Feb 20 2009Woman's Weave Proves Tighter Than A Speeding Bullet, Saves Life From PEW
A woman's tightly woven hair weave allegedly saved her life from a gunshot fired by her ex-boyfriend.
The 20-year-old Kansas City woman told police Juan Kemp, her ex-boyfriend, opened fire on her while she was inside her car at a Kansas City convenience store Wednesday night.
Bonds' back window and tail light were shot out, but it is what police found in her weave that is amazing. Detectives pulled a spent bullet from the back of Bonds' head. It had become lodged in her weave.(Hairdresser Kim) Walton said while the weft is the strongest part of the weave and would be the most difficult to penetrate, she finds it hard to believe a weave could stop a bullet.
Captain Brokenheart of the USS Fails At Life and his friend were later arrested. Now, physicists out there: is this even possible? I feel like it had to be a ricochet or something. There's just no way. But, if there is a way, this guy needs a weave!
Woman's hair weave stops bullet [woai]
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News Video [yahoonews]
Thanks to Julian, who once caught a speeding bullet in his teeth but lost a filling.
Reader Comments
1. JFreezy - February 20, 2009 5:06 PM
LAST!!!
2. finfan - February 20, 2009 5:10 PM
WTF!?!?! Did this post appear before the bra one but was posted after it??!?! I'm so terrified... Hold me... *shivers in corner*
3. gizmoduck - February 20, 2009 5:10 PM
PEW PEW PEW
4. gizmoduck - February 20, 2009 5:11 PM
Captain Brokenheart of the USS Fail At Life
...nice...
5. JFreezy - February 20, 2009 5:12 PM
And now a more relevant comment................................
DAMN!!! Her weave must not be normal horse hair! It must be........................... UNICORN HAIR!!!! Either that or the magical pubes from an enchanted forrest elf. Sooooo shiny...............
6. Hens - February 20, 2009 5:13 PM
Dr. Hens says " JABRONIOUS"
7. GPL - February 20, 2009 5:14 PM
That's unbeweavable LOL
8. I'm a Computer - February 20, 2009 5:18 PM
i like how we have to follow the links to find the original story to find them actually mentioning anything about her weave and its ability to stop bullets.
9. I'm a Computer - February 20, 2009 5:18 PM
on second thought. no, i don't like that at all.
10. McFeely Smackup - February 20, 2009 5:18 PM
maybe bullets can be stopped by ugly. It's just a theory...
11. finfan - February 20, 2009 5:21 PM
someone hold me... please *shivers some more in a new corner, but his time it has air conditioning! ^_^*
I WILL NOW DEMONSTRATE MY SCIENTIFICALLY ENGRAVED MIND!!!
PEW+NOM= NEWPOM!!!! OR POM!!!!
NEWPOM POM!!!
12. finfan - February 20, 2009 5:22 PM
Notice how I comment on irrelevant things instead of the post... THIS IS NOT FUNNY!!! IT HAPPENED DOWN THE STREET FROM MY HOUSE!!!
13. K lee - February 20, 2009 5:24 PM
@12
Start stockpiling high-quality weaves, fool! Make em into bulletproof suits!
14. JFreezy - February 20, 2009 5:25 PM
*Brings finfan a bear sleeping bag so he wont shiver anymore* There there fella, there there. You're warm now, shiver no longer.........
15. Moose Knuckle - February 20, 2009 5:25 PM
Are they certain the bullet wasn't just repelled by her hideousness?
16. Pew³ - February 20, 2009 5:27 PM
I would have gotten away with it two, if it weren't for those pesky weaves!
Pew pew pew ©
17. Pew³ - February 20, 2009 5:28 PM
*too*, crap.
fail³
18. gizmoduck - February 20, 2009 5:29 PM
@7
holy cow...i can't stop laughing.
you sir are a genius
19. Moose Knuckle - February 20, 2009 5:31 PM
If a hair weave can stop a bullet, what can the Bacon Weave stop?!?!!?!?
Death itself my friend, death itself...
20. a walrus - February 20, 2009 5:35 PM
Myth busted!
21. finfan - February 20, 2009 5:38 PM
You know its too fun to NOT post here!! *yay I'm warm in my terrifying Bear bag, which on another hand doesn't sound as good as I intentionally planned...*
Bullet Proof hair weave suits eh?
N. Nullifying
A. Awesome
B. Bullet
S. Stopper
YAY!!! NABS IT IS!!!
22. McFeely Smackup - February 20, 2009 5:41 PM
ugh..the new picture is f***ing Shrek II
23. gizmoduck - February 20, 2009 5:58 PM
bean weave...
my brain just exploded.
thanks knuckles
24. Spam Artist - February 20, 2009 6:02 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula stopped a bullet with his heart, his brain, and his pancreas - and did not die.
25. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 20, 2009 6:09 PM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
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7- You made me giggle snort.
