A DVD that fire chief Barry McCroy of Walterboro, South Carolina, was carrying protected him from a stray bullet on Saturday. He was in a local Waffle House when a fight between two men led to gunfire. The DVD stopped a bullet from entering his stomach. From the Charleston Post and Courier:
Maj. Ken Dasen of the Walterboro Police Department said the bullet grazed the suspect’s head, shattered the glass window and then ricocheted into McRoy’s abdomen…
McRoy didn’t know he had been shot until he was telling a police officer what happened.
“I felt something like being hit in the stomach and assumed it was the percussion from the discharged firearm,” he said.
Then he saw a hole in his jacket. He put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a handful of shattered plastic. The disc was nicked.
He then found a piece of the bullet.