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US Overreaction

jrc

16-Jan-2014
5:03:51 PM

http://www.smh.com.au/world/climber-charged-with-killing-friend-with-a-hammer-20140116-hv8nu.html
Sad to read about - a new dimension to 'piton hammers at 10 paces...'

IdratherbeclimbingM9

16-Jan-2014
5:28:59 PM

On 16/01/2014 jrc wrote:
>http://www.smh.com.au/world/climber-charged-with-killing-friend-with-a-hammer-20140116-hv8
>u.html
>Sad to read about - a new dimension to 'piton hammers at 10 paces...'

?
From the link provided.

Police said the two friends found Farrar lying on the trail next to a wooden beam, bleeding from the head.
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The victim had injuries to the head and hands that police said were consistent with blows struck with the silver-coloured claw hammer that was found on the ground nearby.

... A claw hammer is not usually a piton hammer, and I reckon crazyjohn or his mate grug would say that an Arapiles tent peg hammer is possibly a different thing again.

Miguel75

16-Jan-2014
5:58:43 PM

As it stands I wouldn't call this unfortunate event a US Overreaction.... If the perpetrator beat the guy with a hammer and then shot him with a few different caliber assault weapons and the courts then banned silver claw hammers; then I'd label this a classic US style overreaction.

Doug

16-Jan-2014
8:45:46 PM

On 16/01/2014 Miguel75 wrote:
>As it stands I wouldn't call this unfortunate event a US Overreaction....
>If the perpetrator beat the guy with a hammer and then shot him with a
>few different caliber assault weapons and the courts then banned silver
>claw hammers; then I'd label this a classic US style overreaction.

+1

gfdonc

16-Jan-2014
9:51:00 PM

Yep like that would never happen .. I swear truth is stranger than fiction here ..

http://articles.philly.com/1992-06-18/news/26032033_1_larami-corp-water-guns-super-soakers
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2012/04/tampa-can-ban-water-guns-not-actual-guns-republican-convention/51642/
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-23/news/vw-863_1_squirt-gun/2

!!!!

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