no offense, but chechens are a wee crazy.

I'm glad I've already been drinking an hour whilst wearing my ushanka.

@3 doesn't that mostly conform with that brendan is saying?

Graham Greene? Really? I just read The Comedians and his style is so staid it's hard to believe he'd do something that crazy.

Here's the video of the guy shooting himself:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/25…

One interesting point - this gun IS NOT A REVOLVER! What you see here is manslaughter or murder. There was not a one-in-six chance of the gun firing, but a one-in-one.

It is a semi-automatic handgun. The first guy pulls the trigger with the pistol pointing at his head. You can hear the hammer drop on what was an empty chamber.

The first guy then PULLS BACK THE SLIDE. This is functionally much, much different than spinning the revolving chambers of a, well, revolver.

When you pull back the slide on a semi-automatic handgun, a spring in the clip pushes the next round into the chamber.

What makes a semi-automatic handgun "semi" - is that usually the slide is pushed back by a portion of the force of the cartridge firing. To fire the first bullet - you have to manually load the first cartridge. You do this by manually pulling back the slide.

Exactly as the first guy did in this video.

So here's what happened. A guy brings a loaded semi-automatic handgun into a wedding. He pulls back the hammer - not the slide - then points it at his own head and pulls the trigger.

He then pulls back the slide, loading a bullet into the firing chamber, and hands it to guy number two.

Who then shoots himself in the head.

HuffPo article said it was a rubber bullet, at least. Hopefully that guy will pull through.
But like John Galt @6 said, semi-automatics are no good for Russian Roulette. There's at least one Darwin Award from a guy who took the magazine out of a semi-automatic handgun AFTER HE HAD ALREADY CHAMBERED A BULLET and blew his brains out trying to play the game.

I'll stick to Apples To Apples, thanks.

Glad I'm female.

The late great R&B singer Johnny Ace also died playing Russian Roulette, if I'm not mistaken.

Probably not technically Russian Roulette, but Chicago's Terry Kath shot himself in the head, just after saying "Don't worry. It's not loaded."