Posted on 07/05/2018 7:15:24 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A man visiting Busch Gardens Tampa Bay was injured by celebratory gunfire on Wednesday.
According to Tampa police, 36-year-old Scott Deel of Florahome, Florida was walking inside the theme park with his wife when he felt pain in his shoulder around 10 p.m. His wife then noticed he was bleeding. Investigators said the source of the pain was a bullet, most likely a result of celebratory gunfire from outside the park, but they are unsure where. it occurred around the same times fireworks were set off at Busch Gardens.
The park's security responded, and gave him first aid. Tampa firefighters transported him to Tampa General Hospital afterwards with non-life threatening injuries.
Busch Gardens released a statement saying they were working with Tampa police during the investigation.
The guest was transported to Tampa General Hospital and is in stable condition. We are working closely with the Tampa Police Department on this incident as the safety of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s guests, team members and animals in our care is always our top priority.
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The bullet came down with that much inertia ?
Are they SURE that’s what happened ? I mean, really?
A bullet fired into the air comes back down with the same force as dropping a similar weight from a low flying helicopter. It zots ya but it won’t penetrate.
Isn’t celebratory gunfire a characteristic of Middle Eastern countries? Is this just another gift from the wonderful multicultural mosaic brought to us by the open borders crowd?
Middle East. The Balkans. South of the border.
Sigh.
What is really sad about this is that people who use firearms to engage in “celebratory gunfire” couldn’t hit the side of a barn from ten feet. They have to shoot up in the air to have any kind of a chance of hitting anything.
That depend on what angle the bullet was fired. If straight up you would be correct, however, if fired at lets say a 45 degree angle it would have a much higher velocity.
Celebratory Gunfire - It’s a 3rd world thing, you wouldn’t understand ..
GMTA. I didn’t see your post before I posted.
There was a case locally of a little boy being killed by a bullet hitting him from celebratory gunfire. Very sad.
check your physics - a bullet fired vertically would be travelling very close to its muzzle velocity when it gets back down.
Busch’s fault.
This kind of stuff never happened when Anheuser-Busch ran the place and had a brewery there. As far as a falling object penetrating the way it did, sounds just a bit fishy. Has anyone asked what the angle of penetration was/is?
Like you said, GMTA!
Very tragic.
A case of creepy third world ‘celebration’... What’s next? Carrying coffins through the streets with insane wailing women?
Are they SURE that’s what happened ? I mean, really?
A bullet fired into the air comes back down with the same force as dropping a similar weight from a low flying helicopter. It zots ya but it won’t penetrate.
But what if the bullet is fired up, rather than directly at a target? If you performed that experiment on the Moon, if the bullet went up at 1,500 miles per hour, then no matter what angle you fired it at and how long it took to come back to the lunar surface, it would come down at 1,500 miles per hour. A bullet fired away from the Moon's surface would be just as lethal as one fired across it. But on Earth, we have our atmosphere, which means we also have air resistance. A bullet fired straight up, with no wind, might reach a height of 10,000 feet (about three kilometers), but will come back down at only around 150 miles per hour: just 10% of the speed and with only 1% of the energy as the originally fired bullet.
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The angle that it was fired on could make all the difference.
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It makes us proud to know we have super-smart gun-owners.
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