A Texan man who tried to shoot an Armadillo shells has found himself in hospital after his bullet bounced off the animal and hit him in the face.
Police in Cass County said the unnamed man spotted the small animal “on his property” at around 3am local time on Thursday and decided to kill it.
Men firing their guns in Texas are nothing new. But a badass bulletproof armadillo firing the bullet right back? Now that’s the kind of gun show that goes viral. And it did: Reuters and CBC both covered the accident when it happened over two years ago. CBC’s original tweet with the story has accumulated over 16,000 retweets since.
As for the armadillo, it’s unknown if the tiny vigilante is still on the run. The sheriff in Cass County, Texas, said they never found the animal after the incident.
Nine-banded armadillos are the only armadillo species found in the United States out of about 20. According to the National Wildlife Federation, and they typically live for 7 to 20 years. With those numbers, there’s still a chance that the little guy is still out there.
The Armadillo shells is a material which was added in Combat update V.0.4.0 to Green Hell
Armadillo Shell is used to craft armor which can be worn for protection on the player limbs. As food In certain parts of Central and South America , armadillo meat is eaten; it is a popular ingredient in Oaxaca, Mexico . They instead take more shallow, rapid breaths to take in enough oxygen.
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The shell of an armadillo affects how the armadillo copes with low oxygen levels. Their shells are made of bony plates called osteoderms that grow in the skin. A man in East Texas decided to take care of an armadillo pest in his yard. There’s at least two known cases of a bullet being deflected by an armadillo shell, and one of them was a .38. which is where the idea comes from but in some of tree places online where this is posted as a fun fact, there plenty of stories of people shooting them with various rounds and it going straight through.
However, there are also examples of karma coming around, as can be seen in the case of the Texas man in 2018 who tried to shoot an armadillo with a .38 revolver, only to have the bullet deflect off the shell and hit him in the jaw.
