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qgene
2003-12-02 3:16:18 PM  
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Nun on the Run
2003-12-02 3:23:32 PM  
The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system and did not injure anyone at the scene, police said.

Either he's a bad shot, or the Xbox is bulletproof. The later is a hilarious thought, the former is unlikely.
 
Just_Another_Arsehole
2003-12-02 3:27:09 PM  
Yeah Halo blows chunks and when I first got it the same thought crossed my mind. but damn. there's always Splinter Cell and Deus Ex is on its way.
 
Foaming
2003-12-02 3:32:24 PM  
...fired a single gunshot into the game system, disabling it, police said. The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system ...

How did it disable it if it didn't penetrate it?
Is the XBox bulletproof?
 
sweigardc
2003-12-02 3:39:30 PM  
Finally! Proof that Elvis is still alive.
 
BooBoo23
2003-12-02 4:06:29 PM  
Yep, Elvis IS alive, and surrendering.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2003-12-02 4:25:43 PM  
fired a single gunshot into the game system, disabling it, police said. The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system

So he shot a bullet into the system, did it didn't really go into the system?
I smell conspiracy. Back, and to the left.
 
Sven_Burger
2003-12-02 4:25:45 PM  
We've all wanted to do this from time to time.
 
minoridiot
2003-12-02 4:28:13 PM  
I've always hear the Duck Hunt was more fun with a 9mm.
 
ElCorridor
2003-12-02 4:34:17 PM  
Crazy gamers with guns and anger management problems frighten me to no end.
 
Nun on the Run
2003-12-02 4:37:45 PM  
I always wanted to shoot that stupid, laughing dog in Duck Hunt. Bastard!
 
DownSouth
2003-12-02 4:41:22 PM  
I blame the violence in video games today. Think of the chidren!
 
Ditto
2003-12-02 4:41:38 PM  
I don't know about the Xbox, but the Game cube can take a licken and keep on ticken.
 
Have You Met Miss Jones
2003-12-02 5:36:40 PM  
Perhaps he should get himself an aimbot, yeesh.
 
Gamplayerx
2003-12-02 6:11:06 PM  
Oh, goody. Thanks to Fark, today I learned that there's a registered sex offender living a couple of blocks over, and now there's some loony shooting up innocent game systems a couple of miles away. And I thought I lived in a safe neighborhood.
 
dmd8605
2003-12-02 7:34:29 PM  
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adm_crunch
2003-12-02 8:11:42 PM  
And that, folks, is why I carry a .45 and not a 9mm.
 
TheOther
2003-12-02 8:12:03 PM  
I'm gonna need a bigger gun.
 
Raizok
2003-12-02 8:13:17 PM  
(James Coburn voice-over)

"Xbox... like a rock."
 
LesPhilky
2003-12-02 8:13:23 PM  
It's good to flip out and shoot something together.
 
America is the country of LOVE
2003-12-02 8:14:14 PM  
Thank God no game system was harmed in the incident.
 
JayTheLurk
2003-12-02 8:14:34 PM  
WTF? Did he throw the bullet at the xbox? I want pics of this wounded xbox!
 
adm_crunch
2003-12-02 8:14:42 PM  
I think they meant that the bullet didn't pass completely through the box. It probably did penetrate into it though. :-)

Gamplayerx, I wouldn't worry too much about a registered sex offender until I had more info. Most people immediately think rapist/pedophile, but it's just as likely to be a gay guy who got busted under some BS sodomy law.
 
Nanookanano
2003-12-02 8:15:05 PM  
They mean the bullet did not go out the opposite side of the system and into anything else.
 
C0rf
2003-12-02 8:15:53 PM  
Spent the first four years of my life in Edgewater. Then my folks moved to PG County, much closer to DC. Somehow, this article actually makes me feel safer as a result of their decision. Never thought that'd be the case.
 
germaniac
2003-12-02 8:22:06 PM  
adm_crunch
A .45 has much less penetration (especially into solid objects) than a 9mm. It'a farkin' subsonic.

Why do Americans love guns, but know jack shiat about basic handling or ballistics?
 
littlejoe
2003-12-02 8:22:33 PM  
say "Duck Hunt" 5 times fast....

huh huh...

.i got nuttin'.
-lj
 
zachary
2003-12-02 8:22:42 PM  
Mmmm.... Ghost Recon... where any weapon will penetrate the XBOX... Haven't tried it, but paypal me $150 and I will. AR-15 vs. Xbox
Will video the whole thing and submit.
 
dmeat
2003-12-02 8:24:07 PM  
thats why i will never bother buying a 9mm....waist of time and money.
 
thefuzz1096
2003-12-02 8:24:19 PM  
C0rf...be glad your outta Edgewater, unless of course you moved to Bowie.

Living only a few miles out of Edgewater myself, this story doesn't suprise me in the least...
 
DragoonDM
2003-12-02 8:25:03 PM  
If he tried that with any of MY game systems, there'd be 2 shootings to report.
 
lazymojo
2003-12-02 8:25:55 PM  
When I first read the article, I thought it would be about someone getting pissed about losing a game to the computer and then shooting it.

I started to remember a kid I knew who smashed his nintendo with a hammer (also disabling it) after the computer beat him with a complete BS 99-yard-run on tecmo super bowl. His guy got blocked at the line of scrimmage and knocked down. The AI was so stupid that none of the other defenders could catch up to the RB (Thurman Thomas) No Angle of Pursuit!!

