[oxfordgamers] Re: Um, can you DUMB?

Among this man's list of questionable acomplishments is shooting someone in
the chest with a shotgun and NOT killing them.  

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> Subject:      [oxfordgamers] Um, can you DUMB?
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> If I were to actually consider accepting someone's offer to kill someone
> for, I would have asked for all cash or a better car.
> 
> -w
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> LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court on Thursday jailed a bungling
> hitman who agreed to kill a businessman in return for $160 and an old car
> -- but confused the address and shot the wrong man.
> 
> Paul Jones, 41, ended up shooting and severely wounding his intended
> victim's next-door neighbor Ernest Broom.
> 
> Sentencing Jones to 17 years in prison, Judge Brian Barker said: "You shot
> him at point-blank range and it is a miracle he survived. You have ruined
> his life."
> 
> Jones had committed a "terrible and arrogant" crime in shooting Broom, who
> needed emergency surgery following the attack, the judge added.
> 
> The court heard earlier in the trial how businessman Tony Bristow had
> hired
> Jones, promising him $160 and a second-hand Ford Granada to shoot a
> business rival and former employee in November last year.
> 
> But Jones muddled the address and lay in wait outside Broom's house, next
> door to his target Douglas Burns.
> 
> When Broom was alerted by his wife to Jones lurking outside and gave
> chase,
> the hitman fired with a shotgun, peppering his stomach with 250
> perforations.
> 
> "He just shot me and left me there. He didn't give me a chance and never
> said a word," Broom told the court.
> 
> When Burns heard about the attack and realized he had been the intended
> target he rang Bristow to brag: "You shot the wrong man."
> 
> Bristow, convicted at an earlier trial of conspiracy to murder, had
> promised Jones the equivalent of around $5,000 for the contract killing --
> $160 in cash and the $4,800-valued car.
> 
> "You would think that life had a higher price. Sadly it does not,"
> prosecutor Anthony Munday said.
> 
> A jury found Jones, from West Sussex in southern England, guilty of
> conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and possessing a firearm with
> intent
> to endanger life.
> 
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