Death by Nailgun!

Tragic story, funny reporting.

As you would expect, the reporter has to spice up the details. Every one knows about high-powered guns, but "High-powered" nail gun. Is there such a thing? Imagine if he has been stabbed with a high-powered STICK.

like someone was trying to make a statement.

It looks to me like it was one of those "assault" nailguns.

I doubt that the crime was committed by someone familiar with woodworking. That many nails makes me think the person using it wasn't sure how many would be needed to assuredly kill the victim.

I bet it was Norm that did it. How many time have we heard him say "Just a few brads to hold it until the glue dries."

Then we hear bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam!

Or he was one of those US interrogators who applied waterboarding to Khalid Sheik Mohammed 183 times in one month. Guess he didn't know how "effective" waterboarding is supposed to be, just like the nailgunner didn't know that one nail would be sufficient.

Maybe the news got it wrong and it was just a brad nailer. The perp probably used so many because he was 'waiting for the glue to dry'

The funniest news report I've ever seen was a local "on-the-scene" interview where the interviewer asked one of those inane "how do you feel" questions. The answer should be printed in large type and used as wallpaper in every "newsroom" in the counter, "It's very annoying that you spend so much effort analyzing things you don't know s*it about." Must have been a live, non-tape-delayed broadcast or they surely wouldn't have let that be broadcast.

Tom Veatch Wichita, KS USA

I always would shake it off when I woke up feeling like that and have a few more Rusty Nails, you know, a little hair of the dog....oh wait, those are REAL nails?

I call shenanigans. PhotoShop. The media lies. Etc. Etc.

That's funny right there.

"Brad Stewart" wrote

I wonder what type of "accident" could have happened to cause that many nails to enter the skull. He was obviously doing something very unsafe.

Good thing OSHA didn't see this. Can you imagine the regulations they could impement as a result of this unfortunate "accident"?

A NailStop? ;-)

Hit the nail on the head, I would say...

I'm not sure what kind of woodworking you do, but I've been doing woodworking for 30+ years and I'm not sure that I know how many nails it would take to assuradly kill the victim. Your workplace is clearly different from any I've been around if that knowledge is part of your woodworking background! ;-)

-- Tim Douglass

If I were to speculate, I would guess that the number of nails involved were more than enough to get the job done. In fact, it was probably a crime of passion and involved a lot of personal anger. Hence the numerous nails. That most of the nails were shot after the victim was deceased.

Also, if you were to actually kill somebody with a nail gun, wouldn't nails to the heart prove to be faster and more efficient in getting the job done? Not that I have any actual experiene in these matters, of course.

"Bored Borg" wrote

------- Not likely.

One of the basic tests done to differentiate suicide from homicide is to simply see if the weapon could be held by the victim in that position. With the nails entering the back of the head, you would need a very long arm with an extra joint or two to point the nailgun to the back of your own head.

I think homicide would be a logical conclusion here.

outlaw nailguns and pretty soon only outlaws will have nailguns.....

Nailguns aren't the problem, only those who misuse them...

Could the perp be a carpenter named Brad?