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Teen Blinded When Frog Shot From Potato Gun

Posted on by Ag88

Teen blinded when frog shot from potato gun Associated Press

DALLAS - A teenager was blinded after being struck in the face with a frog shot from a so-called "potato gun."

Daniel Benjamin Berry, 17, received the injury after he looked down the barrel of the gun's PVC pipe barrel and was hit in the face by the frog.

"He is going to be blind in both eyes," Daniel's mother, Lisa Berry, said.

Potato guns are made of pipe with one end sealed. A potato is wedged into the open end and a flammable liquid put into a sealed chamber is ignited, launching the object.

Denton County Sheriff's Department spokesman Kevin Patton said the accident occurred about 1 a.m. Sunday when Daniel Berry joined a crowed of teenagers watching the gun be fired.

When it misfired, Daniel Berry looked down the barrel to see what was wrong when the gun went off, Patton said.

"He said it just went off. It was a misfire. It hit him square in the face," Lisa Berry said, adding that her son had broken bones in his face that would require surgery.

Patton said no charges would be filed.

"This is the first incident involving a potato gun that we have had to deal with," he said. "What are you going to do? This was an accident."

Lisa Berry said the accident ruined her son's career dreams.

"All he ever wanted to do was be an Air Force pilot," she said. "That isn't going to happen now."



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Poor Kid.



To: Jonathon Spectre

words fail me



To: Ag88

One of the guys at work has one. He fired it off a few times in the parking lot (using hair spray as a propellant). Somebody called the cops :P



To: Ag88

"Don't mess with green people." -Kermit



To: Ag88

Too bad his parents never taught him to look down the barrel of a projectile tube!



Somewhere PETA is cheering for frog rights.



by 5 posted onby anobjectivist (The natural rights of people are more basic than those currently considered)

To: Ag88

I know this isn't funny.... but it is.



To: Ag88



I dunno.kinda hard to feel sorry for someone who looks down the barrel of a gun just fired to see the blockage. I'd hate to think what damage he could have done with an aircraft.



To: Ag88

A Darwin Alert is required for this thread.



by 8 posted onby AxelPaulsenJr (Get High on Life, Not Drugs)

To: Ag88

Daniel Berry looked down the barrel to see what was wrong Does this call for a hold my beer alert? I have a potato gun, it is a lot of fun I will soon be moving up to a pumpkin / watermelon gun



To: Ag88

Dawin award assures no airforce career.



by 10 posted onby Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)

To: Ag88

there is a reason your mother told you that you could put your eye out....



To: Ag88

That has my nomination for "headlines you never expected to read."



To: Ag88

Experience is a harsh teacher. Sometimes you don't get a second chance. I feel sorry for the kid.



I can only hope the doctors turn out to be wrong and he gets his vision back through some miracle.



To: anobjectivist

Too bad his parents never taught him to look down the barrel of a projectile tube!





All too true, and the chance of him learning that at school

is not very good either.



Feel for the kid, was he charged with animal cruelty?



by 14 posted onby tet68 (Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")

To: Ag88

How's the frog?



To: AxelPaulsenJr

"Here, hold my .......toad." ???



by 16 posted onby EggsAckley ( Midnight at the Oasis......)

To: HIDEK6

Frog looses eyesight after collision with human.



by 17 posted onby tet68 (Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")

To: Ag88

It was a misfire. Technically speaking, it was a "hangfire"...



by 18 posted onby umbagi (There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it. -- Cicero)

To: Ag88

I feel sorry for the frog.



by 19 posted onby Junior (Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)

To: Screaming_Gerbil

Talk about an amphibious assault....



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