Police: NY man had friend shoot him in leg so

[struggle4progress]

he would know what it feels like to be shot

By Associated Press, Published: May 15

STOCKHOLM, N.Y. — Authorities say a northern New York man had his friend shoot him in the leg with a rifle because he wanted to know what it feels like to be shot.

State police in St. Lawrence County say the shooting occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday in the rural town of Stockholm when 25-year-old Shawn Mossow of neighboring Norfolk relented to his friend’s repeated requests and shot him once in the right leg with a .22-caliber rifle ...

Mossow was charged with reckless endangerment. He’s being held in the county jail on $10,000 bail. It could not be immediately determined if he had a lawyer ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-ny-man-had-friend-shoot-him-in-leg-so-he-would-know-what-it-feels-like-to-be-shot/2012/05/15/gIQAVn80QU_story.html

[Remmah2]

1. Drunk or sober?

Stoned or stupid?

Future Darwin candidate. Hopefully he's neutered.

[Clames]

2. If only all exercises of stupidity...

...carried such a painful lesson. Would certainly keep the VPC parrots quiet.

[PavePusher]

3. Why is the shot friend not in the same jail cell?

And when are we going to bring back public flogging for this sort of stupidity? 10 lashes in the public square seems a perfect fit for this application.

[gejohnston]

4. kind of reminds me of a Frank Zappa song