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Teen charged with killing her boyfriend during a failed YouTube stunt
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HellforLeather
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this tweet is a little too convenient for this conspiracy theorist
If she did intend to murder him...how did she get so lucky that she was with the dumbest mother fucker on the face of the planet?
veryslowhand
Banned
At that distance would even a BP vest saved his life?
Randolph Freelander
Member
(He was increasing the orders of magnitude for literary effect.)
VeryGooster
Banned
A Desert Eagle?? Christ.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Doubt it highly
It didn't even work for Teddy. The bullet went through a triple folded speech and a steel glasses case and it still cracked a rib.
Inferno313
Banned
I fucking hate guns, and even I know that a Desert Eagle is some hardcore shit, what the fuck?!?
A Desert Eagle is like one of the shittiest handguns in the world for anything other than collectors or showing off. It's huge, unwieldy, and when chambered with a .50 kicks like a mofo. You shouldn't be fucking around with one to be begin with unless you're experienced with firearms.
This is sad, especially since it was 100% avoidable.
This is sad, especially since it was 100% avoidable.
A standard one? Nah you'd still probably be screwed.
You out chea taking .50 calibers to the chest for 150 subs?
This, lmao.
Everyone keeps claiming that a foot away is crazy, but the difference is negligible, even up to a couple of hundred yards. There's going to be very little difference in impact at a foot or 30. Shooting at a close range was the only smart thing they did, since it meant a much less likey chance to miss.
I mean... I dont have any problem with the idea of a video where someone stops a .50 bullet with a book, that could bring viewers. But you dont use a fucking real pistol and bullet on a fucking real book. Thats what special effects and video editing is for.
Even if the book could stop the bullet, What if you miss the book?
Even if the book could stop the bullet, What if you miss the book?
Turin Turambar
Member
Maybe one with hidden steel plates...
And you know, they could have tested their theory with a phone book before. Sigh.
Mammoth Jones
Member
People dying for youtube likes...
Rule #1 don't use real firearms for "youtube pranks bro".
Rule #1 don't use real firearms for "youtube pranks bro".
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Deleted member 1235
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should have used a bible I'm quite sure that would have worked.
perfectchaos007
Member
And considering he's 22, they must have been trying to build their channel with limited success for a while. If this stunt was successful and he didn't get hurt I can't help but wonder how much their channel would have grown. 300 subscribers? 400 subscribers?
Worked well enough to not kill him but still doesn't excuse this dumbass stunt.
This gif never gets old
Here's a video where it goes through one side of a fridge, through two watermelons, through the other side of the fridge, then explodes a watermelon on the other side.
https://youtu.be/hNyujokAzwc
TetraGenesis
Member
As has been said earlier in the thread, it's not eligible for a Darwin Award because neither of them are removed from the gene pool. She's already pregnant with his child.
Absolutely not
Do you really think there's a vest that could stop a DE from one foot away?
Blunt force trauma alone would have caused huge internal bleeding and I don't believe there's a vest on the planet that would even stop the bullet.
You with think that if you do something this dangerous, the absolute FUCKING MINIMUM you could do is take 5 seconds to youtube this shit and then you would realize: yeah, this is a dumb fucking idea. They didn't even do that????
That book is delicious.
I always feel bad for people so stupid they get seriously hurt. No one chooses to be unintelligent, and there's definitely a genetic component to it. I'm not sure why so many are willing to suspend their empathy for a person if they fall below some standard of intelligence.
Imagine what that poor girl felt like when her boyfriend's chest assumedly exploded in front of her, totally (to her) unexpectedly. It's as tragic as it is stupid, that's all I'm saying. Not to mention the poor kid left without a father who has to learn one day that their mom killed their dad in a moment of spectacular idiocy.
I find Darwin award talk really distasteful, personally. I mean, I know we don't know these people and people die every day, so go ahead if that floats your boat, I just don't like it, personally.
Imagine what that poor girl felt like when her boyfriend's chest assumedly exploded in front of her, totally (to her) unexpectedly. It's as tragic as it is stupid, that's all I'm saying. Not to mention the poor kid left without a father who has to learn one day that their mom killed their dad in a moment of spectacular idiocy.
I find Darwin award talk really distasteful, personally. I mean, I know we don't know these people and people die every day, so go ahead if that floats your boat, I just don't like it, personally.
Widdle Puppy
Banned
thanks, very next video is actually a guy shooting one into a stack of phone books and it took 11 phone books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmj6tAdjMPE
so.... these kids were incredibly stupid.
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ah yeah same video listed above by another poster. You truly can find anything on the internet.
Depending on the type yeah you'd still be fucked up from like broken ribs at the very least. But then again that's why they don't make body armor out of books.
This dude is shooting a gold-plated Desert Eagle .50cal through a stack of phonebooks and still only manages to scrounge together 32 views out of the deal.
Youtubing is a cold business, yo.
NarrowPath
Member
A fridge won't stop standard pressure .45 and 9mm full metal jacket rounds either (except if they hit the divider between the fridge and freezer, I shot up an old one and I found some of my rounds in that area)
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I feel like the guy must have watched one of those fake youtube videos where people stop bullets with ordinary objects so he decided to try it himself. Yeesh.
TetraGenesis
Member
I think a lack of intelligence leading to death is always sad but becomes less tragic if that ignorance leads to one being more reckless rather than more careful.
Geno Breaker
Banned
Dude Darwinism haha amiritie or amirite
don't need an /s do I
GuitarAtomik
Member
Just......dumb. Also is it really a "prank" if everyone involved is in on what's happening?
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