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Bullet-Proof Xbox Wows Police

Posted by simoniker on from the click-click-boom dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Nutjob by TwistedGreen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Everyone gets angry.

    And when you're angry, you fantasize about fun things like "what i would do if i had a fragmentation grenade... or a 9mm handgun."

    But acting on it is rather a different matter.

  2. 9mm = pussy pistol by mrshowtime · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The xbox is a pretty thick bit of hardware. A 9mm bullet does not have that much "stopping power" Now a .44 would have done the job right :) "It's an 88 magnum. It shoots through schools."

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    1. Re:9mm = pussy pistol by sigxcpu · · Score: 5, Interesting

      A pistol bullet is made of lead (=soft when thinking of a collision at about the speed of sound).

      All you need to stop it is to have it hit something hard that is x10 heavier.
      A power supply would do the job quite well.
      What you get then is a lot of shrapnel flying everywhere, but a thick layer of plastic will stop that.

      (I am a physicist and I have done lots of tests involving 9mm bullets)
      BTW a thick book will stop even an M-16 5.56 round.

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  3. Ammo for the special interests by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    99% of all Xbox games involve guns. That combined with this incident is sure to rile up a certain segment of the population.

  4. BulletProof? by Robmonster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They say it was bulletproof, yet it disabled the system...?

    Seems to me that bullet did something......

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  5. Re:Nutjob by damien_kane · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Normal" and "Balanced" are subjective terms.
    I feel I am completely "Normal" and "Balanced". It's just that very few people agree with me at first glance.

    I do fantasize about various weapons of destruction and brutal acts of violence when I'm angry.
    That's usually around the time I start into the heavy bag for 20-30 minutes...

  6. Bullet physics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Real life bullet physics != movie and video game bullet physics.

    I have a friend who is a cop told me that when a bullet strikes a wall, it rarely goes through the wall or ricochets (speilling?). When a bullet strikes a wall it normally hits the wall and then scoots across the wall in the direction that the bullet is spinning, so it is possible to be shot if you are standing along a wall that is struck with a bullet.

    Im guessing a a similar thing happened in this instance.