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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Free country means free to do idiotic things. Stop trying to turn everything into a new rule. Allow people to be themselves if they aren’t hurting others.
All I know is what I see on Fargo.
“Note to self:
Self, try on a copy set aside, first.”
They apparently tried it on another book first, and it stopped the bullet.
Would like to hear more about the books and the bullets.
If that was the .50 cal S&W, it is marketed for Alaskans as it will stop a grisly...also, the .454.
Sad!...I can’t see someone being this naive and stupid...it literally could go through a brick sided house.
Hourly pay for You Tube stars? Millions per year.
The new economy.
http://people.com/celebrity/highest-paid-youtube-stars/
If someone asks you to break the law and you do it ... then you should face the consequences. The fact that he asked her to do it doesn't change much in my book.
If only sexual intercourse had been designed as a 5-step process. Whole cultures would never have seen the light of day.
Go Darwin!
5.56mm
Why is Charles Darwin such a hero to some FReepers? Do they advocate eugenics?
They play an ad before the video starts. You get a cut of the ad revenue. Some people are making a good living from making Youtube videos. I'm sure 99+% of videos posted don't make any money, but some do.
My son's response to this, "It's the monkey's paw story in real life." They wanted to get famous on Youtube and they got their wish.
Thanks for that link.
Uh, it HAS become the land of black Somalian Moslems. Why not mere Catholic illegals?
Wow amazing, didn’t know that at all. Thanks again.
Amazing.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I thought of Darwin when I read the story too!
And then what? Dig him up and deport him?
He should have tried a Trial run. Idiot.
Someone dies, even if non intentional, will be charged.
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