|
Wow, amazing story! Thanks for posting and sharing it...
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Did he have applecare?
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Another friend of ours talked to Apple Corporate relations. They may give him a new Ipod.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
id rather have been shot then have my iPod break
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
He deserves more than a new iPod!
He should get that and Macbook Pro!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
That is amazing! Glad to hear Kevin survived.
--
Seen on the Web. (?)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
yeah, esotericeddie, I think a Macbook pro would stop an RPG next time, no problem!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I can just see the commercials now "Hi I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC. And I'm an iPod - owning me may save your life."
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
What a cool story! Best of luck getting a new iPod, It's an HP branded one, Apple won't even talk to you if you have one of those.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Cool, now all we need to do is cover Humvees in Ipods and soldiers will be a lot safer.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
If you show Apple this I'm pretty sure you will get a new iPod for free.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
That's awesome! Good karama to be sure.
The real question is whether it still works or not.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Can a zune do that?
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
that's freaking awesome!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
this just made the main page of digg, be prepared for comment overload.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
The Zune would have shredded into little blue pieces and sent shrapnel through the armor into this guys body, killing him instantly.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
That ipod belongs in the Smithsonian..or.. on display somewhere important.
Great story, glad to know Apple helped save someone's life.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
this is awesome! Nice "shot"
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow, good thing he didn't get a nano.
--
Seen on digg.com
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
optikal: Great story, glad to know Apple helped save someone's life.
...
oic, i got confused there... for a moment there i wasn't sure whose life got spared and whose got wasted with the assistance of which product. hurray for those who fight for freedom!
also, thank you Children Of Bangladesh Or Other Distant Elfin Land for making a superior product. i believe you should now be able to ask your boss for that raise with your head raised high! i salute you and your impeccable craftsmanship.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Glad to hear he's alright. Great story.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
And who knew Apple was in the body armor business? Great story, glad to hear that it saved his life and that he is doing well!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
so cool~
--
Seen on digg.com (?)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
No Applecare for that one, that's an HP Apple iPod.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Amazing. DGC
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
sleepwalking [deleted] says:
somebody needs to make a pool of "things in pockets that have been hit by bullets".
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
if he had a nano or shuffle, no dice
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I hope Apple give him a Mac for his bravery! This is a great pic. Faved!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
OMG COMMENT PWNAGE. Seriously, though, very friggin cool.
[ link whoring ]
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
theskyisfalling [deleted] says:
wow, thats crazy
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Glad he is ok.
Too bad about the IPOD though.
www.bloggingwv.com
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Great story.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I am a flaming homosexual
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Reminds me of Johnny Dangerously.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Apple should send him a free ipod for his service! I bet the other guy had a Zune!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Very, VERY cool stuff.
:)
Good thing it wasn't a Nano!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
yikes.. HP iPod. An apple one would be indestructable.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
amazing! thanks for posting!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow! an HP ipod!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I worked for quite a while as a Mac Genius and we had a gentleman come in with a similar issue, only his was inside his flack jacket so the plastic was completely in tact, while the screen was shattered and the back of the ipod was folded into a V. And yes, the ipod was replaced.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I really hope you all don't believe the case of an iPod stopped a 7.62 round at close range.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I'd say that iPod is definitely shot!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
How fantastic history! But I agree with cassandrasylum, a 7.62 round would split the iPod in half...
Anyway, I like to think this is for real!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Sorry to burst some bubbles about what happens when some things are shot by assault rifles, but plastic tends to melt and deform and metal is malleable.
I imagine the frontside of this iPod either cracked from being constrained by its aluminium sheathing or it expanded and deformed as the round penetrated (and much of the energy was converted to heat). Then end result of heat exapansion is an unbelievable small hole (I assume 7.62 rounds are very similar to 5.56 these are not for hunting, they are for war and generally comply with the geneva conventions). I'm basing all of that upon what I've done to a chemlight with an M-16.
As to the rear of the casing deforming like that instead of shattering... that's just what metals like alluminum do. It looks like it has been shot. However it did not stop the bullet, without the soldiers body armor this would probably have still been lethal (perhaps more so, as the iPod may have consumed enough energy to prevent the round from exiting). Read the story folks:
"It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor."
