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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“The Defense is WRONG!!!”
Beau has a similar gun for bear hunting. I can hardly LIFT the thing, let alone fire it!
This, ‘Grasshopper’ chose poorly. ;)
This happened to the son of a friend of mine.
Trying to garner sympathy from his girl friend
he had someone shoot him with a .22 through
a phone book, then dump him out on her lawn.
No one found him till the next morning when
he was discovered dead.
Stupidity knows no bounds.
Lol! Perhaps there is some sort of "Darwinian advantage" to being stupid.
In fact, such might have been the case with some of the long-necked 'Brontosaur-type' dinosaurs. I heard paleontologist Bob Bakker on one of the dino documentaries say they may have actually benefited by having smaller brains. Because a smaller brain requires less blood, and therefore less blood being pumped up its long neck. And with less pressure it could more easily (and safely) rear up on its hind legs to reach the most succulent leaves of trees without its head blowing off upon standing on all fours again. Some of these dinosaurs had 40-ft necks. For this reason he referred to them as "Darwinian morons".
And the gene pool just got a few mm DEEPER!
I shot a 3” Cobol book with 9mm HP. Massive exit holes. And these idiots used a DE .50?
Making license plates in prison will do.
Whatever money he had, well, he wasn’t going to need it any more.
“Apparently, the newly deceased stuntman never thought about blank guns.”
Several actors are dead because they thought blank guns were harmless.
A simple *test* would have saved Mr. Ruiz’ life.
Si
Who’s gonna pay child support now?
A 308 goes through bowling pins, CBS blocks, and telephone poles.
Likely the same people who were going to before this incident. Taxpayers.
Another YouTard bites the dust.
Desert Eagle’s shoot thru SCHOOLS!
More like the Jon-Erik Hexum or Brandon Lee Award.
Pedro Ruiz III, more importantly he is the third in a line of......................
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