Teen blinded when frog shot from potato gun

[sbp]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/1870788

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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"Its tragic, yet at the same time funny" Yep. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbp777/pics/WinkingFrog.gif

Someone alert potato cannon control. http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/crying.gif
Obviously a clarion call for restricting and then banning frog shooting potato cannon's if ever there was one!

[eSDee]

That's hilarious.

[Cantacuzene]

I have a potato gun and I can safely say I wouldnt ever do anythign as inhumane as shooting a living creature out of it. I'm glad that genetic dead end is blind. Maybe when he tells females the wonderful story of how he became blind he wont get a chance to breed and do us all a big favor.

[Sir_Froggy]

that's pretty funny....in a kinda sick way

[AWM]

I love it! frog 1 - evil blind kid 0

[speedracer120]

Idiots like that don't deserve to be fighter pilots. Good thing the frog took care of that.

[CynJon]

Another tragedy that could have been avoided by the implementation of a mandatory 7 day waiting period for potato cannon purchases...:rolleyes:

Tragic, yet :heh: .

Too bad it wasn't aimed about waist-high...then he could be out of the gene pool and still be able to see...

[ufcrusher]

Everyone knows kittens go further than frogs!:D

[CornMonkey]

my friend likes to shoot out rats with a potato gun...

*weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

[cheapie]

Originally posted by CynJon
Another tragedy that could have been avoided by the implementation of a mandatory 7 day waiting period for potato cannon purchases...



ahahahahaha. that's great.

[xsiled2]

the first time i read this i though you were talking about these
http://www.kopes.com/novelties/potato-gun.JPG

to me thats a potato gun, a cannon on the other hand :D frozen lemons are the best ;)

[gear02]

I wonder what happened to the frog...

[LPMiller]

Originally posted by gear02
I wonder what happened to the frog...

He's under negotiations with the WB for his life story. Rumor has it Michigan J. Frog will play him in the bio pic.

[xsiled2]

Originally posted by LPMiller


He's under negotiations with the WB for his life story. Rumor has it Michigan J. Frog will play him in the bio pic. :hihi: :bigmouth: :P

[cheapie]

Originally posted by LPMiller


He's under negotiations with the WB for his life story. Rumor has it Michigan J. Frog will play him in the bio pic.

Hello ma baby, hello ma honey, hello ma ragtime gal...

[hang10wannabe]

Originally posted by LPMiller


He's under negotiations with the WB for his life story. Rumor has it Michigan J. Frog will play him in the bio pic.

whoa really, i thought it woulda been a nice pile of frog matter... what a survivor :)

[bachviet]

Kids will never learn that they are not invincible. I feel sad for the parents though.

[raimin]

when i first read it, i thought he was firing it. Someone else was firing it...he was just the stoopid one who was checking on the gun

[CynJon]

Originally posted by cheapbast@rd
Hello ma baby, hello ma honey, hello ma ragtime gal...

http://www.lemonizer.com/uploads/mj-ani.gif

One of the classics...:heh:

[brain]

Originally posted by cheapbast@rd


Hello ma baby, hello ma honey, hello ma ragtime gal...

When I hear that, I think about the scene from spaceballs when they are in the diner and the alien comes out of the guy's stomach. And is the alien dances away, you can see the stick that's attached to it that's moving it.

[hang10wannabe]

Originally posted by bachviet
Kids will never learn that they are not invincible. I feel sad for the parents though.

i learned i wasnt invincible when i started riding my bike on a daily basis... crazy drivers :(





o and visiting sites like roten.com or watching faces of death make u realize real quick :dodgy:

[Speedfreak]

They were probably just trying to get enough frog matter to make some oil.

[Grimm]

I would personaly like to take this oppertunity to thank the frog that gave its life so that this idiot would not be flying over our heads with a dozen 1/2 ton bombs...

Looking down the barrel of a misfired cannon... Participating in putting a frog in the cannon in the first place... It is a real shame that his parents ever breed in the first place. We can only hope he never gets the chance. :(

[Freelance Superhero]

maybe i'm ruining the fun here, but where'd you get this story from, sbp? doesn't it smell reaaaaal fake to anyone else? what with the awkward wording, the grammatical mistakes, and the overly punchline-esque last quote and all...

:shrug:

it's either that, or the publication reporting the incident isn't a stickler for details...

EDIT: nevermind... didn't notice the link above the story... man, you'd think they could hire better writers, or at least, better copy editors...

[sho.gun]

Is it true that if you get frog piss on your eyes, you'll be blind?

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by sho.gun
Is it true that if you get frog piss on your eyes, you'll be blind?


Why don't you try it and let us know. As long as you don't need your eyes to read this board then you should be fine.

[Momma Kitty]

THat poor frog!!! But what a story he'll have to tell his grandkids! hehehe

[coleslaw]

If it wasn't a potato gun, it would have been an M-16 when the doofus was in basic training for the Air Force. :rolleyes: