Bullet Proof Vest Testing!!!

[brihacharan]

This archived picture initially taken in Black & White in 1923, now rendered in colour was forwarded to me by a friend...


W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923
Briha

[xl_target]

Is that who Murphy's law was named after?
... or is it a demonstration of Darwinian Natural Selection in action?

[brihacharan]

Is that who Murphy's law was named after?
... or is it a demonstration of Darwinian Natural Selection in action?

Briha

[aadhaulya]

What a stupid thing to do........ if true

Atul

[kshitij]

They maybe be bullet proof, fool proof - not so much

[Hammerhead]

Not so much of safety precautions, I mean no Eyes and Ears protection !!!

[dr.jayakumar]

some guts...very daring
regards
dr.jk

[aadhaulya]

The photograph looks fake to me. Even with a bullet proof vest, hit of a bullet will cause some reaction.

Atul

[dr.jayakumar]

The photograph looks fake to me. Even with a bullet proof vest, hit of a bullet will cause some reaction.

Atul

you maybe right...here
regards
dr.jk

[nagarifle]

depands

i have a video of franchis government bodyguards shooting each other with vest on. must be the frogs legs or wine they make

[aadhaulya]

depands

i have a video of franchis government bodyguards shooting each other with vest on. must be the frogs legs or wine they make

Must be a combination of both....

[A-Crossbow]

More detail here - http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/testing ... vest-1923/

[miroflex]

Ms. Annie Oakley, of "Annie Get Your Gun" fame, used to shoot the lighted cigar ends out of the mouths of men who were foolhardy enough to stand in front of her, smoking cigars. This was part of her repertoire in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The German Crown Prince, later the Emperor Frederick, acted as the "target" in one of her shows. I believe she used a lever action Winchester, perhaps a Model 1873, to perform her feats. The rifle and the rifle-woman both had to be dead accurate or the "victim" would have been dead.

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Nevertheless, Murphy must have been quite a man to smilingly absorb the impact of .38 bullets, A lesser man might have been paralyzed by the thought of being shot and felled by the impact of the bullet.