RIP, random battlestation, you served the prime directive:
For a gamer to game, they must actually be alive, above all else.
o7
May Theseus grant you new life.
She heard about the dog firing the shotgun in the truck.
We can’t keep calling every son of a bitch a dog.
but they had that dog in them
Every dog has its day.
Hold up, but I heard the dog days were over?
Every dog IS a son of a bitch but not every son of a bitch is a dog.
Huh … Someone should let dogs who aren’t male know about this.
“I will never financially recover from this”
OMG!
I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.
PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!
Looks like it got a ram bar. Also what would deflect the bullet if it missed everything?
Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!
Jumping in front of the bullet would’ve hurt less!
insurance is paying it out regardless, and the gun owner said if it doesnt, theyd pay it off.
the cost between the gun owner and insuance will probably cover it.
That’s assuming it’s DDR4.
For DDR5 you probably need the extended insurance that also covers Jewellery and Luxury Goods.
PSU, PSUs are still affordable, for now
Anyone who is picking up their pitch forks at the offender needs to read this thread first. Before you unload your rage, consider taking what the victim did as a learning opportunity.
It was 3:30am in the morning when the shot happened. The neighbor who discharged the firearms rushed downstairs to check on the woman who’s PC was shot, thankfully finding that she was not hurt. She was distraught, frantic, and told the PC owner that she will never own a firearm again and pay for all damages. They talked, and the PC owner learned that her daughter just passed away. A police report was still filed, but the PC owner isn’t pressing charges. They’re getting margaritas later together.
Let me be clear that this absolutely does not excuse what this woman did. However, what the PC owner did likely saved her neighbor’s life. You see, at 3:30am in morning, there is only typically one thing people would do with a fire arm, to themselves.
Anyone would be in their right to be angry at this woman after what she did. But the PC owner extended her compassion and became this woman’s friend at a time when she had every reason not to.
What the headline could have been was ‘woman commits suicide after negligent discharge’, but it was not. Imagine if the PC owner was the last person who spoke to her in anger, and imagine if she had to live with that for the rest of their life knowing that she could have done something about it.
This sounds super sus. I couldn’t find the comment where OP said the neighbor was upstairs, but the damage in the photos, to me, looks like the bullet came from the side. And it doesn’t jive with OPs comment in the in the original post.
The police said that the PC changed the trajectory of the bullet, and it would have hit me while I was sleeping if the PC hadn’t been there.
If the shot came from upstairs, where would the PC case need to be to change the trajectory to keep it from hitting you in bed? Hypothetically it could be possible, but those are some weird ass angles to make that work. Unlikely.
With the photo of the bullet mostly intact (I would expect it to be more deformed than that), that was supposedly found underneath the OPs pillow?? That they were supposedly dead asleep on? I don’t think this actually happened. This is a work of fiction.
Its so strange for Europeans to read this because we don’t let Weapons randomly lay around armorized and our Walls are not that thin, that this can happen such as easy as with US paperwalls
There are probably more “Man bites dog” stories in Europe than “Dog discharges gun” stories.
Yeah, sure, you have that. But we have shitty healthcare and poor collective bargaining rights!
Wait…I lost where I was going with this, lol.
I guarantee that whatever gun did this could probably go through most internal building walls in European homes too. It’s a gun, not a nerf dart.
Of course, unless it came in from outside the building. In which case, brick would probably stop it, yeah. I’d probably know if I read the article, but, ya know how it goes.
But yes on that first part.
*Guys, I get it. I appreciate you all measuring your walls for me, but I get it. We can stop now.
Walls between apartments are usually 25cm thick brick walls or even concrete in Austria. Worked in the field. Drywalls are very unusual even inside a flat. Most of the time you have 12cm thick brick walls.
So a bullet going from flat to flat is veeeryyy unlikely.
I’m not from the field - but i’m from Austria ty for your expertise… I was wondering about the bricks comments i have no bricks in Walls and i think the Walls to my Neighbour are thicker then the Walls in my own Apartment… But not sure ofc
I tought it need at least heavyer Military Weapons to shoot trought it from another Apartment 🤷♂️
Small firearms go through ~10cm thick bricks but not through a computer?
Depends on the material composition and number of other objects it went through on the way to the computer.
Bro, unless its a .22 LR, pretty much every caliber is going to go through most building materials no matter where you live. You don’t have magic bulletbroof walls where you live. 😂
Have you ever shot at brick or stone? Yeah, the right caliber will go right through, but it’s not flying through with near the same velocity as through drywall, paint, and dreams , the stuff my walls are made of right now.
I didn’t say different materials don’t do anything, but yeah, a lot of rifle calibers are going through brick. Especially hunting calibers, of which there are a LOT here.
I can’t say for sure, I only shoot skeet and wood targets on dirt/ground-backed hills.
But https://www.atomicdefense.com/blogs/news/can-bullets-go-through-brick seems to say: “Heavier rounds such as a 7.62x39mm or .308 rifle may penetrate the walls of a brick-veneered house, but it is not likely”
I could imagine a higher caliber hunting round going through a brick wall when pointed at it, but it should be rare to have a high caliber rifle loaded with high caliber rounds off-safety and able to be misfired by a child/dog/freak accident.
And in the UK, that’s just pretty much too impossibly rare to be occurring. The likelihood is higher here, but god I wish it wasn’t
I saw that link too, but there’s plenty of footage online that demonstrate brick will not stop everything.
I don’t think a high caliber rifle is less likely to be negligently discharged than any other caliber. In the US a lot of people own hunting rifles. I don’t know the stats compared to other types of firearms, but I feel like that or a hunting shotgun would be the most pervasive, and thus statistically most likely to be used in an incident like this. That’s just an educated guess though, I may be off base on that one.
I dare you to try and shoot through my german 22cm brick wall.
Rifle calibers can go through brick.
No, the firearm was negligently discharged by your “dog,” dumbass.
Exactly, poor defence for negligence.
I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.
The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.
But was the GPU OK? That’s gold right there.
It looks like it’s just some of the RAM and the mobo. The obviously-AI article says they got $3500. The Insurance probably views the whole unit as one item and pays for it all. Unless the owner is a dumbass and says “oh, just pay me for the parts that were damaged and I’ll salvage the rest.”
I would sue the hell out of that neighbor, not just for the PC and the the hole in the wall. And he should be made to turn in all weapons, as there is this incident is proof that he is not up to the responsibility of gun ownership.
Bro, it was the dog.
The dog should turn in all the weapons in that case.
Please! Think of the GPU!
And oh… The RAM… that poor fucking RAM never had a chance… Did it have a family?
If you leave a loaded firearm with a round chambered and the safety off out where “your dog” can set it off, that’s still negligence!
XTREME NEGLIGENCE! Watch this baby pull a pistol out of the couch cushions and SHOOT THE DAD! This isolated, abused teen has access to SEMI-AUTOMATIC FIREARMS because his parents don’t believe in a GUN SAFE! Watch the CARNAGE Carnage carnage!
Negligent Gun Owner Simulator would probably sell pretty well actually…
… the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget.
Uhhhh how much PC does that get a person these days? 2 Gigs of ddr3 ram?
Murica.
The fuck to have a unsecured firearm lying around.
The fuck to even have a firearm.
All those dog open-carry advocates got some splainin’ to do now.
Alpha energy.
Seriously though, jfc, please stop heaping your insecurities on your four-legged friend. They were wolves once, and this makes them contemplate where their ancestors went wrong teaming up with the rock-chucking apes.
This specific dog just had bad trigger discipline. Regular gun owning dogs are good boys.
They’re gonna have to sure that idiot neighbor for the $10,000 that RAM costs.
