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He thought a book would stop a bullet and make him a YouTube star. Now he's dead.
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 29, 2017 | by Katie Mettler

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; darwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Beware of girls named Monalisa.


101 posted on 06/29/2017 1:46:23 PM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Hat-Trick

“The Defense is WRONG!!!”


102 posted on 06/29/2017 1:50:37 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Rome2000

Beau has a similar gun for bear hunting. I can hardly LIFT the thing, let alone fire it!

This, ‘Grasshopper’ chose poorly. ;)


103 posted on 06/29/2017 1:52:20 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

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.


104 posted on 06/29/2017 1:56:56 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Seruzawa
There is no such thing as “idiot proof”. There is only “idiot resistant”. The ingenuity of idiots 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".

105 posted on 06/29/2017 2:01:29 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the gene pool just got a few mm DEEPER!


106 posted on 06/29/2017 2:09:18 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (America dodged a bullet. But remember that millions of morons are STILL OUT THERE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I shot a 3” Cobol book with 9mm HP. Massive exit holes. And these idiots used a DE .50?


107 posted on 06/29/2017 2:15:10 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: RightWingNut

Making license plates in prison will do.


108 posted on 06/29/2017 2:16:37 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ColdOne

Whatever money he had, well, he wasn’t going to need it any more.


109 posted on 06/29/2017 2:19:51 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: miele man

“Apparently, the newly deceased stuntman never thought about blank guns.”

Several actors are dead because they thought blank guns were harmless.


110 posted on 06/29/2017 2:25:47 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A simple *test* would have saved Mr. Ruiz’ life.


111 posted on 06/29/2017 2:34:06 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Big Red Badger

Si


112 posted on 06/29/2017 2:59:18 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Yo-Yo

Who’s gonna pay child support now?


113 posted on 06/29/2017 3:17:43 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: C210N

A 308 goes through bowling pins, CBS blocks, and telephone poles.


114 posted on 06/29/2017 3:25:07 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Keyhopper
Who’s gonna pay child support now?

Likely the same people who were going to before this incident. Taxpayers.

115 posted on 06/29/2017 4:35:09 PM PDT by Professional Engineer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another YouTard bites the dust.


116 posted on 06/29/2017 4:44:39 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: caww

Desert Eagle’s shoot thru SCHOOLS!


117 posted on 06/29/2017 4:48:43 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More like the Jon-Erik Hexum or Brandon Lee Award.


118 posted on 06/29/2017 4:53:54 PM PDT by x
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To: Cowboy Bob

Pedro Ruiz III, more importantly he is the third in a line of......................


119 posted on 06/29/2017 5:08:53 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: null and void

Gosh, Only $399.99 a year for free image hosting.

No thanks.


120 posted on 06/29/2017 7:24:15 PM PDT by null and void (This is how socialists work: Erase the past, Bankrupt the present, Steal from the future.)
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