Marine walks away from headshot

[ProudNissanFreak]

http://online.wsj.com/article/...front

[hannibal]

Amazing! And back at his post in an hour!

[bmike818]

This story made my day!!!!

[numbnuts240]

that dude is bad a**

[flohtingPoint]

wtfhax!

[r34 gtr]

He must eat lightning and crap thunder!

Glad to hear he is okay! Rock on man, rock on!

[RCA]

Can the internet start a Chuck Norris facts site but for Andrew Koenig?

1) A sniper once shot Andrew Koenig in the head, the bullet bounced off and killed the sniper.

[PoorManQ45]

The curvature of the helmet is designed to cause off angle hits to glance off.

Thank you helmet manufacturer for saving someone's son.

[sentrastace]

amazeballs. god bless him!

[Ace2cool]

That's awesome.

[krimsonviper]

That guy has serious luck in the lag department./consolejoke

[Dattebayo]

The curvature of the helmet is designed to cause off angle hits to glance off.

Thank you helmet manufacturer for saving someone's son.

Read the article a little more carefully...

The reason he got away was because of his night-scope mounting bracket.

[PoorManQ45]

Read the article a little more carefully...

The reason he got away was because of his night-scope mounting bracket.

"Then he noticed that the plate that usually secures night-vision goggles to the front of Lance Cpl. Koenig's helmet was missing. In its place was a thumb-deep dent in the hard Kevlar "

I did read the article. The plate is affixed to the rim of the helmet. The plate was broken, but that's not what prevented the bullet from penetrating. The angle of the helmet deflected the energy away from the wearer's head.

Not saying this isn't a good thing. I'm just saying that people are to quick to proclaim a miracle.

[numbnuts240]

bullet could have very well knocked that plate off.

[flohtingPoint]

That guy has serious luck in the lag department./consolejoke

iddqd

[breadbox]

wtfhax!

Exactly

[dusred]

Not saying this isn't a good thing. I'm just saying that people are to quick to proclaim a miracle.

Once there was a boy up on a high roof and he began to slide. He said "Oh God save me I'm going to fall". Right before he went over the edge his pants snagged on a nail and saved him. The boy said "Nevermind God, I figured it out myself."

[AZhitman]

Not saying this isn't a good thing. I'm just saying that people are to quick to proclaim a miracle.

You really have no clue, do you?

Sometimes the miraculous is simple and in plain sight.

EDIT: dusred gets it - Why can't you?

[krash]

Once there was a boy up on a high roof and he began to slide. He said "Oh God save me I'm going to fall". Right before he went over the edge his pants snagged on a nail and saved him. The boy said "Nevermind God, I figured it out myself."

Dude thats awesome haha. Glad this guy got away, +1 for our troops!

amazeballs.

sig'd.

[PoorManQ45]

You really have no clue, do you?

Sometimes the miraculous is simple and in plain sight.

This person is lucky that the "sniper" was a bad shot. Yes.

But the bullet deflecting can be explained scientifically.

[krash]

he was a bad shot, and yet he hit him directly in the middle of the forehead?

....its not making sense george.....

[numbnuts240]

This person is lucky that the "sniper" was a bad shot. Yes.

But the bullet deflecting can be explained scientifically.

maybe that sniper is the best in teh world. maybe there was a significant enough gust of wind at a specific moment. maybe he inadvertently tapped his sight on something, throwing it off. maybe an ant farted in australia, causing a puff of dust to travel across the ocean to alaska, which in turn made a hiker sneeze, which caused an avalanche, which shook the ground and spilled a cup of coffee in seattle, which pissed off noah, who posted about it on nico, which made a member in afghanistan lol, who fell off their chair, accidentally discharging a weapon, the bullet hits a radio tower, which emits a fraction of a second of static that caused the us soldier to look down right as the sniper was pulling the trigger.

what happened was amazing, just let it go. you don't have to prove everything.

[AZhitman]

This person is lucky that the "sniper" was a bad shot. Yes.

But the bullet deflecting can be explained scientifically.

Science and miracles are not mutually exclusive.

Y'know, you should really consider wearing a helmet. Seriously.

[PoorManQ45]

Science and miracles are not mutually exclusive.

Y'know, you should really consider wearing a helmet. Seriously.

I do. Because it is scientifically proven to reduce the chances of a head injury.

I don't put my helmet on and think, "God, please perform a miracle and let this helmet do its job".

You guys put to much weight into this "what if" bs. We know what happened, and the outcome. From that we can explain what happened. It's not a what if scenario, it's one that happened.

[numbnuts240]

I don't put my helmet on and think, "God, please perform a miracle and let this helmet do its job".

and you put way too much faith in something manufactured out of your sight and by someone else. think toyota...

[AZhitman]

You guys put to much weight into this "what if" bs. We know what happened, and the outcome. From that we can explain what happened. It's not a what if scenario, it's one that happened.

You're like arguing with my 13-year old.

EVERYTHING is explainable to some level or another.

By your logic (or lack thereof), heart surgery isn't a "miracle". It IS to someone whose life is extended by it. Because 100 years ago, that person would have died.

I suppose you'd think it was a miracle if he WASN'T wearing a helmet, the bullet glanced off his skull, and he survived?

Science and physics could explain that, too. What then?

Just because a thought comes into your head doesn't mean it should travel to your keyboard.

[AZhitman]

I don't put my helmet on and think, "God, please perform a miracle and let this helmet do its job".

If you were a soldier, you would.

Most headshots (helmet or not) don't end well. But you wouldn't know that, as you're too busy being the all-knowing debunker of miracles.

[wa-chiss]

If you were a soldier, you would.

Most headshots (helmet or not) don't end well. But you wouldn't know that, as you're too busy being the all-knowing debunker of miracles.

Exactly. It was a miracle the bullet hit the Night Vision bracket. A bracket with less forward area than a credit card on a helmet worn by a soldier probably 800 or so meters (give or take as distance wasn't stated) away from the sniper. You can do the physics all you want, but physics won't tell you why the sniper shot at a certain point of time and at a certain target. The unexplained reason "why" he was inclined to shoot and "when" he shot can not be calculated. Thus a miracle. An event or action that is amazing, extraordinary, or unexpected. (Bing dictionary)

[RCA]

I suppose you'd think it was a miracle if he WASN'T wearing a helmet, the bullet glanced off his skull, and he survived?

Science and physics could explain that, too. What then?

Well a bullet glancing off a helmet designed for situations like this is more likely then a bullet glancing off of a persons skull. I guess PMQ is using probability to explain his point that it wasn't a supernatural occurrence.
Modified by RCA at 4:13 PM 2/17/2010

[PoorManQ45]

By your logic (or lack thereof), heart surgery isn't a "miracle". It IS to someone whose life is extended by it. Because 100 years ago, that person would have died.

So you're saying that the surgeon that has been practicing medicine for probably atleast 10 years had no part in it?

Well a bullet glancing off a helmet designed for situations like this is more likely then a bullet glancing off of a persons skull. I guess PMQ is using probability to explain his point that it wasn't a supernatural occurrence.

Yes, that is a good way to put it.

Thus a miracle. An event or action that is amazing, extraordinary, or unexpected. (Bing dictionary)

By that explanation, a magician performs a miracle with every trick that is amazing. Those are really low standards for miracles.

My standard would be: Someone walking on water of standard viscosity with nothing but his/her feet touching the water. That would be a miracle.

But according to you guys it seems that it would be a miracle that a boat floats...