iPhone 5C stops bullet

[Guest]

I would post this in the News section but you know there are people there who will hunt me down because it's not relevant enough to be news to them and so get sand in their vagina:

Digital Trends

APPLE CARE: MAN SURVIVES SHOTGUN BLAST THANKS TO IPHONE 5C

By Keith Nelson Jr. — May 22, 2015

iPhone 5c pocket

There’s Apple Care and then there’s this. Last October, a British man survived a close-range shotgun discharge thanks to his iPhone 5c.

The shooting incident occurred after 25-year-old Daniel Kennedy confronted 19-year-old Ryan Duggan who, with a group of people, had shut off the water supply to the apartment block Kennedy lived on. Kennedy chased Duggan off the block before Duggan turned and shot Kennedy with a sawed-off shotgun. Kennedy was able to run back to the apartment block and was taken by paramedics to a nearby hospital where he underwent treatment, and survived. The police found an iPhone 5c cell phone in Kennedy’s breast pocket.

The subsequent investigation into the shooting revealed that the iPhone 5c took the brunt of the shotgun blast damage. Detective Inspector Gary McIntyre, who led the investigation firmly attested that, “had that phone not been in his pocket at that time he would undoubtedly have died.” Dropping it on any surface may send its screen into glass confetti, but a bullet doesn’t stand a chance.

Police released a photo of the iPhone that sustained the blast:

Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/iphone-5c-shotgun-british/

I so hope that 19 year old gets imprisoned for at least 20 years. Freaking nutjob.

Also, good that the phone saved him, but who puts a phone in the breast pocket?

[TheMcSame]

"Bullet"... I suppose that's right if you use it very loosely 

[elecxonica]

Somehow this will either be spun as an "apple is amazing" thing, or develop into a flame war.

 

As for the question, I often put my phone in my jacket's inner pocket, which is around the breast area.

[Guest]

"Bullet"

'salty about word choice '

[Guest]

Somehow this will either be spun as an "apple is amazing" thing, or develop into a flame war.

As for the question, I often put my phone in my jacket's inner pocket, which is around the breast area.

Well really all kinds of phones have stopped bullets over the years so it isn't apple specific at all.

[aduman]

inb4 nokia 3310 comments...

[Bsmith]

damn... i guess i found a cheap kevlar replacement

[duriel]

damn... i guess i found a cheap kevlar replacement

 

I do not think that word means what you think it means. 

[flibberdipper]

Not bad.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Bendgate 2.0 , Back with a bang..

 

PS: guy with an iphone get shot, coincidence? :mellow:  i think not...

[theloveablemoose]

Bendgate 2.0 , Back with a bang..

 

PS: guy with an iphone get shot, coincidence? :mellow:  i think not...

I mean there was a similar story where someone with a HTC got shot and HTC gave him a new One i think. 

[KE2012]

I remember when my nokia brick broke bullets. Ah, those were the good ol days.