Thursday 16 June 2011

Man shoots own finger off to get rid of wart

A security guard came up with a bizarre remedy to remove a wart - he shot off his finger with a shotgun.

Sean Murphy, 38, from Doncaster, had seen his GP repeatedly about the problem and also tried a variety of traditional ointments and creams.


But when the persistent wart refused to disappear, he opted for the firepower of a 12-bore Beretta he claimed he had found under a hedge a few months earlier.

His technique successfully removed the wart - along with most of the middle finger of his left hand.

And the solution also landed Murphy in court this week for illegal possession of a firearm.

After leaving Doncaster Magistrates' Court with a suspended 16-week prison sentence, Murphy said:

'I'm happy with that. I know I could have gone to jail for up to 15 years for a firearms offence. My solicitor did a very good job. The best thing is that the wart has gone. It was giving me lot of trouble.'

He had suffered with the irritating wart on the joint closest to the tip of his middle finger for more than five years.

He said he drank several pints of beer to build up his courage before carrying out the operation outside the caravan where he was living at the time.

He stretched out his left hand, pointing the end of the barrel at an angle to the offending wart, and used his other hand to hold the stock steady and pull the trigger.

But he was unable to hold the weapon firmly when it recoiled and pellets took off most of his finger.

'I didn't expect to lose my finger as well when I shot it but the gun recoiled and that was it, the wart was gone and so was most of my finger. There was nothing left of it, so no chance of re-attaching it.'

- Story taken from http://www.dailymail.co.uk

32 comments:

  1. Effective, but redneck. So very redneck.

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  2. well i mean, you don't need all your fingers anyway. thats why we get extra ones.

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  3. Well, that's one way to get rid of a wart. This guy has some psychological issues, I bet that's what was used in his defense.

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  4. Damn, someone buy this man another beer.

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  5. VERY redneck. Lol. We had a guy where i work make himself a concrete finger cast. For those of you who don;t know, concrete heats up when it dries, so he has 3rd degree burns all on his finger. When they cracked the cast at the hospital, it peeled off most of his skin...people are dumb.

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  6. AHAHAHA, a few pints of beer to muster the courage. he best be glad he didnt lose his HAND

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  7. OMG and that guy is a security guard? nice.. :P

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  8. Wow, the stupid things people do for something so simple to remove.

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  9. wow , another nominee for the darwin award!

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  10. Wow, that's pretty extreme. At least he got rid of the wart...

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  11. Sound pretty effective for getting rid of warts XD

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  12. I think some people get too desperate in order to achieve things that they resort to the unimaginable. Welcome to earth.

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  13. Wow, that wart must have hurt. I like how he just happened to find a shotgun by a hedge though. And the guy just expected it not to back fire or explode. Very safe neighborhood.

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  14. What a Kurt Cobain wannabe..

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  15. Well that was NEVER gonna end well

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  16. To be honest, i dont blame the guy.
    Id probably do something similiar if i had to deal with an irritating wart in an awkward space for that many year.

    Imagine a 5 year long itch, that'd piss you off.
    I go insane when i have an itch for longer than 5 minutes, let alone 5 years.

    Good and interesting stuff, keep it up.

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  17. Meth is a hell of a drug.

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  18. I just don't understand it... how could a wart prove to be more annoying than the entire LACK of a finger... terrible logic.

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  19. That is the craziest thing I have read all day!
    Following, and I can't wait for your next crazy post!

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  20. I'd expect this in america, not the uk

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  21. DAMN! I have a wart in my pinky finger, was actually thinking of cutting it out with a knife...

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  22. Maybe it was a really gross wart.

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  23. Well.. at least the wart is gone :P

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  24. A security guard that illegally possessed a firearm? Great...

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  25. That's a final solution indeed.

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  26. Jesus, the stupidity of people never fails to amaze me!

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