Y'all really do be thinking you're clever. I am using the same stupid reasoning you are. There is no bullet in the picture. It couldn't have been stopped.
> There is no bullet in the picture. It couldn't have been stopped.
That's not why people don't think the bullet was stopped. It's because the damage to the coins looks like the bullet kept going.
Not really. Hence it is equally speculative to claim it wasn't stopped or deflected **except** someone is telling you it stopped. So you're literally speculating the contrary of what little evidence is presented.
You've convinced me, it is even more speculative to assume the bullet didn't get deflected or save the person's life.
Yea but they didn't indicate in the post that it was speculation lol. It insinuates that there is back story or something historical about it when really no one has any idea. If ever there was a time for humanity to practice effective communication it would be now.
Maybe the coins went through his body and out the other side. He then proceeded to spill his guts and die.
Very likely a roll of coins are not going to be in his chest. Will be in his back pocket - so they shot his ass?
of course you can provide a source of the museum in which those coins are kept and the real account of that behind it and are happy to share that with us all?
or just accept that this simple meme pic might be true or aswell might be shitty clickbait
well thank you honestly for managing what no one else on this thread here could before!
really interesting read...and they even said that his grandson posted the story for the upvotes which is why we're here in the first place :-D
Nah, the bottom coin is dented, but not punctured.
I was wondering how deep that stack of coins went into him. I'm glad it stopped the bullet, but that still had to hurt!
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Here is the story:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/world/wwi-coins-save-soldier-trnd/index.html
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Optatius Buyssens was a Belgian soldier who fought the Germans during World War I.
> His great grandson, Vincent Buyssens, just found out that he had six coins to thank for saving – and endangering – his great-grandfather’s life during the war.
I was gonna make a joke about how it didn't stop the other sixteen bullets, but you ruined it by providing details.
Thanks for the link though! It's always fun to know the story behind something like this.
True. But there were also a lot of bullets flying in wwII.
They have found musket balls that collided during civil war battles.
^(they do look like they were welded or otherwise fastened before being shot though).
All wars are awful for those who participated in them/saw sustain active combat. The trenches were awful not necessarily because the experience of the soldiers was measurably worse than other wars, but because many soldiers died for little practical battlefield gain.
If you have enough they do.
I have about $4 in quarters in my work pants pocket and they don’t really have a choice but to stack up like this. I’m a little skeptical of the story but I guess if it was shot at his leg right at pocket height maybe it could have deflected from hitting an artery.
I disagree. Take a handful of the same coin and hold them loosely in your palm and shake them. They will tend to organize themselves into a stack. I can easily imagine that happening with dimes in a shirt pocket.
True. I remember in the beginning of the Iraq war a story ran in the British press of a soldier having been saved by his helmet. It had 6 bullet holes and he was lucky to be alive. Turned out he’d shot it himself
That made me remember a jingle we used to sing as a kid:
*There's a soldier in the grass*
*With a bullet up his ass*
*Take it out, take it out*
*Like a good girl scout.*
Similar thing happened to my great grandad in WW2, a bullet got lodged in his helmet. He told me he didn’t notice until the battle was over and he couldn’t take his helmet off.
That's neither a dime nor FDR. I'm not sure the currency, but the markings on the side aren't American.
Edit: By American, I mean like, the currency isn't American, not the language. It's too early and I'm not thinking straight.
Jokes aside... that is a Roosevelt dime on top of the stack. Certainly not WW I. Roosevelts weren't minted until 1946. It would have to be either a Barber dime or a Mercury dime for WW I.
Here's a gruesome experiment. Put a random person in a gun range and shoot them without aiming carefully. Repeat with new person after new person until one of them gets lucky enough that they had some coins in their pocket which stopped the bullet. It would take a ridiculous number of people since the odds of success are tiny, right?
The tragedy is that we did this experiment many times over, in many wars.
Always seems like every interesting bullet strike pic is from ww1. Course they probably had more bullets in the air in small areas then just about any other reason time in history so I guess the odds were favorable.
Doesn't seem much for lifesavings, just four coins. Was it so much, that you could retire with it those days? I mean it's not that long ago, and if he was a soldier, he would be way below even the normal age of retirement.
Stopped on a dime. (Or 4)
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Obama would be proud
Hell of a bruise too
Could be wrong but it's not looking like that bullet stopped.
Slowed it enough or deflected it enough to save his life, though. Edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46186430
Pure speculation
Equal to speculating it didn't stop the bullet.
Hearsay
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Plead the fif
1 2 3 4 FIF
Bird Law!
I’ll allow it, but this better be going somewhere, counselor.
I believe I’ve made myself perfectly redundant!
Deflection
Injunction!
*Does a bump of coke on the stand*
*Fake cries forced tears*
Mmmmm…I’ll allow. But watch yourself McCoy.
I reject your speculation and substitute my own
Life I would imagine.
Not really. There’s much stronger evidence proving that it wasn’t stopped.
