WATCH: (Scroll Down For Video) Gruesome video footage has surfaced showing the moment a Georgia daredevil lost his leg shooting a semiautomatic rifle at a lawn mower packed with several pounds of deadly explosives.<\/p>\n
David Pressley, 32, can be seen moving closer and closer to the explosive target as he peppers it with bullets. Moments later, the lawn mower suddenly explodes, unleashing a plume of smoke and shrapnel.<\/p>\n
Authorities said one piece of shrapnel struck Pressley, severing his leg from below the knee, according to ABC affiliate WSB-TV.<\/p>\n
The graphic video, recorded last week, captures blood splattering across the camera’s lens before Pressley yells, “I blew my leg off!”<\/p>\n
Another voice says, “Call an ambulance!”<\/p>\n
Pressley’s friends fashioned a tourniquet around his leg and drove him closer to the road, where he was picked up by authorities. He was eventually airlifted to a local hospital and was expected to recover, police said.<\/p>\n
Lydiah Mays, one of Pressley’s neighbors, told WSB-TV that she heard the gunshots but wasn’t concerned until she heard the explosion, which shook her nearby home.<\/p>\n
“I heard him scream, and so I came downstairs and we were all like looking out the front window,” Mays said. “You would’ve had to be on drugs or something to think it was a good idea to play with that and try to blow up a lawn mower.”<\/p>\n
Tannerite – a mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder that explodes when struck by a high-velocity bullet – is normally used for target practice. The product’s website instructs users not to place Tannerite inside, under or near any type of metal objects. For every pound of Tannerite, experts advise standing 100 yards away.
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