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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. 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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  2. 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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