Maggie’s Man treated for WW2 gun Shot injury - Belarus

[hermosabeach]

Пенсионер копал песочницу и нашел винтовку - она выстрелила

Магазин был пустой, но единственный патрон находился в патроннике

www.kp.by

Pensioner digging a sandbox and found a rifle

Yesterday a pensioner from the Svetlogorsk region got into the hospital.
Moreover, with a serious diagnosis: through gunshot wound, comminuted gunshot fracture of the lower third of the right tibia.
The 68-year-old villager received a “battle wound” in peaceful conditions, but the echo of the war led to trouble.
It all started with a harmless idea: the pensioner decided to make a sandbox for his grandchildren in his yard. Digging sand, a man found rust-covered weapons from the Second World War. As it turned out, the Soviet self-loading rifle of the Tokarev system (SVT-40) fell into his hands .

The owner of the house picked up a gas cutter torch and for some reason began to cut up the rifle.
- At that moment a shot occurred. It turned out that the weapons magazine was empty, but the only cartridge was in the chamber. Fortunately, except for the pensioner, no one was hurt, ”said the official representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee, Vitaly Pristromov.

 

[earthtrekker1775]

What kind of numbnuts finds an archeological treasure like a WWII firearm and their first thought is "I better cut it into pieces with a torch." Watching too much European/American gun hating media most likely.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

What kind of numbnuts finds an archeological treasure like a WWII firearm and their first thought is "I better cut it into pieces with a torch." Watching too much European/American gun hating media most likely.

There had been idiots over here who have drilled into Civil War artillery shells with power equipment and then went kaboom. Apparently, a 3-inch rifled Parrott shell can easily obliterate a pickup truck or SUV with no problem at all and 12-pounder spherical case shot can take out an entire house and anyone inside. There had been a spike in those incidents, all of them fatal and some with multiple fatalities, in the 2002-2007 period. Nobody can cure stupid, unfortunately. That is why we got Darwin on duty 24/7.

 

[hermosabeach]

What kind of numbnuts finds an archeological treasure like a WWII firearm and their first thought is "I better cut it into pieces with a torch." Watching too much European/American gun hating media most likely.

or
Policia are not friendly to farmers with gun relics in Belarus

or more headache to call the police about the find than to Shoot, Shovel and shut up

 

[MK20]

BTW, he wasn't cutting with a torch. He was using a grinder. Look at the cut marks

 

[Blue Sky Country]

or
Policia are not friendly to farmers with gun relics in Belarus

or more headache to call the police about the find than to Shoot, Shovel and shut up

Most of eastern Europe, Dagestan, and the Caucasus are regions where only a fool would attempt to start a boogaloo. There are plenty of firepower from Mausers, Mosins, PPS's, and even heavy hardware like dismounted Panther and Tiger main guns along with ammunition all wrapped up and stored neatly in attic or cellars up and down the entire land, just waiting for party time to kick off. When a region of the world had been in the throes of constant warfare and strife since the medieval times, people tend to be very, very wary and very hostile to any attempts to uproot the ways of life that they had painstakingly tried to restore.

 

[WATERWALKER]

I wonder what the MV was when it hit him. LOL.