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When I was in grade school, we had a substitute teacher that was hit on the head by a stray bullet on new year's eve.
They had to take out a piece of her skull and and put it in upside down.
After rehab she could no longer taste or smell. And who knows what else. She sure got lucky.
I understand that a bullet out of a gun can cause more damage than a bullet in terminal velocity, but to claim they don't pose danger is not only ignorant, but downright dangerous.
I came out to my truck one morning to go to work, and found a 9mm bullet lodged in my hood right over top of my carburetor. Falling bullets will do damage!!!
What is wrong with that nasally sounding affected accent? Sound not so smart
Think of the motor vehicle as a M O A B , The "Massive ordinance, Air-Burst", bomb on wheels. So yes, some explode really badly. Bradley's do too when carrying fuel inside with the troupes. Ford Pinto... just as bad.
As a helicopter guy we fly over crazy parts of town quite often and I have come to accept that people are stupid and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Exactly true…
Wtf is a helicopter guy
Wtf is a Eugene
Wtf is Fozzy
HELIKOPTER HELIKOPTER
As an Iraqi, this is my biggest fear ever whenever I'm on the streets. Because really Iraqi people shoot real fatal bullets inside crowded areas into the air not just for celebrating a football match win but also for engagements, marriage, having a newborn baby, someone precious passing away, someone recovering from a serious injury or illness, someone's son just got circumcised, and of course when two clans have a conflict for some silly reason and that is the worst-case scenario.
Ironic how they do the shooting for childbirth, death of a loved one, and someone getting healed.
One person gets better (or dies) and suddenly 6 more are injured in the celebration.
I think informing people a little better could help a bit.
I wonder if it would help if someone sold 'celebratory rounds' (blanks!)! If this kind of thing is common...then why not make special ammo for it?
@@jamesnewcomer4939 well, of course there is the rubber bullets but the idea of shooting real bullets is the reason for the habit in the first place just to show off in most cases and brag about it
@@superymariowest2403 that really happened so many times here, actually some years earlier, there was a wedding in our neighborhood and someone with a light machinegun started firing into the air and lost control of it and it went down with his hand on the trigger! blew up the electricity main unit in the street and killing the cousin of the groom on his way down, it was disastrous, the boy's father and other cousin tried to commit suicide after 2 days afterward but people held them down.
Your scare is reasonable~ I have lul moment hard when those Afghanis do that celebration as US retreatment end up injured of dozens of civilians city dwellers
As a retired roofer, I have seen the damage a falling Bullet can do. A bullet can go through shingles, and through the decking, and lodge into the rafter. Here in New Mexico, I stay indoors on New Years eve.
Same here in SoCal! 😊
And downstairs by the sounds of things 😅
As a Hvac tech, I found a bullet resting on top of a unit in the attic, with a hole in the roof right above it.
I caught a falling bullet in my shoulder when I was 11. It was New Year's Eve and just turned midnight. I was at a park sitting on my mother's lap. It went all the way through and came out my armpit. So this was never in question for me. Thanks for making this video and bringing attention to the problem. I hope people realize this is not the proper way to celebrate.
Wow! Bless the spirits you're still around as living proof. It's amazing the gun panty fellers debate physics. Do they not know gun fetishes are what attracts only the other gun fetish fellers? Just ask boys on dates! No NRA mass murderer equipment required. It's 2023. NRA boys kissing each other's pickles isn't going to kill innocent bystanders!!
0.308 or 30-06 ?
Ive found 2 bullet holes in the metal roof where I work and found one bullet that didnt penetrate. I work right next to Tucson International Airport. I never considered the airport factor till watching this though. Shooting in the air is really stupid. I got hit with bird shot in the side of the head but just hard enough to just penetrate. It stung. I dont want to know what a bullet feels like. My dad shot himself through the leg. He said it wasnt real bad till much later. It cant be good.
@@tonythomas951 What airport factor?
@@imeprezime1285 That the bullets presented a hazard to our building as well as air traffic since we are right next to an airport.
This happened to my sister around 5 years ago. She was casually sitting in backyard when a bullet hit her in the foot. She didn't have any idea what happened but she came inside screaming she had been shot in the foot. Thankfully, it didn't fracture any bone in her foot and she recovered completely within 3 weeks. She never had a problem due to this incident afterwards, but this news had spread like crazy in our family.
Maybe I Was Thinking What Are The Chances Of Falling Bullet Hit A Person Is Maybe 1 in a 1 trillion
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Wow
Did you ever catch the person who did it?
