[Bigtigermike]

Prayers for him and his family

[2ndDivisionVet]

ID is the abbreviation for Idaho, IN is the abbreviation for Indiana.

[miliantnutcase]

Wasn’t a falling bullet that isn’t possible. He was shot either intentionally or by a stray bullet intended for someone else.

[mylife]

Hey Pendejos, this is not Mexico

[mountn man]

Hammond, Idaho???
Hammond, IN is Indiana

[Fungi]

Wrong time of day to play— should have been in the midnight basketball league as per Clinton. Hope he does fine.

[FreedomStar3028]

A falling bullet doing that much damage?

Ummm, too bad that once it loses its velocity it doesn’t come back when it falls and can’t do that much damage on the way down.

[freedumb2003]

I don’t know if anyone has done the math about how much force a falling bullet would be at.

We know after apogee it is just a freefalling weight and at some point hits terminal velocity. A penny hits terminal velocity at about 50 feet (lots of google results on “penny terminal velocity”).

A bullet masses about 10 g and falls at (9.8 m/sec)^2

50 feet is about 15 meters

so we have (someone check me)

(9.8^2)*15 =1440.6
1440.6 * 10 = 14,406 g of force = about 14 KG of force or about 6.5 pounds.

*OUCH*

If it hit point side down (unlikely) It could probably penetrate the skin and maybe ding the skull.

This seems consistent with answers to the old “will a penny dropped from the Empire State Building kill you>” question.

You brainy folk can check my math.

Note: Poor kid — hadda hurt.

[golux]

Terminal velocities.

Cannon cockers.

Snipers.

Physics.

Melals and mettalurgy.

Culture.

Boy I love FR.