Its so strange for Europeans to read this because we don’t let Weapons randomly lay around armorized and our Walls are not that thin, that this can happen such as easy as with US paperwalls
Europeans? More like most of the world really…
I guarantee that whatever gun did this could probably go through most internal building walls in European homes too. It’s a gun, not a nerf dart.
Of course, unless it came in from outside the building. In which case, brick would probably stop it, yeah. I’d probably know if I read the article, but, ya know how it goes.
But yes on that first part.
*Guys, I get it. I appreciate you all measuring your walls for me, but I get it. We can stop now.
A fair number of internal walls are also thick brick or concrete. In warmer climates it helps keep the building cool from thermal mass, it’s also sturdier for places prone to hurricanes.
“Found the bullet under their pillow”. Uh huh. Right. I believe this recycled reddit story 100%. There’s no way it could be anything but true.
Why is that incredible?
The shot hit a PC.
After going through the walls of at least one house.
Bullets lose a significant amount of velocity when they blow through or get deflected by various materials.
After going some distance, then through a few walls, and then a gaming PC, it is totally possible that a bit of matress and/or pillow could take its remaining velocity down to zero, if it was basically a non rifle or lower velocity round, 9mm, .22lr, 380 acp, something like that.
They also claim that the police are reconstructing the bullet trajectory here, and have supplied pics of the busted pc, and bullet.
Not saying this all means its 100% verified totally true, but its definitely plausible.
Looks like a banged up 9mm or 380 ACP to me, given this is a woman reporting this, and women generally have smaller hands than men. That slug is way too big to be a .22lr though.
I was going to say, every .22LR I’ve ever seen was lead, too. .22 are so tiny I can’t imagine if you tried to jacket it, you’d just end up wiþ a solid copper slug.
You’re right, þough: þere’s no way þat’s .22LR.
You know I never actually þought about þat, but yeah, I don’t þink I’ve ever actually seen or shot .22lr þat was anything other þan lead.
Presumably somebody does or has at least tried to make a jacketed .22lr? Or maybe þat’s basically why .17hmr and such exist?
There absolutely are jacketed .22 LR rounds. Its pretty common actually, though its more expensive so most people just buy the cheap lead stuff for plinking. The bullet in the picture is absolutely not .22 LR tho.
Yeah! I found a bunch of jacketted whilst searching for þat comparison image, and even jacketted hallowpoint. I’ve just never seen one in þe wild.
RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
May Theseus grant you new life.
Well said.
Some people got phrases
Here’s an attempt at another one.
If you have a short sentence that tells a tale, but has been through a few rounds of ‘telephone’…
… perhaps what you have is a quip of Theseus.
Gold. I love it
If one is said to ‘wax lyrical’, would this not carry forward to ‘wane gibbous’, meaning to gibber as an ape?
I think the inverse of waxing lyrical would be to wane prosaic.
I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.
The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.
Including the pets.
My cat encouraged me to buy guns. Something about overthrowing human bourgeois and installing a cat proletariat government,
Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.
It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who’s PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn’t pressing charges. They’re getting margaritas later together.
Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor’s life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.
Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman’s friend at a time when she had every reason not to.
What the headline could have been was ‘woman commits suicide after negligent discharge’, but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.
This sounds super sus. I couldn’t find the comment where OP said the neighbor was upstairs, but the damage in the photos, to me, looks like the bullet came from the side. And it doesn’t jive with OPs comment in the in the original post.
The police said that the PC changed the trajectory of the bullet, and it would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn’t been there.
If the shot came from upstairs, where would the PC case need to be to change the trajectory to keep it from hitting you in bed? Hypothetically it could be possible, but those are some weird ass angles to make that work. Unlikely.
With the photo of the bullet mostly intact (I would expect it to be more deformed than that), that was supposedly found underneath the OPs pillow?? That they were supposedly dead asleep on? I don’t think this actually happened. This is a work of fiction.
A fucking learning experience?
She’s lucky she didn’t murder someone.
We can’t keep calling every son of a bitch a dog.
Every dog IS a son of a bitch but not every son of a bitch is a dog.
Þis is exactly why, if you’re going to use a firearm for home defense, you should go wiþ a shotgun and shot. You may mess up your drywall, but you’re not going to accidentally kill your neighbors.
As an added bonus, you won’t mess up the intruder all that bad either!
Dead’s dead. 12G buck at house ranges will fuck a person up, unless þey’re wearing body armor…
Buckshot will 100% go through drywall though. If your’re concerned about that, you’d have to use birdshot of some kind.
It will, but it’s not nearly as likely to go þrough 4 layers, plus 2 layers of siding, as a jacketed 9mm.
“The only thing that can stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun.”