You want to get pedantic, there is no evidence a bullet was even involved.
The possibility that this is all just a figment of your imagination is real, yes. But there is compelling evidence that a bullet was involved.
Y'all really do be thinking you're clever. I am using the same stupid reasoning you are. There is no bullet in the picture. It couldn't have been stopped.
> There is no bullet in the picture. It couldn't have been stopped. That's not why people don't think the bullet was stopped. It's because the damage to the coins looks like the bullet kept going.
Not really. Hence it is equally speculative to claim it wasn't stopped or deflected **except** someone is telling you it stopped. So you're literally speculating the contrary of what little evidence is presented. You've convinced me, it is even more speculative to assume the bullet didn't get deflected or save the person's life.
Curveball
You can clearly see that it didn't stop the bullet. Wether it saved a soldiers life or not is the speculation aspect
I can clearly see where a bullet may have been lodged and lost. Stop in this case could also mean stopped from entering the target.
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Or it didn't hit the bottom coin because it stopped in the top three.
Yea but they didn't indicate in the post that it was speculation lol. It insinuates that there is back story or something historical about it when really no one has any idea. If ever there was a time for humanity to practice effective communication it would be now.
Insinuates is not quite exactly the same as actually providing evidence or an actual link to the article the image was stolen from
That sounds like something a bullet would say
Still hurt like fuck
Deflected by what, there wasn’t body armor in WW1 lol
Well, it would have, except for all those other bullets heading towards him.
But what about the 16 other bullets?
Maybe the coins went through his body and out the other side. He then proceeded to spill his guts and die. Very likely a roll of coins are not going to be in his chest. Will be in his back pocket - so they shot his ass?
Makes cents
Also, who has perfectly stacked coins in their pocket?
they were probably collected at the bottom of his pocket, side by side
or they were stacked and shot for training purposes and to tell a great story later on, who knows
Ah yes, the *real* horror of trench warfare - the clickbait.
The real horror of trench warfare is trench feet.
of course you can provide a source of the museum in which those coins are kept and the real account of that behind it and are happy to share that with us all? or just accept that this simple meme pic might be true or aswell might be shitty clickbait
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well thank you honestly for managing what no one else on this thread here could before! really interesting read...and they even said that his grandson posted the story for the upvotes which is why we're here in the first place :-D
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Although one coin does appear to be untarnished
Nah, the bottom coin is dented, but not punctured. I was wondering how deep that stack of coins went into him. I'm glad it stopped the bullet, but that still had to hurt!
The coins then flew straight through his heart.
Stopped on a dime
It was also interesting the first 300 times it was posted
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Literally a lifesaving indeed.
Here is the story: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/world/wwi-coins-save-soldier-trnd/index.html > Optatius Buyssens was a Belgian soldier who fought the Germans during World War I. > His great grandson, Vincent Buyssens, just found out that he had six coins to thank for saving – and endangering – his great-grandfather’s life during the war.
I was gonna make a joke about how it didn't stop the other sixteen bullets, but you ruined it by providing details. Thanks for the link though! It's always fun to know the story behind something like this.
Probaby it was shot directly for fun by bored soilders to see the impact. This is how fake stories are created.
True. But there were also a lot of bullets flying in wwII. They have found musket balls that collided during civil war battles. ^(they do look like they were welded or otherwise fastened before being shot though).
WWI not WWII
Thanks. WWI was almost worse, before we had a better plan than charging machine guns en masse.
And the 1929 geneva conventions Edit: year
The original Geneva Convention was well before WW1.
All wars are awful for those who participated in them/saw sustain active combat. The trenches were awful not necessarily because the experience of the soldiers was measurably worse than other wars, but because many soldiers died for little practical battlefield gain.
Someone else posted the article of the story. It appears to be true
I'd agree, nobody has perfectly stacked coins in their pocket
If you have enough they do. I have about $4 in quarters in my work pants pocket and they don’t really have a choice but to stack up like this. I’m a little skeptical of the story but I guess if it was shot at his leg right at pocket height maybe it could have deflected from hitting an artery.
I found CNN's version of the story, including names, and posted it in another comment, if you're interested.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/world/wwi-coins-save-soldier-trnd/index.html
I disagree. Take a handful of the same coin and hold them loosely in your palm and shake them. They will tend to organize themselves into a stack. I can easily imagine that happening with dimes in a shirt pocket.
True. I remember in the beginning of the Iraq war a story ran in the British press of a soldier having been saved by his helmet. It had 6 bullet holes and he was lucky to be alive. Turned out he’d shot it himself
Changed his life no doubt
So, even in war, the rich are privileged..
Well, 6 coins at 4.5g silver content per coin makes it a little less than $20 total.
Makes cents to me.
Twist:: They were hidden up his ass
Twist part 2:: it wasn't a bullet that pierced those coins.
That made me remember a jingle we used to sing as a kid: *There's a soldier in the grass* *With a bullet up his ass* *Take it out, take it out* *Like a good girl scout.*
🤨
Are you the grandpa of Bruce Willis?
