Kids, don't try this at home. He was what you call "a professional."

"In my day when we got shot in the face.. WE TOOK IT LIKE A MAN!"

Todays kids are lucky. I use to get shot in the face 10 times a day while walking to school in snow, up hill both ways!

"Longest time to live with a bullet in the head".

Now there's a record I wouldn't want!!

Hilarious!

Now here's a guy smart enough to know not to go hunting with Cheney. One time is more than enough.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for "after this,therefore because of this". He was shot in the head and now he is dead, therefore, the gunshot wound caused his death since the death occurred after the wound.

Same as:

We burned coal and the planet got warmer. Therefore, because the warming occurred after the burning of coal, burning coal caused the warming.

But then there was the “inconvenient truth” of the planet actually cooling, so we had to change the "post hoc ergo propter hoc induced claim of global warming to that of "climate change" so now if the planet warms or cools, it is because we burned coal, so we better stop burning coal and ban fracking so we don't burn gas either.

The only error in logic greater than "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" is electing elitists that promise change without defining what that change is to be.

Kind of dumb don't you think? and for those that can no longer think for themselves, go ahead and be cute in your response.

Wow, can you imagine how long he'd lived if he didn't have that bullet in his head? At least till 150, the poor fellow.

Glenn: You're a moron...Is that cute enough for you.

I guess if you lack the intellect to debate the idea, then attacking the individual and name calling is all you are capable of doing. Many politicians are in the same boat with you Bluelake. Oh well. You did your best. Thanks for the effort.

No Glenn, I definitely did not do my best. Not even close. Spouting Latin gibberish and paranoid mumbo jumbo rates a response thought up in seconds with no effort on my part. Sorry Glenn, but that's all you're worth. I'd get a better "debate" from my dog. Here, talk to him...

Such is life! If this guy can live 94 happy years after getting hit by a bullet.... what am I complaining for. May he go back to where he came from is all I can say.

That was cute Glenn, but this is an article about a guy who survived being shot in the head and lived a good long life. Diatribes about global warming and political idiocy belong elsewhere.

Andrew12 - You and Bluelake missed the point Glennwas trying to make. This was an asinine article. So what if he was shot in the head - it didn't significantly affect his life. He was also pointing out the ridiculous categories of a Guiness record.

What is really relevent is the record for who is the biggest "Pain in the Ass" and how long will he be a pain after he is voted out of office?

Yup! My first thought was, "Time for the wrongful death suit!"

Cut down in the prime of life. ;)

Try him as an adult and sentence him to life without parole, as kids should automatically assume that every gun is loaded, they should know beyond any doubt that guns are dangerous and can kill people, and they should know with absolute certainty that misuse of a gun resulting in death is one of the only actions that a kid can get wrong, where society will hold them fully adult responsible for their mistake, and will sentence such youthful offenders to highly-abusive prison sentences and sometimes not even allow them another chance at life to learn from their mistake!!!

Don't you think that perhaps it is way past time to severely restrict access to handguns, and perhaps also way past time to hold adult gun owners who fail to safely secure their guns equally culpable when an adult's unsecured weapon is involved in a shooting by a juvenile???

Don't you think that if society is going to hold kids fully adult responsible for misusing arguably the most dangerous legally-produced mass-owned product that the world has ever seen, that we should include gun safety as a required curriculum in primary and secondary schools, as well as human empathy and also classes on the human effects of gunshots too??? After all, if we don't repeatedly force such education on kids, how are kids supposed to know how to operate a gun safely or know how damaging misuse of a gun can be?

In 2010 the State of California, which has legal handgun ownership, had 1807 murders for its 37 million people, or a rate of 48.83 murders per million population. On the other hand, the country of Great Britain, where legitimate hunting weapons are legal to own but handgun ownership is severely restricted, had 651 murders for its 61 million people, or a murder rate of 10.67 murders per million population. Is legal handgun ownership in California or even in the entire US worth a murder rate almost 4.6 times as high as it needs to be? Does anyone besides me realize that as many as 1400 people might still be alive today in California if handgun ownership had been severely restricted like it is in Great Britain just during 2010? What is 1400 times an annual incarceration cost of $40K+???