Ah, those were the days. I remember video game frustration as being anger like none other because you couldn't do anything about it. You can't really beat up the computer.
 
LesPhilky
2003-12-02 8:25:56 PM  
Why do Americans love guns, but know jack shiat about basic handling or ballistics?

I disagree, I think your average American knows a lot about em. Then again, I grew up in the South, so it goes hand-in-hand with learning the story of little baby Jesus.
 
LesPhilky
2003-12-02 8:27:47 PM  
The surprise is that this guy is toting a handgun in Maryland, where such devices are treated like lepers by state politicians.
 
FarkinFarker
2003-12-02 8:32:10 PM  
It didn't penetrate because the XBox is so HUGE! It's gigantic!
 
dbs
2003-12-02 8:35:23 PM  
Gah... GIS for "Duck Hunt" is no good at all.
 
haplo53
2003-12-02 8:37:38 PM  
[image from thehollywoodstore.com too old to be available]
"Richie loved to use .22s because the bullets are small and they don't come out the other end like a .45. See, a .45 will blow a barn door out the back of your head and there's a lot of dry cleaning involved, but a .22 will just rattle around like Pac-Man until you're dead."
 
Antimatter
2003-12-02 8:37:53 PM  
Xbox's are bulletproof? That should be on the product specs somewhere.
 
Xieflow
2003-12-02 8:46:02 PM  
I had a friend who took a hammer to an X-Box. He beat away at the thing: NO visible sign of damage on the outside. He opened it up and the hard drive was all bashed up.

That X-Box case is damn tough...

fired a single gunshot into the game system, disabling it, police said.

For some reason, that sentence made me laugh...

I could just imagine the follow up story.

"X-Box taken to local hospital. Will never be able to walk again. Little Johnny cries."
 
dopesniffingrhino
2003-12-02 8:50:28 PM  
The 9mm gunshot did not penetrate the system

So the month they spent getting Linux to boot on it was not entirely wasted.
 
Good_Moleman_To_You
2003-12-02 8:53:33 PM  
My cousin and I played Halo in two-player co-op mode and we almost beat it. We ran out of time (I was there on vacation and had to go home) just before we could finish, though.

On a side note, I've never destroyed a console, but the vibration function in my PS2 controller is pretty crapped out and I blame Twisted Metal: Black. I'm surprised the controller still works after all the times I threw it on the floor in utter frustration. Still a fun game, though :)
 
Valentino
2003-12-02 8:55:27 PM  
germaniac- standard .45 rounds are not subsonic (although i'm sure you can find subsonic rounds for use with a suppressor)...you know that REALLY loud noise when you fire one? oh wait, you probably never have....
 
MadSkillz
2003-12-02 8:56:38 PM  
The bullet didn't penetrate the xbox because it's protected by supernatural enchantments! Proof that microsoft dabbles in the black arts!
 
djplaidyak
2003-12-02 8:57:43 PM  
Ditto, that vid rox0rz my box0rz! Did you see the (I think Game Informer) article where they flushed a GBA in a toilet and three days later it came back on? They named it "Jesus."

LOLORZ!!!11
 
adm_crunch
2003-12-02 9:00:26 PM  
A .45 has much less penetration (especially into solid objects) than a 9mm. It'a farkin' subsonic.
Why do Americans love guns, but know jack shiat about basic handling or ballistics?

Oh, lighten up, germaniac. It was a freakin' joke. I couldn't tell you right off which penetrates better, but the .45 does have more energy in ft-lbs. And I know quite a bit about firearms handling and ballistics, thank you very much.

By the way, I did a quick search, and here's a link to some penetration test data on 9mm vs .45ACP. In this particular test, the .45 ammo penetrated further into sand, so...um...there! ;-P hehe

Test Data
 
BigNick
2003-12-02 9:06:40 PM  
[image from cmt.com too old to be available]

"Bubba shot the X-box last night"
 
gromitcu
2003-12-02 9:07:38 PM  
germaniac Uh, bzzt. Wrong, but thanks for playing!

Muzzle energy:
9mm Ultra 350 ft-lbs
9mm Parabellum (9mm Luger) 364 ft-lbs
.45 ACP 373 ft-lbs
.45 Colt 497 ft-lbs
.45 Winchester Magnum 1227 ft-lbs

Okay, so the .45 ACP is *slightly* slower, but still supersonic - adn all that really matters is energy anyway.

(Refer to http://matrix.dumpshock.com/raygun/basics/casedata.html for full chart data.)
 
Werbal_Kint
2003-12-02 9:23:18 PM  
It was an X-box? He was doing us a favor.
 
Deuce
2003-12-02 9:29:02 PM  
Sure he wasn't playing Simpsons: Hit and Run?

Friggin' Cletus and his friggin' flatmeats, I'll teach that friggin' cracker to make me chase after him...bastards...they'll pay, they'll all pay...
 
Wopat
2003-12-02 9:33:12 PM  
Ah, those were the days. I remember video game frustration as being anger like none other because you couldn't do anything about it. You can't really beat up the computer.

Never do I get more angry than when playing Fuzion Frenzy. Fortunately, the ones perpetrating the villainy ususally happen to be my friends, so I can hit them.
 
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