Discussion: Quadruple Amputee Sought in Murder of His Parents

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“…armed and dangerous.”

Seriously?

Please tell me this is April 1st…

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…did the deed and legged it outta’ there!

jw1

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Forget it Jake, it’s Florida.

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Poor Carl Hiassen. He just can’t keep up.

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I guess his gun will have to pried from his cold, dead stumps.

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Really? How can a quadruple amputee be armed?

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Damn, another keyboard with coffee.

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Quadruple amputee is “…armed and dangerous.” Oh no you didn’!

Coffee out the nose! {{{{ Ouch! }}}}

Jeebus’ on a cracker…how far can he get?
(*Gotta’ go…gonna’ get in trouble!)

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I knew prostheses had improved but really? A new advertising campaign: Murder is no longer out of your reach with our new prostheses.

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At least his hands will already be cold and dead when they pry the guns from them.

Honestly, it struck me as absurd, but if the amputations aren’t too high, it’s actually relatively easy to handle a rifle even with the old-fashioned post-World War II era hooks, much less the modern high tech prostheses. Pistols are problematic, I think, but rifles and shotguns are manageable.

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Yes, this was demonstrated in the movie “The Best Years of Our Lives,” when real life double amputee Harold Russell played fictional double amputee Homer Parrish. One scene shows him working with a rifle and firing it with his hooks. Russell joked that he got so good at using them that he could pick up anything but a dinner check.

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I was thinking about that movie too.