How marriage saved one man's life
Filed under: Rings
Studies have shown that marriage can have a very real effect on your health, but can marriage actually save your life?For one man, it did. When armed robbers came into Donnie Register's antique shop in Jackson, Mississippi this weekend, pointing guns and demanding cash, Register threw his left hand in front of his face. One of the robbers fired a shot, hitting the shopkeeper on his wedding ring, which deflected the bullet away from his face, almost certainly saving his life.
The report doesn't give details about the type of ring Register was wearing, but if you're looking for bulletproof jewelry, titanium is probably your best bet. No promises, though -- in all my years in the jewelry biz, we never tested the rings against gunfire.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Dec 5th 2007 @ 2:13PM
Lee said...
I hope they catch them and then I hope they hang them!!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 2:36PM
fartingbaboon said...
They intended to kill this man. He is very lucky. I hope they are caught before the next robbery, because the next person might not be so lucky.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 3:06PM
LOWRYDA said...
WOW talk about luck!!!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 3:17PM
JBJG24 said...
GIVES A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO "TIL DEATH DO US PART"!!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 3:20PM
John F.C. Taylor said...
I saw this on theTV news. Amazingly lucky.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 3:28PM
debbie said...
This is not a site to promote a website!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 4:33PM
Kristina said...
THIS is pure luck!
this man should do the lottery!
pick six anyone?
what a lucky lucky man.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 4:59PM
Jojo442 said...
If they shot at his head he was definately planning on killing the man....I guess the ring served the "Better or Worse" part of the wedding vow,,,this is considered the worst and the better is that he is alive.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 5:08PM
Diane said...
Well Hope he is counting his blessings I know I would be.
Your time isn't up until God Calls you. And God must have more plans for him.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 5:45PM
elanna said...
I saw this story on the weekend news. They planned to kill this man. I hope they are caught and quickly. I wish this man and his wife a long, happy life together.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 5:45PM
Silvain said...
Wow.... I bet he's even more glad he's married, now!!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 6:10PM
chr said...
I HOPE THEY KILL HIM
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 6:14PM
chr said...
I MEAN THE BAD GUY
Dec 5th 2007 @ 6:23PM
dt said...
THE BULLET IS STILL EMBEDDED IN MUSCLE TISSUE IN HIS NECK. HE'S PAST LUCKY, HE'S OUR XMAS MIRACLE!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 6:43PM
LOL said...
See! Marriage IS a good thing!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 7:11PM
EvilDave said...
Glad my wedding band is Titanium and Tungsten.
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 7:17PM
marshall said...
I say one very lucky dude...maybe my wedding ring kept me from kicking my wife at times ...She and I had alot of fights the final 5 years of a 16 year marriage...Later got divorce as I speak for the past four years..she is now gone and good luck to her in the future years plus she is out of my hair forever~~!!
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 7:19PM
marshall said...
your one crazy people... i hope you have a clean-sex marriage
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 8:05PM
Frostie said...
My husband's wedding ring saved his hand. He was working on the axel rear end area of his truck and the thingy that looks like a tear drop fell on his hand. It would have crushed his hand and caused him to have to miss about 3 months of work. It hit his ring and turned it into an oval. I never knew that all my bitching to get married would save him like that! I bet he was happy about my bitching to get married now! : )
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Dec 5th 2007 @ 8:16PM
sguhdsofu said...
that's so cool.
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