PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

A Florida man tried to shoot a squirrel for dinner by taping a 40-caliber bullet to the end of his BB gun—and wound up in the hospital with shrapnel wounds. Police said that when William Daniel Lloyd, 31, fired his hastily customized weapon, the BB round struck the larger bullet, just as he planned. But instead of sending the bullet speeding toward the rodent, the bullet’s cartridge exploded, embedding metal fragments in his legs and arms. The squirrel apparently got away unscathed.