Darwin Award WInner - Tries to stop .50 cal with encyclopedia

[Ming the Merciless]

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota...ank/431313063/

Minnesota woman charged with fatally shooting boyfriend in failed YouTube video stunt


A 19-year-old woman shot at a book her boyfriend was holding against his chest, killing him at close range outside their northwestern Minnesota home in what was a video-recorded stunt gone awry, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Monalisa Perez was charged with second-degree manslaughter in Norman County District Court and remains in a regional jail in Crookston in connection with the shooting Monday night in Halstad of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III.
Perez, who is pregnant, appeared from the jail by video at a Norman County court proceeding Wednesday. She posted $7,000 cash bail and was released late Wednesday afternoon.
Ruiz held up the book — described by County Attorney James Brue as a hardcover encyclopedia — and Perez pulled the trigger on a .50-caliber Desert Eagle pistol, trying to see whether the bullet would go through, according to the criminal complaint.

[ptlyon]

Place the movie Fargo scene in here "He shot me in the ****ing face"

[Chief_For_Life58]

that handgun was developed by the Israeli army to shoot thru car engine blocks to disable engines of terrorists trying to drive their cars into Israel. Id imagine it can go thru a paper phone book lol

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

On a physics note, I'm curious about the ability to hold an encyclopedia that's being shot by a .50 caliber bullet. Even if the encyclopedia could stop the bullet, it seems like you'd come out of it with two fractured thumbs and a massive encyclopedia-shaped bruise on your chest. Could a person really hang onto a book in that situation?

I recognize that they probably weren't thinking that far ahead, so this question isn't about the people involved. It's a physics question.

If she was shooting the book from a foot away, I'm not sure there would be much left of it.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Cochise

If she was shooting the book from a foot away, I'm not sure there would be much left of it.

I kind of want to see the book now.

Does anyone around here own that gun? Would you please shoot an encyclopedia and post the picture? You don't have to hold the encyclopedia.

[Rasputin]

So much for voting for Pedro

[Reerun_KC]

I guess that theory that an encyclopedia can stop a bullet is full of holes.

[BWillie]

If only the book was a few pages thicker he woulda had it. Solid effort

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I kind of want to see the book now.

Does anyone around here own that gun? Would you please shoot an encyclopedia and post the picture? You don't have to hold the encyclopedia.

Of course we don't want any CPer to hold the book. They should obviously have their wife hold it.

[JohnnyV13]

The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but this incident proves that the bullet is better than a book.

[Skyy God]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Frazod tried that but used a refrigerator.

Lulz.

[Hammock Parties]

Why do people even use a .50 caliber handgun for anything? Including war? What is a .50 cal going to do that a .45 won't?

[ping2000]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Why do people even use a .50 caliber handgun for anything? Including war? What is a .50 cal going to do that a .45 won't?

Attacks on libraries.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Why do people even use a .50 caliber handgun for anything? Including war? What is a .50 cal going to do that a .45 won't?

Everything

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Everything

If you need .50 cal just bring a rifle.

Producing handguns that fire it just seems like marketing for men with small dicks.

[dj56dt58]

I came here expecting to see the youtube video