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Man loses leg by shooting lawn mower full of explosives

“I blew my leg off! Call an ambulance!” – Georgia man’s leg hacked off by flying shrapnel after shooting a lawn mower full of Tannerite with his semi-automatic rifle!


According to the Walton County Sheriff’s Department, a deputy responded to a 911 call Saturday about an explosion. The caller reported that 32-year-old David Pressley was shooting at a mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder in the woods and “had possibly blown his legs off from the explosion.” Two of Pressley’s friends fashioned a tourniquet around his leg, helped him into the front seat of a vehicle and drove him to a nearby road. EMS met the group there. Pressley was airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and is now recovering from the incident.