I had a friend in Reno named Chuck who used to do very stupid things like carp fishing with a machete. He cut his leg open. He also found a very old pistol buried in the desert, dusted it off, took it home, and proceeded to see if it still fired. He blew a good part of his hand off. Some people do stupid things whether they are 18 or 88. This guy Chuck did seem that the way he was going he would be a Darwin Award winner.
http://www.darwinawards.com/ I would always get very far behind Chuck's little brother when he insisted on going rattlesnake hunting with shotguns. His little brother seemed to be following in his older brother's accident prone footsteps.