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‘Glass shattering all over my face’: 911 callers describe string of air-gun shootings that damaged 15 cars on I-4
The Orlando Sentinel ^ | January 2, 2020 | Tess Sheets

Posted on 01/03/2020 8:38:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A woman was driving along Interstate 4 near Orange City late Wednesday when she said her minivan’s windows suddenly “imploded."

“It was dark and the next I knew there was glass shattering all over my face,” she later told 911 dispatchers.

While the woman was still on the phone, dispatchers began discussing a similar call that had just been phoned in from down the road. Authorities have since determined at least 15 vehicles were damaged after being shot at, likely by a BB or pellet gun, on highways in the Volusia County area on New Year’s Day.

The woman gasped after hearing about the other call — among at least a half-dozen fielded by dispatchers from alarmed drivers. Deputies have not publicly identified any possible suspects.

“Oh my God, so it wasn’t just me,” she said.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said the 15 vehicles were damaged between mile marker 108 on I-4 and the exit at State Road 40 on Interstate 95, a roughly 30-mile stretch. Eight vehicles were struck along I-4 and seven were damaged on I-95.

No one was injured, and the damage to cars, including shattered glass and dinged metal, appeared to have been caused by BBs or pellets, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The Florida Highway Patrol troop in Jacksonville also reported multiple vehicles damaged along I-95 near St. Augustine, but said Wednesday night it had not confirmed if the incidents were related.

Another man who had pulled off I-4 to a nearby Walgreens called 911 just after 6:30 p.m. to say that “he heard what sounded like a loud bang and then heard the sound of glass shattering in the back seat of his vehicle,” FHP trooper Devon Barrett wrote in an incident report.

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; drivers; florida; localnews; shootings; volusiacounty
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1 posted on 01/03/2020 8:38:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That happened to me in Chile in the mid 70s. Some friends were driving me to their house for dinner one evening and the rear window of their sedan just exploded and disintegrated. It was quite scary.


2 posted on 01/03/2020 8:43:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’d like them to find the idiot doing target practice on commuters, and then leave these folks alone with him/her for 20 minutes.


3 posted on 01/03/2020 8:46:26 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A propelled porcelien spark plug will produce similar results.

When spark plugs are banned only criminals will have spark plugs.


4 posted on 01/03/2020 8:48:40 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Be careful, kid. That BB gun will get your lights put out.


5 posted on 01/03/2020 8:51:18 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Don W

6 posted on 01/03/2020 8:54:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I did not know that a BB could shatter a car windshield, but a quick internet search confirmed it.


7 posted on 01/03/2020 8:55:27 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is Daytona Beach and then the other incidents further up the road close to Jax. Almost certainly related since they are only 40 or so miles apart. I would guess hoodlums heading home to Jax from a day in Orlando having some New Years Eve “fun”.


8 posted on 01/03/2020 8:56:41 PM PST by lodi90
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To: TChad

probably not a windshield as its safety glass and made stronger than other glass windows in the car. all side windows and back windows are made to be broken out for escape/rescue and easily will shatter.


9 posted on 01/03/2020 9:01:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: TChad

High velocity projectile will shatter tempered glass easily.

Same effect as a weed eater and a pebble on a glass door.


10 posted on 01/03/2020 9:01:58 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Oh Noes! a BB Gun!

Than the Lord it wasn’t a rock!


11 posted on 01/03/2020 9:11:48 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I kicked a windshield out once


12 posted on 01/03/2020 9:14:41 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: chris37

Weed eaters? Lord! we are surrounded!


13 posted on 01/03/2020 9:16:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Everyday these fools strap their babies into car seats over 25 ga of gasoline and hurtle 70 mph down the road


14 posted on 01/03/2020 9:18:27 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TChad

Yeah, sounds like shooter was mobile just blasting out windows going down the highway. Got a Gamo CO2 pistol thats capable of doing this, but I’m not given to criminal tendencies!


15 posted on 01/03/2020 9:31:09 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just the Amish celebrating New Years Eve.


16 posted on 01/03/2020 9:50:12 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: TChad

Had plenty of rocks chip my windshield, none came close to shattering it.

Consider the safety glass they are made from to prevent shattering. That should trigger your BS detector.

Do not believe everything internetz searches tell you. They also claim Øbowel’s regime was scandal free....


17 posted on 01/03/2020 9:50:29 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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BBs are made of steel. I suspect it was BBS and not pellets.


18 posted on 01/03/2020 10:11:33 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We’ve had kids go up and down our streets at night shooting out back windows mostly with some form of repeatable pellet/bb guns. Massive $$$ as it is not cheap to replace rear windows on a lot of these SUVs. Before they caught the kids, a few of us were speculating it was the car glass people that do this, as those shops were packed and backed up for weeks!


19 posted on 01/03/2020 10:15:10 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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Do not believe everything internetz searches tell you.

I did a little more searching without finding additional confirmation. I think you are right. Car windows yes, windshields probably not.

20 posted on 01/03/2020 10:15:41 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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