Dinnington hitting the headlines. .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/3891311.stm

Ouch. . . .

just. . . . . OWWW!

We Sheffield blokes really are "nails" aren't we! I'd like to see a soft southerner crawling home after 15 pints with his knackers full of buckshot!

A classic comment from the judge.


"The shooting of yourself is plainly an exceptional circumstance"

Judge Robert Moore.

Also it was only lager he was drinking anyhow...not proper beer.

I heard on Radio Sheffield last night that this guy was sentenced to 5 years in prison yesterday.

I must be a bad person because the shardenfraude made me laugh out loud as I walking down the street and people starting looking at me in a funny way.

Anyway, you can read the short story of his hapless bloke here (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14367104&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=going-going-groin-name_page.html)

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'His mind was a blank.'

Understatement of the year perhaps.....! Bet he wishes he was firing blanks now....!

Originally posted by mojoworking
We Sheffield blokes really are "nails" aren't we! I'd like to see a soft southerner crawling home after 15 pints with his knackers full of buckshot!

~I wouldn't exactly be proud mate.

"Prosecuting lawyer Andrew Hatton told the court how Walker had gone home to get the shotgun after arguing in the pub with lifelong friend Stuart Simpson about whose turn it was to buy a beer.

As he was returning to the pub, which had closed by this time, he accidentally fired the weapon."

He sounds like a complete ****.

Originally posted by Red 2
He sounds like a complete ****.

Well ... more like an 'almost complete ****'.

Originally posted by Red 2
~I wouldn't exactly be proud mate.

"Prosecuting lawyer Andrew Hatton told the court how Walker had gone home to get the shotgun after arguing in the pub with lifelong friend Stuart Simpson about whose turn it was to buy a beer.

As he was returning to the pub, which had closed by this time, he accidentally fired the weapon."

He sounds like a complete ****.

Oh dear. Yet another joke falls on stony ground.

Originally posted by mojoworking
We Sheffield blokes really are "nails" aren't we! I'd like to see a soft southerner crawling home after 15 pints with his knackers full of buckshot!

a very nice stereotype, a "soft sotherner". How do you come to the conclusion that sotherners are soft?

If we're into stereotyping here this story just shows how stupid yorkshiremen are!

why didn't he shoot his friend?

Perhaps he just didn't have the balls to go through with it.

Originally posted by mojoworking
Oh dear. Yet another joke falls on stony ground.

it's not really very funny though is it mate?

Originally posted by ianmitchell
a very nice stereotype, a "soft sotherner". How do you come to the conclusion that sotherners are soft?

If we're into stereotyping here this story just shows how stupid yorkshiremen are!

Being that my mother and her side are soft southerners, being that I was engaged to one *shame*.....I would say it is a pretty fair generalisation.
Most Yorkshiremen are stupid but I dare yer to say that to their face.....cos they may get a gun :lol: and then you will KNOW they are stupid.

Moon Maiden

Yorkshire folk seem nice to me.

For some reason though even the roughest yorkshire fellas have never really intimidated me that much. Just don't come across as hard (I know they probably are though).

Originally posted by Red 2
it's not really very funny though is it mate?

Bloody hell. It doesn't have to be funny, it was still just a joke. Lighten up.

In case you still don't get it: the bloke who blew his knackers off is an idiot and I was being ironic about Sheffielders being tough.

Of course Southerners aren't soft. That was part of the joke too. We northerners have been known to use that stereotype in the past in case you haven't noticed.

To sum up: it was a humorous comment about what is, let's face it, a comical news item.

Christ, this is like pulling teeth.

My sister was reading the newspaper back home in Canada today and came upon this story (I'm sure everyone will be coming to visit now!):

Wed, July 14, 2004

Man shoots himself in groin

Accidentally fires gun he stuffed into pants


SHEFFIELD, England -- An Englishman who shot himself in the groin after drinking 15 pints of beer and stuffing a sawed-off shotgun down his trousers
was jailed for five years yesterday for illegal possession of a firearm. David Walker, 28, had emergency surgery after the March 6 incident in
Dinnington, northern England. Tests were continuing to learn if Walker would
be left infertile, his lawyer Gulzar Syed said.

"He still feels quite severe pain," Syed told Sheffield Crown Court, adding some pellets still are lodged in Walker's groin area.

Walker admitted one charge of possession of a prohibited firearm at a previous hearing.

Prosecuting lawyer Andrew Hatton told the court Walker had gone home for the shotgun after arguing in the pub with lifelong friend Stuart Simpson about whose turn it was to buy a beer.

As he was returning to the pub, which had closed by then, he accidentally fired the weapon.

"He had it shoved down his trousers," Hatton said.

"After the shotgun had discharged he placed it in a rubbish bin and crawled back to his home."

Walker told officers he was so drunk he had no idea how he managed to shoot himself and why he had gone home for the gun.

Judge Robert Moore said recent legislation regarding banned weapons meant he had to impose the statutory five-year minimum sentence.

After reading the Sheffield Star, this was my favourite story of the day. Must have brought a few tears to his eyes!!
Most of you buy the local paper but for me I have to read it online.
So for anyone who didn't hear about this story and feels like a good "wince" Read Here (http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=822214)

give it up mojo. I think it's part of some new registration agreement in this place that when signing up, you have to have your SOH surgically removed.

And what a moron that bloke really is. But that's what's so great about this, you get to laugh at someone else's misfortune without feeling guilty about doing so.

Originally posted by Squiggs
give it up mojo. I think it's part of some new registration agreement in this place that when signing up, you have to have your SOH surgically removed.

And what a moron that bloke really is. But that's what's so great about this, you get to laugh at someone else's misfortune without feeling guilty about doing so.

Cheers Squiggs, I suspect you may be right about the SOH by-pass. I sometimes wonder if it's worth the effort.

You're spot-on re. the moron with the gun. How drunk would you have to be to blow your own wedding tackle off? It brings a tear to the eye.

During sentencing, Judge Moore said: "Contrary to local speculation you have not lost your testicles, but there was damage."

I'm sure he didn't need the judge to tell him that! Not the kind of thing you forget...


The judge added that he hoped the sentence would act as a deterrent.

Presumably a deterrent to owning guns, not blowing off ones own bow-locks. (which has its own natural deterrent)


I think this is an example of Darwinism at its best.

What i wanted to know is why i posted it to the Sheffield forum and it got shifted here. .

This sites mods are more anal than a systems analyst (and they've got anal in their name!!)

err....cos it happened in Dinnington?

Dunno the answer to that one, what are the boundaries of the "Sheffield" forum?

The man's got bags of spunk, as Enid Blyton might say. Or maybe that should be collenders...