32 stupid people in one place!

frash

(only 31 still alive)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40438207

Monalisa Perez, 19, was booked into county jail after shooting at Pedro Ruiz as he held a book to his chest, believing it would stop the bullet.
The couple's three-year-old child and nearly 30 onlookers watched as she fired the fatal bullet into his chest.

mad muffin

A desert eagle at 30cm away… HAAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAHAAA HAAAAHAAAHAAAA HAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAHAHAHA HAAAAAA

Doctor Nick

Darwin award contender!

Kintarō Hattori

Not just any auld gun either but a 50 caliber Desert Eagle. Monumentally stupid.

pjohnson

I was gunna stay they should stop her breeding to dumb down the genepool but alas its too late.

Kivaro

All for one of these:

ohnonotgmail

a sensible person would have taken a shot at the book first while not holding it just to make sure.

evolving_doors

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

a sensible person would have taken a shot at the book first while not holding it just to make sure.

But then the bullet might go through the first dent.

Wanderer78

ohnonotgmail wrote:

a sensible person would have taken a shot at the book first while not holding it just to make sure.

That don't make sense at all, sure who d watch that!

Like a dog I missed the first episode, wonder what will happen the next one

Guy:Incognito

I see the issue here. They didn't use a Bible. God would have protected him.

lawred2

The couple had started a YouTube channel in March, aiming to show the "the real life of a young couple who happen to be teen parents".

swing and a miss

ohnonotgmail

Gebgbegb wrote: »

But then the bullet might go through the first dent.

Use 2 identical books.

Daledge

Ruiz's aunt said they did it to increase their social media following

Well they definitely succeeded there.

So who's the real winner huh??

razorblunt

They did it to get famous.

Well, they're infamous now, Darwin style.

razorblunt

It's the kid(s) I feel sorry for, have to grow up without a Dad now.

Relikk

NIMAN

These are the people who put Trump in power.

biko

So Pedro Ruiz voted for Trump?

Kivaro

NIMAN wrote: »

These are the people who put Trump in power.

Hilarious.
Your eagerness to involve Trump in this disaster kinda backfired (excuse the pun).
Ruiz, Perez; yep, that was the Trump demographic alright.

BrokenArrows

The utter stupidity of this is unimaginable.

What in the world made them think a book was going to stop a bullet never mind a bug ass bullet.

Its amazing how some people lack basic common sense.

Common Sense 1: Its not going to work, dont do it.
Common Sense 2: Dont use a very powerful gun. Use like a 22 or something.
Common Sense 3: Test that the book will stop the bullet before trying it for real.
Common Sense 4: Dont have your kids watching.
Common Sense 5: DONT ****ING DO IT YOU ABSOLUTE TWATS.

Ah well one less stupid person in the world.

lazybones32

Read this earlier but article made no mention of it being a D.E.

Ffs!

Cee-Jay-Cee

razorblunt wrote: »

It's the kid(s) I feel sorry for, have to grow up without a Dad now.

They're much better off, what sort of life would they have had with someone so utterly stupid as to stand in front of a high calibre gun with a book for protection. At least now they might have a chance at a normal life and not one where their idiotic parents try to make a living by doing dangerous stunts. It was probably only a matter of time before they involved their children in an attempt to be more outrageous for their equally idiotic and brain-dead followers.

riverrocked

I wonder if it was the bible.

ongarite

Idiots, video on Youtube shows that it will go through 10 phone books at distance of 3-4ft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmj6tAdjMPE

J Mysterio

The Desert Eagle is mightier than the book?

Guy:Incognito

razorblunt wrote: »

It's the kid(s) I feel sorry for, have to grow up without a Dad now.

Heheheheheh "extreme penetration "

Baron Kurtz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97DGOhiFq5Q

pickarooney

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Use 2 identical books.

I'd say the chances of there being two books of any description in that house are vanishingly slim.

ohnonotgmail

pickarooney wrote: »

I'd say the chances of there being two books of any description in that house are vanishingly slim.

you make a very fair point.

