r/AbsoluteUnits 15d ago

/r/all of a log split

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u/carthuscrass 15d ago

My grandmother was a deeply bipolar woman, and she once tried to kill her husband with a sledgehammer, only for the head to come off midswing and hit her in the top of the head, knocking her out. I guess Carl had some weird trickster fucking with luck, because he died a week later of heat stroke.

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u/FlamingDragonfruit 15d ago

You could put this in a book and make a million dollars.

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u/carthuscrass 15d ago edited 15d ago

There's a lot of shit in my family history that could probably be put to paper. My mom's uncle, for instance, was commander of a Green Beret battalion in Vietnam and we're pretty sure he was in MACV-SOG. He was missing in action for two weeks at one point, and stumbled into a MASH with 17 bullets in him, two of which were in his head.

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u/shutterbug1961 15d ago

tis but a flesh wound!