Bullet-Proof Xbox Wows Police 132
DocUi writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting about how a man, upset with his roommates playing videogames late at night, decided to take it out on their Xbox using a gun. He stormed into their living room and fired a round into the offending game console. However, 'The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system and did not injure anyone at the scene, police said', although it 'disabled' the machine."
Like a heat sink, only for bullets (Score:5, Insightful)
But I'm no physicist.
Re:Like a heat sink, only for bullets (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Like a heat sink, only for bullets (Score:3, Funny)
no shit.
I can't wait until the comments start rolling in.. (Score:3, Funny)
"Microsoft just built a bullet proof game machine so nobody'll be able to throw it away."
Re:I can't wait until the comments start rolling i (Score:2)
Of course, if you waited until the comments rolled in, and told people you predicted it all along, then no one would take you seriously. Catch 22, I suppose.
Re:I can't wait until the comments start rolling i (Score:5, Funny)
There. Will that do?
Re:I can't wait until the comments start rolling i (Score:3, Funny)
--A
"This is a 12-gauge, double-barrelled Remington. Come get some."
Re:I can't wait until the comments start rolling i (Score:1)
.50 Cal (Score:1)
If a 9mm is all you got at least use partially jacket hollow points
Better yet, booby-trap the CD drive with C4 to get the roommate when he puts the game in.
I deny responsibility if anybody tries this.
Re:I can't wait until the comments start rolling i (Score:4, Funny)
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Nutjob (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Nutjob (Score:4, Interesting)
And when you're angry, you fantasize about fun things like "what i would do if i had a fragmentation grenade... or a 9mm handgun."
But acting on it is rather a different matter.
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
Re:Nutjob (Score:2, Interesting)
I feel I am completely "Normal" and "Balanced". It's just that very few people agree with me at first glance.
I do fantasize about various weapons of destruction and brutal acts of violence when I'm angry.
That's usually around the time I start into the heavy bag for 20-30 minutes...
Re:Nutjob (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nutjob (Score:2)
Until you've been used for someone else's amusement and can't do a thing about it, you won't know anger. I sure wish I had a rocket launcher handy then, though it was probably better that I didn't.
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
One time a few years ago, a buddy and I were walking down the street in front of my house, and a truck drove past. In the bed were a group of hispanics (Not racist, just being detailed.) and one of them hurled a beer bottle at me. The bottle whizzed about an inch in front of my nose and shattered near my friend's feet.
After that, I started carrying a .357 magnum revolver in the front of my pants while walking in front of my house. I never intended
Re:Nutjob (Score:2)
And now you carry a gun like you're some fucking cowboy. Well, you're all hat, and no horse.
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
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Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
If you shot it straight up, it would slow down by the normal rate of acceleration at 1 Gravity (muttersumthin/sec/sec) plus air resistance, and then fall back with the same acceleration until reaching terminal velocity, which is the speed at which air resistance creates an opposing force equal to the weight of the falling object. For a slug, that could be pretty fast, but with no direct relationship to the initial muzzle velocity.
Re:Nutjob (Score:2)
Guess again: Participant at KKK initiation wounded after shots are fired into sky [usatoday.com] Quoting the article: "A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom of his skull, authorities said."
Re:Nutjob (Score:2)
Re:Nutjob (Score:3, Insightful)
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It also gives a murderer time to stab you in the back.
http://www.libertyartworx.com/images/gun_l
There was an even better (less comic-like) one of a man in a skimask grabing a woman with a knife in his hand, but I can't seem to find it now.
weak fantasies (Score:2)
Real men use Desert Eagles!
Re:Nutjob (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nutjob (Score:5, Insightful)
You can't turn your ears off.
These people made my dorm years a living hell, and they couldn't care less.
I would never have brandished a gun, but I sure as hell did fantasize about it.
Re:Nutjob (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nutjob (Score:3, Informative)
My particular solution came after he had just spent the past four days staying home from work and playing games nearly 24 hours a day (He was proud to have played for
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
You should have mentioned it was 8-bit. That changes everything.
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Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
You really think people can choose not to fart? Then how come we do it? Fucking idiot. Go move to Afghanistan.
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
I did?
I think you misunderstood me.
Re:Nutjob (Score:1)
Yes but there is a big difference in telling your roommates to STFU (which he should have done), and shooting up their XBox.
Hell even unplugging the damn thing in the middle of their game would've gotten the point accross.
Oops... (Score:1)
Re: Your signature (Score:2)
Re: Your signature (Score:2)
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Re:Nutjob (Score:2)
Or worse, 'video game rage'. Followed by a 1 hour TV special, 'When Gamers Go Mad!'
Re:Nutjob (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Classic (Score:1)
Elvis would've been proud (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Elvis would've been proud (Score:1)
Maybe they should do hardware exclusively (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Maybe they should do hardware exclusively (Score:1)
They OEM their hardware right, someone else engineers them?
Re:Maybe they should do hardware exclusively (Score:1)
IBM PS/2 keyboards (Score:1)
P.S. I haven't actually shot my keyboards, though. The stupid laws of my country require too much effort for me to get hold of a handgun.
