Even AI wouldn’t dare write this plot! Recently, there was a rather bizarre post on the Reddit forum. A female netizen was woken up by broken glass while she was sleeping in the middle of the night. When she opened her eyes, she found a bullet next to her pillow, and the shooter turned out to be a dog! This kind of plot, which is only available in American dramas, actually happened in the United States last week. What saved the homeowner’s life was not a body armor or a steel plate, but the memory heat sink of a gaming PC in the bedroom.
An American netizen was shot by his neighbor’s dog in his sleep, and the bullet was caught in the memory
Reddit user angelbabyzz is at r/pcmasterrace A bizarre experience was shared on the forum: Late one night while she was sleeping, a loud noise suddenly woke her up, and shards of reinforced glass were sprayed directly into her face. Before she had time to figure out the situation, the female neighbor next door was already crying and rushed to knock on the door to apologize. It turns out that the neighbor’s dog “Accidentally pulled the trigger”, a bullet penetrated the wooden wall and plasterboard between the two houses, and accurately hit the computer host in her bedroom.
Neighbour shot my PC through the wall
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The police arrived at the scene to conduct a ballistics examination and told her: If the computer was not in that position, the bullet would directly hit her lying on the bed. angelbabyzz later found the bullet under the pillow.
From the photos shared by angelbabyzz, you can see that the bullet was shot from the rear of the host, near the memory slot, penetrated the motherboard and hit the aluminum heat sink of the G.Skill Trident Z RGB memory, eventually shattering the tempered glass side panel of the case. There were obvious bullet marks and dents on the heat sink, and the motherboard was also penetrated.
It took three days to clean up the broken glass. angelbabyzz said that it is currently planning a new console with a budget of US$3,500 (approximately NT$110,000), but with memory prices soaring, this budget is far less sufficient than before.
How should the insurance company compensate? Netizens are noisy
The female neighbor who caused the accident has been charged with negligence by the police, and her gun has been confiscated. Her insurance company will step in to handle the hardware compensation, and she has promised that she will pay for the part that the insurance does not cover. But the most hotly debated question among American netizens is: Should the insurance company compensate the homeowner with the price at which he purchased the memory back then, or with the current price?
This question is anything but boring, as DDR4 memory prices have surged about 172% since the shortage began, with a 32GB DDR4 kit going from $60 to $90 (about NT$1,950 to NT$2,925) in 2024 to $150 to $200 (about NT$4,875 to 6,500) today. DDR5 has seen even more dramatic increases, with a 32GB kit going from $90 to $120 in the spring of 2025 to $310 to $450, an increase of 300% to 400%.
The main reason for this wave of price increases is the huge demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in the AI industry. The three major memory manufacturers, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, have shifted a large amount of production capacity to the production of HBM for AI accelerators. Producing one unit of HBM requires about three times the wafer production capacity, directly compressing the supply of consumer-grade DDR4 and DDR5. G.Skill CEO even publicly named the AI industry as the main culprit for memory price chaos earlier this year.
In other words, the set of G.Skill Trident Z RGB that angelbabyzz bought for tens of dollars back then may cost three to four times as much to replace it with a set of the same grade. Netizens joked: “Your memory changed directly from Trident to Ballistic”, “Fortunately that dog lacks G.skill (G.Skill pun: shooting skill / G.S. brand)”, “Nokia 3210 finally has a rival.”
Can dogs really shoot? 23 cases in the United States tell you: it really does
“Dog shooting” sounds ridiculous, but it is not unique in the United States. There were 23 dog-related shootings in the United States between 2014 and 2023, according to GVPedia, a gun violence prevention research organization.
Right therelast month, a dog moved between seats in a truck behind a store in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, triggering a shotgun that struck a woman in the arm. There are two main mechanical ways in which dogs can trigger firearm discharges:
- “Drop-fire” caused by physical impact: Medium and large dogs knock down heavy objects on the table while running and jumping indoors. If the owner leaves the gun in “Condition 1” (the bullet is loaded and the safety is not turned off) randomly, the inertia of the gun falling to the ground may cause the firing pin or hammer to be released, causing a misfire.
- The dog’s paw or collar accidentally touches the trigger: The gun is placed on the sofa or bed, and when the dog jumps on the furniture, its paws or the metal buckle of the collar are hooked into the trigger guard. For pistols equipped only with a trigger safety (such as the Glock series), the weight and amount of downforce of a medium to large dog will be sufficient to complete the cocking.
Some netizens poked fun at a classic American joke: “The classic excuse used by American students was ‘the dog ate my homework’, but now it has been directly upgraded to ‘the dog shot my gun’.”
The real lessons behind absurd events
This incident sparked heated discussions on the Internet. angelbabyzz’s post received thousands of likes and hundreds of comments on r/pcmasterrace, and her experience was also featured in many technology media. In 2026, when the price of memory is soaring, a set of Chicago Fantasy Halberds that were damaged by bullets unexpectedly became the focus of discussion on the entire Internet.
As for angelbabyzz’s new console project, she is currently planning it with a budget of $3,500. In the era of RAMageddon (memory apocalypse), the money is indeed not as easy to buy as it used to be, but fortunately it is the computer that breaks down and the people that are saved, it is worth it no matter what.
Source: KOCPC Chinese