Perhaps the companies that manufacture handguns should bear some or all of these extra costs to society out of their profits, just like a tavern owner might be held legally responsible for over-serving a patron who then kills or injures someone while driving drunk?

Either that or perhaps we should re-learn how to be a little more understanding and a little more humane in our dealings with our own young people who misuse guns???

OLD TIMER

While you have the sources handy, please compare total murders in gun control jurisdictions such as CA, NY, MA, GB to gun friendly places (all of the red ones plus FL).

Point is if the gun is not handy, does the butler use the candlestick?

... the most dangerous legally-produced mass-owned product that the world has ever seen...

When did guns pass tobacco products?

The 2009 murder rate in Colorado (a non gun-control State) was 32 per million population, or still 3 times the same rate in Great Britain. Most of the time, any State with a very large city (or more than one) has a higher murder rate, than States that do not have extremely large cities. Hence, California, with two of the nation's 10-largest urban areas and two other urban areas of over 1 million population each, has a higher murder rate than does Wyoming, a State where the largest urban area is less than 100,000 people, and there are only two urban areas of over 50,000 people. Metro-Denver is approaching 3 million population and Colorado also has Colorado Springs, which has grown to the 700,000 population range too, so our murder rate here could also be expected to be higher than North Dakota's too. Still, Wyoming's 2010 murder rate is 50% higher than all of Great Britain's is, and that is a great improvement over 1998, when the rate was as high as the rate in Texas today.

On the other hand, the UK has 10 large cities over 500K population, including several urban areas in the 1-3 million population range, as well as one of the world's largest cities too, an urban area with 50% more population than metropolitan Los Angeles has, and yet still has a murder rate less than that of ANY US State.

Now according to the Texas Law Enforcement Agency Uniform Crime Reports Summary, your State had a murder rate of 49.66 murders per one million in 2010 population (1249 murders/25.15 million pop), which is a whole lot of progress from that 1991 murder rate of 152.8 murders per million population, or that 1979 murder rate of 167 per one million population too. Heck, even back in the "law-abiding" late 1960s the murder rate in Texas was more than double of what it is today too!!! Still, just like States like New York and California, Texas has almost 5 times the murder rate that all of Great Britain enjoys, which is something to be really proud of there!!!

The way that I look at it, nothing justifies legal handgun ownership for the masses, especially when we have Tasers and stun-guns readily available, which are a whole lot less-deadly and almost as effective.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/txcrime.htm

Where is your sense of humor?

Really Debi?

wow

Either people try to make light of a sad situation with tacky jokes or they throw politics into it. This is a nice story about an amazing life lived under unusual circumstances. Very few people can sustain an injury like that and live to tell about it. 103 years is quit an accomplishment.

Very well said, Debbie! Even without the bullet in the head part of the story, I would have enjoyed reading the story of his and their life. The whole family sounds wonderful!

Naw, that's nothing, I've had 3 successful marriages.

I'm pretty sure that a very high percentage of the MILLIONS on 'disability' suffer from 'inability' or 'lazy-bility', the generations of welfare dependent guvmint leeches boggles the mind, and, it is getting worse rather than better, it seems that no politician will ever be elected again who would dare to ask 'not what your country can do for you', but instead, what you can scam from your fellow citizens...

GUNS can and DO kill...sometimes they only MAIM.

Guns don't kill. The bullets do.

Golfer, I'm disabled and I collect Social Security from a fund that I paid into when I was able to work. Ever see someone in a wheelchair, the "lazy" bastards? STFU

Hoodie - Just like this article states. There are exceptions to the rule. You may be the exception to the rule that golfer so eloquently cited. You've rationalized your rewason for being an SS recipient but how do your rationalize the millions who have never worked a day in their lives and some are even 4th or 5th generation that have never worked?

What "millions"? While it is true that there are some people on welfare and SSI who are able-bodied and can work, the majority are not in that position. Hoodie is most likely the rule, not an exception.