So it's a good thing the army decided not to use DragonSkin and instead went with a combination of Interceptor body armor and an iPod... a real good thing.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
It's so funny. A man died in this story. And another one nearly did. What for a country do you live in ? Permanent Hollywood ?
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
good for him, doesnt look like the harddrive got damaged either.. he's alive, and he still got all his music.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Great story.
But I hope that the soldier wasn't LISTENING to his iPod when he was supposed to be on patrol.
Shit like that was part of the reason Americans kept getting their asses kicked in Vietnam.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
i wonder if the warranty covers that!!!!!!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
He should get a freeiPhone! This is great PR for Jobs and Apple.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Heh... that's great news...
p.s. It's "iPod" :)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
The picture is cute, but the concept is ridiculous.
The bullet went through the iPod like a hot knife through butter. The vest stopped the slug.
The bullet only hit plastic and alumnimum casing. If it had hit the glass, or better yet, the hard drive platters, it might have been SLIGHTLY slowed. As it is, the iPod effect was somewhere between "irrelevant" and "nothing."
Still, cool memento.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
That's so cool. Good on Apple.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Great story, still someone almost died and someone did die... and we're all talking about how he can get free stuff from a company...
please, just think about what happened for a sec...
ps: I don't now much about guns, but does a bullet fired from an AK-47 leave such a small hole? If this is an april fool's prank, your really sick dude.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I doubt the Ipod slowed down the bullet much more than a very negligible amount. In fact, a car door will not slow down a 7.62x39 mm bullet enough to protect anyone..(www.theboxotruth.com/)
Regardless,
"The Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI) is made of a boron carbide ceramic with a spectra shield backing that's an extremely hard material. It stops, shatters and catches any fragments up to a 7.62 mm round with a muzzle velocity of 2,750 feet per second."
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/interceptor.htm)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
a terrorist died. No loss.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Amazing story!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
@Licor Polo
This is real. The story is directly as it came to me. Danny, my friend, is in the reserves and a no bullshit kind of guy.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
A zune or creative mp3 player would have done better. They're thicker.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
What a load of rubbish, there's just insurgents wandering the streets with AK47's now? The whole point of insurgents is to harass the enemy without being caught up in a pitched battle, otherwise they'd be done for.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Since when did Apple start putting HP's logo on their iPods?
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I'm sorry but this is disgusting. I wasn't a member of flickr, but I just signed up to comment on this story.
A MAN DIED and the commentary on the picture is about how cool it is and how about getting apple to give the guy who killed the Iraqi free things. The "update" that congrats, the soldier is getting a new ipod, while well deserved, he lived through a major trauma, IS NOT THE SORT OF UPDATE WE NEED.
"an armed (AK-47) insurgent" -- I find it repulsive that you are conflating a man with a gun. What kind of man? Oh, an AK-47 man. That's the sort of dehumanizing and othering that lead the current government to get involved in Iraq in the first place. There is NOT a clash of civilizations going on, we're not fighting these people who come from a society completely incompatible with our own in any way. All there is is a lot of money-based politics, rascism and a big ol' white, western-centered worldview.
It's not a "cool story." it's reality.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Sell it on eBay!
wow!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
Pierre Lourens [deleted] says:
Good story. Touching that Apple is replacing it.
@Zoe3012: Be human for a second and feel sympathy for the soldier; the death of an Iraqi (who was not truly helping his own country) is the sad outcome of war. Let's not bitch.
I don't think the soldier was doing this for politics or racism. He was serving his country. I respect his honor more than your arm-chair political revelations, quite frankly.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
a Zune would have taken two bullets.
lol.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Tikigod,
I would love to offer a Kevin a free replacement if Apple dosent offer him a replacement.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I have been asked by my friend and owner of an Apple store to get the name and address of this lucky soldier and he'll send him a brand new replacement iPod. Can you help us make this happen? If you can, send it to Michael at michael.bussell @ gmail dot com. (I didn't put the link just because it is a quick way to get spam sent to your email.)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow, that is amazing. My iPod broke after only being dropped -_-
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
@Zoe3012
Wow...I was real tempted to delete your comment, but I believe in letting people have their say. That being said, I think your comment was insensitive and just plain stupid. Nobody's celebrating the Iraqi's death - We're just happy this guy's alive.
I posted these photos because I thought it was an interesting story. I updated because a lot of people were commenting about Apple replacing the iPod.
