HEY, LET'S TEST OUT THIS FLAK JACKET!

Three friends, all in their late teens, gathered Saturday at a cabin owned by one of their parents near Branched Oak Lake in Nebraska. One of three had purchased a Vietnam-era flak jacket at a secondhand store. They fired a .22-caliber pistol at it, and it stopped the bullets. What’s the next logical step? One of the guys – 19 years old – decided he would don the vest and have his friend shoot at it. To absorb some of the shock, he put a pillow between his body and the flak jacket. He turned his back to his friend. His friend fired the gun… and missed, hitting his buddy in the buttocks. He was taken to a hospital in Lincoln for treatment.
* Lucky he wasn’t brain damaged.
* He’s an a-hole, AND he got a new hole in his “a”.
* I hope the road was bumpy on the way out from the lake.
* Teenagers, alone at a parent’s cabin, firearm. Of COURSE it wan’t going to end well.
* So shooting squirrels isn’t fun anymore?
* More proof human male brains don’t develop mature judgment until the mid-20’s.
* The pillow was a nice touch. That would have helped a lot.