Re:IBM PS/2 keyboards (Score:1)
Re:Maybe they should do hardware exclusively (Score:1)
Wow. (Score:5, Funny)
You need to take a deep breath, go out, and get a bigger gun.
Re:Wow. (Score:1)
Batfink eat your heart out. (Score:3, Funny)
Bad XBox Slogans (Score:5, Funny)
1)X marks the Box
2)Sendin' shots out for all the true game playas
3)The wrong consol-igga to fuk wit
4)More durable than Kurt Cobain's dome
5)Doubled vested
kevlar injected
makin' ya
waste da
mags a bullets
forev-a
Re:Bad XBox Slogans (Score:2, Funny)
7) John Hinkley Jr.'s favorite Christmas present.
8) It takes a licking and keeps on clicking.
9) Vin Diesel is XXXBox
10) Ohio drivers prefer the XBox.
9mm = pussy pistol (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:9mm = pussy pistol (Score:5, Interesting)
All you need to stop it is to have it hit something hard that is x10 heavier.
A power supply would do the job quite well.
What you get then is a lot of shrapnel flying everywhere, but a thick layer of plastic will stop that.
(I am a physicist and I have done lots of tests involving 9mm bullets)
BTW a thick book will stop even an M-16 5.56 round.
Re:9mm = pussy pistol (Score:3, Funny)
Good to know the bible can actually save my life!
Re:9mm = pussy pistol (Score:2)
I always suspected that you physicists were plotting, up to no good.
A thick book? (Score:1)
Got to be a really fat book, I guess...
Maybe something with a pagecount like Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past".
Re:A thick book? (Score:2)
I've heard this said before. My understanding is that something along the lines of a typical 3-5 inch think telephone directory is deal for stopping a high-powered rifle round.
While we're on the subject, the caliber of the bullet has a lot less to do with what a bullet ends up doing than the exact brand and type of ammo involved, the gun it was fired from, the shooter's technique, and the point/angle of impact. e.g. A low-powered "target practice" plain lead
Re:A thick book? (Score:2)
But I guess a tree is less compact than stacked paper, so who knows?
Under any circumstances, I would recommend being very careful around firearms.
Re:9mm = pussy pistol (Score:1)
Re:9mm = pussy pistol (Score:3, Funny)
I'll have to remember that the next time I'm robbing a library.
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Re:9mm = pussy pistol (Score:2, Funny)
Freeman, weren't you supposed to be in the test chamber an hour ago?
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A
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Read the comments and take it all with a grain (no pun intended) of salt.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/23/175329/
Ammo for the special interests (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Ammo for the special interests (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I'm sure police stations all over the world will be equipped with a Xbox now...
Re:Ammo for the special interests (Score:1)
and replacing their kevlar vests with them...
???
Profit!
Re:Ammo for the special interests (Score:2)
This is less a comment on the original post and more about whoever modded it insightful instead of funny. This proves that hate and ignorance are alive and kicking on slashdot and that the games section has left too much power in the hands in the fanboy fringe. I say kill the games section or remove the moderation. The game
Only in America! (Score:4, Funny)
Well he was aiming at the GameCube... (Score:5, Funny)
BulletProof? (Score:4, Interesting)
Seems to me that bullet did something......
Yes, bulletproof. (Score:2, Insightful)
Now, that said, that doesn't mean that they couldn't turn it back on...
My thoughts? The damn thing is made of kevlar.
Re:BulletProof? (Score:1)
Re:BulletProof? (Score:1)
Dont know why they said it disabled the system but if you read the article it does not mention anything about it being disabled.
Obviously the Warthog .... (Score:3, Funny)
That would *really* piss me off. (Score:1)
What exactly did he hit then? (Score:1)
My question is if he didn't penetrate the case of the XBox, yet he still disabled it and is being charged with destruction of property, what did he hit?
Fancy shooting that took out the controller, or shot out the power cord. Maybe he aimed at the XBox and hit the TV. That would disable my a
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Security (Score:2)
Grabity (Score:3, Funny)
--Dan
Oh come on, 9mm doesn't go through much. (Score:2)
Last year, we decided to find out just how tough a Toughbook is. Turns out they'll stop small handgun rounds with no problem. A
The question is, did the hard drive in t
Aw come on... (Score:1)
Bullet physics (Score:2, Interesting)
I have a friend who is a cop told me that when a bullet strikes a wall, it rarely goes through the wall or ricochets (speilling?). When a bullet strikes a wall it normally hits the wall and then scoots across the wall in the direction that the bullet is spinning, so it is possible to be shot if you are standing along a wall that is struck with a bullet.
Im guessing a a similar thing happened in this instance.
knowing xbox users.. (Score:2)
Xbox = Bulletproof? (Score:1)
Better luck (Score:1)
Re:Better luck (Score:1)
Thank God for the NRA... (Score:1)
Re:Thank God for the NRA... (Score:2)
Or did you mean to _bear_ arms?
wahahaha!
I'm here every night folks. Be sure to tip your waitress.
Where did hr hit? (Score:1)
Re:If the FP is on a game story, does it count? (Score:1, Funny)
Remember when Al Bundy won a senior citizen's race? It's sorta like that. Hold your head high, brother!
I'm not (Score:1)