In 1982, a 27-year-old man lost a gunfight with a cactus

Back on February 4th, 1982, Arizona resident David Grundman took a shotgun to a twenty-seven-foot saguaro cactus out near Lake Pleasant. The cactus won: a twenty-three-foot section broke off and fell on him. Boing Boing revisits the story, though the feed doesn't detail what happened to Grundman's roommate, who was there with him that day.

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