98Z5V Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 Guy drops dead in front of his family - bullet wound to the head. That's senseless, and never should have happened... Hope the police can trace this back to the original idiot. http://www.kristv.com/news/man-killed-by-stray-bullet-during-new-year-s-celebration/ Man Killed By Stray Bullet During New Year's Celebration HOUSTON - A Houston man was killed by a stray bullet during a new year's celebration. The man and his wife were watching fireworks with a crowd of people in the front yard, when he suddenly fell to the ground. Detectives said a stray bullet struck him in his head. Witnesses are saying that they didn't see anyone shooting a gun, and a lot of people didn't even realize what was happening until they saw the man lying on the ground. They called 911 right away, but he died right there in the front yard. Police are on the scene right now, trying to figure out the source of that stray bullet.
392heminut Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 (edited) Fukkin idiots gotta shoot guns in the air at midnight, they do it every New Years! Those slugs have to come down somewhere. We popped people for that whenever we could catch them. We actually got a couple of holes in police cars during my 23 years! I don't let the family out of the house from about 11:50 to 12:30 because it used to sound like a war zone. The last few years it seems like it's dropping off here though. Edited January 1, 2015 by 392heminut
blue109 Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 my wife showed me a facebook post this morning. some Tucson lady posted pics of a hole in her roof and a bullet laying on her carpet. wtf is wrong with people.
392heminut Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 Yep, that last New Years I worked I took a report where a bullet went through a metal carport roof here!
unforgiven Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 I was out asleep wife could hear gunfire at midnight.WTF.
mrmackc Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 out here in the boonies we used to shoot off firecrackers and bottle rockets, etc.,etc. now days the folks can't buy fireworks to shoot so they break out the firearms and shoot up into the air. Did they learn that from the wars in Iraq and Ganastan?
Sharkey Posted January 1, 2015 Report Posted January 1, 2015 I've been in a couple of different small countries during New Years where people were always afraid of going out after 11 due to exactly this type of thing. People were dying every year in some areas from this kind of thing and owning guns wasn't even legal for the average person. May God receive the victim well and Bless his wife, family and friends.
tyson guns Posted January 2, 2015 Report Posted January 2, 2015 No doubt people are losing all common sense ! I had to go to a neighbors house this fall and find out what they shooting at(I knew the had bullet trap of any kind on the property) when I got there they told me they just shooting in the air!!? We had a chat and they don't do it anymore.
washguy Posted January 3, 2015 Report Posted January 3, 2015 Yep...before we moved from the hood...it rained gunfire on new years eve...up till 2am.....idiots! in our new hood only heard 2 shots....WTF? :) Wash
Robocop1051 Posted January 3, 2015 Report Posted January 3, 2015 After an officer involved shooting, we found one of the suspects 9mm slugs in the bottom of a rec/city pool.... 1/4 mile away! Imagine if that pool had been open and full of kids that day. (Ps. Suspect died in that incident.)
Microgunner Posted January 3, 2015 Report Posted January 3, 2015 I have to admit, I used to fire handguns on New Years and the forth. But always into the soft soil, never into the air. I haven't even done that in 25 years. Didn't want to get wrongly blamed for someone's injury.
Boerboel guy Posted January 3, 2015 Report Posted January 3, 2015 I used to hear gunfire all the time out here. Then they made crappy sparkler type fireworks legal and every one for the most part seems to have taken that as a fair game signal to buy bad ass mortars and rockets and shoot those off instead of guns. Thank God! My old hood in chandler we always found bullets laying around after new years and the fourth. Now I find pieces of fireworks instead. I think I only heard one mag get dumped on the mesa side of the freeway and that was it.
NotoriousBRT Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 Sometimes we shoot, but only into the ground or safe backstop. The chances of hitting anything here, even shooting into the air is pretty low, but not low enough to risk it.
Zebra644 Posted January 6, 2015 Report Posted January 6, 2015 Mythbusters did a show on it about shooting into the air. Velocity and energy work both ways as does wind current. Sorry to hear about the that mans passing.
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