Can a bullet be stopped by simple pocketed items like a bible, a notebook, a pocket watch or even your beloved phone? A trope that has appeared in multiple movies since the days of Hitchcock and mocked by the likes of The Simpsons, but how true is it? How does the science hold up? Let’s find out.

Can a bible stop a bullet?
Can a book stop a bullet?
What things can stop a bullet?
Can a phone stop a bullet?
Bulletproof bible?
Pocket protector,

CREDITS:
Stu K Researcher | Illustrator | Producer | Presenter
Jacob T Researcher | Writer
Ross G Illustrator | Editor | Animator
Robin M Guest VO

MUSIC CREDITS
Epidemic Sounds

SOURCES:
TV Trope Info
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...

EXAMPLES
Richard Baxter ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
(https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A27...)
(https://triviumpursuit.com/freesoldi...)
Sam Houston Jr. U.S CIVIL WAR
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/bibl...
https://heritagepost.org/americanciv...
https://digital.library.shsu.edu/digi... (Different Bibles?)
John Hicks Kelly U.S CIVIL WAR
https://dchcblog.net/2016/05/31/theb...
William Preston Mangum U.S CIVIL WAR
http://armchairgeneral.com/biblesand...
Theodore Roosevelt ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, 1912
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandher...
George Vinall FIRST WORLD WAR
https://www.christiantoday.com/articl...
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/article...
Elvas Elliot Jenkins FIRST WORLD WAR
http://malcolmsquirks.blogspot.com/20...
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk FIRST WORLD WAR
https://montrespubliques.com/newlong...
James Doohan SECOND WORLD WAR
https://www.snopes.com/factcheck/jam...
Mauricio Zanes Condori MUGGING, BUENAS AIRES, 2009
https://topnews.in/biblestopsbullet...
https://www.smh.com.au/world/bornaga...
Ricky Wagoner “SHOOTING”, 2014
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/25/us...
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/20/us...
Ohio woman SHOOTING, 2016
https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2016/...
Rabbi Zeev Katzenellebogen SHOOTING, 2021
https://www.israel365news.com/349836/...
Ukrainian soldier UKRAINE WAR, 2022
https://www.citychurch.ee/miraclein...

TESTING
Mythbusters tests
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...
   • What is bullet proof ?  Mythbusters  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBus...
boxoftruth.com tests
https://www.theboxotruth.com/threads/...
Oklahoma Police Department tests
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/a...
https://ktul.com/news/local/oklahoma...