Bulletproof Vest: Difference between revisions

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** Subverted earlier, when Detectives Bolander, Felton, and Howard were all seriously wounded despite their vests, by an insane gun-nut conspiracy theorist who "probably used Teflon bullets".

** In the non-fiction book on which the series is based, one of the detectives was wounded in the line of duty when he was shot through his department issue vest.

* Leo ~~[[Mc Carthy]]~~ from [[FX the Series]] stated that a bulletproof vest would not help against the sniper that he's trying to catch.

* Leo McCarthy from [[FX the Series]] stated that a bulletproof vest would not help against the sniper that he's trying to catch.

* Season two of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', when Jack, Irina and Sydney were in Kashmir. Jack is shot, is knocked to the ground. It turns out he was wearing a bulletproof vest, but he is on top of a [[Land Mine Goes Click|landmine]].

* A very unusual subversion in the ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'' episode "The Coonskin Cap", in which the police all wear bulletproof vests to persue an armed killer, only for one officer to be ''strangled'' in an [[Locked Room Mystery|empty room]]. Jonathan eventually realises {{spoiler|she was strangled by a device built into the vest itself}}.

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** The effectiveness of body armor is highly underestimated. As [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7321647.stm this] article demonstrates, modern body armor can receive a full-contact grenade blast.

** Many army medics in Iraq reported that soldiers who survived an IED blast would often have shrapnel injuries on the limbs that would stop in a very neat line where their body armor started.

** The latest trend in body armor? Ballistic shorts which provide coverage to the groin area. This being intended to address a [[Groin Attack|major problem]] for troops riding in vehicles that roll over landmines or ~~[[IE Ds]]~~. Various styles are being evaluated, including "[http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/ballistic-boxers-might-just-save-your-tail-1.122993 ballistic boxers]" to shorts made from more conventional body armor materials. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]] abound, obviously.

** The latest trend in body armor? Ballistic shorts which provide coverage to the groin area. This being intended to address a [[Groin Attack|major problem]] for troops riding in vehicles that roll over landmines or IEDs. Various styles are being evaluated, including "[http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/ballistic-boxers-might-just-save-your-tail-1.122993 ballistic boxers]" to shorts made from more conventional body armor materials. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Incredibly Lame Puns]] abound, obviously.

* A primitive version of such a vest is reputed to have been used by tax-gatherers. It consisted of a plank of wood hanging under the clothes on their back, and apparently it was not unknown for them to go about their business with arrows sticking out of it.

* Ned Kelly, outlaw and Australian [[Folk Hero]], is famous for his standoff with the police with him and his gang dressed in body armor made out of plow parts. Unfortunately for the gang, they didn't armor their legs and only Ned survived to sit trial.