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."

Comments

Like a heat sink, only for bullets

[ObviousGuy]

The front of the XBox is vaned, much like a heat sink, so the bars of the grill on the front may have been just lucky enough to deflect the direct impact of the force in different directions, causing the force of the bullet to be dissipated over a larger area.

But I'm no physicist.

Yes, bulletproof.

[BZArcher]

Shock and expansion damage. Even if the bullet was stopped, there's a hell of a lot of force to get distributed. All bulletproof means is that it didn't penetrate.

Now, that said, that doesn't mean that they couldn't turn it back on...

My thoughts? The damn thing is made of kevlar.

Re:Nutjob

[Jerf]

Let me give you the flip side: People who care so little about their noise because it doesn't bother them, and they have nothing remotely resembling a clue that it does bother other people, and it's not a "choice" the other people make, it's a deep-seated instinct.

You can't turn your ears off.

These people made my dorm years a living hell, and they couldn't care less.

I would never have brandished a gun, but I sure as hell did fantasize about it.

Re:Nutjob

[rthille]

There's a reason that I've got a lock on the 9mm in my nightstand. Looking for the key, struggling with the lock, etc. gives you time to think that you maybe don't want to put a bullet in the neighbor's dog that's been barking for the last 6 hours...