Moscow teenager hospitalized after 'crash test' of a jacket with an air pistol

A shot 'to test the jacket' ended in hospitalization

In New Moscow, a 16-year-old teenager ended up in the hospital after deciding to test the durability of his jacket with a shot from an air pistol. The incident took place in the village of Yamontovo; it was reported by the REN TV channel, citing which Gazeta.Ru writes about it. The teenager enlisted a friend who had an air pistol for the 'crash test': he put on the jacket and persuaded his friend to shoot him in the arm. The clothing turned out not to be durable enough, and the young man received a wound to the forearm area. He stopped the bleeding himself and applied a bandage.

Three days without doctors and a 'bullet' found in the arm

After the injury, the teenager did not seek medical help for another three days, but then became frightened that the bullet might have remained in the wound and went to the doctors. He was hospitalized, and a foreign body was indeed found in his arm. The victim refused to file a complaint against the friend who fired the shot. The publication also recalls a similar earlier case: a teenager from St. Petersburg was fined for shooting a passerby in the ear. The publication does not report on any legal assessment of the current incident in Yamontovo.