I once saw a guy wearing a helmet get shot. The bullet embedded into the helmet with the point touching his skin but not harm to him.
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Thinking on it, must have been an experience - knowing something worked just enough to remind one of how much it protected them.
I am not knowledgeable about the ballistic resistance of a helmet, but to me that seems like a quality helmet to be able to stop a bullet in its tracks - especially if it was a caliber higher than a pistol, I make the assumption.
They have been known to stop rifle bullets, but aren't rated to do it. Essentially, they can, sometimes, but the manufacturer doesn't promise it.
There are a lot of variables. He told me he could feel the tip poking at his forehead with his steps as he walked back.
Thank you for the clarity
And that must have been an experience to say the least, feeling the "edge of death" with every foot step
Why was it a pointed bullet?
I'm not sure I understand the question.
The vast majority of pistol rounds are not pointy, and quite a few rifle rounds are not either.
Shot myself with a BB gun when I was a kid. Not intentionally. I shot at a tire filled with concrete because I was being an idiot and it didn't occur to me that the BB would ricochet off the tire. I would have shot myself in the face if not for my left middle finger being in exactly the right spot. I still have the scar as a reminder.
Remember kids, BB guns are firearms and firearms deserve respect.
That's a coincidence. I remember getting shot right in the middle of my forehead with a pellet gun. My friends and I were playing at their house and were shooting pellet guns. I was leaning over a railing in the side of their house looking down to where my friend was shooting at. To this day I don't know how it happened, but I remember the pellet ricocheting straight up to where I was leaning over and hit me directly in the middle of my forehead. But, I don't remember feeling any pain or having a mark. I remember looking up at friends in surprise and that's it. If I had moved my head just a tiny bit further up or to the side, I probably would've lost one of my eyes. That's just one of the many times where I would've gotten a serious injury when I was a kid but somehow, I never did.
That was lucky that you didn't react yeah
Reminds me of when I was in high school playing rugby and I ended up in a position where I was on the ground. As I want to get up, I barely see someone running full speed backwards towards me and in the time I saw them and turned my head to brace I got blunt metal togs slamming against my head.
The outer most tog ended up hitting me just on above my eye on the bone along my eye brow with the other togs going up towards my hair line.
In my case, reacting saved my eye ball
That's some luck you got there.
Fell while skiing and slid down the track head first. I eventually came to a stop and when I lifted my head my face was around 5 cm away from a giant boulder.
Wear helmets guys
That is scary to think of having no control for who knows how long and when coming to a stop and realise that you missed the worst part of it at the end.
When I was young, a massive old upright board tipped over in an old building and actually came down, rusty nail first, on my head. It hit a low horizontal beam I was standing next to and was stopped/deflected just enough that the nail only poked a small scratch in my scalp.
Kind of hard to describe, but I imagine I would not have survived that even without the nail. Still, the nail was just kind of icing on the already massively incredible event chain cake.
That is like the opposite of something out of Final Destination
Yeah I watched Donald Trump get elected president and saw the aftermath and just kinda realized that the majority of humans on this planet are completely and utterly stupid.
Better not be a majority!
Nah I'm fully convinced only ~15% of humanity has any actual intelligence and the other ~85% are mindless animals acting on pure instinct that are only alive because that ~15% is desperately trying to keep them alive due to empathy.
That's my career in a nutshell. Most people remember how everything went to shit in both 2008 and 2020. Both of those years, economic turmoil coincidentally gave me huge career boosts.
"Yeah, we're downsizing. But you can have this position instead..."
Just recently I was working with an angle grinder in a small tile. I held the tile with my hand in the path of the grinder.
It jumped forward and just took a sliver of skin off, if it was 2 cm to the right it would've seriously cut my thumb joint.
It took long to heal too, it still shows. My stupidity gets reminded to me daily
Reminds me of what a friend told with his grandfather when he was cutting wood for a carpentry project with a handheld wood saw, it slipped out of his hand and, I guess on instinct, tried to grabbed before it fell, if I recall he got some nasty lacerations from catching it on the blade before switching it off.
So I can only imagine what it might feel working with something that cuts before you can even register the damage. That was a close call, especially with the momentum of your movement could have done some irreparable damage to your hand.
Yeah I know right. Really makes you instantly aware about how close you got.
More comedic than dramatic, and more "highly unlikely" than "dumb luck", but this one time I fell while skiing. It happens, I was a reckless kid as many are.
But this? This was on a flat, broad, almost level stretch connecting two pistes, and me and my dad were basically just cruising along. I don't know what, but something happened and I face planted, stopping instantly.
One ski out to the side, the other... vertical? Stuck into the piste at a right angle, all the way from the tip to the binding... without becoming detached from my boot. The mechanism worked fine, mind you, it just hadn't disengaged. There was no gash in the snow, no entry mark, just hard packed piste with half a ski sticking out of it like so much sword in a stone.
Reading that, seems you were fortunately not traveling too fast, as I can imagine traveling along, the sudden stop, falling over face first into the packed snow and just sort of enacting an image of your one foot being propped like a hand trying to pull excalibur from the snow.