YouTube Stunt: Block .50 bullet with book: Dead: STUPID: STUPID: STUPID (Read 3497 times)

punaperson

Another (almost sure) candidate for a Darwin Award. The only downside is that the still-living (shooter) girlfriend is pregnant with a human who will have likely inherited both their genes and thus another idiot will occupy the world. I guess I have a problem "accepting reality", but I never cease to be amazed at just how fucking stupid people are...  :crazy:

Charges filed after YouTube gun stunt gone wrong leaves boyfriend dead

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/28/charges-filed-after-youtube-gun-stunt-gone-wrong-leaves-boyfriend-dead.html

In what family members describe as a YouTube stunt gone wrong, a 22-year-old man from Halstad, Minnesota is dead and his pregnant girlfriend is in jail.

Around 6:30 p.m. Monday night, Norman County sheriff’s deputies responded to the 500 block of U.S. Highway 75 on a report of a shooting. Live-saving efforts were made and a medical helicopter was called, but 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz was pronounced dead at the scene.

Ruiz’s girlfriend, 19-year-old Monalisa Perez, was booked into jail for reckless discharge of a firearm.

Ruiz’s aunt told Valley News Live that the couple had been trying to get famous on YouTube, and their pranks were escalating.

"He had told me about an idea. I said, don't do it, don't do it,” Claudia Ruiz told Valley News Live. “Why are you going to use a gun? Why?”

Pedro Ruiz apparently gave Perez a 50 caliber handgun and instructed her to shoot a round into a book he was holding, thinking it would stop the bullet. The couple had apparently tested the stunt before attempting it on video.

RSN172

I would like to see a picture of the book he was holding and the book they used to test this stunt.
Happily living in Puna

oldfart

I would like to see a picture of the book he was holding and the book they used to test this stunt.
...
This?
What, Me Worry?

Inspector

I would like to see a picture of the book he was holding and the book they used to test this stunt.
This was the book...
SCIENCE THAT CAN’T BE QUESTIONED IS PROPAGANDA!!!

Flapp_Jackson

This was the second book.....

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

oldfart

Lotsa  room for dark humor here
What, Me Worry?

mangosteenqueen

Always research first. Demolition Ranch is a great source

eyeeatingfish

Maybe he was holding the billion page long affordable healthcare act thinking it would protect him.

zippz

He died doing what he loved to do.  I bet he'll get millions of youtube views if they post the video.