*skyrimshot*

This really makes me angry. How stupid are people that they fire guns into the air? Don't they realize that a bullet that goes up doesn't just magically disappear into the sky? No. They come down, and people can get hurt.

Grables'Daughter: This really makes me angry. How stupid are people that they fire guns into the air? Don't they realize that a bullet that goes up doesn't just magically disappear into the sky? No. They come down, and people can get hurt.

It's called The Middle East Mentality.

was his head knee-shaped?

maybe i'm just not getting the headline

came for boomheadshot.gif

/i'll check back later.

TravisBickle62: Sounds like a Kurt Vonnegut novel

Eagle Eye Penis?

gopher321: Grables'Daughter: This really makes me angry. How stupid are people that they fire guns into the air? Don't they realize that a bullet that goes up doesn't just magically disappear into the sky? No. They come down, and people can get hurt.

It's called The Middle East Mentality.


Oblig: Iraq, Kentucky Vie For World Shooting-Into-The-Air Supremacy (new window)

I used to celebrate new years eve like you, until I took a bullet to the knee.

/oblig

sirbissel: medius: was his head knee-shaped?

maybe i'm just not getting the headline

This (new window) video should explain it.

ok, now i have to try that. or maybe shoot myself in the head

DontMakeMeComeBackThere: Smurfme: I've heard if you dropped a penny off the Empire state building, it would put a creator 3' in diameter in the ground. But if a bullet lost it's spin it would just bounce off you head like pillow pet.

Also busted by Mythbusters - terminal velocity of a coin can't even break skin

they were using the wrong coin



/small change

TheGreatGazoo: Dictatorial_Flair: One of my genius neighbors started blasting away with a shotgun at midnight on new year's eve. I wish I saw which one it was, I would have called the cops on their dumb ass. Unfortunately I only heard them. It's comforting to know I live a handful of yards away from somebody who celebrates flipping to a new calendar with random gunfire.

Wouldn't a shotgun be more obnoxious than anything? There isn't any spin, and basically you'd just have random buckshot hitting you at terminal velocity, which would be annoying but not lethal.


Unless someone happens to be glancing upwards and a piece of shot goes in their eye. Then they're at least blind, if not dead.

But you're right, we should excuse people who fire shotguns in the air. I mean, what are the chances of that happening? So slim. Barely worth thinking about. No pistols or rifles allowed though, just shotguns.

Smurfme: I've heard if you dropped a penny off the Empire state building, it would put a creator 3' in diameter in the ground.


It would kill an overweight God?

They love doing this in the Philippines too. Along with fireworks. Over 700 injured New Years Eve

I learned, ages ago, to NOT fire guns in the air. Back then, it was a common practice during celebrations and, of course, you saw it on TV all of the time and in movies, especially Westerns.

I recall thinking about it one day when I had been out target shooting with a .22 rifle. The bullets had a range of one mile. If I fired one in the air, I reasoned, then it became a ballistic arch, increasing the range. I wasn't sure, then, if it could hurt anyone if it came down in a developed area but I didn't want to take the risk. By then, my city had started to grow and wooded areas were shrinking.

Back in the 70's I worked in a Mental Health Clinic on the edge of a high crime area. Every New Years when I worked nights, we kept the patients away from the windows and, stopped any outside patrolling. We even stopped inside security checks in the office wing because of the big, glass windows there.

The area, starting shortly before midnight, would sound like a war zone.

I could stand in one of the quieter sections and actually hear the occasional impact of bullets falling on the roof.

In the 80's, as a courier, our office was near the local airport in an old warehouse. From time to time I'd find spent bullets in the parking lot, but the ones which concerned me were those that hit and chipped the concrete walls of the building.

At night, I made sure all of our vans were pulled into the warehouse.

This New Years, sitting in my house in what is now a densely populated residential area, after all of the fireworks and stuff went off, naturally there were several folks out there firing off guns until about 1 am.

I just hoped they were firing them into the ground. That's what I do when I fire my gun off in a celebration.

Plus, the 'Mythbusters' had an episode which clearly displayed how fast and hard a bullet can come back down. Plus many an ER physician will tell you about wounds he's had to treat from bullets coming back down after being fired in the air.