The two began to struggle, and the gun went off, hitting the victim in the mouth, Contreras said. He ran to a friend’s house for help, and the paramedics who treated him told investigators that the small-caliber bullet apparently bounced off the victim’s gold tooth, leaving only some gum damage from the impact and a cut to his upper lip from the ricochet, Contreras said.
The defence rests, with a broad, glittering smile. [Uptown Messenger]
Pauly
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:01 PMThere’s one for the Mythbusters to try!!!
Chewy Bravo
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:24 PMThats bullshit. no way in hell could a gold tooth could stop a piece of lead traveling at those speeds at point blank
Jon
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:44 PMI agree. Even if gold was a hard enough metal to stop the lead buller, which it’s not, the force of the bullet impact would rip the tooth from its roots.
The only way this story could be for real is if the bullet barely glanced off the tooth
Justin Doyle
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:36 PMAgreed Chewy, the surface of the tooth is irrelevant, it could be made of X-men caliber Adamantium and it wouldn’t stop the tooth being knocked out and wedged in the guy’s spine.
Unless the tooth also had Adamantium bracing reaching into the skull to reinforce it?
I’m guessing that the angle of the bullet was VERY shallow and the gold surface is just an interesting, but largely irrelevant detail.
Mr Biggles
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 1:27 PMCome on guys, it’s obvious the bullet in question was made from cream cheese.
yrrnn
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 3:09 PMNah the cream cheese bullet is just a myth, mythbusters did it on the same episode as the ice bullet.
James
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 4:53 PManyone who has gold teeth for show needs a bullet in the head anyway. It’s a shame a deflection happened. His brother was probably trying to kill him because he was a douche.
James Carson
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 11:13 PMuhmm, dude, some old ppl have gold crowns on their teeth cos they got them done in the days b4 porcelain was (relativly) cheap