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[Chuck Morford <chuckmorford AT yahoo.com>]

Ok, I just have to ask...

Prior to shooting the car did you say something
like, "Hey fellers, watch this!"?

--- Rowland Smith <rowland AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> That sounds quite gratifying.  I once killed a
> car by shooting it ( 9 rounds 
> of 150 grain .357 Magnum to the engine...mostly
> ).  Unfortunately the bullets 
> were hollow-points, and not full-metal-jacket,
> so they just seriously 
> deformed the engine block and didn't penetrate
> it.  Oh yeah, the car was 
> parked and running (I put a log on the gas
> pedal to rev the engine as high as 
> it would go).  Since the rounds didn't
> penetrate the engine block, only 
> deforming it, you can imagine that the engine
> became very hot.  This ignited 
> the oil pan which burned rather savagely until
> I dumped about fifty gallons 
> of water on it, 5 gallons at a time with a
> pail, all the while fretting about 
> the fact that the gas tank was half full.  It
> was about this time that my 
> girlfriend drove up and saw me running around a
> burning car with a large 
> handgun and a bucket of water about thirty
> yards from *her* house.  At this 
> point in the story the fun started to wane...


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