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 11-21-2008, 07:54 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 247 |  Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet
COVINGTON, La. A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
The 68-year-old man was bruised. He said doctors told him two things prevented worse injury, maybe even death: the phone, and the fact that the bullet came in at an angle rather than head-on.
Reports of pocket Bibles saving their owners' lives pop up every so often. Richard says he's sure that God told him to put the phone in his overalls chest pocket rather than a pants pocket as usual. He said that Saturday's incident increased his faith.
He figured the bullet was fired by a hunter in woods near his 5-acre property.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_...GKq.9Nd71Ks0NUE
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| 11-21-2008, 10:04 AM | #2 | Supporting Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,749 |
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Originally Posted by sculker
COVINGTON, La. A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
The 68-year-old man was bruised. He said doctors told him two things prevented worse injury, maybe even death: the phone, and the fact that the bullet came in at an angle rather than head-on.
Reports of pocket Bibles saving their owners' lives pop up every so often. Richard says he's sure that God told him to put the phone in his overalls chest pocket rather than a pants pocket as usual. He said that Saturday's incident increased his faith.
He figured the bullet was fired by a hunter in woods near his 5-acre property.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_...GKq.9Nd71Ks0NUE
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| 11-21-2008, 11:27 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 327 |
Who hunts with a .45 __________________
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| 11-21-2008, 03:30 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 158 |
The myth busters did this(Yes, it's intersting) , testing if a bullet can kill you through Ipods, phones, books, pizzas and tiles. Which they can.
Was it one of those really old cells that are like 5x larger than the current ones? __________________ Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.
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| 11-21-2008, 08:49 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 439 |
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| 11-21-2008, 08:57 PM | #6 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
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Originally Posted by Chester
Who hunts with a .45
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Kind of what I was thinking. 
If it came in, at an angle as suggested, it would have to be an errand round from somewhere.
A quick check of crime stats for the area show that it's been on the decline the past 5 years with 1 muder and 4 reported rapes in 2006. Sounds like a pretty nice place to live actually....
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Probably going to be a mystery unless someone comes forward like in the Texas .50 Cal deal.... __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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| 11-22-2008, 03:58 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 959 |
could be a 45 lc __________________
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| 11-22-2008, 09:14 AM | #8 | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 20 |
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Originally Posted by MichaelG
The myth busters did this(Yes, it's intersting) , testing if a bullet can kill you through Ipods, phones, books, pizzas and tiles. Which they can.
Was it one of those really old cells that are like 5x larger than the current ones?
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They tested head on shots into things, this was not head on and was a ricochet shot with probably less then half of the original FPS. (45's are slow anyway.) | |
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| 11-22-2008, 10:15 AM | #9 | Supporting Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,749 |
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Originally Posted by Dillinger
Kind of what I was thinking.
If it came in, at an angle as suggested, it would have to be an errand round from somewhere.
A quick check of crime stats for the area show that it's been on the decline the past 5 years with 1 muder and 4 reported rapes in 2006. Sounds like a pretty nice place to live actually....
Crime Comparison
Probably going to be a mystery unless someone comes forward like in the Texas .50 Cal deal.... |
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| 11-24-2008, 03:42 AM | #10 | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 20 |
I can vouch for 3 of the 4 rapes.. oops!
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