Weirdest ND?

[wardog]

Reading the other thread regarding someone having cartridges in his pocket at the airport reminded me of a weird negligent discharge at work several years ago. (I work in a casino.)

This guy is playing the slots and wins a number of coins. Rather than putting the coins in a coin-cup, he begins to put them in his pockets. After winning some more, he realizes that he's got more than his pockets will carry, and begins to put them in a coin cup. Then he decides to cash them in, and empties his pockets into the coin-cup as well. He takes it to the cage, and the cashier pours the whole cup into a Jet-Sort coin counting machine and hits the start button. About 5 seconds later KABOOOOOM!!!!

Apparently he had at least one .22 rimfire cartridge in his pants pocket and it ended up in the coin cup. Luckily no one was hurt, but the cashier was scared sh__less.


Anyone have any weird ND's to tell about?

 

[Preacherman]

Well, I don't know if this would classify as a ND or not, but...

Back in the 1970's, the South African Defence Force realized that they had a fairly large stockpile of naval gun shells from coastal defence batteries used during World Wars 1 and 2. These ranged from 6", through 9.2" and 11", up to a few 15" shells. They were all cordite-based, of course, being rather old. Anyway, due to age, the cordite was becoming unstable, and it was too dangerous to keep these shells in storage (quite apart from the fact that the guns that fired them had either been melted down for scrap or set up as museum pieces). So, all of these shells were painstakingly tracked down in various armories and arsenals, and assembled at a military training area (several thousand square miles of empty veld) in a central location.

The plan was to blow up these shells a pallet or two at a time, and thus safely dispose of them. Unfortunately, one arsenal didn't pack them too carefully - they included some detonators in one pallet. A WW1 naval shell detonator is a fairly powerful explosive device in its own right: and since they contained fulminate of mercury, they were (by the 1970's) very old and VERY unstable! Also, some bright spark at the training ground decided to make optimum use of the space available, and stacked all nine hundred TONS of shells in a single stack (fortunately several miles from any structures).

Came a lightning storm... and guess where a bolt of lightning hit? That's right - on the stack of shells. The detonators went off, and set off the shells on their pallet, which spread to... well, you get the idea. Nine hundred tons of cordite and mercury fulminate going off in a single BANG! is very impressive indeed, I'm told!

Fortunately, there were no injuries, but dud shells were recorded as landing all over the place, up to 27 miles away as I recall. The next year or so was spent tracking them all down and gathering them up for proper disposal.

 

[mgjohn]

Had a buddy try to hand cycle a magazine of HP's through a MAC 10 full auto. Did not work too well in a open bolt gun. He put a nice long burst in the wall.

 

[tommytrauma]

Our oh so politically correct police chief hid (!) his Glock in the oven a few years ago, and then forgot it was there when he went to cook dinner.

PAO Yearbook 97
Sentinel
Madison, Wisconsin. At home over the weekend, Police Chief Richard Williams decided to hide his service weapon
in his oven. The next day, he got hungry and figured he would heat up some leftover turkey.
That’s when things got really hot.
Now Williams has suspended himself without pay for one day for violating a department rule against accidentally
discharging a service weapon, a Madison police official said Wednesday.
Williams, police chief for the past four years, hid his 9mm handgun in the oven Saturday. He forgot about it
Sunday when he turned the oven to 350 degrees, said department spokeswoman Jeana Kerr.
About 40 minutes later, Williams heard an explosion. Rushing to the kitchen he found a quarter-inch in the oven,
a bullet hole through a kitchen wall and the bullet lodged in a hallway banister, Kerr said.
“He’s quite embarrassed about it, but felt like anyone else he is subject to the same regulations and wanted to publicly
address the issue,†Kerr said.
Williams also notified Mayor Susan Bauman, his supervisor of the incident.
He has not indicated when he will serve the suspension.
Like other officers, he brings his handgun home from work and has hidden it in a number of places, Kerr said. She
said she doubts Williams will use the oven again for a hiding place. Since no neighbours called police to report the
explosion, Kerr said, it was “very wise and courageous†of the chief suspend himself. Although publicity may “haunt
him for a while,†Williams wants to get his suspension behind him, she added.
Reprinted from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 28, 1998

Of course, he still believes that us citizens don't have enough training to be allowed to have handguns.

 

[Ryder]

Nothing wierd about them. I've had very few after 30 years of handling (every 10 years on average). None were a danger to others as I have superb muzzle control but I don't take these incidents lightly and I've learned something in each case.

In the most recent case I've added a new rule. NO MORE DRY FIRING @4AM. My number one tool just isn't up to par at such an hour it would seem.

:banghead:

 

[Leatherneck]

In 1968 on the flight line of MAG-12 at Chu Lai, we had squadrons of 24 A-4 Skyhawks lined up nose-to-nose in revetments. At about 1430 one day, I was in the bunker briefing for a pre-dawn mission when all of a sudden the world seemed to come to an end in one hellacious rolling KA-BOOM! Seems the luckiest VC in the world had just launched a 122 mm rocket from the mountains West of Chu Lai and scored a direct hit on an A-4 loaded with wall-to-wall Zuni 5-inch air-to-ground rockets: 5 stations, 3 launchers each, 4 rockets per launcher. 60 Zuni motors and warheads makes for a pretty spectacular explosion, but when you add in the other fully-loaded birds with everything from 500-lb bombs to napalm to gunpods, the other nine aircraft we lost that morning made a pretty big hole in the ramp.

I've always pictured this lone VC , who had just walked the rocket all the way from Hanoi to Chu Lai through jungles, over mountains, eluding capture and bombardment all the way, rejoicing and praising whoever the VC praise at such times for the stupendous damage he just caused us hated Yankees, having his Lieutenant turn to him and say,"Go get another one."

TC
TFL Survivor

 

[wingnutx]

mac-10 fires from an open bolt?

No wonder the accuracy is supposed to be so bad on those.

 

[ShaiVong]

Went to remove my Glock for a kydex holster once (to disarm and put it away), and some how ended up shooting a hole through my car. Gun discharged before it was even clear of the holster, good thing they are open bottomed.


I was sitting in the drivers seat and punched a .40 cal hole through the right side of the seat and into the divider between the passenger and driver seats (shot down at about a 20 degree angle away from my right hip). My wife, who was sitting in the passengers seat at the time, continues to be unamused with me to this day. Car still runs fine .

I still havent been able to reproduce or figure out how I shot that gun though.

 

[Mizzoutiger]

The question begged is "Did that Police Chief's Glock stand the heat??"

 

[ksnecktieman]

I was married to a police dispatcher, so I got to go to the parties for pd and county sherriffs office. The number one lieutenant and the chief were having the age old revolver versus automatic argument. The chief"s (revolver side) final words were, "if we still had revolvers I would not have two bullet holes patched in the roof of my new police station."

I was enough outsider I could not get any details, but I got the story of one from my wife later. It appears that one of the older officers was showing the rookies that a pencil dropped in the barrel of an empty auto would fly out and you could catch it when you pulled the trigger. One of the rookies said will that work with mine? He pulled his service auto from his holster and handed it to the old timer, who promptly dropped a pencil in the barrel and pulled the trigger.

 

[DigMe]

My friend had some .22 mag shells in his pocket and somehow one of them just went off. He still has no idea how but it sounds pretty freakish to me. The bullet didn't really go anywhere as it had barrel to direct the energy (I guess that's why at least).

brad cook