[PapayaTapper]

(06-29-2017 12:11 PM)The Beast1 Wrote:  

Who the hell names their kid Monalisa? I heard from this news video it was a 50 caliber desert eagle. Ouch.
https://m.liveleak.com/view?i=e2f_1498690602

Still can't find the original video even on Liveleak.

Holy shit...WP is reporting a 50 cal Desert Eagle was the gun used

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...2e43e5ab1e

Quote:

Before Monday, before the 911 call and police investigation, Pedro Ruiz III, an aspiring YouTube star in rural Minnesota, spent considerable time persuading his girlfriend to shoot a gun at his chest.

There would be a thick encyclopedia book between the barrel and his body, authorities say he told 19-year-old Monalisa Perez. The pages, he reasoned, would stop the bullet.

He even had evidence that it had worked once before — a different book with an entrance hole but no exit.

So on Monday evening, the young couple positioned two cameras outside their home and prepared for their breakthrough stunt. They wanted fame, family said, and danger often brings it.

“Me and Pedro are probably going to shoot one of the most dangerous videos ever,” Perez teased in a tweet at 5 p.m. “HIS idea not MINE.”

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It had been three months since the young couple added their vlog, La MonaLisa, to YouTube, where they posted clips of their daily lives and their 3-year-old daughter. They live in Halstad, Minn., a tiny town on the North Dakota border between Grand Forks and Fargo. Episodes featured shots from their home, the car or at the doctor’s office, which is where Perez revealed in May that she was pregnant with a boy.

Their shtick, though, was pulling minor pranks: doughnuts with baby powder instead of powdered sugar, feigning paralysis from a grocery store wheelchair, hiding hot peppers on an egg salad sandwich. Just this week, Perez posted a video of Ruiz doing a handstand inside a rotating fun house tunnel at the county fair.

But the bullet and book stunt was supposed to be their moment.

“I said, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it,’ ” Ruiz’s aunt, Claudia Ruiz, told her nephew when he shared his idea, according to Valley News Live. “Why are you going to use a gun? Why?”

His response, she said, was simple: “Because, we want more viewers.”

With one camera attached to a ladder and the other propped on the back of a car, the couple staged their stunt, according to authorities. Ruiz held the book to his chest and Perez held the gun, a gold Desert Eagle .50 caliber pistol considered “one of the most powerful semiautomatic handguns in the world.”

From a foot away, court documents say, Perez fired.

This time, the bullet didn’t stop in the book but instead pierced Ruiz in the chest. Medics tried to revive him, authorities said, but he was declared dead at the house.



Neighbors told ABC affiliate WDAY-TV that they watched the scene unfold from afar.

“Everyone was crying,” neighbor Wayne Cameron told the TV station. “I was standing behind that tree over there. And that was it. I just couldn’t take it anymore so I had to go back home.”

When Perez called 911 at 6:30 p.m., she told dispatchers the shooting was accidental and explained the YouTube plan. Later, according to court documents, she said that her boyfriend had been trying to persuade her to shoot the book “for awhile” and she finally relented. She told them about the other book Ruiz had shot, the one that blocked the bullet, and described the gun she fired.

A sheriff’s deputy found it in the grass outside the home.

Perez was arrested Monday on a charge of reckless discharge of a gun. On Wednesday, that charge was upgraded to second-degree manslaughter. She was released on $7,000 bail after her initial court appearance and ordered to wear a GPS monitor and stay away from firearms, reported KVRR TV. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years behind bars.

“They were in love. They loved each other,” Ruiz’s aunt, Claudia Ruiz, told Valley News Live. “It was just a prank gone wrong. It shouldn’t have happened like this. It shouldn’t have happened at all.”


Monalisa Perez, 19, and her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III, at the fair last week. (via YouTube)
Claudia Ruiz described Perez as a loving girlfriend and mother who had been with her nephew for six years. According to Perez’s social media accounts, the young woman was a stay-at-home mom. It appears she controlled the camera for many of their YouTube vlogs and often shared intimate, personal details with viewers.

