Things that can stop a Bullet |At The Edge

A wine flask can do it, an OM pendent can do it, a Taweez can do it, an expendable extra heroine can do it, a Billa No. 786 (with lots of Barkat) can certainly do it (if you don't lose it while running from your crazy gun trotting brother), and now we are told a 5- rupee coin can also do it, for real, with proven result.

According to the story, Krishna Shetty and his neighbour, Nicholas Gomes, on a perfectly normal Mumbai day, were sitting outside a video parlour engaged in causal conversation when three persons sped by on a motorcycle and fired four bullets at them. One of the bullet hit Gomes while two made their way to Shetty. One of them hit him in his stomach while the other was on its way to his heart. Luckily Krishna Shetty was carrying a wallet ( oddly, for some unknown reason) in his breast pocket and inside this wallet was his little shield, a 5- rupee coin. Fatal bullet was stopped in its track and Krishna Shetty lived to tell the tale.

Now, if only it was something like this: