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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: ColdOne

“Where did he the money to buy a Desert Eagle and the ammo?”

Youtube videos?


41 posted on 06/29/2017 11:20:32 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: C210N

Good one-the plays on words here are keeping me chuckling...


42 posted on 06/29/2017 11:21:11 AM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They closed the book on his youtube career.


43 posted on 06/29/2017 11:21:32 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: TexasGator

I didn’t know they paid money.


44 posted on 06/29/2017 11:22:17 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: erkelly
I think she should face murder charges
So do I - she aimed a firearm at her boyfriend's chest and pulled the trigger. If that's not premeditated, what the heck is? Likely will be plead down to manslaughter, but she needs to go away for a while.
45 posted on 06/29/2017 11:23:12 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, he’s -kind of- a youtube star. Dreams do come true!


46 posted on 06/29/2017 11:24:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I have not seen it, but heard people talking about it on the radio.

Supposedly, there were other people standing around and they knew this was happening.

So it wasn’t just two stupid people, but multiple stupid people who did not speak up about how stupid this was.

By the way, doesn’t this go back to “jackass” days? The content people watch does have an effect on society.


47 posted on 06/29/2017 11:24:22 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: lacrew; lee martell

Oops-post #40 was for lacrew...


48 posted on 06/29/2017 11:24:26 AM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you’re a shooter of guns, chances are you’ve tried putting up stuff to check penetration. Books are the target of choice.

And if you’ve done this, you’ve discovered that a book will stop a .22 LR with about 150 pages. As soon as you get into centerfire rounds, they pass through almost any book.

This is such a regrettable, avoidable incident.


49 posted on 06/29/2017 11:24:50 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Texan5

“Hold ma beer!”


50 posted on 06/29/2017 11:25:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Grimmy
And, in the end, idiots can’t be protected from themselves anyway. Idiots are going to idiot.

One of my son's favorite aphorism is that when something is made idiot-proof, nature provides a better idiot.

This is sad, but idiocy cannot be effectively eradicated, only warned against.

51 posted on 06/29/2017 11:25:54 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: lee martell

“And watch this”...


52 posted on 06/29/2017 11:26:53 AM PDT by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: lacrew

ha, I see what you did there. :-)

Mira esta!


53 posted on 06/29/2017 11:31:39 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Note to self: Buy a real bullet proof vest, put the encyclopedias back in the bookshelf.


54 posted on 06/29/2017 11:31:47 AM PDT by heights
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Neo he ain’t.


55 posted on 06/29/2017 11:38:13 AM PDT by barefoot_hiker (Any)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

And she's is pregnant no less!......Perez shot her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz III in the chest from about 'a foot away' with a .50 caliber Desert Eagle pistol while they recorded the stunt with two cameras....Their 3-year-old daughter was also in the room watching


56 posted on 06/29/2017 11:39:10 AM PDT by caww
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To: RightWingNut

She’s qualified to replace Nancy Pelosi and is responsible for killing fewer people.


57 posted on 06/29/2017 11:42:45 AM PDT by piasa
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To: ColdOne
Where did he the money to buy a Desert Eagle and the ammo?

PayDay loan?

Uh oh...

58 posted on 06/29/2017 11:45:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I blame Hollywood...selling BS movies to idiots. They have movies with cars being riddled and they have bullets merely and harmlessly spark off cars like they’re sparklers. So surely a book can stop a bullet.

Perhaps a class action suit against studios are in order?


59 posted on 06/29/2017 11:48:16 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: lurk
And if you’ve done this, you’ve discovered that a book will stop a .22 LR with about 150 pages.

If the pages are light enough, you could have a lot of them, and bullet would not get thru them. F'rinstance, using Hard Choices, and you could shoot a BB gun thru a million pages.

60 posted on 06/29/2017 11:49:39 AM PDT by C210N
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