“Our Vlogs will show you the real life of a young couple who happen to be teen parents,” the description on their channel reads. “From highs to lows. Achievements to struggles. Join the fun, Follow our journey!”

In a Facebook post last week that included the vlog post from their trip to the fair, Perez wrote that they were in the process of making Ruiz his own YouTube channel. His would focus on “all the crazy stuff,” she wrote. La MonaLisa would be about their “family life.”

“Oh man is it going to be sweet!” she wrote.

Ruiz had discussed the book stunt before the shooting, family members told KVRR. Along with Perez and friends, they had tried to talk him out of it.

“I wish they wouldn’t have done it,” Claudia Ruiz told WDAY-TV. “I wish he would’ve just done another prank. He was so young. He had so much going for himself.”


Ruiz doing a stunt at a funhouse at the fair. (via YouTube)
Another aunt, Lisa Primeau, said she “pretty much raised” Pedro Ruiz after his mother died in Texas when he was a child, reported the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Ruiz was always “putting a dangerous twist on everything he did,” Primeau told the newspaper, like jumping off the top of the house into the swimming pool.

“We called him our little daredevil,” Primeau told the Star Tribune.

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The aunts said they all are supporting Perez. They want to name her unborn baby Pedro, after his father.

“It’s a tragic incident. What she did … she has to live with that,” Primeau told the Star Tribune. “It’s the worst punishment she can get.”

I was just joking...certainly no one would be that stupid...right? If you ever shot one (I have) you wouldn't feel save behind an engine block.

This cant be

[Baphomet]

(06-29-2017 08:09 AM)Baphomet Wrote:  

The fact is that we need many many more of these sorts of "accidents." This nation is literally overrun with people whose stupidity is utterly incalculable. It is these people who are breeding like viagra charged rats. (As noted, she's pregnant with this moron's child.)

I'd like to wax philosophical about the tragedy that people so young crave meaningless attention so desperately that they risk their lives for 15 seconds of notoriety. I wish I were shocked that they are so thoughtless, brainless, and self-absorbed.

Instead, I merely shrug at the richly deserved passing of yet another of the countless idiots who seem amazed at their own capacity for moronic acts. Our gene pool is a better place with out them. Sadly, this example of genetic drift has passed his defective material on. Maybe she'll try some other stupis prank to "raise her profile" and finish what already rightfully should have been done.

(06-29-2017 12:19 PM)PapayaTapper Wrote:  

Holy shit...WP is reporting a 50 cal Desert Eagle was the gun used

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...2e43e5ab1e

I was just joking...certainly no one would be that stupid...right? If you ever shot one (I have) you wouldn't feel save behind an engine block.

This cant be

Yes it can be. Both of them are (well, were...) unabashed Darwin Award seekers.

[Atlanta Man]

A 50 cal Desert Eagle will shoot through the bullet proof glass at a convenience store and still have enough power to pass through a human being. Why they chose the most powerful handgun on the planet is beyond me....

[Quintus Curtius]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...

These two fly-brained pudwacks thought that a fucking hardcover book would stop a .50 Desert Eagle round? At close range?

[Mikan]

(06-29-2017 12:19 PM)PapayaTapper Wrote:  

Holy shit...WP is reporting a 50 cal Desert Eagle was the gun used

Go big or go home.

The whole point of stunts is that they're...stunts. You're supposed to rig them.

Get a big, mean looking .357 revolver and put the lowest power .38spl copper hollowpoint you can find in it. Hell, if you know someone that presses ammo, have him make you some .38spl so slow that you can actually see the bullet in the air when it fires. Then do several test shots, maybe consider a piece of kevlar wedged into the back of the book. Make your dumb little video and get your internet points.

For fucks sake, a .50 caliber Desert Eagle.

[PapayaTapper]

(06-29-2017 12:36 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:  

Whoa, whoa, whoa...

