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Man Catches Bullet In False Teeth
Stipe Cavlovic, 37, got into an argument with another man over an unpaid debt. Soon after the argument started, the man pulled a gun and shot at Stipe and his wife. The bullet ricocheted off Mrs. Cavlovic's cheekbone before becoming caught in Stipe's dentures. "I thought I was dead for sure. I didn't even see the bullet hit my wife. I just saw the flash of the gun's barrel. The next thing I knew was something hit my false tooth and I spat out the hot lead. It hurt like hell but we're both still alive." he told police. I saw Penn and Teller do this in Vegas.
I once caught a baseball bat in my codpiece.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
My bet is that it was a very small pistol - maybe something like a .22 or .25 with a short barrel. Those bullets sometimes don't penetrate bone on a glancing impact.
A 9mm or a .45 would have been a much more tragic outcome.