Happy Report? Did you not read the article? The man is Dead!

Sorry, if my post offends anyone like Debi above. I thought it was funny

It was a happy report. There are actually a lot of happy things in this world if we would just care enough to look for them. I thought something many people would do well to take notice of was his response when asking the biggest surprise in his lifetime. He stated simply, "Improvements in living,".

I thought something many people would do well to take notice of was his response when asking the biggest surprise in his lifetime. He stated simply, "Improvements in living,".

I agree. I mean, really think about it. How much advancement in technology and better living has this man seen in his life? How many world events has he watched and lived through? You can't help but have a lot of respect and awe for someone who lives this long. Even with a bullet in their head! The man had quite a life with all the traveling he had done with his wife and the life experiences he's had.

State of Awareness:

"You shall rise up before the gray headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD." Leviticus 19:32

Thanks for injecting biblical nonsense, he is dead just like Jesus Christ is.

sorry GK - NOBODY lives forever.

Never underestimate the power of good parenting? The guy's parents leaving a loaded rifle within reach of a couple of kids is what caused him to get shot in the face. How do you figure that was good parenting? Nowadays parents would likely be charged with a crime for that kind of negligence.

A happy report for a change.

Especially to the heirs of the estate.

Does everyone see that this man overcame a whole, whole lot? Basically, it was pretty much okay with nearly everybody in his time to discriminate against and belittle the visually-impaired, the hearing-impaired, and those who looked "odd", as he must've with partial facial paralysis. Also, it was considered to be noble to pity them, even if like this man, they never seemed to engage in self-pity. Sounds like a life well-lived by a good man. Like the idea of having another half-century or so to get things done, too.

Lead is scientifically proven to cause brain damage, it mutates dna, unless you want to dispute the thousands of scientists in the world or as you call them 'tree huggers'.

Good for him! I guess lead isn't as bad for your brain as all the tree huggers try and make everyone bleive.

I nominate this for most idiotic comment of the Day.

My mother was shot in the head with a.22 bullet when she was 7 years old. She lived to be 97. Guess it just depends.

The old-timers used to say getting shot in the head with a .22 is good luck.

funny - I never heard of THAT one

Getting shot in the head with a .22 is only "good luck" if you live through it!

Yup and I are one me-self! How's dat for a George W. witticism??? YUK, YUK, YUK! Only W's a transplanted Yankee!

No, his parents were. Think that he was born in the Permian Basin, or at least his sister was. At the very least he was in Texas at a very early age, so you're stuck with him or get to claim him, take your pick.

everybody's dead EVENTUALLY...

On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone is 0.

I'm going out on a limb and say that nobody lives past 175. (8-))

We're born dying.

Did that blow you're mind? O_o

I suspect he meant that common ordinary people had. My Dad and his family got their first tractor, electricity, an electric pump for the well, and a hot water heater in 1952 when he was in the 11th grade. Most rural communities didn't have the things that existed. The REA was a great thing for these communities and the average electric bill was less than a dollar back then, I understand.

He would have not saw those things until middle age probably. This guy is only slightly younger than my Grandpa would have been (1890-1969) had he lived. This sounds like a great guy who didn't allow circumstances to rule his life.

Exactly, scout -- my maternal grandparents knew that there were such things, but never had any of them until my mother went to work and paid to have their house wired (for 110 volts only) in the late 1930s. When my paternal grandfather bought a Farmall "H" tractor in the early 1940s, it was the first "big" tractor in that whole part of the county; the tractors around before that plowed and otherwise cultivated about as much as a team of mules, with the main advantage being that tractors didn't have to "eat" when not actively working.

pssst! He's dead. I don't think he'll notice.

someone whom worked in a cemetery??

If you don't think the dead can come back to life, show up here at quitting time.

You would then think every day is Easter.

How about be recognized as having lived the shortest time after being shot in the head? Read the news - there are people trying to achieve that every day.

I'm with you - I don't want my body to last any longer than my mind.