Birneybau

razorblunt wrote: »

It's the kid(s) I feel sorry for, have to grow up without a Dad now.

I can't imagine his influence to be worthwhile.

the_pen_turner

pickarooney wrote: »

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Use 2 identical books.

I'd say the chances of there being two books of any description in that house are vanishingly slim.

Most houses would t gave 2 identical books .

What a tool though. How could he not realise that a bullet will go through the book. There are videos online of people cutting down trees with 50 cal bullets

endacl

"Shoot me through a book for YouTube? Sure. Why not. Let's just try shooting through the book on its own first though? Just to see if I'll be safe?"

Junkyard Tom

A couple of dum dums.

Kivaro

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

A couple of dum dums.

Yikes .... She shot him twice?
And those bullets cause carnage as they expand upon body contact.

feargale

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Use 2 identical books.

Two encyclopedias in that house? Are you serious?

SAMTALK

One article I read said there were about 30 people watching this, so there were 30 other totally stupid people there as well.

Cannot believe that not 1 of them thought "wait, this is a stupid thing to do "

ScumLord

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

a sensible person would have taken a shot at the book first while not holding it just to make sure.

This is the unfortunate side effect of canceling mythbusters. I'm pretty sure they debunked the ol' books stop bullet myth multible times.

It's a bit crazy that two teenagers could own such a powerful handgun. There should at least be some sort of scaling like they have with the motorbike license, start out on something small then work your way up to the guns that could probably shoot through a concrete block.

When Americans are getting so much of their common knowledge from movies, this is the kind of silliness that happens.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Kivaro wrote: »

Hilarious.
Your eagerness to involve Trump in this disaster kinda backfired (excuse the pun).
Ruiz, Perez; yep, that was the Trump demographic alright.

What about 'Hispanics for Trump.'

He ended up receiving 30% of the Hispanic vote.

Latin American people who are living in the USA legally despise border hoppers. They followed the rules, did things correctly and became citizens.

It's kind of like how I despised the illegal Irish when I was over there. Chancers who give us all a bad name. You must have respect for a countries laws.

davo2001

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

a sensible person would have taken a shot at the book first while not holding it just to make sure.

No, a sensible person would not do this at all.

Wibbs

ScumLord wrote: »

It's a bit crazy that two teenagers could own such a powerful handgun.

Or could afford one. Desert Eagles aren't cheap pistols. Two grand new IIRC. Most pistols aren't cheap. Because in Ireland we don't live in nearly such a gun culture we often forget how expensive such a thing is.

Mind numbingly dumb all the same and he's reproduced. Neither parent seem to great on the oul brain power, which has a strong genetic component, so the kid's likely fooked.

ohnonotgmail

ScumLord wrote: »

This is the unfortunate side effect of canceling mythbusters. I'm pretty sure they debunked the ol' books stop bullet myth multible times.

It's a bit crazy that two teenagers could own such a powerful handgun. There should at least be some sort of scaling like they have with the motorbike license, start out on something small then work your way up to the guns that could probably shoot through a concrete block.

When Americans are getting so much of their common knowledge from movies, this is the kind of silliness that happens.

did they not do an episode where they showed that stuffing phone directories into car doors made the doors effectively bulletproof? or am i thinking of another show?

Stigura

This is why we have the one, fundamental, Golden Rule:

" Never Point A Gun At Any Living Thing Ye Don't Want To Make Dead. " :rolleyes:

BrokenArrows

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

did they not do an episode where they showed that stuffing phone directories into car doors made the doors effectively bulletproof? or am i thinking of another show?

They did that, but the bullets went right through.

ohnonotgmail

BrokenArrows wrote: »

They did that, but the bullets went right through.

I knew i wasnt totally misremembering

The Build Team filled several car doors with phone books and fired various firearms at it. The phonebooks were able to stop 9mm, .357 magnum, and .45 caliber rounds. However, the more powerful deer slug shotgun rounds and the M14 rifle were able to pierce the door and the phonebooks easily. Since the phonebooks could not stop all of the bullets, the myth was declared busted. However, the Build Team continued the experiment to see how many phone books behind the door would be needed to stop a deer slug and rifle round and found that only two phonebooks were needed.

i think thats a partial success.

