What I want to know...

[savrille]

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[hadenca]

Check out the mythbusters site. They may have info on the myth of the guy that got shot when he put a bullet in his fuse box so he could get home and ended up shooting himself. I think, if I remember right, that with enough power, the bullet did end up going off, but it wasn't fast enough to actually pierce skin....I think.

[savrille]

Actually, I recall watching that episode and they determined that it was possible but not terribly likely.

[savrille]

yes yes. I know about this one.

But this guy was using a bullet on a speaker wire...

I'm just baffled.

[archmage]

I assume he was using the bullet in some way to replace a section of wire or something, reasoning that the metal would conduct the charge. Still, can't get my head around this one at all...sounds like someone didn't want to admit what REALLY happened.

[savrille]

I think that's closer to the truth.

Still, it just doesn't make sense. Why would you wire a bullet in there when you can just twist the wires together?

[archmage]

That's where it all breaks down, which leads me to the above conclusion. Can't see how a bullet would be better than, you know, just fixing the wire.

[deathcythe_25]

Maybe he screwed up, cut the wires too short, was lazy, and the nearest item to him was a box of .22 rounds, metal conducts, and it is right there...

[reichmarshall]

"I am such a man! I use ammunition as household tools! Grunt!"

[savrille]

Please, if you don't mind, allow me a minor correction..

"I am such a man! I use ammunition as household tools! Grunt! *BLAM* .thud."

that's better.

[k2orbust]

I thinking he was just using the bullet as a mallet or hammer. Like trying to straighten out the strands of copper without poking his finger, and then somehow setting off the primer???