bulletproof weave

[boozebagbeefhole]

Bulletproof weave

Say what? A Kansas City woman with a tight weave gets shot at by her boyfriend through a car window. Later, the cops find a spent bullet in her hair. Did the hair stop it?

Apparently some weaves are tighter than others. (Apparently, some relationships are tighter than others too.) After 20-year-old Briana Bonds told her boyfriend Juan she didn't love him anymore, the a-hole shot up the back of her mid-'90s Pontiac. The rear windshield was shattered, but she was still alive and without major injury, possibly thanks to that weave.

The ladies down at the beauty parlor are not totally convinced, though. Scientifically speaking, the weft (where the weave meets the hair) is where the fibers are interlocked most tightly. But whether or not that makes it any where close to the equivalent of a Kevlar mesh is beyond current beauty-parlor technology to ascertain.

just wow

[Korioni]

More likely the retard went ex-hunting with a .22 and it petered out on the windshield

[Snugglebear]

SWAT open fire on fleeing drug dealer - The most amazing bloopers are here

This guy gets fucking lit up and only gets one bullet to the arm. So maybe it was small caliber.

[Erronius]

Originally Posted by Korioni

More likely the retard went ex-hunting with a .22 and it petered out on the windshield

Naw, it was a .40 according to police.

Woman's Weave Stops Bullet, Saves Life - WDAF

Bonds sped away from the store to another parking lot where she called police, who found the 40-caliber slug tangled in her hair. Police say that her weave prevented it from penetrating her skull.

Jesus I'm ashamed of living here at times, lol. And it wasn't a great neighborhood either (5802 Swope Pkwy @ E 58th. for any locals)

[EmpireF4i]

Im guessing it was a ricochet that landed in her weave. Bullets dont go straight through windows and stay on their same straight path.

[Hathe]

The proof is in the science, black people have finally gained an immunity to drive-by's. I'm rerolling tomorrow.

[Xen]

Originally Posted by EmpireF4i

Im guessing it was a ricochet that landed in her weave. Bullets dont go straight through windows and stay on their same straight path.

What he said.

Snipers in the military talk about this all the time. Bullets fired through glass have their energy displaced and get sent off their trajectory.

In this case her Aquanet weave just caught the fragments. Kinda cool story, glad she wasn't hurt.

[EmpireF4i]

Originally Posted by Snugglebear

SWAT open fire on fleeing drug dealer - The most amazing bloopers are here

This guy gets fucking lit up and only gets one bullet to the arm. So maybe it was small caliber.

Ive seen that video before and I still cant believe that those trained SWAT officers were in such a bad crossfire like that and were still firing. I could see at least one officer in front of the camera man that could have been shot.

[Luthair]

Originally Posted by EmpireF4i

Ive seen that video before and I still cant believe that those trained SWAT officers were in such a bad crossfire like that and were still firing. I could see at least one officer in front of the camera man that could have been shot.

That's immediately what I saw as well.

[Silence]

Originally Posted by EmpireF4i

Im guessing it was a ricochet that landed in her weave. Bullets dont go straight through windows and stay on their same straight path.

Depends upon the design of the cartridge as a whole. Weight of bullet in grains along with powder charge coupled with other factors (revolver vs closed chamber), bullet design (fmj vs hollow point), barrel length et cetera.

Early 9mm designs were deflected by windshield glass, but modern 9mm loads use slightly heavier bullets propelled faster...these have no deflection issues.

Also, the best load for a particular weapon depends upon the person firing it. Overall, a .357 Mag with a 125 gr bullet is better for most shooters because there's less heavy recoil making each successive shot more accurate. A properly loaded .357 Mag with a 158 gr bullet is absolutely more effective than a 125 gr bullet per shot, but only if you are comfortable with it and can accurately put bullets where you want them to go...not everyone an do this.

Also, gun design plays an important role. I have a S&W 686 6' that's an absolute pussycat to shoot 158 gr loads all day, but my Colt M4 .357 firing the same # of rounds left my hand numb for almost 2 days. I couldn't even brush my teeth with that hand.

All that aside, you are correct. Any modern bullet would have blown her brains out through her nostrils without noticing a single follicle on the way or any multitudes thereof. The bullet in her hair hit something and found its way into her nappy coif at a very low velocity.

[Snugglebear]

Originally Posted by EmpireF4i

Ive seen that video before and I still cant believe that those trained SWAT officers were in such a bad crossfire like that and were still firing. I could see at least one officer in front of the camera man that could have been shot.

No shit. But I love that show, it used to be on 'Spike' every day. The narrator is such a hardass commie-hater. And every story ends with 'and he had TWELVE POUNDS OF CRACK COCAINE in the trunk' as if they need to spice it up a little more and just made some more drug shit up.

[Zhavric]

What? No "Yo Dawg, we heard you liked bullet proof vests..." image?

[EmpireF4i]

Originally Posted by Silence

Depends upon the design of the cartridge as a whole. Weight of bullet in grains along with powder charge coupled with other factors (revolver vs closed chamber), bullet design (fmj vs hollow point), barrel length et cetera.

Early 9mm designs were deflected by windshield glass, but modern 9mm loads use slightly heavier bullets propelled faster...these have no deflection issues.

Also, the best load for a particular weapon depends upon the person firing it. Overall, a .357 Mag with a 125 gr bullet is better for most shooters because there's less heavy recoil making each successive shot more accurate. A properly loaded .357 Mag with a 158 gr bullet is absolutely more effective than a 125 gr bullet per shot, but only if you are comfortable with it and can accurately put bullets where you want them to go...not everyone an do this.

Also, gun design plays an important role. I have a S&W 686 6' that's an absolute pussycat to shoot 158 gr loads all day, but my Colt M4 .357 firing the same # of rounds left my hand numb for almost 2 days. I couldn't even brush my teeth with that hand.

All that aside, you are correct. Any modern bullet would have blown her brains out through her nostrils without noticing a single follicle on the way or any multitudes thereof. The bullet in her hair hit something and found its way into her nappy coif at a very low velocity.

Unless your shooting artillery into windows, its going to change the trajectory of a bullet. When we go shooting in the spring time theres long grass where we lay prone to shoot with long rifles. You can actually see the rounds deflect off of blades of grass when we shoot with anything from .223, .308, and 7MM magnum.

[Eomer]

I love how the media and general public have such a shitty understanding of physics that they think that kevlar, or apparently hair, magically protects you from the force a bullet carries. They should take the reporter who did this story, give him a bullet proof vest, and shoot him with a .40 and ask him how he feels after, and whether he thinks that the woman was really shot in the head with a bullet at full force, or whether he thinks that a fragment happened to land in her hair.

Even if her head was rapped in kevlar, I'm sure a direct shot would have left her severely concussed, and probably with a fractured skull.

[Tallyn]

Originally Posted by Eomer

I love how the media and general public have such a shitty understanding of physics that they think that kevlar, or apparently hair, magically protects you from the force a bullet carries. They should take the reporter who did this story, give him a bullet proof vest, and shoot him with a .40 and ask him how he feels after, and whether he thinks that the woman was really shot in the head with a bullet at full force, or whether he thinks that a fragment happened to land in her hair.

Even if her head was rapped in kevlar, I'm sure a direct shot would have left her severely concussed, and probably with a fractured skull.

No kidding. A .40 caliber slug has the kinetic energy of a baseball going just under 200 mph. You do NOT get hit with that shit and walk away happy, no matter what you have on your head.