Reply #96: I wouldn't take mythbusters as gospel

[kristopher]

From what I've heard of the Mythbuster segment, they shot a weighted target that was hanging from a hook. That is significantly different than a 200lb person balanced on their feet being the recipient of an unexpected hammer blow to the chest.

I don't have highspeed so I don't know their tests, but frequently their proofs are extremely limited in scope. For example, in this case, do they test soft vests without plates? That is what cops usually wear in daily duty and it is what Watson's video showed a bullet being pulled out of. If there had been a plate, it would have distributed the impact in a much different manner.

This is reposted from one of OK's earlier posts. Are you saying this report is a lie because of the mythbuster segement?
If not, then how do you reconcile the two?

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D6...
Police Badge and Vest Stop Slugs Fired at Two Officers
By JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.
Published: June 11, 1991

Two police officers were shot in the Bronx yesterday, apparently by a deranged man who had attacked another officer minutes earlier and stolen his gun, the police said. Neither officer was seriously injured because their bulletproof vests stopped the slugs.

The gunman, identified as Everton Brown, 33 years old, of 125 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, was arrested after he emptied the stolen .38-caliber service revolver at seven officers from the 44th Precinct who were chasing him up a staircase, the police said.

"A shot went off," Officer Peter Segreti, one of the officers chasing the suspect, said. "When we got to the second floor, the officer was lying down, saying 'I'm shot! I'm shot!' It looked like a war. He was lying there and they pulled him out of the line of fire."

One of the bullets hit Officer Alberto Morales, 35, squarely in his badge, twisting the metal shield but failing to penetrate the Kevlar vest underneath. Another officer, Patrick Rodriguez, 24, was struck low in the right side of his chest and knocked down. Though the vest stopped the slug, Officer Rodriguez was admitted to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center for observation.