These two fly-brained pudwacks thought that a fucking hardcover book would stop a .50 Desert Eagle round? At close range?

The article says (grain of salt taken) they "previously tested" on another book. Either it wasnt a 50 cal or they didnt in fact ever test it. Im guessing the former. The DE has a report thats loud enough to scare the dead. The shock wave alone standing next to one being fired is awesome

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50cal bullet... That just adds another dimension to this stupidity. Well, at least he got his last wish although it came true in a twisted way.

[Rhyme or Reason]

If he was shot at close range with a .50 cal bullet there probably isn't much left of his torso at all...

[kaotic]

If you've ever held a .50 handgun and looked at the size of those bullets I would NOT fuck this those.

A revolver will have more kick than a Deagle .50 but still that's insane to shoot in such close proximity.

Largest caliber handgun I ever shot was the S&W500

[Remington]

So...who's next to try it?

[eskimobobseal]

The left will exploit this to push for gun control. Because we should lose our rights thanks to retarded social media attention whores.

[RoastBeefCurtains4Me]

Wonder if she told him one more, then we'll get ice cream

[spokepoker]

She gave him a shot and he got the bang.
Youtube fame game works!

[Foolsgo1d]

Do did she manage to keep ahold of the gun?

[Simeon_Strangelight]

(06-29-2017 10:36 AM)Roosh Wrote:  

She killed the man she loved WHILE carrying his baby. All she has to do is commit suicide for it to be at the level of a modern Greek tragedy.

I don't think that she needs prison time. The rest of her life will be punishment enough.

It was an accident and that is why the bail is set so low.

But since it was predominantly her boyfriend's idea, then the guy already got his punishment.

[Kona]

She gets probation, and I bet that's it.

Even more so since she's pregnant. Fun fact: If a woman is pregnant and has to go to court to face criminal charges, a doctor will automatically classify her pregnancy as "high risk."

This is because the stress causedmby the very court proceedings fucks with the pregnancy. And guess what, you can't incarcerate a high risk pregnant woman. Not a joke.

Aloha!

[king bast]

If I've learned anything from video games, it's that the desert eagle is one powerful handgun. I find it hard to believe a couple of layabouts like these two didn't get exposed to the same "education".

[Number one bummer]

I have a 50 cal desert eagle. I haven't tested it on books yet. Shooting old law books is good way to test bullet penetration and expansion.

[cascadecombo]

A small part of me wonders if that wad his way out, get her to digit and it's not suicide.

[PapayaTapper]

(06-29-2017 07:59 PM)cascadecombo Wrote:  

A small part of me wonders if that wad his way out, get her to digit and it's not suicide.

Bro

You looking for this?

Drunk Lounge

[cascadecombo]

(06-29-2017 08:11 PM)PapayaTapper Wrote:  

(06-29-2017 07:59 PM)cascadecombo Wrote:  

A small part of me wonders if that wad his way out, get her to digit and it's not suicide.

Bro

You looking for this?

Drunk Lounge

I wish my excuse was that good, auto correct is a bitch.

[fokker]

She'll probably get the pussy pass and wind up on some camgirl site in a year or two, complete with gaudy tattoos and Skrillex hair.

[david.garrett84]

Every fucking time I want to use this, the morons have already reproduced:

[Luther]

I think that they set the book up freestanding for the test shot. When they shot it the book was knocked back, absorbing a large part of the force so the bullet didn't penetrate. 200 lbs of man behind the second shot didn't work out quite the same. These people are dumb, but you'd have two be two complete retards to do it without testing first. I mean too retarded to know how to have a YouTube channel.

[Leonard D Neubache]

^This.

It's incredible the leaps of 'logic' we have to spin to make something like this even vaguely understandable.

I'm guessing that slug was probably closer to 60 or 70 cal by the time it hit his chest. Ironically he might have had a better chance to survive it without the book.

Absent the book a slug that big at such a short distances might have failed to expand properly and given them a few precious minutes to get him to a hospital.