Sounds like it's worth a bullet

Over at The Sandbox, the Peripatetic Engineer mentions a post from the now-blocked-in-Dubai-only Secret Dubai Diary about a Yemeni precious stone dealer in jail in Dubai for promoting a 'bulletproof' onyx. (Price? Just 1.8billion dirham, or about 500,000 dollars.)

The owner insists it's the real deal: "I am willing to prove to the world that it's a bulletproof onyx stone... I am ready to face a death sentence if that's what will take me to prove that the stone is doubtlessly bulletproof... I didn't con anybody's money, but the police tricked me and filed a malicious case against me," the 52-year-old Yemeni dealer, Q.M., told the Dubai Appeals Court on Monday.

Rico says there's a simple way to test his claim: put the pebble on him and shoot him. If it works, great. If it doesn't, end of problem. (Apparently the judge chickened out and sentenced the guy to six months in jail...)