Originally Posted by : Minnesota woman charged with fatally shooting boyfriend in failed YouTube video stunt
A 19-year-old woman shot at a book her boyfriend was holding against his chest, killing him at close range outside their northwestern Minnesota home in what was a video-recorded stunt gone awry, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Monalisa Perez was charged with second-degree manslaughter in Norman County District Court and remains in a regional jail in Crookston in connection with the shooting Monday night in Halstad of 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III.
Perez, who is pregnant, appeared from the jail by video at a Norman County court proceeding Wednesday. She posted $7,000 cash bail and was released late Wednesday afternoon.
Ruiz held up the book — described by County Attorney James Brue as a hardcover encyclopedia — and Perez pulled the trigger on a .50-caliber Desert Eagle pistol, trying to see whether the bullet would go through, according to the criminal complaint.
that handgun was developed by the Israeli army to shoot thru car engine blocks to disable engines of terrorists trying to drive their cars into Israel. Id imagine it can go thru a paper phone book lol [Reply]
Originally Posted by Rain Man:
On a physics note, I'm curious about the ability to hold an encyclopedia that's being shot by a .50 caliber bullet. Even if the encyclopedia could stop the bullet, it seems like you'd come out of it with two fractured thumbs and a massive encyclopedia-shaped bruise on your chest. Could a person really hang onto a book in that situation?
I recognize that they probably weren't thinking that far ahead, so this question isn't about the people involved. It's a physics question.
If she was shooting the book from a foot away, I'm not sure there would be much left of it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Why do people even use a .50 caliber handgun for anything? Including war? What is a .50 cal going to do that a .45 won't?
Originally Posted by Hammock Parties:
Why do people even use a .50 caliber handgun for anything? Including war? What is a .50 cal going to do that a .45 won't?