[William Tell]

Old Professer said: "Way back in the 1960s I read an account of attempted armed robbery of a 72 year-old courier of Bank of America in S.F. who was shot 7 times with a .22 ..."

I also recall a case of a man who was mugged and dragged himself home to clean up. He later complained of a headache and went to a hospital. Unknown to the victim, he had been shot five times in the head with a .22, each round failing to penetrate the skull and instead burrowing under the scalp.

There was conjecture that the rounds may have been quite old and defective.

[kt56]

I saw a show on one of the cable channels, TLC, Discovery, can't remember which one where they interviewed a gang banger who had been shot with a 9mm Uzi full auto 30 times at point blank range. He took multiple hits in one leg both arms and torso and lived to tell about it..

[AnAmericanMother]

True story:

My husband is the first aid officer at his job. One morning one of the laborers in the plant showed up with a .22 Short bullet lodged just under the skin between his eyes. His common law wife in the middle of an argument just lugged out the "virtue pistol" and plugged him. Hubby sent him to the industrial clinic to get it cut out - he showed back up at lunchtime with a bandaid on his face. Went home that night and threw the CLW out on the street.

Interesting sequel - about 6 months later CLW, who had taken up with someone else, got in a quarrel with HIM, only this time she pulled a kitchen knife, he wound up dead and she wound up in the pokey for murder.

Employee's comment to my husband: "She was a damn mean woman, but she sho' could cook."