Strange Way To Die #2

[mawnansmiff]

After reporting a while ago on an unfortunate relative who died in a freak accident in Australia, I can inform you of yet another instance, this time in America.

Distant cousin Charles Edward Unrue (1908 Syracuse, Indiana - 1980 Abilene, Texas) died a nasty death, according to his death certificate "Killed by .22 caliber rifle discharged, propelling a cleaning rod through the deceased's skull causing immediate death."

I'm beginning to wonder if strange deaths might just run in my family ☹

Here is my first report....

Strange Ways To Die. :: General Discussion

Whilst doing yet more family research today I came upon a media report of my 2nd cousin 5 x removed Richard Stennett Sandall and how he came about his unusual demise. One shouldn't laugh but I can't help smiling as I imagine him chasing the rat around his shop.....it's almost like a Tom & Jerry...

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Regards,

Jay.

 

[scloyd]

I'm beginning to wonder if strange deaths might just run in my family ☹

Jay, please be careful while doing your daily chores.

 

[ashdigger]

Jay, please check the stability, durability of your bourbon/whiskey shelf. After reading that article, reading about your growing collection, I think there’s a headline out there......

Eccentric Brit killed when his American Bourbon collection crushed him after his Swedish Furniture failed.

 

[sumusfumus]

I used to be a range officer...and I can't tell you how many times I had to school those who were shooting muzzle loaders. Countless times I had to tell them to point the muzzle of the gun away from their chins/heads- in case of an accidental discharge while loading, and to keep the end of the ram-rod in their fingers and NOT the palm of their hand when ramming a ball down the barrel. A ram rod through the jaw and out the top of the head, or through the palm of your hand....just might leave a mark.

If you like dealing with idiots, and love to live dangerously.....become a range office.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Eccentric Brit killed when his American Bourbon collection crushed him after his Swedish Furniture failed."

Funny you should say that Tim, there is a huge shelf right above my head when sitting on the sofa with many books and a huge (over 3 foot long) wooden R/C fishing boat sat in a cradle upon it. I often wonder what would happen if it fell

Regards,

Jay.

 

[ashdigger]

"Eccentric Brit killed when his American Bourbon collection crushed him after his Swedish Furniture failed."

Funny you should say that Tim, there is a huge shelf right above my head when sitting on the sofa with many books and a huge (over 3 foot long) wooden R/C fishing boat sat in a cradle upon it. I often wonder what would happen if it fell

Regards,

Jay.

Now I feel like an co-conspirator

 

[jpmcwjr]

It's been a long time since I've cleaned a rifle or shotgun, but I am pretty sure I checked the chamber and didn't point the barrel at myself.

 

[condorlover1]

People do weird sh*t!

 

[bnichols23]

Jay, please be careful while doing your daily chores.

If suggest upping his life insurance too. JIC, y'know.

 

[bnichols23]

I used to be a range officer...and I can't tell you how many times I had to school those who were shooting muzzle loaders. Countless times I had to tell them to point the muzzle of the gun away from their chins/heads- in case of an accidental discharge while loading, and to keep the end of the ram-rod in their fingers and NOT the palm of their hand when ramming a ball down the barrel. A ram rod through the jaw and out the top of the head, or through the palm of your hand....just might leave a mark.

If you like dealing with idiots, and love to live dangerously.....become a range office.

I knew a doofus whod destroyeda target frame once at about 30 yards because he forgot to take the ramrod out. The bullet missed entirely, of course. They didn't ban him from the range but did make him pay for the frame. He never back, to my knowledge.

 

[burleyboy]

.22 - Definitely an underestimated calibre.

 

[mso489]

People always assume the "died while cleaning firearms" is a face-saving explanation for a suicide, but in this case, I doubt it. In any case, the first and central thing to look at in cleaning firearms is whether it is unloaded, clear, and nothing is chambered. A friend's dad was a lifelong hunter in East Texas. He owned mineral rights and spent all his time hunting and fishing, so he knew his stuff. It's just that one day, he removed a shotgun from the bed of a pickup truck by the barrel and it discharged and he bled out before he was seen by a doctor. He was the same guy who was certain that the red wolves had migrated north, after he'd been hunting them with no limits for decades. As we know, they are hanging by a thread and maybe genetically extinct, don't have enough gene pool to survive, already. He was totally experienced and skilled with firearms, and he made one mistake.

 

[kcghost]

Man, your relatives die in weird ways.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Man, your relatives die in weird ways."

With nudging 86,000+ individuals on my family tree I'm bound to come across a few that died in unusual circumstances.

One much closer relative died in the late 1800's when she fell upon the Yorkshire range whilst cooking her husband's meal! She burned to death ?

Regards,

Jay.?.

 

[beefeater33]

One much closer relative died in the late 1800's when she fell upon the Yorkshire range whilst cooking her husband's meal! She burned to death

Aren't the Cornish ranges much safer, no open firebox?...........

 

[jpmcwjr]

OMG. That's horrible.
Jay, IIRC, you're not a footie fan, but I have been cheering Leeds United on. (My first team are Tottenham Hotspurs)

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Aren't the Cornish ranges much safer, no open firebox?"

Actually Beefeater, though I live in Cornwall I am actually a Yorkshireman! Also, Yorkshire ranges are pretty much the same as Cornish ranges each having a door or two doors to the firebox.

I can only assume the lady in question was tending her cooking with the firebox open.

Regards,

Jay.