Friday, April 23, 2010

A bullet that reached its destiny years later

A bullet that reached its destiny years later
Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged fate. In 1883, he broke off a
relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide.
The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down Ziegland and
shot him. The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned
his gun on himself and took his own life. But Ziegland had not been
killed. The bullet, in fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in a
tree. Ziegland surely thought himself a lucky man. Some years later,
however, Ziegland decided to cut down the large tree, which still had
the bullet in it. The task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow
it up with a few sticks of dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet
into Ziegland's head, killing him. (Source: Ripley's Believe It or Not!

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