Posted on 06/29/2017 10:40:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time convincing his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest.
There would be a thick encyclopedia book between the barrel and his body, authorities say he told 19-year-old Monalisa Perez. The pages, he reasoned, would stop the bullet.
He even had evidence that it had worked once before - a different book with an entrance hole but no exit.
So on Monday evening, the young couple positioned two cameras outside their home and prepared for their breakthrough stunt. They wanted fame, family said, and danger often brings it.
"Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever," Perez teased in a tweet at 5 p.m. "HIS idea not MINE."
With one camera attached to a ladder and the other propped on the back of a car, the couple staged their stunt, according to authorities. Ruiz held the book to his chest and Perez held the gun, a gold Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol considered "one of the most powerful semiautomatic handguns in the world."
From a foot away, court documents say, Perez fired.
This time, the bullet didn't stop in the book but instead pierced Ruiz in the chest. Medics tried to revive him, authorities said, but he was declared dead at the house.
Perez was arrested Monday on a charge of reckless discharge of a gun. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years behind bars.
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Can we at least watch the video?
‘A Star on Earth, Now A Star in [YouTube] Heaven’
(Says that on Karen Carpenter’s Headstone, without the YouTube...) ;)
No Darwin award, he has already replicated.
I am not sure they should charge her.
Sounds like stupid and stupid to me.
Why should stupid be living on the county dime?
The sad part is that the handwringers and crybullies are going to use this latest idiocy to churn up more idiot laws that don’t actually do anything to prevent idiocy but make life that much more burdensome to everyone else.
And, in the end, idiots can’t be protected from themselves anyway. Idiots are going to idiot.
Darwin = 1, Idiots = 0
A f*cking Desert Eagle? Charles, is subterranean chuckling you?
Well, a Kindle wouldn’t stop a bullet either.
No. He has two off-spring already.
Self, try on a copy set aside, first.
When I was in college, I guy I knew got his hands on a flak jacket. To pull a stunt to shock people at a party, he had a friend show up with a very large knife to stab him in the back, figuring the flak jacket would stop the knife.
He found out flak jackets don’t work that way.
"...Why should stupid be living on the county dime?..."
At best he is an honorable mention.
Make her get a job. Not one where she has to use any brainpower, but a job.
Perhaps a government job !!??
“F... them alligators.”
It’s going to be tough explaining it to the kids later on.
I bet the original Obamacare bill would have stopped a bullet from a long rifle.
With our fantastic connectivity we are now able to watch complete idiots destroy themselves and others
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