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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 11:33 AM Apr 2019

Pals Took Turns Shooting Each Other - Arkansas Nitwits

Just two guys testing out a bullet-proof vest and, yes, booze was involved. I guess this proves that Florida man (men) have competition in the good ole' South.

"Two Arkansas men took turns shooting one another while wearing a bulletproof vest, according to police who arrested the pair for felony assault.

As detailed in a probable cause affidavit, Charles Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were drinking Sunday night on the back deck of Ferris’s residence when they came up the bright idea to shoot themselves.

Ferris, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, told Hicks to shoot him, according to the affidavit. Hicks obliged, firing a single round from a .22 caliber rifle into Ferris’s chest. While the vest stopped the bullet, Ferris was left with a painful welt on his chest.

Hicks then donned the vest.

Ferris, who would later tell cops that he was “pissed” about being shot, confessed that he “unloaded the clip” into Hicks’s back. None of the five rounds penetrated the protective vest, investigators noted, but Hicks “was bruised from them hitting him"

And the article goes on about them and their efforts to explain to the cops what they were doing - Funny, sad and disturbing

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/arkansas-idiots-670389

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Pals Took Turns Shooting Each Other - Arkansas Nitwits (Original Post) packman Apr 2019 OP
Good Grief... calimary Apr 2019 #1
Finally Florida Man has competition . . . nt flamin lib Apr 2019 #2
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