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Man accidentally shot self in foot while attempting to kill cockroach (wlos.com)

submitted 18 hours ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 96 points 18 hours ago (21 children)

He took off his shoe and threw it at the bug to kill it, but a revolver he had hidden in the shoe fell to the ground. Upon making contact with the floor, the gun discharged and the bullet hit the victim in the foot.

That's even more bizarre; how does one hide a gun in their shoe??

[–] Trollhammer@jlai.lu 25 points 18 hours ago (9 children)

When you roll a nat 1...

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Why are there so many fucking accounts less than 30 days old? Do y'all just keep making accounts every week? Are there this many newer Lemmings?

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not long ago Reddit introduced a new policy thatpunishes people for upvoting bad posts, which includes posts about Luigi Mangione. After that, people have been moving into Lemmy as an alternative.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Thank you for the context. Always happy to see growth, the paranoid bit of me always jumps to the worst conclusion.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago

Reddit did another stupid, so there's plenty of new joiners

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This reference may or may not be before your time .. forgive me, I've seen this before.

Think of it as "Eternal September" and you'll be able to take it in your stride .. brace yourself, this is going to happen more and more, at least for a while.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

To be fair, I'm only noticing because I've switched to Voyager and it shows which accounts are newer, but there's a ton! My instinct is to think troll farms. But, I'll be happy to live in an eternal September.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, Voyager here too. The indicator helps evaluate if I care enough to respond. As for Eternal September, it was a doozy and the road was pretty rough.

That said, I'm still here, so there's that 😇

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Pretty sure it’s another wave of refugees.

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