Oh, this is Darwin in action:

[TXlib]

Participant at KKK initiation wounded after shots fired into sky

Monday, November 24, 2003 Posted: 2:31 PM EST (1931 GMT)

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee (AP) -- A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.

Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the Saturday night incident that wounded Jeffery S. Murr, 24.

About 10 people, including two children, had gathered for the ceremony. The man who was being initiated was blindfolded, tied with a noose to a tree and shot with paintball guns as Freeman fired a pistol in the air to provide the sound of real gunfire, Sheriff Fred Phillips said.

A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom of his skull, authorities said.

Freeman fled the ceremony but was arrested near his home, authorities said. He was released on $7,500 bail.

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Wanna bet that both men involved were frequent FR posters?

I hope they go after everybody at the rally for child endangerment, and anything else they can throw at them.

Stupid racist fuckwits...

If only the KKK made a policy of shooting all new applicants...

[Sting]

1. LMAO!

I saw that story and laughed my ass off. I know it's sad and not even funny that the person got shot in the head, but, yeah...you know.

[VelmaD]

2. I am stunned...

stunned I tell ya, that this did not happen here in Texas. :-)

[U2Shark]

3. Hilarious

Couldn't have happened to a better person. I'm surprised it didn't happen in Cohochta.

[Robb]

4. "That teacher said something about gravity,

...but I didn't believe her because she was a Democrat." :)

[alfredo]

5. In retaliation I present this:

http://www.theonion.com/onion3906/iraq_kentucky_vie.html



COON HOLLOW, KY—In a rivalry that shows no signs of abating, Iraq and Kentucky remain locked in a bitter struggle for world shooting-into-the-air supremacy.


"I'll be damned if any Muslim's gonna beat the great state of Kentucky at what she do best," said Coon Hollow resident Billy Joe Dupree, 39, in between bouts of firing his shotgun skyward Monday. "We been shootin' into the air for all kinds 'a reasons since they was a Kentucky, and that's a fact. Why, even my wall-eyed cousin Mavis could outshoot one o' them Muslims, and she ain't hardly finished the fifth grade."


Aziz Hourani, 24, of Baghdad, took exception to Dupree's claims of air-shooting superiority.


"Such is our anger at the Great Satan that we send many bullets into the air every day," said Hourani, raising his AK-47 carbine and firing several rounds. "No one can surpass us at shooting upwards—and certainly not the Americans."

[SOteric]

6. I really shouldn't snicker at the pain of others.