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[Major Nikon]

[lame54]

1. Is that Teddy Roosevelt's phone?

[True Dough]

2. I would recommend

a Kevlar phone case!

[Hoyt]

3. Results of another responsible gun fancier.

[stone space]

4. incoming...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172200706

[oneshooter]

7. And what would you know about"incoming".

[stone space]

8. Not sure of your point.

Is there one?

[oneshooter]

9. You just prooved it.

Thanks.

[stone space]

10. very odd.

[Duckhunter935]

15. Not really

[stone space]

16. It is, really. You see, I actually know what a proof is. (nt)

[Duckhunter935]

17. I also know what typing on a small phone screen is like

I can figure out the intent of the post

[stone space]

18. your phone problems are not my concern

[Duckhunter935]

19. Did I ever say there were?

Interesting line of attack on me, thanks

[stone space]

20. Does a lack of concern make you feel under attack?

[Duckhunter935]

14. Nice one

[ileus]

5. We need more info...distance?

What did the projectile hit before sinking into the edge of the phone.



Pretty interesting to say the least.

[Flyboy_451]

6. I'd lay 10 to 1 odds on it being fake.

Look at the bullet. There is no engraving from the barrel rifling on the bullet. Do a google image search for fired bullet. You'll see what I'm talking about, if you are not already familiar.

JW

[appal_jack]

11. Visible sealant too.

Wouldn't the red sealant burn off of a fired bullet?

Plus, it looks like a rifle round to me: something that pass through a phone and keep traveling for quite a while.

-app

[JonLP24]

12. Bullet appears to fit perfectly though

Could it be ricochet?

[Flyboy_451]

13. Still doesn't explain the lack of rifling engraving.

Bullets are typically .001 inches larger in diameter than the groove diameter of a rifled barrel. The bullet gets quite a squeeze as it passes down the bore. The lands of the rifling (the raised portion) leave very visible imprints on a fired bullet.

JW

[appal_jack]

21. Could be done in two easy steps:

1) Pull bullet from cartridge with pliers.

2) Set phone on wooden bench, grab hammer, hammer bullet into phone.

If it was a ricochet, the bullet would be even more misshapen. Once bullets hit things, they deform.

I don't know anything about this picture, so my post is just conjecture. But I'll bet dollars to donuts that my conjecture is likelier than a bullet being fired through a rifle barrel, striking that phone, and resembling that picture.

-app

[ManiacJoe]

22. That picture has been on the internet since at least summer 2011.

It definitely looks like it was faked.