If you get to the original article: The bullet went through the back windshield, through the headrest, THEN got tangled in her hair. The headrest stopped the momentum.
Although I like the theory that once it saw that sad assed weave it tried to turn back and run for it's life.
26. Leonidas - February 20, 2009 6:59 PM
I just pulled a 1-up mushroom out of my hair weave (and all the colored girls go "doot, doot, doot, doot-do-do-doot etc").
27. Nee Gnar - February 20, 2009 7:21 PM
Ghetto as F*CK...
28. OtterMan - February 20, 2009 8:01 PM
Otters can weave.
29. judy - February 20, 2009 9:33 PM
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30. Tennist0 - February 20, 2009 10:40 PM
i just saw this on the news!! lol, i would've rofl'd but im tired
31. matt - February 21, 2009 12:22 AM
The bullet was probably seriously slowed during passage through her rear window. Most likely the projectile was fairly low mass and low velocity. Glass can do an amazing amount of damage to even a rifle bullet. A bonded core pistol bullet in a serious caliber would have most likely passed through the glass and through the victim's skull. I
32. Azurise - February 21, 2009 12:41 AM
The bullet took one look at her face and decided to hide in the hair.
33. Steve - February 21, 2009 12:42 AM
I need a weave then. lol
34. martin - February 21, 2009 12:46 AM
@ 31 - most likely, i guess. :D
35. ACORNSTU - February 21, 2009 1:36 AM
fine...
g rated eh??
well
futch u geekologie writer sir!!
i love you with every part of my body
even my p.p.
but i aint ghai
just angry i kaint type likes i wunts!!!!!!!!!!
stfu hatemalers!!!!!!
36. Daisy - February 21, 2009 7:41 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was being chased by a paperboy asking for 2 dollars, and two japanese kids in yellow blazers, one who can only speak like Coward Cosell, so his only option was to race some jerkoff on skis.
37. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 21, 2009 8:34 AM
36- I love you. I was wondering when a "Better Off Dead" quote would make it into your portfolio.
2 DOLLARS! I WANT MY 2 DOLLARS!
38. Watch - February 21, 2009 9:19 AM
he needs to be erased. anyways this story is crazy!
39. AdamYYZ - February 21, 2009 11:01 AM
Allegedly is right. Whoever believes hair alone stops bullets is magically retarded.
40. Gustav - February 21, 2009 11:24 AM
Wtf... Titan Weave would be a suitable name =P
41. Dj Cam Weezy! - February 21, 2009 11:29 AM
sounds like something straight off of the Onion.
42. gongboy - February 21, 2009 3:12 PM
As a physics grad student, the only thing that I can be sure of is that the hairdresser will probably soon be offered a position with Naval Research for her ground-breaking research finding of "Tight-Knit Pew Stopper." Hopefully, she won't be stationed on the USS Fail at Life...
As for the physics behind this feat, I don't know. Probably the same idea as Kevlar. Lots of alternating directions of hair strands will disperse the bullet's energy across the woman's dome skillet, instead of dispersing the energy towards her inner dome skillet. I bet that hurt like heII but at least the PEW was kept out of the inner dome skillet. Phew... I mean PEW.
43. Elmo - February 21, 2009 3:50 PM
wait.... so now, troops in Iraq and.. where ever the hell they are....
will be covered, head to toe.. in Wookie Weaves?
44. gabdar - February 21, 2009 5:28 PM
they should do this on mythbusters...
that is the only way i would even consider it "plausable"
45. Kup - February 21, 2009 9:18 PM
to quote the side kick of the ORIGINAL dark night (a.k.a; bert ward)........'holy Ho batman!!
46. ElasticCassidy - February 21, 2009 11:24 PM
The force of the LOL is too powerful... if only I had weave...
...need weave too stop bullets... and... ROFL....
47. leelily - February 22, 2009 10:33 AM
I have joined the site "C e l e b m i n g l e. C 0 M" someone motioned here, though there are really many certified rich guy and beauties, but I feel disappeared because a girl asked me about my annual income,...maybe she is a gold digger?
48. naas - February 22, 2009 10:49 AM
Oh no he did nnt
49. paul - February 22, 2009 4:39 PM
If it was a hollow-point and the same bullet that hit the back window, it would have lost much of it's velocity and hit her head somewhat flattened. If it wasn't, expect US troops in Iraq to be sporting a new 'do.
50. Right Fury - February 23, 2009 12:37 PM
It mas most likely a .32 or .380. Those are notorious for under penetration/total energy transfer. Homie shoulda used a 9mm or a .40. Dat bitch be trippin.
51. deearebee - February 23, 2009 2:34 PM
screw gun control, getcho self a weave.
52. dar - February 23, 2009 4:27 PM
this is hilarious. i'm going to make my bike helmet out of a weave.
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