Posted on 12/29/2016 11:51:59 AM PST by PROCON
Darwin Award nominee Jose Vaca, 29, may be in a jail cell, but he is lucky to be alive.
Vaca was driving through Bakersfield, CA, on December 19th when he and a friend were pulled over by police. The convicted felon had a rifle in the car with him and he decided to use the traffic stop as an opportunity to test a theory he had about police brutality, and
“What I was hoping for them to do was tell me, ‘Drop the gun! Back away from the firearm! Get on the ground! Turn around!’ And it was going to be an arrest,” he said. “But I was completely wrong.”
When Vaca exited the vehicle holding the rifle, Officer Christian Hernandez opened fire.
“Soon as I hit the ground, I just attempted to play dead,” Vaca said. “It’s a blessing I’m alive.”
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Kinda rare to be a living Darwin Award Winner!..................
“Test a theory”. Haha, give him a year off for creativity
As the 2007 winner, did he get a trophy?
My guess he’s just lying to avoid a longer jail sentence.
Can’t be a winner if he survived, and besides, a 29 year old Mexican man has surely already propagated his DNA...
Exactly.......
Jose “Cow” (vaca in Spanish) looks about as smart as his namesake.
unless he got shot somewhere that precludes future breeding.
We can hope.
“To win a Darwin, you have to eliminate yourself and any offspring from the gene pool.”
That just gets you a nomination.
Now, had the cops shot off his weewee, he would qualify. I believe the first instance of this was a man who, while not dying, did something like accept a bet to stand on a piece of wood to get high enough to put his reproductive ... orbs ... in a golf ball cleaner at the course. The prop broke while his orbs were submerged, they were unceremoniously torn from his ... groin .. and he was eliminated from the gene pool, hence scoring a legit victory. You need not die, only eliminate yourself from the possibility of future reproduction. There may have been one more interesting bit to the story ... because a golf ball cleaner only cleans one orb at a time ... his second may have been crushed in the fall. Either way ... a glorious way to win, and yet keep one’s life, so that one may brag to friends, if that’s what one chooses to do with the award.
“Muslims will breed the Brits out of existence.”
Rabbi Kahane said exactly that DECADES ago re the muzzys in Israel....Fortunately the Israelis handled the problem....
His full English name is “Joe Vacanthead” but he shortened it to his Hispanic identity.
Say, isn’t there a prison in Vacaville, California? Then he would be “Joe Vaca from Vacaville”. Known to law enforcement as “Slow Joe”.
Would love to see his rap sheet and I don’t mean his J-Z score sheet.
Look like the cop will need to log some more time at the range.
Movies are movies ,it’s not real
Why "Thank God," for pete's sake? It would have been of benefit to the rest of society if it had been the 8th floor.
And as for "putting the testicle into cold water," etc.: That defies comprehension!
Regards,
If he, instead, actually wanted to shoot the cop, pulling a rifle out of the car is the easiest way to fail. You can’t pull out a rifle and swing it around to shoot nearly so fast as you can a pistol. It might as well have been an axe.
I assumed it was a Russian thing.
It would take a really stupid judge and jury to buy that as a defense, but, yes, that is likely what it is. Better he had told it to a lawyer than the police or reporters. The lawyer could tell him he needed better, after the lawyer stopped laughing.
Looks like the left arm.
Well, the cop didn’t kill him. In fact he shot the guy in the arm causing him to drop the rifle, or at least lose control of it. If\f that shot was deliberately so aimed then the cop is a “good guy” and a helluva marksman.
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