Gaming Monitor Stops One Of 5 Bullets Shot At This Guy’s House, MSI Offers To Replace It
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Malaysian student Eric Gan was fast asleep at 4 am on a Sunday morning when he was suddenly awoken by some loud banging sounds outside his Fresno, California apartment. While he first thought he was the victim of a break-in, it wasn’t until later that he discovered that his apartment was the backdrop to a shooting outside – five bullets had lodged themselves firmly within his living space.
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One bullet had gone through Eric’s bedroom wall, ending up in his ceiling. Another, lower bullet would’ve ended up inches from his bed while he slept, but was stopped by the hardy construction of his MSI gaming monitor. Remarkably, the heroic monitor was still functioning even after taking the shot. Eric took to Twitter to share his experience, where he gave a shoutout to MSI for making such a resilient product. “House just got shot by random stranger from the street,” he wrote. “Msi monitor got hit and blocked the bullet and still functioning. What a day.. shout out to @msiUSA.”
Giving an update on the situation, Eric said that he had spoken to Fresno police, and it would appear that the shooting was not targeted. They were merely the unfortunate backdrop to a random neighborhood shooting incident. It could’ve ended so much worse!
Image credits: ericgan98
Image credits: ericgan98
Image credits: ericgan98
Image credits: ericgan98
Image credits: ericgan98
After Eric’s tweets went viral, they eventually reached MSI themselves. They were only to happy to offer a replacement monitor to Eric, as well as donate money for retweets to an anti-violence charity. “To all gamers, we appreciate all your blessings to @ericgan98 his survival after random gunfire,” they wrote. “With Eric’s encouragement, now, MSI promises to donate $1 for every retweet this tweet receives up to $10K towards anti-violence charity. #BulletProofMonitor.”
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“My housemates and I will be moving out of this apartment after this semester,” Eric told Bored Panda. “My family back in Malaysia was really worried about the situation, being targeted for the shooting. The police told us later that it was just an unlucky event caused by a random shooting, and my parents felt a little better after getting that statement from the officer.”
“My parents are happy for me to stay on everywhere on this planet as long as I am safe. It’s the first time I experienced gunshots in my life, hence the reason why I wasn’t aware I was being shot because I have never heard gunshots before. Malaysia has strict gun laws!
If you are a gamer and want to check out Eric’s stream, you can do so here.
Here’s how people reacted to the bizarre incident
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"They were merely the unfortunate backdrop to a random neighborhood shooting incident. " Soooo ... Nothing To Worry About Then, Totally Normal. Do you (in the US) have any notion whatsoever of what an incredibly strange sentence this is?
The title of the article that the Onion always publishes whenever another school shooting occurs, comes to mind... "There's no way to prevent this, says the only nation where this regularly happens."
Well, the strange thing is that some think (not all Americans!) that the solution to this kind of attacks is by having even more weapons. Like - Give weapons to the teachers and there won't be any more school shootings or at least with less dead kids (!!!)... As someone who moved from Europe to the US over 15 years ago, my biggest concern always is and was that my kids go to school and might get killed there. Writing this, it sounds to surreal. I don't think that there's any other "western" country, where you send your kids to school and you have to be afraid that they might get killed there. I've never been able to get rid of that fear in all of those years. It's the same with my wife. I always hope that she'll come back home safe and not being shot at by some idiot. I guess it might be different, when you grew up in the US. Again – Not everyone is the same and not everyone in the US is a weapon freak. Stereotypes...
When will they see sense?
I've been wondering if anyone noticed that they do that. I think it's brilliant.
Well..... to be fair, it depends on the neighbourhood. But yes. It's a sick, sick thing that it happens regularly.
Sadly, "random shots" is not reassuring when 5 bullets are embedded in your room. I doubt there is a single street in the US without at least one (probably multple) resident owning a handgun. My home town in the UK (pop 13,000). I can confidently say I doubt it has even a single street WITH a handgun.
I used to live in Fresno. When I was in pre-school and kindergarten, living not too far from downtown Fresno, I would hear gunshots in the distance most nights.
Drywall as an outside wall??? That is crazy... Here in Europe we have brick walls...That would scare me senseless!! But MSI is top! Great reaction as well as the 10k donation they are willing to make!
@Tahani cheaper houses have thick drywall covered in some form of façade. Usually vinyl siding these days, but older ones had wood or steel siding. But we have brick sided homes and brick wall homes here too.
Here in the U.K. we have brick and stone houses because we get very cold here and we don't have crazy tornadoes tearing down houses every year, that's probably a massive generalisation but i think the weather has a lot do with the types of materials used.
The building materials on newer structures in the USA are s**t. It’s not drywall on the outside, but it’s probably not much either.
Thumbs up to MSI for an excellent response to an unfortunate incident that is scary, even if random. Seems like these random shootings are becoming more and more common in the U.S. Sigh.
"They were merely the unfortunate backdrop to a random neighborhood shooting incident. " Soooo ... Nothing To Worry About Then, Totally Normal. Do you (in the US) have any notion whatsoever of what an incredibly strange sentence this is?
The title of the article that the Onion always publishes whenever another school shooting occurs, comes to mind... "There's no way to prevent this, says the only nation where this regularly happens."
Well, the strange thing is that some think (not all Americans!) that the solution to this kind of attacks is by having even more weapons. Like - Give weapons to the teachers and there won't be any more school shootings or at least with less dead kids (!!!)... As someone who moved from Europe to the US over 15 years ago, my biggest concern always is and was that my kids go to school and might get killed there. Writing this, it sounds to surreal. I don't think that there's any other "western" country, where you send your kids to school and you have to be afraid that they might get killed there. I've never been able to get rid of that fear in all of those years. It's the same with my wife. I always hope that she'll come back home safe and not being shot at by some idiot. I guess it might be different, when you grew up in the US. Again – Not everyone is the same and not everyone in the US is a weapon freak. Stereotypes...
When will they see sense?
I've been wondering if anyone noticed that they do that. I think it's brilliant.
Well..... to be fair, it depends on the neighbourhood. But yes. It's a sick, sick thing that it happens regularly.
Sadly, "random shots" is not reassuring when 5 bullets are embedded in your room. I doubt there is a single street in the US without at least one (probably multple) resident owning a handgun. My home town in the UK (pop 13,000). I can confidently say I doubt it has even a single street WITH a handgun.
I used to live in Fresno. When I was in pre-school and kindergarten, living not too far from downtown Fresno, I would hear gunshots in the distance most nights.
Drywall as an outside wall??? That is crazy... Here in Europe we have brick walls...That would scare me senseless!! But MSI is top! Great reaction as well as the 10k donation they are willing to make!
@Tahani cheaper houses have thick drywall covered in some form of façade. Usually vinyl siding these days, but older ones had wood or steel siding. But we have brick sided homes and brick wall homes here too.
Here in the U.K. we have brick and stone houses because we get very cold here and we don't have crazy tornadoes tearing down houses every year, that's probably a massive generalisation but i think the weather has a lot do with the types of materials used.
The building materials on newer structures in the USA are s**t. It’s not drywall on the outside, but it’s probably not much either.
Thumbs up to MSI for an excellent response to an unfortunate incident that is scary, even if random. Seems like these random shootings are becoming more and more common in the U.S. Sigh.