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Bullet-Proof Xbox Wows Police
DocUi writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting about how a man, upset with his roommates playing videogames late at night, decided to take it out on their Xbox using a gun. He stormed into their living room and fired a round into the offending game console. However, 'The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system and did not injure anyone at the scene, police said', although it 'disabled' the machine."
.. so I can see the spin put on this that proves Microsoft is evil.
"Microsoft just built a bullet proof game machine so nobody'll be able to throw it away."
"Derp de derp."
"If the FP is on a game story, does it count? "
Remember when Al Bundy won a senior citizen's race? It's sorta like that. Hold your head high, brother!
"Derp de derp."
A much more direct approach than shooting the TV...
No, no. XBox used Godmode and cheated!
You don't know what you don't know.
cuz they sure can't make any bulletproof software.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
When you try to shoot an Xbox and fail, it has got to be a sign.
You need to take a deep breath, go out, and get a bigger gun.
Your bullets cannot harm me! My X-Box is like a shield of steel! :)
Warning! This post may contain a pun!
Bad XBox Slogans:
1)X marks the Box
2)Sendin' shots out for all the true game playas
3)The wrong consol-igga to fuk wit
4)More durable than Kurt Cobain's dome
5)Doubled vested
kevlar injected
makin' ya
waste da
mags a bullets
forev-a
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
"But I'm no physicist."
no shit.
99% of all Xbox games involve guns. That combined with this incident is sure to rile up a certain segment of the population.
:)
Yeah, I'm sure police stations all over the world will be equipped with a Xbox now...
My cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
In lesser countries we would just crush the thing with large boots and a rigourous kicking action!
Folklore says that to truly kill an XBox, you need to use a silver bullet.
There. Will that do?
Yeah, he must be crazy. It's obvious that the tool for the job is a sledgehammer.
BTW a thick book will stop even an M-16 5.56 round.
Good to know the bible can actually save my life!
Yup. Because making sure I can shoot my console gaming system is very important to me. I mean, I just totally fucking lose it and shoot shit all the time. You should see my house. My coworkers cringe when they see me pull a gun out to shoot my laptop. Like it's a big deal or something. I'm glad microsoft is addressing this important, and often overlooked area in console design. I hope President Bush gives Bill Gates some sort of presidential design award for patriotic console design of the year. We must stop the terrorists with our SUV's.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
in Halo is made of the same material as the Xbox!
"When Gamers Go Mad!" 1 hour of gamers chucking controllers at walls! At least it would probably be more entertaining then most of UPN's lineup.
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men... --Willy Wonka
Xbox owner : Do you mean that when I will own an Xbox, I will be able to dodge bullets?
Bill Gates : No, I mean that when you will own one, you won't have to.
I came up with a solution a long time ago for my ex-roommate who played his NES way too loud constantly. While he was at work, I opened up his TV and disconnected the speaker. When he turned it on, he started smacking the TV and cursing at the "stupid peice of ____". I then asked him what was wrong and said that we should try the NES on my TV. Sure enough, it mad noise. I then "diagnosed" that he had blown the speaker and op amps in his TV by using the NES too loud. The classic line was telling him that the FM synth sounds that the NES made were perfect for blowing out a speaker and spouted some realistic sounding theories. He never did figure it out, but also never did turn it up loud again. Every so often, I would catch him trying to "warn" some of his friends about doing the same - "Dude! That's how I messed up my TV". Heh. If you're reading this, sorry Mike. It was me :)
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
BTW a thick book will stop even an M-16 5.56 round.
I'll have to remember that the next time I'm robbing a library.
Probably the bullet just didn't have the speed necessary to escape the XBox's gravity.
--Dan
That's no way to talk about your mother.
I know more than you drink.
(I am a physicist and I have done lots of tests involving 9mm bullets)
Freeman, weren't you supposed to be in the test chamber an hour ago?
--Seriously, 9mm? What a pansy. Xbox probably just LAUGHED at him and decided to turn off for the hellofit. Guy just needs a bigger gun.
.45 now, or even a .38 -- THAT'll f--k that Xbox up.
--A
"This is a 12-gauge, double-barrelled Remington. Come get some."
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
The bullet obviously didn't have an authentic Microsoft Signed Security Certificate, so the machine rejected it.