[Governor Dinwiddie]

In a similar vein, a couple years ago some yob gave handed a .357 to his girlfriend. He held a thick phone book to his chest, and asked her to shoot him. She declined, but he insisted that the phone book would stop the bullet. So she shot him. The bullet easily passed through the phone book, killing the yob instantly.

[Cecily]

I would have tested that phone book theory against a tree and not my chest.

[FoxInSocks]

I think it was an encyclopedia. And I heard she ended up getting six months in a plea agreement.