Posted on 05/18/2026 6:15:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
Maybe you feel like you've read this story before...
notthebee.com
Two Texas guys took turns shooting each other in kevlar helmets. It ended the way you would expect. For a couple of hundred dollars, anyone can buy a kevlar helmet, but I mean how do you know they'll actually stop bullets?
But that story happened in Texas and was two doofuses wearing Kevlar helmets. This story happened back in March 2023 in Canada with two doofuses wearing a (supposedly) bulletproof vest.
According to CTVNews, Adam John Steenbergen and Mike Leier were out drinking, driving, and snorting cocaine when they decided to head to a remote range and shoot guns.
Safe to say literally none of those things belong in a sentence together.
That's when Leier pulled out a tactical vest with body armor and put it on (no word on what level the armor was).
[He] encouraged Steenbergen to shoot him with a Polymer80 semi-automatic pistol.
‘Don't be a b***h,' he reportedly told Steenbergen. ‘F***ing do it.'
The plan was for the friends to take turns shooting one another while wearing the vest for protection. ‘The two of them had done this before, but with a different bulletproof vest,' the judge wrote.
Leier was shot in the collar, and when Steenbergen tried to call for help, he found that he had no cell service. He tried to drag his friend back to the truck, but the truck was stuck in the snow.
Steenbergen left Leier in the snow and went out to find help on foot. Twenty minutes later, he flagged down another car that helped get Leier to the hospital, but it was too late.
Steenbergen pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in prison.
He was also handed a lifetime firearm ban.
(And here I thought all Canadians had that!)
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Ping!.................
All I know is that when I turned 30 I got to call in a lot of family bets
He died doing what he loved.
Aggies?
The ones in Texas might have been. Don’t think the two in Canada were.........
This happened 3 years ago. I’m surprised we’re just now reading about it, at least here in the States.
He won’t likely find another friend like that one.
“drinking AND driving AND snortin’ cocaine, on their way to the shooting range!”
Well, they wanted to be in a safe place.................
drinking, driving, and snorting cocaine and shoot guns...none of those things belong in a sentence together.
Well now, let’s not be hasty here.
It’s funny, I’m so distracted right now that I saw Canada at the beginning but then when I scrolled back up to make a post I saw the Texas and forgot what the real story was about.
I didn’t know Canada had rednecks.................
“Don’t be a b****! ...F***in’ DO IT!!”
Most of us either had a brother like that, or grew up around guys who would talk that way. Mostly 11 to 17 y/o.
Maybe not; they could have recently watched the movie Super Troopers and re-enacted the similar scene of shooting ballistic PPE (a ballistic cup).
Hold my Molson!
And the cumulative IQ of the human race goes up a tick.
My brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl.
Some practical advice - When you put on a bullet proof vest and ask a friend to shoot you, don't duck so it hits you in the neck area.
Further advice. Don't drive drunk and get stuck in a snowbank in a remote area when you engage in the conduct above.
Why am I laughing?
Something about “You can’t fix stupid” comes to mind.
No Worries!
Next time it will just be a bow, an arrow, and a large apple.
What could possibly go wrong?
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