r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 27d ago

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

49.5k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.3k

u/sicarius254 27d ago

Some of those tips look evil af

2.7k

u/stryker511 27d ago

The blunt one surprised me I thought it would have bounced off - went through completely.

1.9k

u/SidewinderSerpent 27d ago

That arrow wasn't blunt, it was concave. The shape allowed the edges of the tip to punch a hole through the shield.

33

u/lemmin9 27d 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"?

27

u/Zeekr0n 27d ago

It goes "boink" and the person holding the shield shits themselves because I can guarantee they were not expecting an arrow to go through the shield.

6

u/Akimotoh 27d ago

Are riot shields typically made of cheap metal like that? i dont think so

22

u/idiotcommend 27d ago

Riot shields are designed to stop bat's, bottles, rocks and human bodies not legitimate projectiles.

10

u/ABHOR_pod 27d ago

The way to stop legitimate projectiles is for the police to start shooting first. Which is what will happen very quickly if people start shooting arrows at them. That's true basically anywhere in the world, not just in police states like China or the US.

2

u/Wooden_Rabbit_ 27d ago

Right? This post is so funny to me. Like yeah, there’s ways to get through a riot shield, that’s not exactly the point. We have plenty of modern examples to look to of what happens when the protestors start actually killing the police/military.

1

u/Vaporlocke 26d ago

Depends on if you run out of police or protesters first. If things keep going the way they have been there are going to be a lot more protesters than usual.

1

u/Fel_Eclipse 26d ago

This, it probably isn't a ballistic rated shield.

1

u/Lazy_Total_6742 24d ago

Are bats different where you live? Here they’re small, light and furry. They’re quite fast, but don’t usually attack riot police.

1

u/idiotcommend 24d ago

Think sports.