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My best guess as to why he was not hit by the gunfire hitting the boat is that he was behind the engine compartment and the engine blocked the shots.

Well, sweet thing that I am....I hope it was by far THE most terrifying moments of his life.

My best guess as to why he was not hit by the gunfire hitting the boat is that he was behind the engine compartment and the engine blocked the shots.

They were shooting rubber bullets - there was around 20 gallons of fuel in the boat and a whole lot of houses within spitting distance in all directions.

I listened to the scanner feed, and they were paranoid they were going to hit each other or civilians once they had him cornered, and once the owner told them about the fuel, they became very adamant about the fuel situation and not shooting up the boat with real ammunition.

I'll say this much about the Boston PD - Out of the possibly hundreds of cops I saw on TV, photos, online video, etc., I only saw two with poor trigger discipline, and they appeared to have their safeties engaged. Even with the shootouts they had, as far as we know, no civilians were injured, and there were no friendly fire incidents. Some places I've seen, if faced with this situation, you'd have a lot of friendly fire and civilian incidents.