Not everything is about money, public relations or getting free stuff, sometimes people just want to help other people out. So I'm absolutely clear - the offer to do something came from a person in Apple's engineering dept. not it's corporate relations(they haven't got back to the friend that talked to them).
Though it may be good PR, the motivation comes from a bunch of guys seeing photos of he product they work on play a part in saving this guy's life.
It's not just Apple, MartyWood above would like to get him a new iPod. These guys are in a crappy place doing a real hard job, if somebody wants to help them out, leave them alone.
The only "money-based politics, rascism and a big ol' white, western-centered worldview" in this post is the stuff you brought to it.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
@Michael and MartyWood
Thanks for the offers. Let me see how this all plays out with Apple. I promise to keep you informed.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Maybe his body armor alone would've stopped the bullet. Maybe iPods aren't really guardian angels that make us complete. Maybe wemakeartwork is an idiot.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
awesome.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
yeah thanks for the great story. Please tell them all to stay safe.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Big up, apple!
A new iPod for the guy. That´s pretty cool!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Best story of the night! I just read about this on Gizmodo.com. Apple should make all their ipods this durable!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
WOW :)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Did he get a new one from Apple?
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Well, next time I go into a warzone the ipod will be my mp3 of choice, maybe I'll carry about 20 of them
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
UMMM.... maybe I'm missing the point here, but forget 'pity about the iPod' and whether Apple replace it or not, WHAT ABOUT THE POOR GUY THAT GOT KILLED? ARE THE US GOVERNMENT GONNA REPLACE HIM??? You poeple amaze me. Shame.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Ipod was shot. No doubt. But I really doubt that AK47 bullet can be slowed enough by that "toy" and not puched bulletproof vest through...... It (7.62mm) can shoot the rail through at the "few feet" distance. There are two options. It was either not an AK47 or the distance was MUUUUCH longer.
Anyway Kevin was lucky.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Save a life present an Ipod :D
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I'm happy for you and your family! Well done!!
But to my understanding, you guys are allowed
to carry Ipod's and such in a war situation???
Wauw....That's way unprofessional or ignorant from my point of view...
but than again i'm seriously happy it saved your life.
peace out.
d.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow! Really amazing!
But what does it mean HP label?
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
HP sold ipods for a while with their logo etched on them.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow! Forget Dragon Skin - try weaving a bunch of iPods to your vest...
http://mungobah.blogspot.com
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
A Zune would have returned fire.
As for Zoe3012, get a life you Leftist witch. That terrorist you're so concerned about would just have gladly cut off your head because you wore lipstick. It''s not about money, or racism, but you are partially correct - it is about civilization.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
This is pretty amazing for a marketing stunt... send the army out covered in iPods.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
This story is pretty awesome. I am considering putting it on the main page of www.d00db0x.com
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I'm sure they'll add iPods now in America's Army (game)
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
if you would have posted advertisements on this page (or hosted on another server which allowed you to do that)... you'd be a rich man by now. 121,000 views! get out!!!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
I really hope people aren't stupid enough to beleive that the iPod had anything to do with saving his life!!!
and yea its nice of apple to replace this guys iPod, but what difference is that going to make to him? Its a friggin iPod, and nothing more!
To be honest I'm a bit concearned that he had this on him in the first place!!! was he honestly considering listening to music while in such a dangerous place?? and trying to be a friggin soldier?
PS: My windows mobile saves me from getting shot every day!!!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
would apple giving iPods to soldiers be kinda an endorsement? sponsoring a war??
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
this is completly bullshit :-s
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
another "zippo" story
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
i bet this guy is going to receive 100 ipods.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
Wow, this ignorance of some people really amazes me. Especially when it's willful; as is obvious by some of the posts above.
Anyway, I think it's incredible and awesome that the guy survived. Maybe an angel had his hand between the iPod and the flak vest. ;) Anyway, tell him he's in my family's prayers. I've had a few friends over there (along with my BIL), and it's a completely unpredictable place to be. You never know who's around the next corner.
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
yea! angel!!! or you know! military body armour? guessing angels only save people who "beleive" tho!
people... logic!
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
|
|
Oh shut up JD. Plenty of soldiers get killed with body armor on. You think any of them dare to walk around without it on??
Posted 13 months ago.
( permalink
)
|
