Get a weave, it can save your life.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q2qKq7DiAQ

Apparently this lady was in her car when her ex boyfriend started shooting at it from behind. One of the bullets, instead of going into her head and killing her, got tangled in her weave.:har: I guess the Army and Marines can just get rid of their metal helmets and just give everyone weaves.

Wow. Just wow.

There's a patent opportunity if I ever heard one...:yeah:

After thinking about it for a while. I think the bullet may of been defective. I honestly cant see hair being that strong, fake or not.

It depends on a number of factors. They mention it was a .40 cal round, so it proabably came from a pistol, so it probably had a fairly low muzzle velocity. Then there's the range, and the possibility that the bullet struck the window or something before it hit her, which would have deformed it and slowed it.
It might not seem like it, but the hair weave could be pretty tough, too. Modern ballistic armor contains a lot of weaved fibers, and even though hair is weaker, the principle still applies.

I knew a guy who got shot in the head with a 7.62mm round and lived. It went through his helemet, and ricocheted off his skull, so wierd stuff like this is certainly possible. After seeing that crap, I wore my helmet everywhere.:yep:

You ever tried to run your fingers through a weave that's been plastered with 3 cans of spray laquer (hair spray)? If you get your fingers into it, you might not ever get them out again (in one piece, anyway):D

Seriously, I watched this story on local news last night and I think ULC is right, the bullet passed through something (maybe even sheet metal) before it got to her hair. She's still lucky, but I don't think the weave was all that saved her skull.

Man, get Hollywood out of your mind. Guns and bullets aren't the uber weapons Hollywood makes them out to be. The way they portray it is a gun is is only second in destructive power to a nuke.

Many things can actually stop a bullet. Now you are starting to see why a .45 is a better option to a 9mm and a .40.

-S

Actually I was thinking more of guns in the term of real life. When I think of guns in hollywood I think of them as under powered due to the fact you see people get shot like 8 times and still live. :rotfl:

Not to stir the pot, but it's "may have". There is no such phrase as "may of".

I've been trying to tone down my corrections of late, but that one made me sit up and take notice. Sorry.

You and me must not be watching the same Hollywood. They get shot once and drop instantly. In real life, even if someone removes your heart from your body, you've still got 20 seconds to function and return fire.

If it were an AK-47 in real life, I could see getting shot multiple times and living. Statistics show from the crazies that took them into gun free zone shopping malls (Why would they choose this place? Gun free should be your first clue) that with an AK-47, you have a 74% chance of survival. Same crazies that do their work with a 12-guage loaded with buckshot? With only 1 rd expended, your survival statistics go down to 30%.

So why is it that the AK is always the subject when it is of a class of weapons only used in less than 1% of all gun crime? Someone explain this to me????

-S

That's inaccurate. If your heart is destroyed by a bullet, the sudden loss of blood pressure causes a nearly instantaneous lapse into unconsciousness. The same goes for hitting any major artery - if the blood flow to the brain gets interrupted in any significant way, you're going down - and it won't take 20 seconds. At BEST the brain retains 10 or so seconds of oxygenated blood to retain consciousness, but the individual's efficiency would be steadily declining throughout that time. However, that's assumes that there are no other traumatic effects from the wound (which is rarely ever the case).

In real life, the vast majority of people who get shot - anywhere on their body - drop instantly.