my grandad went for a walk to get a pack of cigarettes when my mum was 8
no one ever saw him again.

/true fact
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:28, archived)

he plucked everyones eyes out

( Tyronne Get To Falkirk, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:29, archived)

My great uncle went into the kitchen and asked my grandad to go and have a sit in the living room.
He took my great grandad's gun and shot himself in the mouth.

He suffered massively from shellshock after WW1

/Also true fact
( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:32, archived)

poor fellow
trauma was not understood in those days
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 26 Dec 2007, 20:37, archived)