I'm going to have to suggest this one as a Darwin Award nominee.

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I'm going to have to suggest this one as a Darwin Award nominee. Who in their right mind believes a single book - even a hardback - was going to stop a Desert Eagle? For those who are not initiated, the Desert Eagle is a .50 caliber (that's a half inch, people) pistol. It shoots a bullet that is a half inch in diameter.

Desert Eagle .50 caliber: https://youtu.be/tpprvlOL1N8?t=1m20s

Originally shared by Washington Post

He thought a book would stop a bullet. Now his girlfriend is going to jail for killing him.
http://wapo.st/2BEcBRP

Comments

Bob Lai said…
She's not without a measure of culpability, unfortunately.

Guns are not toys. They are weapons. The Desert Eagle is designed to be particularly nasty, and thinking a book is going to stop a bullet fired at point-blank range is plain stupid, 'persuaded' or not.
December 20, 2017 at 10:46 PM
Todd Green said…
IT seems odd that one would not test the theory first. Easy enough to do.
December 21, 2017 at 3:35 AM
Marty Livingston said…
Too bad it was light reading
December 21, 2017 at 7:26 AM
Sam Moore said…
I'm confident many religious and spiritual people would also win this award.
December 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM
Bob Lai said…
Todd Green Given the lack of reasoning, I would not be surprised if the 'test' was at a greater range - the fatal shot was fired at point-blank. Also, there was probably no accounting for fluid shock (i.e., even if the book had stopped the bullet, the shockwave would have caused significant damage).
December 21, 2017 at 12:27 PM
Jose Francisco said…
This level of stupidity is beyond understanding. Lack of common sense for the sake of likes doesn't excuse the action. She needs to fry and hopefully the next idiot thinks twice about such a stunt for the sake of followers. An example should be made.


December 22, 2017 at 1:21 AM
Todd Green said…
Jose, do you truly believe that killing this woman would help prevent this from happening again? Surely the existing publicity is sufficient. I can't see how killing another person would help at all. You may think that she "deserves" it, but that is a constructed concept. No one actually deserves anything, good or bad. We can only try to shape a society in a positive direction where we can. You can't force people to be smarter, but you can try to educate. An approach of nurturing the positive tends to have better results than punishing the negative.
December 22, 2017 at 2:55 AM
Dick Morgan said…
Lets blame public education and general brilliance associated with it.
December 22, 2017 at 7:08 PM
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