Robert Heinbaugh of Plainsville, Ohio, has the distinction of being
the first person in the world to be shot by a lawn mower... As he cut
the grass one evening, he ran over a live bullet which went off and
shot him in the foot.

It made for a good newspaper headline, but it's far fetched. If the
slug lodged in his foot, it was probably flung there by the mower
blade. When a bullet is "fired" outside a firearm, the bullet, being
heavier doesn't go very far. The shell case, being lighter flys
farther and at a higher speed. I don't have the reference handy at
the moment, but my recollection was that the experiments documenting
this were done by the miilitary using 30-06 ammunition.

RWL



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