Posted on 06 April 2007 Tags: Apple, MP3
Pretty amazing story. This guys’ iPod saved his life in Iraq. He was ambushed by an insurgent on the streets of Tikrit and shot in the chest at close range with an Ak-47. The iPod (an HP 20gb no less), slowed the bullet enough to save his life. He’s probably lucky he was carrying a 20Gig’er and not a Shuffle! Is there any provision in Apple care for having your ipod destroyed by insurgent gun fire? I guess it’s just one more thing for us Apple fans to gloat about.
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April 14th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
bullshit. Coming from the former USSR I actually used to shoot from AK 47 and AK 74. Believe me, no way Ipod and ANY body armor could stop the bullet. It could save the life and prevent the bullet from penetrating the body too far but I would expect a pair of broken ribs at least…
September 15th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Agreed, I’ve seen this story crop up a couple of times and believe me, every time its been proven within a few posts that this story is total crap.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:00 am
This isn’t BS. Notice how it never says that he didn’t get hurt or anything, it just says it slowed the round enough to save his life… not that he didn’t get a puncture wound or broken anything. And senmax, I don’t give a damn how long you were in the Russian army, you say that no armor could protect or stop a round like that… BS! Ever ehard of Dragon Skin or SAPI plates? Both are designed to do just that.
December 5th, 2007 at 5:54 am
I got shot and the ipod saved my life!
January 5th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Dragon Skin is amazing i seen it on a tv program it didn’t even get damaged alot from a grenade while the armour was lying on it
January 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
To the previous poster,
I agree that a 7.62mm is no joke. But I’ve head of Bibles (just the Old testament or New) stopping rounds in this conflict and as far back as Vietnam.
There are lots of variables…Not enough gunpowder in the casing, etc… (Yes I’ve made rounds before hunting).
But they also could have gotten the weapon wrong. That hole seemed of lower caliber. But it was a round. No doubt there. The Media does sometimes make mistakes.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Hahahaha! Typical americans that have seen there military equipment on Discovery Channel. I can tell you that those programs are Bullshit. Please, try a AK-47 and then tell us about military equipment. Ak-47 have one of the strongest fire-powers effects when you compare those weapons. If Dragon skin is that great…why is american soldiers getting killed every day in Irak?
January 29th, 2008 at 12:06 am
your an idiot max…. first off dragon skin is still in development. the show future weapons …. you guessed it are not in use yet… they are in development for FUTURE USE! and please goto school its spelled Iraq …. no “k”.
This story is not crap. I have had a close call when i was in Iraq and had an object slow a bullet down and still break through my ceramics in my armor. Not an Ipod but still possibly saved my life. It was actually a can of skoal and a few letters and pictures from back home that the bullet penetrated, broke through my chest plate in my armor and was brought to a stop on in my skin. I had major bruising and a burn I guess from the hot bullet.
I see this story as plausible and not unlikely .
February 5th, 2008 at 11:24 am
+1 in all honesty…anyone else in any other country(almost) has no idea whats going on in the U.S. and the russian army? are you kidding. personally spit about 350 rounds from an Avtomat Kalashnikov model 1947 (own 1) and put about 70 of the 7.62 through my bolt action m44(mosin nagant)also own an m38. both use the same round. the ak-47 could go through the ipod at close range. but you have to consider what the reporter thinks is “close range”. especially thinking about the trajectory. if the bullet was fired from “close range” directly in front of the man then ok. but from an angle it would have less penetrating power.
im ranting. so long story short. shut the hell up. you dont know unless you were there. (the m44 though,would go through that ipod and maybe his slates) ive seen a 7.62×54 from a m44 go clean through a 16in thick tree at about 140yds.)
February 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
First off let’s get this straight the IPod did jack all it’s just plastic and thin sheet metal more or less, with a nail and a hammer you can go through one with enough force applied but don’t get me wrong it may have slowed down the bullet but enough to save his life not a chance.
Second if you check this link it was his armour which stopped the bullet (copy and paste if need be)
http://havanalion.com/2007/04/08/ipod-tells-soldier-he-was-shot-the-real-story
More pics of the ruined IPod here:
http://lodist.com/showthread.php?t=7681
Oh and yes Max your an idiot 7.62 is one powerful round but to say there is no armour in service now that can’t stop it is foolish but that’s not to say the 7.62 will most likely defeat it more often than not and max the majority of most US causalities are done by IEDs.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
hmmm…it surely isn’t ak…and especially coz it hit the edge of ipod…could be a glock, but shot from far away
February 17th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Oh come on! they didnt day that he wasnt hurt by bullet… it slowed the bullet down
oh and about the russian and the u.s army… idk cause I got 3 more years 4 the isarel army XD
March 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
ak-47 would do much more than that tiny hole at close range
April 8th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
by the way senmax they never said it stopped the bullet all they said is that it prevented it from going to deep into his body and you agreed it could do that
April 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am
But did it still work?!
May 30th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Have you ever tried to destroy an Ipod…I took flying off an 8 story building before the Ipod’s casing cracked in half. (Nano)
Everything may have not been perfect and the bullet would not have full power. I think that the Ipod did SLOW DOWN the bullet enough to save his life.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am
bullshit… ipod n’ ak47… haha,this gun is just too strong,ipod couldn’t even slow down the bullet… there is a true story bout a zippo lighter,but this is crap,peace
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:00 am
what a strange group of people you all are. SO serious.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
an ipod couldn’t even slow down an ak 47 round at close range. That guy would’ve been toast or this story is badly exaggerated.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
1. by the ratio of the hole to the ipod ( i own same ipod and i have a replica of a AK 47 bullet from Russia mind u ) it is way too small to be an AK 47
2. media often exaggerate things
3. the bullet must have been at an angle. Since the bullet hit the corner it must have been going at an angle to go through it, otherwise it would of brushed the ipod away
4. ipod cases are very flimsy. (not nano, my friend’s survived a hammer dropping on it without a scratch ) But the metallic case of a video feels a little stronger than tin. So there was no way in hell that could of actually stopped the bullet. ( the ak 47 is known to be powerful and cheap )
August 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Sry about double posting.
Look at the ipod. The bullet warped the metal outwards but went clean through the circuit board without even popping it out a bit. That board is in there tight! If the bullet popped the case off the board should of went with it.