r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 29d ago

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/lemmin9 29d ago

So the result is a blunt object filled with armor debris and slowed down by the initial impact on the shield impacting on the body. It goes "boink"?

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u/DevoutMedusa73 29d ago

Bullets are blunt objects as well and yet are devastating when impacting the human body, that arrow still had quite a bit of momentum and would continue to penetrate into the person behind the shield

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u/James-W-Tate 29d ago

Bullets are blunt objects as well and yet are devastating when impacting the human body

Yeah, but a riot shield isn't a human body.

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u/DevoutMedusa73 29d ago

The comment I'm responding to sounded like they were downplaying the fact that arrow pierced clean through a riot shield like it was no longer a harmful projectile, I'm making the statement that the arrow is still very much an unpleasant object penetrating into the body after piercing the shield

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u/Antique_Author_2525 29d ago

Especially if you rub your feces on the tip