Tree Returns Fire on Man Who Used It for Target Practice

[onehandle]

A man in Iowa is currently in hospital recovering from an injury he sustained after a tree he was using for target practice fired back at him.

According to initial reports, 27-year-old Logan Bunn was shooting at tree outside his home near Lansing when one of the bullets ricocheted, striking him in an unspecified body part.

Bunn arrived at a La Crosse hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, prompting staffers to notify local police.

Authorities in Allamakee County are still investigating the bizarre incident which occurred early Sunday morning, but say no foul play is suspected.

http://gawker.com/5993305/tree-returns-fire-on-man-who-used-it-for-target-practice

[NightWatcher]

1. Nature bats last, dip shit

[bluestate10]

14. And Nature homered into deep center field. nt

[Shankapotomus]

55. Between the OP's subject line

and your response, I'm in tears here . :rolf: I love this place.

[NightWatcher]

56. I do love the snarkasm

I should go for my Doctorate in Well Duh

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Man zero, target tree one

[bluedigger]

3. You never want to use a hardwood for target practice.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. Nothing to add to that!

[randome]

5. Check for sap residue on the bullets.

Then you'll have your man. Oak, pine, whatever.

[jtuck004]

22. In this case the Sap was already on the outside, methinks. n/t

[Bay Boy]

77. Hah!

[NutmegYankee]

6. "No word on whether alcohol was a factor."

What an idiot! You always keep back from a target for just that purpose. Hell, even BBs from BB guns are known to have bounce back.

[cvoogt]

41. do trees drink?

Maybe they only drink Jägermeister ..seems apropo

[Bay Boy]

78. Maybe gin, tastes like pine needles...

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...but if a tree drinks gin would that be a form of cannibalism?

[dixiegrrrrl]

81. Juniper berries is what flavors gin...

I used to make a "virgin" gin and tonic with lemonade, juniper berries and tonic water.

[cvoogt]

84. what happened?

I guess it's only a virgin gin the first time you make it?

[dixiegrrrrl]

85. I am not allowed to speak of what happened..

minors are involved.

[dionysus]

75. i know this from experience. i used to make targets out of my dad's scrap wood, which was usually

soft pine. I grabbed a piece of hardwood unwittingly.

when I shot it, I could literally SEE the BB coming back at me, but way too fast to even think about dodging. it hit my front tooth, and even made the movie style ricochet sound... scared the shit out of me. that target went flying into the woods after that

[NYC_SKP]

7. Richochet struck his man-sack, I'll bet.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

[Kolesar]

9. That's what I call "a mean hop" eom

[DBoon]

27. "unspecified part part" indeed

my thought exactly

[Aerows]

53. Third agree

They would have said so if it struck his arm or his leg.

[NYC_SKP]

57. The unspecified parts are very sensitive when hit.

[Octafish]

8. It's about time.

Trees, awake! Arise! Get THEM!

[MattBaggins]

16. It's a weirwood

The old gods remember

[Voice for Peace]

64. who pissed off this tree?

[tk2kewl]

43. And he is armed!

[Demoiselle]

70. HOW do you find pics like this!? I love it.

[Octafish]

82. Is the GOOGLE.

Your mind is the Index. Grab a search term and match it to something of interest.

In the present example: Angry + Tree.

Most importantly: Thank you, Demoiselle! Kindness is what this world really is about.

[Demoiselle]

83. You've just given me a brand new hobby...

I'm starting my list of intriguing search terms now.

[ZombieHorde]

76. Cool pic. nt

[Kolesar]

10. My idiot neighbor used a tree as a backstop

Then he discovered that the leaves on a nearby tree were getting sliced with bullets.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Police declined to file charges against the tree because it's a Popular

[randome]

15. LOL!

[Jenoch]

18. A "Popular"?

[oldhippydude]

23. the oak was on him n/t

[kairos12]

25. Tree won't pine for him

[oldhippydude]

26. cotton would

[kairos12]

31. Maybe Redwood too

[oldhippydude]

33. fir out

[kairos12]

35. Nevertheless, We can all agree the man made a total aspen of himself

[oldhippydude]

40. where there's a willow there's away

[Voice for Peace]

48. Elm-o approves

[oldhippydude]

50. Elmo seems frazzeled..... needs to spruce up

[Voice for Peace]

51. I expect Dogwood, as well

[oldhippydude]

61. sic em.........sycamore

[Voice for Peace]

63. lololol you win

You can choose from these prizes:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fg2m1TLoju8/TIbyNqxTY-I/AAAAAAAAAGU/fnTvqgg6x6Y/s1600/Gun+tree.JPG
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BnOP43Mv_PY/S7zzl2-SktI/AAAAAAAAQW4/ILChZoImclc/s1600/gun+tree.jpg

[oldhippydude]

65. thanks i could not come up with another tree pun

[Voice for Peace]

68. you did well for an old hippy dude

Here's an extensive list of tree names in case one will cause a pun:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/common_namesa_e.html

[oldhippydude]

71. i am a retired nurseryman... but you might say i was STUMPTED

[Voice for Peace]

69. I'm starting to suspect the tree might have been a Chinese Wingnut

[Spitfire of ATJ]

80. "thanks i could not come up with another tree pun"

Maybe you're backed up. Try pruning.

[louis-t]

59. Prolly hit 'em right in the ash.

[oldhippydude]

62. tree's company

[Quixote1818]

30. Poor sap, whole thing sounds pretty shady to me.

Yew just can't beat a good pun thread - they're always poplar. They really spruce up the comments section.

[SmileyRose]

36. this leaves me wondering

which branch of his family taught him to shoot?

[Shankapotomus]

58. Looks like the oak's

on the guy with the gun.

[Blue Owl]

45. His branch of the NRA is embarassed

n/t

[Brickbat]

66. Birch, please.

[shenmue]

12. Ouch

Targets, anyone? Don't they sell them at the store?

[bluestate10]

13. If only Bunn had a gun. That tree would have pulled up roots and ran away, oh, wait. nt

[DollarBillHines]

17. "unspecified body part"

One guess....

My asshole stepfather was throwing a hatchet at a tree. I told him that it wasn't cool, throwing a hatchet into a living tree.

His response? "It's just a fucking tree."

Bounceback, right in his crotch. I wish it would have killed him, we would have been spared decades of misery.

[nikto]

19. If the surrounding trees had been given handguns...

They would have shot the "bad" tree before it shot the man.


"The best defense against bad trees with guns is a good tree with a gun."

[jmondine]

20. Overheard at the site: "I'm the Lorax, and I'm through speaking!"

[Aviation Pro]

21. Sure it wasn't one of these?

[Rhiannon12866]

29. Or this one:

[Voice for Peace]

54. I can't think about this, it's too horrible, if those trees had been armed...

[Rhiannon12866]

73. If you remember, all those trees were armed!

With apples!

[TDale313]

38. Yep. Score one for the Ents. n/t

[kairos12]

24. Tree had bark and bite

[DBoon]

28. Don't mess with Druids

and don't mess with trees - they are sacred you know

[arely staircase]

32. this is news? Iowa man slightly injured.

eom

[SmileyRose]

34. Easter tree shootin'

so many jokes in that factoid

[SunSeeker]

37. Add another to the I Just Fucking Shot Myself Hall of Fame...

[Coyotl]

39. "Yeah, it's broken now, but it was just junk anyway."

[libodem]

42. Karma

Is a bitch.

[Blue Owl]

44. Oh yeah, he's one of Wayne LaPierre's people

n/t

[Ptah]

46. He would have died if he tried that here in the desert.

David Grundman, while in his mid-20s in 1982, was enjoying shooting some cacti
with his shotgun when he stumbled upon a 25-foot tall specimen and thought it
was ripe for shooting. A few shots later, a heavy four-foot arm of the cactus fell
with enough force to kill Grundman. This was later immortalized in two true urban
legends books by Jan Harold Brunvan as well as a song, “Saguaro”, by the Austin Lounge Lizards.

[hobbit709]

47. I was just getting ready to post the story about Grundman.

Beat me to it.

[Bay Boy]

79. true urban legends?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[4_TN_TITANS]

49. Ricocheted my ass...

Bet $10 he shot himself mishandling the gun and that was the best excuse he could come up with at the time.

[Voice for Peace]

52. OK This is the best thread of the month. as of April 3

[Jamastiene]

60. "unspecified body part"

Oh, the imagination does run wild when they don't specify. I love trees.

[benld74]

67. After just watching The Wizard of Oz with the kids Sunday,,,

the apple trees getting 'revenge' is even funnier now,,,,,

[BlueStreak]

72. First they give the right to arb bears, and now this?

How are we supposed to maintain anthropocentrism if this keeps up?

[BainsBane]

74. Guns don't kill people, trees kill people.

[treestar]

86. Trees have a right to stand their ground

And a right to self defense.