Remember the video 'bulletproof vest test gone wrong'...?

[midnight rambler]

This is the video I'm sure you've seen -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSI_VX534aY

Well, a couple of hours ago I meet Clay, the crazy mother fucker who made the shot, while hanging out at a friend's shop. Clearly he missed the trauma plate which he was aiming for. Yeah, both these guys, the shooter and the shootee had been drinking. lol It was quite a tale. Clay told me "I'm a medic so I patched him up with a maxi-pad and duct tape and then we went to my daughter's baseball game. While we were at the ball game he continued to bleed out and saturated the maxi-pad. So I lent him my truck so he could go home and clean himself up. Once at home his mother started asking him WTF? whereupon Ben got said 'Clay shot me.' At this point his mother freaks out and forces him to go to the ER. Then the cops started sneaking around in the woods around my house..."

Just before I heard about the bulletproof vest gone wrong Clay showed me a recent video of him swallowing a live rattlesnake about one foot long as well as a video of him playing with a water moccasin trying to get it to 'kiss' him...also, Clay showed me the the word 'PSYCHO' that was tattooed on his back...he's definitely out there...he had some other tales to share, no shortage of craziness there, I won't relate what his plans are for his next exploit since I don't want him to catch hell for it (although he allowed he was going to post a video on the 'net while myself and my buddy were advising him against doing so...).

FWIW, Clay advised me that the vest they used had expired 8 years earlier and that the 9mm bullet had passed through all but two threads of kevlar. He also advised me that he and Ben netted $60k from the online video - I had no idea videos could be so profitable.

[collector]

So bullet proof vests expire - as in lose their ability to stop bullets over time?
Does anyone know if that's indeed a fact?

[midnight rambler]

So bullet proof vests expire - as in lose their ability to stop bullets over time?
Does anyone know if that's indeed a fact?

Five years, that's the time that the manufacturers limit their kevlar vests to. Kevlar breaks down over time/usage, and perspiration accelerates the degradation.

[Dogman]

Five years, that's the time that the manufacturers limit their kevlar vests to. Kevlar breaks down over time/usage, and perspiration accelerates the degradation.

Plus uv light also puts the whammy on it over time.

[Ares]

So bullet proof vests expire - as in lose their ability to stop bullets over time?
Does anyone know if that's indeed a fact?

Yep as Kevlar ages its strength degrades. Kevlar is only really rated for is like a 3 or 4 year service life. That includes time sitting on a shelf to be purchased. So always look at the manufactured date if you decide to purchase a bullet resistant vest.

[vacuum]

Yep as Kevlar ages its strength degrades. Kevlar is only really rated for is like a 3 or 4 year service life. That includes time sitting on a shelf to be purchased. So always look at the manufactured date if you decide to purchase a bullet resistant vest.

Sounds like a profitable industry.

[Hitch]

Thank God the shooter didn't aim for the middle, the heart or that Darwin award winner would have dropped on the spot. Looked like a lung shot....yes, if you have a puncture wound that is bleeding...your vest did not stop the bullet.

[collector]

Yep as Kevlar ages its strength degrades. Kevlar is only really rated for is like a 3 or 4 year service life. That includes time sitting on a shelf to be purchased. So always look at the manufactured date if you decide to purchase a bullet resistant vest.

Wow, that sucks but it's good to know before it's actually being used. I guess then a SAPI plate is crucial with an older vest

[Ares]

Sounds like a profitable industry.

It's the nature of synthetics. Kevlar would most likely last longer if it wasn't for UV light, biochemical sweat, enzymes and salt degrading it on a daily basis. If a machine was (i.e. robot) wearing Kevlar it would last longer.

What's really exciting is the development of nanotechnology that responds to blunt force such as a bullet hitting it and stiffening up to the point of impact of impairing it to go any further. Before impact it's a semi liquid. At the moment of impact it's as solid as rock. I can't remember the name of it though. But it looked promising.

[collector]

yeah but we'll never have access to any of that

[gunDriller]

FWIW, Clay advised me that the vest they used had expired 8 years earlier and that the 9mm bullet had passed through all but two threads of kevlar. He also advised me that he and Ben netted $60k from the online video - I had no idea videos could be so profitable.

how does one profit from high-traffic videos ?

i imagine it involves signing some advertising deal with Jewtube.

[midnight rambler]

how does one profit from high-traffic videos ?

i imagine it involves signing some advertising deal with Jewtube.

It wasn't jootube from which they got the revenue stream.

[Norweger]

how does one profit from high-traffic videos ?

i imagine it involves signing some advertising deal with Jewtube.

Google adsense activated in the youtube account.

[iOWNme]

He also advised me that he and Ben netted $60k from the online video - I had no idea videos could be so profitable.

I call bullshit on this one. He has 15 subscribers and 15k veiws. The monetization of videos is based off of subscribers vs views. If you have a video with millions of views and only a handful of subs, you can make money but nowhere near 60k.

There are websites that track how much money channels can make based off of views vs subs.

I had a video that had over 100k views in a month. According to Youtube i could make roughly $30k a year if i continually uploaded vids that got the same attention, and i only have 110+ subs.


Back on topic: Has idiocracy achived FULL RETARD now?


EDIT: I just saw the MR said they didnt use YT for the revenue generation.

[Ares]

I call bullshit on this one. He has 15 subscribers and 15k veiws. The monetization of videos is based off of subscribers vs views. If you have a video with millions of views and only a handful of subs, you can make money but nowhere near 60k.

There are websites that track how much money channels can make based off of views vs subs.

I had a video that had over 100k views in a month. According to Youtube i could make roughly $30k a year if i continually uploaded vids that got the same attention, and i only have 110+ subs.


Back on topic: Has idiocracy achived FULL RETARD now?


EDIT: I just saw the MR said they didnt use YT for the revenue generation.

Liveleak maybe???

[midnight rambler]

Google adsense activated in the youtube account.

The original video by the originators (Clay and Ben) is not currently on jootube, you're looking at someone else's repost in the OP.

[midnight rambler]

Liveleak maybe???

I'll inquire the next time I happen to run into him, however since his life is one big crazy fucking adventure and he's a moving target I have no idea when I'll run into him again at my friend's shop. lol

[horseshoe3]

It's the nature of synthetics. Kevlar would most likely last longer if it wasn't for UV light, biochemical sweat, enzymes and salt degrading it on a daily basis. If a machine was (i.e. robot) wearing Kevlar it would last longer.

What's really exciting is the development of nanotechnology that responds to blunt force such as a bullet hitting it and stiffening up to the point of impact of impairing it to go any further. Before impact it's a semi liquid. At the moment of impact it's as solid as rock. I can't remember the name of it though. But it looked promising.

Non Newtonian Fluid. Like silly putty or cornstarch mixed with wather.

[Cebu_4_2]

More like a vomiting target, not much left besides that.