16-year-old killed when teens wearing body armor take turns shooting each other in Florida, police say

Click Orlando ^ | April 8 2022 | Brandon Hogan

[Nifty]

BELLEVIEW, Fla. – A 16-year-old boy was killed when he and another teen took turns shooting at each other while wearing a form of body armor, according to the Belleview Police Department.

The department said Joshua Vining and Colton Whitler, both 17, were arrested Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of Christopher Leroy Broad Jr.

[Nifty]

to think about the future of the country...........

[Bayard]

Darwin award

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Ban Super Troopers

[posterchild]

Upon reading the article it appears that they actually did have the person being shot wear the vest rather than the shooter so they had that part figured out.

[Yo-Yo]

Read the fine print: "This a plate CARRIER. Ballistic plates NOT INCLUDED."

[Carl Vehse]

... while waiting for the results of their Mensa tests.

[Bayard]

I’d say those kids should not get off with merely serving time in jail or prison. Compulsory labor is what they should be given since they can’t make productive use of their time on their own.

[hanamizu]

Didn’t Soviet ‘Liquidators’ wear such cod pieces when they were cleaning up Chernobyl? At least they did in the HBO series.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

> to think about the future of the country...........

The future of the country is slightly improved now.

[Signalman]

When I was 16 I did some dumb things.
But I was never THIS dumb.

[IYAS9YAS]

Hard to believe that movie is 21 years old.

[Dead Corpse]

IQ tests came back negative.

[shotgun]

I knew 2 kids in 7th grade (1973) that were out plinking with their wrist rocket slingshots and BB's. They got bored and decided to start shooting each other. One of them got hit in the temple with a BB and the fun was over so they each went home. The one that got hit told his mom he was going to lay down for a while and when dinner was ready, she tried to wake him up. He was deader than $#!+

[Seruzawa]

My Dad and my Uncle taught us gun safety at an early age. I think I was about 10 when my grandpa gave me a single shot Winchester 22 rifle. They used the Boot Method. Violate a Rule: Get the Boot. We would never have dreamed of pointing a gun, even a BBgun at one another.

[House Atreides]

Teenage boys lack all common sense and insist upon doing incredibly STUPID and dangerous things.

Been there, done that!

[Yo-Yo]

This is why we have the Darwin Awards...

From the article:

In the video, Broad is allegedly seen firing a single shot at Vining — who was wearing the vest — as Whitler stood nearby. After Broad and Vining switched roles, Vining shot Broad in the vest once, Broad nodded, and Vining then shot Broad four more times, police said.

A vest can only stop so many bullets before it fails.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Still tops in the Stupid Movie category. Even Version 2 was pretty funny.

[dragnet2]

Rise In Chicago Carjackings Leaves Lawmakers Scrambling to increase their pay, benefits and pensions.

[Who is John Galt?]

When I was 16 I did some dumb things. But I was never THIS dumb.

Ditto - and if there are any skeptics out there, the fact that we are still alive proves it...

;>)

[glimmerman70]

Exactly what I was thinking. Didn’t read the article but assuming the bullet missed the body armor or used the wrong ammo or kept using the same one.