Georgian Reporter takes sniper fire to arm, continues reporting

[Fishu]

I will say, it does look like a fake. Ive seen videos of people being shot before. Ive been shot by a paintball gun, and I certainly react a LOT more than this woman. Notice two things: She gets hit by SOMETHING and simply SLOWLY staggers to the side. Next, you don't see any sign of a wound until quite a bit later, when she is safely sitting in the car seemingly ignoring all pain whatsoever. That was NOT a bullet. It wasn't a fragment or a ricochet. If you got hit with anything like that, you would JUMP or show some sign of SURPRISE not just stagger to one side, and walk back to the middle of the shot.

My first reaction to this video was that it just doesn't seem "right". However, getting hit by a paintball shot and a real bullet are two different things - you WILL feel the paintball hit, but you don't immediately feel a bullet hit due to the shock impact caused by the velocity. A scratch will be felt sooner than a direct hit and depending on where's hit (the more nerves messed up, the more it'll hurt. Most of the nerves are on the skin, but not so much or at all in the internal organs)

[lazs2]

Much as I would like to believe that reporters are now fair game....

reporters are such liars that I am sure it was faked.    If anyone deserves a bullet in a war it is the modern day reporter.

lazs

[Yeager]

If anyone deserves a bullet in a war it is the modern day reporter.

lazs

jeeze.....of all the stupid things I have read here lately 

[crockett]

If they wanna shoot a reporter, they ought to start in the FOX news room...

+1

btw here is another one where a Russian soldier pulls a gun on a reporter. Seems Russians must be hard up for troops if they have grandpa out there fighting the war..

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/773/922.html

[Cthulhu]

Over your head, KID.

Thx m00t, that's putting it mildly. Geez, make a tongue-in-cheek comment on any subject remotely controversial and you're guaranteed to provoke a response from the hand-wringing, heart-bleeding, knee-jerking perpetually offended. Whatever. To the rest of you guys (on both sides of the political fence) I hope you got a good laugh.

[angelsandair]

From the wound it looks like the bullet just streaked by her left wrist, she was lucky. Probably a long range shot from a russian sniper who recognized her and took the opportunity.

Yea, from what I understand, the Russians are actually SHOOTING people from the Media. From what I heard recently, they found a group of people with the media, and shot em. That's whats been going around atleast.

If they wanna shoot a reporter, they ought to start in the FOX news room...

Not before they get CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC....

[Jackal1]

Ive been shot by a paintball gun

And there you have it. 

[mg1942]

this one's downright scary...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSFRiHbFEtg&feature=related

[Motherland]

Yea, from what I understand, the Russians are actually SHOOTING people from the Media. From what I heard recently, they found a group of people with the media, and shot em. That's whats been going around atleast.

Keep in mind this is the Georgia STATE (meaning government sponsered and controlled) television. Georgia being a country that probably desperately wants military aid from the west after they apparently underestimated what the Russian response would be. To be perfectly honest, I would be no where near surprised if this was either staged or it was a Georgian shooting at her.

[Elfie]

this one's downright scary...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSFRiHbFEtg&feature=related

That one has been posted before, and yes it is scary.

[bj229r]

A Russian sniper would know better than to shoot a western reporterette, he would know that said reporterette would be blaming this mess on Bush and Georgia...ya can't buy that sort of publicity

[Serenity]

My first reaction to this video was that it just doesn't seem "right". However, getting hit by a paintball shot and a real bullet are two different things - you WILL feel the paintball hit, but you don't immediately feel a bullet hit due to the shock impact caused by the velocity. A scratch will be felt sooner than a direct hit and depending on where's hit (the more nerves messed up, the more it'll hurt. Most of the nerves are on the skin, but not so much or at all in the internal organs)

The pain might not be felt right away, but she seems to have almost no reaction. So, either she got hit and GROSSLY over-exagerated with that step, or faked the whole thing. Either way, something is DEFINATELY not right.

[FrodeMk3]

Tard

Tard

Tard

I really hope that you people don't think that shooting someone is such a minor thing that it should be laughed at.

Let me put my little barb in a context you can understand.

One reporter is shot in a warzone. Ok.

How many people get killed, or incited to kill, due to Yellow/jingoistic journalism? I'll clue you in on this. Entire WARS have been started by slanted journalists/reporters. Funny that someone gets' shot? In some cases justice. Just look at the way the reporting has been done on the Russian side of this mess. Look in Boroda's Ossetian thread, He's got a whole bunch of Russian news' threads that are little more than propaganda inciting the Russian people to justify their actions.

[Elfie]

Look in Boroda's Ossetian thread, He's got a whole bunch of Russian news' threads that are little more than propaganda inciting the Russian people to justify their actions.

Oh now you've done it. Now Boroda will be in this thread spewing Russian propaganda. 

Thanks alot pal!



 

[Slash27]

The pain might not be felt right away, but she seems to have almost no reaction. So, either she got hit and GROSSLY over-exagerated with that step, or faked the whole thing. Either way, something is DEFINATELY not right.

How the hell do you over ex agerate being shot?