Make body armor out of them. A firefighter was spared a bullet wound when a ricocheting bullet was stopped by a DVD he had in his pocket.
WALTERBORO, S.C. – A South Carolina man is thankful for a DVD that ended up taking a bullet for him. Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy says he was leaving a Waffle House restaurant in Walterboro on Saturday morning when two men ran in fighting over a gun. Police say a bullet hit one of the struggling men, shattered a window and then hit McRoy.
The bullet hit a DVD McRoy was carrying in his pocket. He suffered a bruise but didn't realize he had been shot. As he told a police officer what happened he noticed a bullet hole in his jacket, the shattered DVD case and a piece of the bullet.
"I was saved by a DVD," McRoy says. "How lucky can you get?"
The only thing that would make this story even better is if the movie on the DVD was Bulletproof. Alas, it was not, it was a program about fire extinguishers. Dang.
I remember watching those tapes when I was a firefighter, stopping bullets was probably the best use of them.
Or it could have been a CD of the Beatles "Revolver".