# want some good advice? don't press the trigger while pointing a gun at your face... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697 "2001-01-06T05:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/1 "2001-01-06T05:23:08Z")
I should have really payed more attention to that… while making a spud gun, i did just that. it wasn’t working, so we took off the barel to check if the spark was still working in the chamber. _Knowing full well_ that there was gas in there, i waited till i couldn’t smell gas anymore, just to be “safe” before looking directly into it and pressing thee ignition switch. ‘Click’… it made a spark, horray… so i pressed it a couple more times just to make sure ‘Click’ ‘Click’ **BOOM!!!** No more eyelashes and severly thinned eyebrows now, luckily no burns to speak of…could i be any stupider? holy crap… ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/2 "2001-01-06T05:25:45Z")
Are you sure your okay? Let me know when you are okay enough for me to laugh. I’m sorry, I have seen that done before witha gas grill and it wasn’t funny untill a few days later. It was actually quite scary. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/3 "2001-01-06T05:29:25Z")
This is exactly how the herd gets thinned! Close one, glad you made the cut. ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/4 "2001-01-06T05:31:57Z")
don’t worry bout laughing at me, just after i did it my friend fell on his ass laughing, got up to see if i needed to go to the hospital or something, then started rolling over laughing again… i can laugh now, seeing as im alive with no real major side effects… so laugh all u want, ya bastard 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/5 "2001-01-06T05:33:59Z")
I will always remember those words of wisdom. Hey, you’re lucky there wasn’t a bullet in it. That’s why guns do kill people, not just people kill people. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/6 "2001-01-06T05:39:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hypergirl \* > \*\*I will always remember those words of wisdom. Hey, you’re lucky there wasn’t a bullet in it. That’s why guns do kill people, not just people kill people. \*\* Uhhh…yeah. Who looked down the barrel and pulled the trigger? The gun, or the person? You got off lucky, **Wump**. Be thankful, and let us know when you don’t look like one of the Thompson Twins (they shaved their eyebrows). ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/7 "2001-01-06T05:55:47Z")
Just curious, but is your User Name based on the sound the gun made when it went off? You know… KA- **WUMP!** Just askin’ ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/8 "2001-01-06T06:11:17Z")
We did the same sort of thing with beer bottle and a camp fire. “I wonder what would happen if we put a full beer bottle in the fire.” “Probably not a good idea.” “Probably not.” “Hey look, it’s starting to fizz.” “Look out it’s going to expl…” Big bang. Lots of smoke and wet ash and soot. Nobody hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2001, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/9 "2001-01-06T06:52:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wump \* > \*\*don’t worry bout laughing at me, just after i did it my friend fell on his ass laughing, got up to see if i needed to go to the hospital or something, then started rolling over laughing again… i can laugh now, seeing as im alive with no real major side effects… so laugh all u want, ya bastard 🙂 \*\* HA HA HA HA HA :D. These kinds of things crack me up. Just thank G-d that your not a Darwin award candidate now. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/10 "2001-01-07T02:32:50Z")
“You boys smokin’?” “Yessir. If you’d come by a few minutes ago you could’ve seen us while we were still on fire.” ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-some-good-advice-dont-press-the-trigger-while-pointing-a-gun-at-your-face/48697/11 "2001-01-07T03:31:55Z")
Think of it as a vaccination to increase your gene pool’s resistance to chlorine.