2002, in Houston, Texas. The award winner was named only as “Rashaad” in local news. (A fact for which I’m sure his family are eternally grateful.)
Apparently, Rashaad had recently purchased a new toy—a mean-looking .45 semiautomatic handgun. Rashaad (whose nickname should have been “Rash”) was so overwhelmed by this pistol that he promptly rushed out to show his buddies. They duly “oohed” and “aahed” his possession and in a testosterone-fuelled fit of macho-mania, he declared his intention to play Russian roulette with the gun. He put only two bullets in the magazine, pointed it at his temple, pulled the trigger, and blew his brains across the room.
It seems that Rashaad did not appreciate that—unlike revolvers—semiautomatic pistols are so named because they automatically load a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked.
The whole idea of roulette is that it’s a gamble—but it was a gamble the player, in this case, could never have won.
What a dumbass.
Far from despising this kind of extreme, suicidal stupidity, I positively approve of it! It’s a Darwinian mechanism to keep as many dickheads out of the human gene pool as is possible. Never underestimate the dumbness of the average human being, and never worry too much about another person’s mistakes—being more intellectually powerful than those around you is no bad thing.
I’m always on the lookout for next year’s April Fool. Inner Circle members are free to email me with their suggestions if they’d like.
APRIL FOOL IN MEMORIAM AWARD
Those of you who’ve read my blog for the past few years will know that every year on this day I take some time out to remember a classic dipshit—somebody the world is, frankly, better off without. Me being me, the memorial in question normally has some relation to weaponry, survival or self-defense, and almost always features some act of acute stupidity.This year’s hall of famer involves a classic act of idiocy, and is quite well known in the annals of gun safety. It took place on February the 28th 2002, in Houston, Texas. The award winner was named only as “Rashaad” in local news. (A fact for which I’m sure his family are eternally grateful.)
Apparently, Rashaad had recently purchased a new toy—a mean-looking .45 semiautomatic handgun. Rashaad (whose nickname should have been “Rash”) was so overwhelmed by this pistol that he promptly rushed out to show his buddies. They duly “oohed” and “aahed” his possession and in a testosterone-fuelled fit of macho-mania, he declared his intention to play Russian roulette with the gun. He put only two bullets in the magazine, pointed it at his temple, pulled the trigger, and blew his brains across the room.
It seems that Rashaad did not appreciate that—unlike revolvers—semiautomatic pistols are so named because they automatically load a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked.
The whole idea of roulette is that it’s a gamble—but it was a gamble the player, in this case, could never have won.
What a dumbass.
Far from despising this kind of extreme, suicidal stupidity, I positively approve of it! It’s a Darwinian mechanism to keep as many dickheads out of the human gene pool as is possible. Never underestimate the dumbness of the average human being, and never worry too much about another person’s mistakes—being more intellectually powerful than those around you is no bad thing.
I’m always on the lookout for next year’s April Fool. Inner Circle members are free to email me with their suggestions if they’d like.