Posted on 06/29/2017 10:40:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time convincing his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest.
There would be a thick encyclopedia book between the barrel and his body, authorities say he told 19-year-old Monalisa Perez. The pages, he reasoned, would stop the bullet.
He even had evidence that it had worked once before - a different book with an entrance hole but no exit.
So on Monday evening, the young couple positioned two cameras outside their home and prepared for their breakthrough stunt. They wanted fame, family said, and danger often brings it.
"Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever," Perez teased in a tweet at 5 p.m. "HIS idea not MINE."
With one camera attached to a ladder and the other propped on the back of a car, the couple staged their stunt, according to authorities. Ruiz held the book to his chest and Perez held the gun, a gold Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol considered "one of the most powerful semiautomatic handguns in the world."
From a foot away, court documents say, Perez fired.
This time, the bullet didn't stop in the book but instead pierced Ruiz in the chest. Medics tried to revive him, authorities said, but he was declared dead at the house.
Perez was arrested Monday on a charge of reckless discharge of a gun. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years behind bars.
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Next time, there’ll be no next time.
(I was going to link to the youtube clip but the language is atrocious.)
Obviously not a ballistics expert!
Another cup of stupidity extracted from the shallow end of the gene pool...
I saw this same stunt in an episode of “The Sopranos”. Apparently, the newly deceased stuntman never thought about blank guns.
Many black heroin dealers, all from Mexico, are targeting small working class and rural communities across the country. I’m not saying these two Darwin Award winners are drug dealers.
Just not that book.
And...um...not that bullet...
Not sure about the other book but they probably tried the stunt first with that weenie .223 round and didn’t have a problem..............LOL!!
I’m surprised he even had a book. It’s not like he ever read one.
Monalisa huh? Sheesh.
I haven't traveled through Minnesota in over three decades so my perceptions of rural Minnesota are out of calibration. I guess the Minnesota of Garrison "Gary the Red" Keillor has died along with all the bachelor Norwegian farmers. But it sure hasn't stopped him from milking that dead cow.
THat is a question I asked myself when I read it in the Fargo-Moorhead Forum this morning. I grew up just down the road from Halstad, where this took place, and the only folks tagline there were Helgesons, Andersons, etc. It’s a little farming community. I guess populations change over time and not always for the better. I know it’s not PC today but Perez and Ruiz were names associated with seasonal farm hands.
He should have used that one plus worn a bullet-proof vest.
There is no such thing as “idiot proof”. There is only “idiot resistant”.
The ingenuity of idiots knows no bounds.
Hold ma Beer????
They should have used the tax code instead.
Desert Eagle is not a gun, it’s a handheld cannon.
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