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4-year-old killed by celebratory bullet (in church with his mother)
ajc.com ^ | 1-1-10 | Alexis Stevens

Posted on 01/01/2010 4:46:43 PM PST by rawhide

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To: rawhide

These Morons never heard of Sir Issac Newton


21 posted on 01/01/2010 5:07:58 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: rawhide

I can never understand why people feel the need to fire guns in the air to celebrate. The bullets gotta go somewhere

I have friend who had a bullet come thru her living room ceiling a few years ago while she was out. And there are strict laws about firing guns in these parts. Never did figure out where the bullet came from.


22 posted on 01/01/2010 5:08:31 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: SunTzuWu

No. The kid was rushed off to hospital but the program continued.


23 posted on 01/01/2010 5:09:43 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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To: SunTzuWu
Instead of going straight to the hospital, church members prayed for the child, and continued with the planned concert. How insane is that?

that was my my first thought too - but further on it mentioned they were kept informed of his progress from the parents at the hospital.

Just bad writing...

24 posted on 01/01/2010 5:10:15 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: rawhide

The roof must have been made out of paper. That could not happen if it were a regular roof. No way.


25 posted on 01/01/2010 5:10:30 PM PST by kempo
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To: peeps36; cardinal4

My dad was a beat cop in Detroit. On NYE 1951, he was on a foot patrol on Hastings and walked past an alley. Some idiot at the other end of the alley was firing off some celebratory rounds and shot my dad in the back. He was wearing his police heavy winter coat and he told me later that it felt like someone had slammed him in the back with a Louisvill Slugger. They took my dad to a nearby hospital for a checkup, but Thank God he was unhurt. The idiot was probably firing a .22.


26 posted on 01/01/2010 5:11:14 PM PST by Ax
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To: SunTzuWu

From the way I read the story, it sounds as if the child was taken to the hospital, but they kept on with the concert at the church. I agree, it is not well written.


27 posted on 01/01/2010 5:13:32 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Dusty Road

“I’m having a little trouble buying this story.”

Maybe it was a thatch roof. I can’t believe that terminal velocity of a bullet falling would allow any but the largest, like .50 cal from a .50BMG to go through any but the flimsiest of roofs.

I could be wrong.


28 posted on 01/01/2010 5:15:14 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (A "teabagger", yeah, that's me. You ignoramus. ><BCC>)
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To: autumnraine
just saw a myth-busters show with doing just that and no way shooting straight up and the bullet coming down would it kill you . all the bullets they got came down hitting sideways in the ground something fishy about this story.
29 posted on 01/01/2010 5:15:26 PM PST by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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To: autumnraine

So you don’t believe in ballistics?


30 posted on 01/01/2010 5:15:43 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Ax

I think it would have to be pretty substantial and slow moving to feel like a louisville slugger. I don’t think a 22 would do it.


31 posted on 01/01/2010 5:16:50 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Veni, Vidi, Vicki: "I came, I saw, and I'm like, Omigod!")
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To: bikerman

Mythbusters is entertainment mixed with very, very bad science.


32 posted on 01/01/2010 5:17:03 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Blue Collar Christian

It could have been short range direct fire, then a change in direction upon hitting the roof or a truss.


33 posted on 01/01/2010 5:17:23 PM PST by eartrumpet
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To: Dusty Road

Me, too.

Were they in a tent?


34 posted on 01/01/2010 5:18:45 PM PST by chickenlips
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To: SunTzuWu

The child was rushed to the hospital immediately. Just poor writing that makes it look different.


35 posted on 01/01/2010 5:19:34 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (A "teabagger", yeah, that's me. You ignoramus. ><BCC>)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

There are dozens of documented cases of falling bullets kiling and injuring. I had a hole punched through the hood of my car from a falling bullet.


36 posted on 01/01/2010 5:19:45 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Dusty Road
Once it hit the roof a falling bullet would lose all it's velocity.
37 posted on 01/01/2010 5:20:17 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: AnAmericanMother
It must have been a fairly large rifle bullet to penetrate the roof of a church building and still retain enough velocity to kill this poor little kid.

7.62x39 FMJ would be my bet, combined with a flimsy church roof. No way a handgun projectile would do that.

38 posted on 01/01/2010 5:20:31 PM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: cripplecreek
That’s how I read it at first but I think it was just poorly written.

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39 posted on 01/01/2010 5:20:52 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Not just there it happens a lot here too. We are in SE Ohio and last night at midnight I heard them going off all over. I just said to Dh ;ast night that it would be awful to be sitting in your livingroom and be killed by a stray bullet.


40 posted on 01/01/2010 5:21:52 PM PST by chris_bdba
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