Stupid people with stupid gun ideas...

[DEAGLER]

Don't BP vests cover most of your chest anyways? How does one "miss" and hit his chest?
Another link said he was mentally ill and that the bullet went through the vest. IDK what to believe.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/man-dies-bullet-misses-vest?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29



A South Carolina man was killed on Wednesday after he put on a bulletproof vest, asked his friend to shoot him, and the friend allegedly missed the vest, according to television station WYFF (http://www.wyff4.com/news/dispatch-one-person-dead-after-reported-shooting-stabbing/25968500).
Blake Wardell, 26, was with a few friends at a home in Anderson County, S.C. when they decided to try on the bulletproof vest and have someone shoot it, deputy coroner Don McCown told Fox affilliate WHNS (http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/25511657/coroner-responds-to-honea-path-shooting).

Wardell bled to death after the bullet missed the vest and wounded him in the chest. His friend, Taylor Ann Kelly, 18, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to police.
Kelly could face up to five years in prison.
Police have classified Wardell's death as a homicide and said drug and alcohol use were not involved in the incident. Police were still investigating the shooting.
Photo of Taylor Ann Kelly via the Anderson County, S.C. Sheriff's Office.

[Sharpienads]

One less problem in the world.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

Really drugs and alcohol weren't involved? Lame. Not so long ago we use to put on an old Bp vest and punch each other, knocking the breath out of your opponent means victory. Anyways I did some damage to my wrist and knuckles and that stopped. Haha. Btw it takes a lot of force to knock the wind out of someone when they're wearing one of those.

Yes alcohol was always involved.

[MrPrena]

One who volunteer to shoot the person w/ vest. - DUMB
One who wanted to get shot w/ballistic vest- DUMBER

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

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[HoneyBadger]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...

[Gman]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

ETA: I must have blinked before hitting Enter.

[KestrelBike]

I gotta imagine it was a lvl I/II vest, and they used a rifle or something which naturally punched right through.

[cofi]

True story my brother was up here visiting and was genuinely confused as to why I wouldn't shoot him while he was wearing my plates

[spqrzilla]

Some people buy old military surplus "flak jackets" and don't understand that they were not bullet proof at all.

[theGinsue]

The one thing was told in the ROK about flak vests is that they're intended to protect the guy BEHIND the guy actually wearing the vest - from shrapnel, not bullets. I still believe this concept.

You're a bored redmeck & want to see how effective a BP vest is? How about not risking anyones neck, hang it up at least 25 yeards away from something that isn't alive & then shoot it. Dumbass rednecks. Just one of the reasons I had to get out of Missouri - dumbass rednecks are more plentiful than ticks on a hound dog.

[WETWRKS]

The vest was 10 years old...my understanding is they have an expiration date and that they *can* fail if they are old. I don't remember what they are good for...something like 4 or 7 years...certainly it is less than 10.

[brutal]

I gotta imagine it was a lvl I/II vest, and they used a rifle or something which naturally punched right through.

Or it was I/II and he pulled out his Dirty Harry. :D

Dumb and Dumberer either way.

[Irving]

Remember the chuckleheads over in Golden (nephew and uncle) that would put on some type of vest and stab each other to show their friends? One day the vest didn't work and one of them died. I remember laughing about it at work and it turned out they were neighbors of a lady I worked with and she was all hurt about it. Haha.

[brutal]

The vest was 10 years old...my understanding is they have an expiration date and that they *can* fail if they are old. I don't remember what they are good for...something like 4 or 7 years...certainly it is less than 10.

I believe it's a general 8 years for Kevlar. However, that's very dependent upon UV and moisture exposure and use.

We've got the new rigid level IIIa stuff that has a thousand year half life. :D

[bryjcom]

Flak jackets don't stop bullets... End of story.

[WETWRKS]

I believe it's a general 8 years for Kevlar. However, that's very dependent upon UV and moisture exposure and use.

We've got the new rigid level IIIa stuff that has a thousand year half life. :D

I would bet that it was purchased as surplus at that.

[buffalobo]

Frikkin morons giving rednecks a bad name.

My redneck family has a saying.

"The price of your education is the cost of your mistakes"

And it is not always counted in money.

sent from my electronic ball and chain

[Dave]

Flak jackets don't stop bullets... End of story.
From what I was told in the Army, they aren't very good at stopping flak either.

