I hear the silencer one a lot, and although it’s not nearly as quiet as media likes to suggest, they can be much quieter than you expect. There are a lot of variables to play with when it comes to guns and noise.

It’s not a myth that shooting two guns at once looks cool. It looks super cool. Accuracy has nothing to do with how cool it looks.

Padlock shackles haven’t been made of iron for around 120 years. They’re made of case-hardened steel.

I’m pretty sure you can hear someone who is yelling while skydiving, because my friend has a video of him skydiving and you can hear him yelling in the video. Camera microphones are usually worse at picking up sounds in heavy winds than human ears are.

Some of the others seem suspicious too, but I’m not sure enough to dispute.

A grenade pin is tight, but if people can open beer bottles with their teeth they definitely can pull the pin on a grenade.

Someone’s never played Pistol Whip.

I’ve seen a game show about pulling semi trucks uphill by the teeth, I’m sure an 8kg grenade pin pull force isn’t a stretch.

Almost all guns that can cause hearing damage (with repeated firing) without a silencer are still going to cause hearing damage despite that silencer.

It just takes a few more shots to accumulate the same level of auditory damage.

That’s how loud shots are despite the action of silencers. Silencers exist to protect your hearing when you likely only need to fire off one or two shots at most… with such few shots you can avoid the conspicuousness of hearing protection while getting that hit done.

I’m very confused on the grenade pin one.

If you held down the level (not sure what it’s called), wouldn’t the pin be fairly easy to remove? Why would that be harder than your teeth?

I’ve never seen a grenade in person.

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Nice movie references

Fashion is often very impractical so this makes perfect real sense actually

Also what about aiming both at the same target or using them alternating?

Iron padlocks?

The phone tracing one is misleading. It might take hours for the police to get the location from the ISP (I doubt that), but the phone call doesn’t have to be hours long.

Neo is a superhero using hacks in a video game world. Criticising The Matrix because Neo is better with guns than any real person is like criticising Superman because nobody can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

It is not a myth that shooting two guns at once looks cool. It looks cool AF.

Since everyone’s having fun dunking on these, I might as well have a go and potentially look like a fool in the process. Note, I will be commenting on the accuracy of the chart and assessing whether the chart is correct, not the myth.

1. Partially-correct. As someone else said, it’s very unlikely for you to restart a heart with a defib; they’re meant to stabilize a fibrillating heart (when the heart is beating irregularly and too quickly, like a heart attack). However, if you can get a person’s heart to start fibrillating by some other method, like CPR, then it can help stabilize them.

2. Correct. It does indeed take longer than a couple seconds to knock someone out with chloroform. That said, supposedly plenty of other medical anesthetics that supposedly can put you out really fast.

3. Misleading. Tracing calls is extremely fast, it’s getting the proper authorization that takes time.

4. Iirc this is technically correct; forensic investigation doesn’t actually tell you anything about what happened, only what is present now. The explanation is what you get from the evidence. Seems a bit like saying, “guns don’t kill, it’s the massive trauma resulting from your body trying to stop a tiny lump of lead that’s flying at over 1k meters-per-second that kills you” but okay.

5. Technically correct, but wrong in practice. This is such a widespread myth that cops will sometimes repeat it. Additionally, the time period can be anywhere between 24~72hrs, depending on the person responding. So if someone tells you to fuck off and wait, call and try again.

6. Correct. >95% of the time the victim is too busy trying not to drown in order to yell or scream. You need air to scream, and if you’re struggling to get air, then screaming isn’t something you’re doing.

7. Partially-correct. Aiming with two guns is possible, but significantly harder than shooting one. People try to do something hard like splitting their attention to aim at two targets, and then when they can’t do it, they assume that it’s impossible. No bitch, that’s like an archer giving up because they didn’t hit the target the first time. Don’t let your dreams be memes, gitgud.

8. Partially-correct. There are some extremely quiet guns out there, and subsonic ammo helps quiet the gun further (bullets aren’t breaking the sound barrier, also lower powder load = smaller explosion). However, it’s unlikely you’ll get a gun down to a “pew pew pew” like in the spy movies.

9. Almost completely wrong. Firstly, aim at center mass. Yes, it’s thicker, but there’s also a lot of air in there and the individual pieces of metal are probably thinner. It’ll be easier to hit and less likely for the lock to deflect the bullet (hitting a flat-ish surface vs curved one). Secondly, use something other than a .22 pistol.

10. Mostly correct. If you have headsets then you probably could, especially if they cover your mouth, but otherwise basically correct.

11. You see that little lever? You’re supposed to hold that down before you pull the pin. Dumbass.

12. Eh, kinda. Depends on the asteroid belt. Planetary belt? They can absolutely be that dense (though they’re unlikely to be all that big). Stellar belt? Probably not, or at least ours isn’t that dense. That said, it’s a big universe out there and we haven’t even come close to visiting our neighboring stellar system, so who knows.

Tbh, some of these myths are so widespread and have such a high risk of causing injury from ignorance (like 5 and 6) that it should be illegal to repeat them in a way that portrays them as factually correct in media. However, based on my current knowledge, that’s my rundown on the trues/falses.