Two friends agree to shoot each other in head while wearing kevlar helmets 

Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 11:00 MJA Uncategorized 32

NYPost-

Two pals took turns shooting each other in the head with a rifle while wearing kevlar helmets inside a home — with one man now being charged with the other’s murder, according to authorities.

Sean O’Donnell, 37, was taken into custody at his home in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 17, in connection to the shooting death of Aaron Prout, 34, a native of the UK, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

The two pals were inside O’Donnell’s home — firing at each other with a rifle while wearing the bullet-resistant helmets when Prout was seriously injured by the gunfire. more. h/t Mrs.6Pak.

32 Comments on Two friends agree to shoot each other in head while wearing kevlar helmets 

  6. >>He was from the UK and didn’t know what a gun is.

    “A gun is a type of wand muggles use to kill each other” is literally the only thing young Brits know about guns.

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  8. The NYP article doesn’t come right out and say it, but it sure implies that multiple shots were fired at the helmet(s). A very important thing to know about any sort of safety gear but especially a helmet is that if it has saved you once you’ve used it up. It is no longer fit for purpose, by design. A helmet absorbs energy that would otherwise be applied directly to your skull and brain by delaminating and/or fracturing its structure. If it’s done that once, it no longer has the ability to absorb another hit.

    Motorcycle helmets are among the most commonly used head protectors. If you use one, read the fine print.

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  13. Uncle AL – I wondered about that regarding helmets. One guarantee and done. lol. It’s sort of like wearing a new clean bandaid. Yeah, you can peel it back and check the healing process, but you have pretty much disrupted its purpose.

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  16. Reminds me of the YT videos where some guy shoots a target in front of a dummy increasing the caliber for every shot until the dummy finally gets hit!

    What caliber finally did these two geniuses in?

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  19. Well, that was grade-A stupid.

    When the ‘Fritz’ Kevlars came out to replace our beloved multi-purpose ‘Steel Pots,’ the first thing we did was take them out to the Known Distance Range for some good ole Squad-level 11 Bravo field tests. They pretty much failed out to about 100 meters with 5.56…7.62 NATO defeated them at any range. (We attempted to test a mil svc AK 7.62×39 Com, but couldn’t get the rounds to stay on target past point-blank).

    In the Hot Wash, We unanimously determined that the tried and true Infantry tactic, ‘3-5 sec IMT and duck you stupid bastard,’ would wholeheartedly remain in effect.

    Gotta be something it the air, food, water, or all three, down there. Though to be honest, there is a whole lot of wrong happening in Houston Metro right now. I only go there when absolutely necessary (fully geared up).

    IATS
    TWD

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  20. MJA: Yeah that is true with pretty much all of our protective gear.

    Never took a round to my Kevlar (got pretty good at ducking), but did have a very serious velocity impact with my Battle-TOC APC’s turret 50 mount while ‘hastily’ traversing down a really impressive mountain slope, and later, different mission, a small chunk of mortar/arty frag. They stayed intact, but had to replace, each time, due to SOP structural integrity concerns. Same thing when some buddies’ took direct hits to their steel and composite body carrier plates. Neither penetrated, but bruised the snot out of both…one of the guy’s had a cracked rib, as well. My two experiments initiated me with migraines and a week’s worth of ringing ear syndrome.

    IATS
    TWD

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  23. If he were a gay writer, he might be able to get away with it and be required reading for the next generations. See William Burroughs, who shot his wife in the head while drunkenly acting out a William Tell scenario in Mexico–with his child in the room. Or so one of his many explanations went, before he went on to bribe and flee his way out of justice and go on to be revered as a great author of the beat generation… His son, of course, grew to be a charming and feckless alcoholic/addict/author who died of liver failure at 33.

    I find that story as shocking now as I did when I first came across it. And I have always wondered why self-destructive behavior and suicides seem to be prerequisites for a place of reverence in the arts. When army buddies do this sort of thing, they’re dismissed as drunken rednecks…

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  28. Even if someone made a helmet that was 100% bullet resistant, the helmet still would not be Newton’s laws resistant. Hit that helmet with a bullet, then the inside of that helmet is gonna slam into your skull with pretty close to the same speed as that bullet.

    Clowns like these are the kind of guys who try to take selfies with wild buffalo and insist on feeding the bears.

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  29. The one time I almost didn’t wear my bike helmet while riding to work early in the morning in Sept. 2008, I was glad that I wore my bike helmet, I was riding by Gonzaga University, and the sprinklers were on, and I hit a slick patch with some oil on the road and crashed smacking my helmeted head (I wasn’t hurt, thank God) and bloodied myself up pretty good on my right knee and arm and finished riding the last mile or so to work. I was a bloody mess wearing shorts that day and had to go home and change after I got my truck and finish the rest of the day. I had a nagging feeling in the back of my head that morning of what my kids would think if I forgot my helmet that day, so I wore it anyway. It’s a good thing that I paid attention to that. That was one of the few times that I ever crashed my bike even when I never wore a bike helmet when I was a kid like everyone else did back then. I was at my book club later that night and everyone asked me what I had done to myself earlier that day. I still don’t like bike helmets, but they do serve a purpose especially when I got older.

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  30. That same night our book club was at a friend’s house and the next morning when my friend a history teacher at a local Junior HS was riding his bike to work like he usually did he suffered a massive heart attack that left him in a coma for a couple more weeks before he died at the age of 50 leaving behind his younger widow and 3 small kids. You just never know when it’s your time to die. That was not a good couple of days. My friend was the main instigator of our book club with a lot of my friends from our church who all loved books and had known each other since the mid 70’s. We named the book club (and sometimes wine club) Tiger Ray’s book club in his honor.

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