Wedding ring saves man's life.

[arnisador]

Wedding ring saves man's life (http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/678151,CST-NWS-wed03.article)



Donnie Register has a new reason to be thankful he's married -- police say his wedding band deflected a bullet and probably saved his life.

Two men walked into Register's shop at The Antique Market on Saturday and asked to see a coin collection, police Sgt. Jeffery Scott said.


When Register retrieved the collection, one of the men pulled a gun and demanded money. A shot was fired as Register threw up his left hand, and his wedding ring deflected the bullet, police said.


''The bullet managed to go through two of his fingers without severing the bone,'' said his wife.

[arnisador]

A thread on MT asks whether a ring can be useful in self-defense because of the extra damage it does during a punch, or if it's a liability as it could injure one's own hand! This is surely a different aspect of that question.

[silat1]

A thread on MT asks whether a ring can be useful in self-defense because of the extra damage it does during a punch, or if it's a liability as it could injure one's own hand! This is surely a different aspect of that question.


A lot of the old kajukenbo instructors who I trained with used to wear the nugget rings that had a stone about the size of a small boulder and those were good implements for self defense use when attacking the face and groin because they would scrap pieces of skin and make it easy to remember the people if you were taken to court.

Just a blast from the past

[arnisador]

I know what rings you mean! I've seen them before. Yes, they do seem like they'd make a decent weapon.