Groom massacres wedding guests while celebrating

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A bridegroom in Turkey has accidentally killed three relatives while firing an AK-47 in celebration at his own wedding, Turkish media reported. The groom lost control of the weapon as he tried to fire in traditional celebration in the air at the ceremony in the village of Akcagoze in south-eastern Gaziantep province.

The guests were sprayed with bullets and the groom’s father and two aunts were killed. The groom has been arrested. The Anatolia news agency reported that eight other people were injured in the firing. The three who died succumbed to their wounds in hospital.

Firing into the air is commonplace as a celebration in parts of Turkey and has on many occasions led to deaths and injuries.

Turkey has tried to impose harsher penalties but has not ended the practice.


Guests at a baby shower


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13 years ago

Guns don’t kill people; grooms kill people.

13 years ago

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13 years ago

ROFLMAO!! I love that “Guests at a baby shower” picture.

You should have seen the bachelorette party, poor guy.

Jess
13 years ago

Maybe they don’t know about the whole what goes up must come down, sciencey stuff yet over there. No matter where you go, all kinds of stupid is there to greet you. There is no escaping stupid people.

Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

Sciencey stuff? Don’t you mean the “Law of Gravifloopery” caused those bullets to Shaminoggle back to the Earth?

Reply to  Jess
13 years ago

Except that’s not what happened. He didn’t fire bullets up that then came down on the people. He lost control and hit them directly. Reading comprehension.

Reply to  ClintJCL
13 years ago

But it also says “Firing into the air is commonplace as a celebration in parts of Turkey and has on many occasions led to deaths and injuries”.

That circumstance happens much more frequently than this single event of the runaway AK-47 and direct fire.

Samuel
Reply to  Krell
13 years ago

Okay, let’s take reading comprehension and logic 101, since you clearly can’t piece this together.

“The groom lost control of the weapon as he TRIED to fire in traditional celebration in the air at the ceremony in the village of Akcagoze in south-eastern Gaziantep province.”

Emphasis added on “tried.” As in, he attempted to aim the gun in the air, but he failed, and fired into the crowd.

Furthermore, are you aware of how perfectly straight-up he’d have to fire the weapon in order for it to come down on the same crowd from which the weapon was fired? Just a couple degrees away from a perfect 90 degree angle and the bullets wouldn’t land anywhere near the congregation. And given the effects of recoil (ESPECIALLY with an AK-47) and how loosely one is going to be holding the gun if holding it straight up, there’s practically no chance the bullets would land anywhere near the congregation if shot into the air.

Lastly, his aunts and father were killed, people who were probably, due to close kinship, the closest people to him in proximity. Obviously he fired the weapon as he was attempting to raise it up, probably because he’s an idiot and lifted the weapon up with one hand with his finger on the trigger, screwed up, and ended up firing into the crowd.

13 years ago

So he missed his mother in law???? Silly boy!

13 years ago

Firing into the air is commonplace as a celebration in parts of Turkey and has on many occasions led to deaths and injuries

This is what’s known as “natural selection in action”.

13 years ago

Good thing they don’t celebrate with grenades.

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