ScumLord

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

did they not do an episode where they showed that stuffing phone directories into car doors made the doors effectively bulletproof? or am i thinking of another show?

I can't remember that one. I know they did one testing a number of things like hip flask, those mini bibles, zippo lighter and so on with a number of different calibers to see if having any of these things in your pocket would save you. I think some did sort of work on smaller rounds and there was an outside chance you could live if the bullet struck whatever it was. But the bigger rounds just obliterated everything.

The phone book in the door might work because the metal is helping out but maybe only on a smaller powered handgun, I don't think it would stop that desert eagle round, I certainly wouldn't count on it working. The fact the pistols are very inacurate would be more likely to save your life, just run away and after 15ft the odds of getting hit reduce dramatically.

There's absolutely no reason a normal person needs a gun like that, they're purely a show piece and have very little in the way of a practical application outside of the military and even then I'd say they're too powerful to be really effective. I saw a video of a guy firing a magnum?? (the dirty harry gun) and he was scared of firing it, he hated it because it had such a violent kickback. That makes the gun pretty useless for just about everything.

I get why Americans kind of need to allow normal people to buy guns. There's too many guns out in the wild to tell normal people they can't protect themselves from bad guys with guns. They also have a real hunting scene over there. But guns like this have no place in civilized society. They need to start making standardised guns for domestic self protection that aren't about looking cool and are just plain and practical.

ohnonotgmail

ScumLord wrote: »

I can't remember that one. I know they did one testing a number of things like hip flask, those mini bibles, zippo lighter and so on with a number of different calibers to see if having any of these things in your pocket would save you. I think some did sort of work on smaller rounds and there was an outside chance you could live if the bullet struck whatever it was. But the bigger rounds just obliterated everything.

The phone book in the door might work because the metal is helping out but maybe only on a smaller powered handgun, I don't think it would stop that desert eagle round, I certainly wouldn't count on it working. The fact the pistols are very inacurate would be more likely to save your life, just run away and after 15ft the odds of getting hit reduce dramatically.

There's absolutely no reason a normal person needs a gun like that, they're purely a show piece and have very little in the way of a practical application outside of the military and even then I'd say they're too powerful to be really effective. I saw a video of a guy firing a magnum?? (the dirty harry gun) and he was scared of firing it, he hated it because it had such a violent kickback. That makes the gun pretty useless for just about everything.

I get why Americans kind of need to allow normal people to buy guns. There's too many guns out in the wild to tell normal people they can't protect themselves from bad guys with guns. They also have a real hunting scene over there. But guns like this have no place in civilized society. They need to start making standardised guns for domestic self protection that aren't about looking cool and are just plain and practical.

they probably have even less utility for the military.

minikin

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

a sensible person would have taken a shot at the book first while not holding it just to make sure.

Don't be daft, a hole in a book offers even less resistance to a bullet
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ScumLord

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

they probably have even less utility for the military.

Yeah, I've never really seen or heard of military using a gun like this, they want something effective and easy to use, the DE is so hard to use effectively it's power is meaningless.

Kivaro

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

What about 'Hispanics for Trump.'

He ended up receiving 30% of the Hispanic vote.

Latin American people who are living in the USA legally despise border hoppers. They followed the rules, did things correctly and became citizens.

It's kind of like how I despised the illegal Irish when I was over there. Chancers who give us all a bad name. You must have respect for a countries laws.

Oh I know; and American Hispanics can be very conservative.
The poster who tried to use this incident to disparage Trump was not aware though that the majority of Hispanics voted for Hillary.

Murrisk

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97DGOhiFq5Q

Oh god, one of the most pathetic Sopranos characters, she was.

"I'll suck all your cocks!".

Shudder.

Yourself isit

I too am an expert on the desert thingmabob. I scorn the idea that a book could stop it.

Haha. Stupid.