six .32-caliber bullets in the head

[chracatoa]

Woman shot six times in head lives
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/11/shot.in.head.ap/index.html

I wonder if the bullets were somehow deteriorated or corroded somehow.

 

[Huntster]

Woman shot six times in head lives
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/11/shot.in.head.ap/index.html

I wonder if the bullets were somehow deteriorated or corroded somehow.

.32 handgun rounds are notoriously weak. While six rounds at close range is a hell of a whupping, I'm not surprised none penetrated the skull.

Been there, done that (not six rounds, though!)

 

[Bikewer]

Our neighbor once presented me with an ancient, spur-trigger Smith & Wesson in .32 caliber, along with a box of cartridges he'd obtained from a local hardware store.
Wanted to know if it was safe to shoot.

I had a bullet trap in my garage, so I agreed to give 'er a try. The first shot went a mite high, hit a 2X4" stud on the back wall of the garage, and bounced off.
I advised him that I would not consider the weapon for home defense....

 

[fuelair]

Woman shot six times in head lives
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/11/shot.in.head.ap/index.html

I wonder if the bullets were somehow deteriorated or corroded somehow.

Depends on where in the head and load - and how much damage she does have. Back in the 60's in Nashville, the wife of a couple that spent a lot of time with the police and in the news shot her husband in the torso 5 times (full cylinder) with a .357 magnum at p.b. range. He lived and was fine.

I suspect that if I had been doing the shooting he would not have (it helps to be a bio. major.).

 

[toddjh]

Been there, done that (not six rounds, though!)

You've been shot in the head?

 

[Huntster]

Originally Posted by Huntster
Been there, done that (not six rounds, though!)

You've been shot in the head?

Yup.

Now, please spare me the jokes.............."No wonder"

 

[The Atheist]

Yup.

Now, please spare me the jokes.............."No wonder"

Oh, you just knew I was going to, didn't you?

 

[Kopji]

"I know this was a miracle," 21-year-old housewife Patricia Goncalves Pereira told Globo TV.

More evidence that God has a dark sense of humor.

God: WOW look at that head shot! She lives! Can I stop another? YES!!!

high fives.

Peter: Show off.

God: Wait, there's more!

....

A Miracle!

 

[Huntster]

Originally Posted by Huntster
Yup.

Now, please spare me the jokes.............."No wonder"

Oh, you just knew I was going to, didn't you?

I've been the subject of much joking here in Alaska among friends regarding the incident (all in fun, love, and good-natured).

I know what kind of "fun" I could endure here, among enemies.

Besides, I was like this long before that. Like Mrs. Huntster said, "nothing can penetrate that concrete skull."

 

[casebro]

I know a guy that got shot by a .32 in a hold up. Poor marksman, the bullet entered his pants leg, ran around the inside of his pants til it ran out of gas, and fell on the ground. One hole in the pants. Didn't even penterate both sides. But getting shot in the head must be like getting hit with a hammer- I'll pass.

 

[WildCat]

Ken Eto, shot point blank 3 times in the head and survived!

 

[chracatoa]

Not exactly related, but the Mythbusters had a show where they tested the myth of water being a protection for you from being shot by bullets. link. They tested a 9mm pistol , an M1 carbine, a Civil War rifle, a shotgun and a .50 cal rifle. Myth confirmed - you can protect yourself from a bullet by diving underwater.

 

[fuelair]

Some who speak against you are enemies by default but not all, some just disagree.

 

[luchog]

Some who speak against you are enemies by default but not all, some just disagree.

You're either for us, or against us!

 

[SteveGrenard]

Published April 22, 2006

Man survives shooting a dozen nails into head
BY SARAH SKIDMORE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PORTLAND — A 33-year-old Oregon man on methamphetamine and suffering from mental health problems fired 12 nails from a nail gun into his head and survived.

The man, who has not been identified by medical officials for privacy reasons, went to an Oregon hospital last year complaining of a headache.

Doctors were surprised when they took X-rays and found the nails — six clustered between his right eye and ear, two below his right ear and four on the left side of his head.

No one before is known to have survived having intentionally fired so many foreign objects into the head, according to the current issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery, where the case is detailed.

http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/NEWS06/60422035

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And here is an x-ray of an incident that happened when a construction worker fell off of a roof onto another worker holding a nail gun. Obviously, a number of nails were fired into this guys head.

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=topn&cat=-19

The second x-ray is an unidentified but similar case involving a nail gun.

 

[Ranb]

.....They tested a 9mm pistol , an M1 carbine, a Civil War rifle, a shotgun and a .50 cal rifle. Myth confirmed - you can protect yourself from a bullet by diving underwater.

I thought that show left a bit to be desired. They pulled a few fragments of copper jacket from the water and said the 50 caliber bullet fragmented. They should have looked for the 1.5" x .4" steel core that is contained in the jacket, surely it went deeper than they suspected. Impressive how much water slows down a bullet though.

Ranb

 

[Ranb]

.32 handgun rounds are notoriously weak. While six rounds at close range is a hell of a whupping, I'm not surprised none penetrated the skull......

The first time I left for a 6 month deployment, I disassembled my gun collection except for my wife's 380-auto Makarov. She was not able to pull back the slide until I cut the spring, and then it would only shoot reduced loads (think 90 grain at 650 fps) that would only piss off a would-be attacker. I told her if she ever had to shoot someone with it, empty the magazine into them and then run away as fast as she could.

Ranb

 

[SteveGrenard]

In films, a hero often evades bullets by jumping into a river or lake. How far below the surface do they need to dive?

Any object moving through a medium experiences a drag force tending to slow it down. For a denser medium like water, the drag force is much larger than it is in air. Water is 700 times denser than air. The drag force on the bullet scales as the square of the velocity and is also proportional to the surface area of the moving body.

Knowing this, one can set up an equation of motion for the bullet, which gives the distance over which its velocity is considerably reduced. The formula involves the velocity, mass and size of bullet, the density of water, and the drag coefficient.

For a typical bullet with a velocity of 300 metres per second, the depth over which it slows in water is barely a few metres. So a 3-metre dive below the surface is more than adequate.

http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg18925392.400

 

[Dustin Kesselberg]

She must drink a lot of milk.

 

[skeptifem]

I thought that show left a bit to be desired. They pulled a few fragments of copper jacket from the water and said the 50 caliber bullet fragmented. They should have looked for the 1.5" x .4" steel core that is contained in the jacket, surely it went deeper than they suspected. Impressive how much water slows down a bullet though.

Ranb

Im pretty sure that some test firing for forensics tests are done into water. I saw it on forensic files at least once, they shot it in a lab into a tank of water.