A cautionary tale of natural selection at work:
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.
I mean, right there, you've got a Darwin Award sewn up.
Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the Saturday night incident that wounded Jeffery S. Murr, 24.
And, no, the shooter was not the injured guy. Could it be we have two idiots? Wait -- it's a KKK initiation.
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.
Alas, it seems that some of them did manage to pass on their genes. On the other hand, they're doing a great job of endangering their kids, too, so I guess there's hope.
I leave as an exercise for the reader commentary on the whole idea of initiation via being blindfolded, tied with a noose to a tree and shot with paintball guns. Not to mention the apparent need for sound effects.
A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom of his skull, authorities said.
I suspect here was not much to slow it down in-between.
Freeman fled the ceremony but was arrested near his home, authorities said. He was released on $7,500 bail.
He fled. Then he went back home. Yup. Definitely a winner.
(via Amanda)
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Kim was just reading this to me. It's definitely a Darwin candidate, if ever I read one.
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