Posted on 05/15/2014 9:32:46 AM PDT by mandaladon
Blake Randall Wardell, 25, was congregating with friends in a house’s garage in the wee hours of the morning when he donned a bulletproof vest. Then Wardell asked his 18-year-old friend Taylor Ann Kelly to shoot him, according to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina.
Kelly complied. But the small-caliber bullet hit above the kevlar portion of the vest and then went into Wardell’s heart, killing him, Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown told WYFF-TV in Greenville.
CPR was being attempted on Wardell when authorities arrived at the scene about 2:40 a.m; EMS personnel confirmed Wardell was dead.
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Not all of us have a bullet proof vest, but for those so inclined, why not test the air bags in your car.
How do we know she didn’t miss on purpose?
I wonder if she was using the rapper grip (modified Seagal?) when she popped him.
A candidate for Darwin Awards.
Candidate? I move the nominations cease.
” What was he doing with a vest in the first place?”
I heard a report on the radio that said they found it rummaging in some dumped trash. I think they said it was an old Vietnam era flak jacket.
Those had a zipper in the front that I believe a bullet could get through, even if zipped.
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I can imagine the aftermath. As the young man lies dying, the girlfriend calls 911.
Girl: “I shot and I think killed my boyfriend! What should I do?”
911 Operator: “Well, first let’s make sure he is actually dead.”
Girl: “(sniff) Okay...” [sets down phone] BLAM! “Now what?”
Suspect meth.
I backed that off to midnight as advice to my children as they were going off to college.
Thank you for that info.
Now, I’m not braggin’ here, ‘cuz what I did does not quite qualify for a Darwin but when we were first married, I asked my wife to shoot me with a bean bag gun we got for Christmas.
It was one of those things that shoots a 1/4 pound bean bag full of shot using a couple of CO2 cartridges. I just wanted to see if it would be really effective in stopping someone.
I bent over and she was supposed to shoot me in the “fleshy part”. She sort of missed and hit me in the small of the back. I had a bruise the size of a baseball and walked funny for about a week.
To this day she still has not admitted that it was an accident. We’ve been married 35 years and I’m still not sure.
I think you may be right.
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Likely negligent homicide. Maybe involuntary manslaughter. No mens rea.
Stupid’s not a crime. Discharging a gun within city limits might, which is what the charge would be if she’d have hit the vest.
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