[brutal]

From what I was told in the Army, they aren't very good at stopping flak either.

In the 80's, we always had to don our flak jackets for armed perimeter checks on the comm site and whenever an alert was called out for any RAF action, threat, or suspected activities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

It's more of a why bother jacket.

[275RLTW]

Vests, or plates, don't cover the entire chest cavity. They usually go as high as your jugular notch in the font, top of the shoulder blades in the rear, and halfway up your ribs on the sides. This is so you can still move in them. There are lots of places & angles where you could shoot someone with a vest and still impact the chest. Not to mention bullets don't always travel in straight lines once they impact a dense object like a bone.

[Ronin13]

Stupid is usually a self correcting problem if it is left well enough alone. These people obviously didn't know that bullet proof (not an accurate title) vests may stop the bullet, but a basic knowledge of physics will tell you that the kinetic energy and force behind that bullet still has to go somewhere and it's still going to hurt. I've seen enough Discovery channel to know that you can still die from getting shot, even if the vest does stop the bullet. Shoot, there was a trooper in TN who was killed years ago by being shot one time, in the vest, and it broke a rib that pierced his lung.

[rondog]

Natural selection at work.....

[Aloha_Shooter]

Every now and then the gene pool needs a little chlorine ...

[jerrymrc]

Flak jackets don't stop bullets... End of story.

Years ago a single mother solider moved in next door. Her son was 17-18 or so and started selling weed having cars drive up. One day he starts walking around with an old woodland flak jacket and I hear him bragging to his friends about this bad-ass bullet catcher.

I return to the house and come out and ask him if he wants to try it out. [AR15]He went back inside and never wore it again. [Beer]

[hatidua]

Another link said he was mentally ill.


Let's go with that one...

[Ah Pook]

Do flak jackets stop bullets?







[Sarcasm2]

[jerrymrc]

Do flak jackets stop bullets?

[Sarcasm2]

Only 357sig and 7.62X25. 45ACP zips right through. [beatdeadhorse]

[brutal]

Only 357sig and 7.62X25. 45ACP zips right through. [beatdeadhorse]

Ouch!

I'm mortally wounded. I should have worn the Level IV.

[USMC_5-Echo]

One simple phase sums it up "it's the south".

[ChunkyMonkey]

True story my brother was up here visiting and was genuinely confused as to why I wouldn't shoot him while he was wearing my plates

and you want me to sit down with him !?!?

[Gman]

Woman's Story in Fatal S.C. Shooting Was a Lie: Deputies (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/womans-story-fatal-s-c-shooting-was-lie-deputies-n107846)


A South Carolina woman lied to investigators about the death of a friend who she said asked her to shoot him to test his bulletproof vest, sheriff's deputies said Friday.

The woman, Taylor Ann Kelly, 18, of Anderson, in the northwest part of the state, was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter after she told Anderson County investigators that Blake Randall Wardell asked her to shoot him after he put on the vest early Wednesday.

Wardell, 25, of the rural town of Honea Path, was killed. Kelly originally told investigators that she missed the vest and struck Wardell in the chest, the sheriff's office said.

But Friday, deputies said that wasn't actually what happened. The coroner found that Wardell was shot in the heart with a small-caliber weapon, and a second man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Deputies said that new evidence pointed to Timothy Dwayne Fisher, 25, of Anderson and that Kelly subsequently admitted making up her story. Fisher, who was arrested late Thursday in the town of Belton, was being held in the Anderson County jail pending a bond hearing.

The sheriff's office wouldn't say why Kelly lied in her initial statement or give any other details about the shooting except to say in a statement that further arrests were possible.

The manslaughter charge against Kelly was dropped, and she was being held Friday on a charge of being an accessory after the fact to a felony.

[jerrymrc]

^^^^ Yep, the plot thickens. [cigar]

[BPTactical]

It's a Luv triangle Y'all.........

Hold muh beer, Y'alls watch this.....

[jerrymrc]

It's a Luv triangle Y'all.........

Hold muh beer, Y'alls watch this.....

If you really love me you would prove it by taking a bullet for me. [Beer]

[Ronin13]

If you really love me you would prove it by taking a bullet for me. [Beer]
Better a bullet than a grenade...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs
[Coffee]