He thought a book would stop a bullet and make him a YouTube star. Now he's dead.

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 29, 2017 | by Katie Mettler

[TexasGator]

“Where did he the money to buy a Desert Eagle and the ammo?”

Youtube videos?

[Texan5]

Good one-the plays on words here are keeping me chuckling...

[DannyTN]

They closed the book on his youtube career.

[ColdOne]

I didn’t know they paid money.

[dainbramaged]

I think she should face murder charges
So do I - she aimed a firearm at her boyfriend's chest and pulled the trigger. If that's not premeditated, what the heck is? Likely will be plead down to manslaughter, but she needs to go away for a while.

[DesertRhino]

Well, he’s -kind of- a youtube star. Dreams do come true!

[skinndogNN]

I have not seen it, but heard people talking about it on the radio.

Supposedly, there were other people standing around and they knew this was happening.

So it wasn’t just two stupid people, but multiple stupid people who did not speak up about how stupid this was.

By the way, doesn’t this go back to “jackass” days? The content people watch does have an effect on society.

[Texan5]

Oops-post #40 was for lacrew...

[lurk]

If you’re a shooter of guns, chances are you’ve tried putting up stuff to check penetration. Books are the target of choice.

And if you’ve done this, you’ve discovered that a book will stop a .22 LR with about 150 pages. As soon as you get into centerfire rounds, they pass through almost any book.

This is such a regrettable, avoidable incident.

[lee martell]

“Hold ma beer!”

[chajin]

And, in the end, idiots can’t be protected from themselves anyway. Idiots are going to idiot.

One of my son's favorite aphorism is that when something is made idiot-proof, nature provides a better idiot.

This is sad, but idiocy cannot be effectively eradicated, only warned against.

[Texan5]

“And watch this”...

[rhoda_penmark]

ha, I see what you did there. :-)

Mira esta!

[heights]

Note to self: Buy a real bullet proof vest, put the encyclopedias back in the bookshelf.

[barefoot_hiker]

Neo he ain’t.

[caww]

And she's is pregnant no less!......Perez shot her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III in the chest from about 'a foot away' with a .50 caliber Desert Eagle pistol while they recorded the stunt with two cameras....Their 3-year-old daughter was also in the room watching

[piasa]

She’s qualified to replace Nancy Pelosi and is responsible for killing fewer people.

[COBOL2Java]

Where did he the money to buy a Desert Eagle and the ammo?

PayDay loan?

Uh oh...

[WKUHilltopper]

I blame Hollywood...selling BS movies to idiots. They have movies with cars being riddled and they have bullets merely and harmlessly spark off cars like they’re sparklers. So surely a book can stop a bullet.

Perhaps a class action suit against studios are in order?

[C210N]

And if you’ve done this, you’ve discovered that a book will stop a .22 LR with about 150 pages.

If the pages are light enough, you could have a lot of them, and bullet would not get thru them. F'rinstance, using Hard Choices, and you could shoot a BB gun thru a million pages.