Slashdot Mirror
Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend (arstechnica.com)
Last Monday a 19-year-old woman named Monalisa Perez gave the police a strange reason for why her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III, was dead. An anonymous reader quotes Ars Technica:
A Minnesota woman has been charged with manslaughter after she shot and killed her boyfriend as part of the pair's attempt to become YouTube celebrities... The two had set up two video cameras to capture Perez firing the gun at Ruiz while he held a book in front of his chest. Ruiz apparently convinced Perez that the book would stop the bullet from a foot away. The gun, a Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol, was not hindered by the book. Ruiz, who was found with a single gunshot in his chest, was pronounced dead at the scene. Hours before the incident, Perez posted on Twitter, "Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever. HIS idea not MINE."
The teenager -- who is pregnant with the couple's second child -- now faces second-degree manslaughter charges, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $20,000, or both. A local sheriff told the New York Times, "I really have no idea what they were thinking. I just don't understand the younger generation on trying to get their 15 minutes of fame."
The teenager -- who is pregnant with the couple's second child -- now faces second-degree manslaughter charges, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $20,000, or both. A local sheriff told the New York Times, "I really have no idea what they were thinking. I just don't understand the younger generation on trying to get their 15 minutes of fame."
How very Republican of you to blame the child instead of the gun. If they didn't have the gun, then this would not have happened.
If we didn't have the Internet, this would not have happened.
It's Al Gore's fault.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Hey we learned a book doesn't stop a .50 caliber round.
You could have learned that a long time ago by watching Death Wish 3.
lucm, indeed.
It teaches a lesson, Don't test in Production ...
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Or they might have first tried with a book held in front of a melon or something like that.
Maybe they only had one book...
But we did not learn how thick the book was, nor its title or author.
The first book was "The Art of the Deal". The bullet got halfway through the book and died of boredom. The second book was Harry Potter, the bullet flew through it looking for more sequels.