Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle

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Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 9, 2012 @03:25AM from the blow-up-your-TV dept.

First time accepted submitter InfernoApple writes "Seth Horvitz, a Northeast D.C. resident, thought he had ordered a new high-definition television a few days ago through Amazon.com from a third-party merchant. When the package arrived yesterday, however, Horvitz opened the oddly shaped box to find something completely different. Instead of the flat-panel TV he had bought to enjoy with his wife, who is pregnant, Horvitz opened the long packaging to discover a Sig Sauer SIG716, a high-caliber, semi-automatic assault rifle capable of mowing down, well, just about anything."

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Sounds like win-win to me! by PrescriptionWarning · 2012-08-09 03:28 · Score: 5, Funny

He obviously was buying the TV so that he could hoist it a few stories above the ground and kill whatever poor sucker stood under it when it drops. Amazon just knew him so well from his previous purchases that he'd rather just have a rifle!
1. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! by sigxcpu · 2012-08-09 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Besides, if someone gives you a rifle and you can't get yourself a brand new TV on your own, maybe you don't deserve one.
  
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2. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! by bugs2squash · 2012-08-09 04:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I don't understand; from the tone of your comment you would seem to claim to be knowledgeable about guns, from which I infer that you perhaps have an interest in guns and perhaps are "pro-gun", but your signature message seems to indicate that you disapprove of this particular manufacturer. Would you have preferred he got the TV instead ?
  
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3. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! by Frederico+Camara · 2012-08-09 05:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But in DC it is illegal and near impossible to get one. And he did....
  No sir, we don't have assault rifles here, try the TV Department.
4. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! by kryliss · 2012-08-09 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Here is the Journalists' Guide to Assault Weapons... Pretty informative. (SFW)
  http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7gxz7lCn41qm1o5to1_500.jpg
  
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Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-09 03:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Instead of TV package contained high-powered assault rifle.
Would not buy again.
No Maam by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2012-08-09 03:28 · Score: 4, Funny

It's just a misunderstanding, officer. I ordered an issue of Big'uns!

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His bumper sticker by freeze128 · 2012-08-09 03:30 · Score: 4, Funny

"Yesterday, I got a gun for my wife." "Pretty good trade, don't you think?"
Interesting by TonyAldo · 2012-08-09 03:31 · Score: 4, Funny

I want to know what kind of retailer carries HDTVs and assault rifles? Maybe Best Buy should adopt this idea, TVs, guns and chicken!

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1. Re:Interesting by rwise2112 · 2012-08-09 03:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He should have read the fine print - "product may not appear exactly as shown"
  
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Sweet! by Quiet_Desperation · 2012-08-09 03:32 · Score: 5, Funny

Somewhere, deep in the desert, a hidden meth lab got a nice new TV.
Re:So... by Quiet_Desperation · 2012-08-09 03:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Dear Secret Service, I do not know the above poster. We just hang out here.
Re:Pregnant? by loufoque · 2012-08-09 03:35 · Score: 5, Funny

A pregnant woman is less likely to have fun with an assault rifle
Re:Pregnant? by Samantha+Wright · 2012-08-09 03:40 · Score: 4, Funny

The mere mention of violence is obviously a threat to the frail constitutions of women, much less those with child. Didn't you learn anything in finishing school? Why, I think I might faint just from reading the summary!

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Re:So... by JustOK · 2012-08-09 03:47 · Score: 4, Funny

Just one vote.

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Wat by Snodgrass · 2012-08-09 03:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Is that article originally from the Onion?
Geez, they're just lucky that they're still alive. That very big gun, capable of mowing down, well...just about anything, could have leapt out that box and killed her unborn child!
I mean, unloaded guns, still in packaging, have killed untold numbers of unsuspecting hipsters.
Re:Pregnant? by jbeaupre · 2012-08-09 03:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Frail? Hell! I was scared shitless every time my pregnant wife picked up scissors. Anything sharper than a butter knife was an excuse to go to the store.
An assault rifle in the house would have meant waking up to a loud bang in the middle of the night and bloody "can I sleep on your face" cat entrails blasted across the room. If I was lucky.

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He didn't pass the background check by cvtan · 2012-08-09 04:44 · Score: 4, Funny

for a TV, so they sent him a rifle.

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