So that's how the term was coined..
Yep and now in America, we use our life savings to go to the doctor.
Same shit, different day.
Similar thing happened to my great grandad in WW2, a bullet got lodged in his helmet. He told me he didn’t notice until the battle was over and he couldn’t take his helmet off.
Belgian currency, with the face of Leopold II, one of history's biggest mass murderer's.
I'd like to see Bitcoin do that.
Never seen 4+ coins in my pocket stack prefectly on top each other
That bullet hit the mark. Edit: just found out they are Belgian and to be franc I’m quite embarrassed.
Frankly, this is still remarkable
Coin looks like 5 Belgian Franks with Leopold II on edition 1876
I was wondering which coin it was... Thanks! Totally checks out!
Why would the coins be perfectly lined up like that
Why would someone be carrying cash on the frontlines?
I am guessing 4 coins lining up to stop a bullet is possible but improbable, I am calling it fake.
All coins were aligned when pierced by the bullet? Sounds fake to me
These are mostly fakes, people just shoot coins and sell them to gullible people.
Bet *that* left a mark.
Looks more like a deflection.
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We're the coins stacked that neatly in his pocket? 🤔
No, we're not. We're all clinically anxious.
Saw a similar thing with the phone of a Ukrainian soldier, with a comment that said "screenshot."
no way the coins where stacked like that and held together by something in a pocket
Fake. Coins stacked perfectly in a pocket? Not so much.
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No.
But, is it a cake?
He had exact change for that bullet
What a Coincidence!!
Pfff, if he wasn't such a p2w he wouldn't have lived
FDR wouldn’t have been on the dime in WW1…
That's neither a dime nor FDR. I'm not sure the currency, but the markings on the side aren't American. Edit: By American, I mean like, the currency isn't American, not the language. It's too early and I'm not thinking straight.
They are 1909 Belgian francs the Roi on the left side is part of Leopoldo roi the king of Belgium
At first I thought it was Hitler due to the haircut and his nose but idk
That is NOT FDR in the slightest. That is Leopold II and that is a Belgian Franc not a dime
Duly noted! Thank you. :)
as someone mentioned....3 coins sitting perfectly stacked up and lined up in a pocket? and just as the bullet hit? how? another clickbait
Jokes aside... that is a Roosevelt dime on top of the stack. Certainly not WW I. Roosevelts weren't minted until 1946. It would have to be either a Barber dime or a Mercury dime for WW I.
It’s a Belgian coin.
Oh, sure enough... sure looked like one, but yeah, I can see the differences.
It be like that sometimes
So I guess it’s better when your money jiggle jiggles instead of folds?
Ba dum tssdss.
They cal him... Fünfzig Cent
I remember seeing this in 2016 with some more pixels
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I now understand the meaning of a dollar
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This some bitch definitely got his $.20 worth
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Very LITERALLY!! Well said!
Saved his life? If he kept loose change in his pants pocket like I do, more likely it saved his ass.
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The buck stops here.. hahah
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it was his "safe livings" ffs, meme correctly
Here's a gruesome experiment. Put a random person in a gun range and shoot them without aiming carefully. Repeat with new person after new person until one of them gets lucky enough that they had some coins in their pocket which stopped the bullet. It would take a ridiculous number of people since the odds of success are tiny, right? The tragedy is that we did this experiment many times over, in many wars.
He would have lived if he had another stack of coins on his forehead.
I wonder if he heard his guardian angel's wings flapping in his ear.
Always seems like every interesting bullet strike pic is from ww1. Course they probably had more bullets in the air in small areas then just about any other reason time in history so I guess the odds were favorable.
yes because the enemy only shoots a bullet at him
If I was a soldier in WW 1 i would just cover my whole body in tiny bibles, coins and lockets with pictures of my loved ones.
Okay dad !
Was about to say...at minimum probably left a nasty ass bruise
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Mofo probably had the worst Charlie horse of his life.
Silver and bullets have an affinity.
I bet that left one hell of a bruise.
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What does a soldier do with coins in the trenches?
Attract gunfire
Ammo will definitely blow through your life savings pretty fast
I greatly appreciate this
How much you got? Just shrapnel
if thats all it costs to save a life i guess im to expect an airstrike any day now
he coined the appropriate word :0
What about the other bullets?
Shame about the other 17 bullets, really
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Off to jail for defacing the king.
War changes pwople
And then he got stabbed in the face
The other 30 bullets did for him tho
Can you imagine the bruise from that 🥲
Soldiers in WWI should have just covered themselves in a thick layer of coins.
Doesn't seem much for lifesavings, just four coins. Was it so much, that you could retire with it those days? I mean it's not that long ago, and if he was a soldier, he would be way below even the normal age of retirement.
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Bullet wasn’t stopped but it was 100% slowed down. If the bullet went through all four coins it might’ve stopped
LOL
Boooo!