Did it go through? Was it a grazing hit? What kind of bullet was it? Did you ever find the actual bullet?
@@beargillium2369 Yes, it went through the skin and through the shoe. My sister has kept the bullet eversince as a memory. My guess is it's a 7.62x39mm bullet.
Turns out my fears were not unfounded about falling bullets. Thanks for confirming them Stu
You’re welcome 👍
What about fears over quicksand? (which ended up not being as huge a presence in my life as the old serials, comics, and cartoons otherwise indicated)
0:10 Tjose dancing people are so cute
June 2017 in a school yard in Menidi Athens 11 years old Mario died from a bullet falling from the sky. It was a celebration day due to summer holidays, last day for Mario in this earth, noone arrested for this murder.
@@user-xs7dr6mt4i no she didn't, she was killed by bullet that still had lateral momentum.
For it to be falling either her or one of the people she was with would have fired it.
This is a common practice in my area. The local government tells people not to do it, but people do it anyway, because they’re… people. I’ve explained why it’s dangerous to a few neighbors, but I’ve learned that individuals prone to firing up into the air find it hard to understand the physics involved. I will refer them to this video in the future. I’m not getting my hopes up.
Well, ya know..Stupid fucks grow on trees and it's harvest season every single minute of every single day..and there's never a "bad harvest"..
This is funny and sad
About 50 years ago, my father's business developed a leaky roof. When he climbed to find the problem, he discovered a spent bullet had created a hole in the roof. He removed the bullet and patched the hole, and all was fine and dry again.
I've always remembered that story, though. Yeah, those falling bullets are dangerous indeed!
I was doing a roof in Detroit. Bullet holes were getting put in the roof while I was doing it. Went home for couple days before finishing.
@@dougvuillemot8670 Wow! All I can say is, it was Detroit!
This is a common occurrence in our country every new year’s eve and sadly with some fatalities. I don’t understand how some people can indiscriminately discharge their firearms like that thinking it will magically disappear in the air.
Indeed here in Jamaica as well
Honestly I feel like those ppl are unlicensed and not really caring about those important details… smh us licensed owners know ammo is not cheap (anymore) and care about where our Bullets land…
In india keeping firearms is against the law...can also get u arrested...until u have a lisence.
A dude got hit with one the other night here in Broward County Fl New Years
Whoever shoots to the sky probably didn't finish highschool, which is where they tell us everything in this video.
Happened to a friend of mine when he was young living in the Philippines. He was looking up for whatever reason when a bullet struck him in the forehead, thankfully for him it didn't do much more then give him a slight imprint scar.
😮 incredible, thanks for sharing!
Damn
This is the usual outcome of getting hit by bullets fired straight up. Almost all incidents of fatalities from falling bullets are the result of firing at much shallower angles.
@Tony Stark what ever the caliber is AR ,15 as it the favourites of the Filipinos to fire back in the 80’s.
@Tony Stark is AR 15 got many sorts of caliber? I don't know about caliber as so stupid of me coz I remember the one that I own is a shotgun and a .22😂
In Germany, you have to obtain a certificate of competence in order to get a firearms license. In the associated course we had learned how dangerous falling projectiles can be. Even those from handguns. A number I made a note of: a 9 mm Parabellum falling vertically can deliver 70 joules of energy at the target. That doesn't sound like much, but it's almost equivalent to the muzzle energy of a 6.35mm Browning caliber cartridge. Lethal.
In germany you can't flip off a cop
@@rickybungalow8839in Germany you can’t shoot your cops or a school.
Also you can’t flip off a cop here in USA ‘cause they’ll pull you over and use qualified immunity as excuse for violating your rights.
It took a course? Didn't the thousand bomber raid give an inkling about falling projectiles?
Ya and your country sucks now
@@rickybungalow8839fr?
I have always wondered about how many WWII civilians were hurt or killed by bullets expended during dogfights.
That's exactly what sent Erich Hartmann to the gulag for ten years.
@@aj-2savage896
Stop lie, not for that.
During the Pearl Harbor attack there were several civilians kiiled by Amercian anti-aircratft fire falling back down.
Put it simply: Do you know where your bullets will hit?
Anything other than a "yes" means it's incredibly dangerous, case closed.
"Yes, it will end into my neighbor's head. Since I know where it's going, it's should be safe enough to shoot"
@@Chrisss1176 well then it’s murder
@@idkadecentname6589 well, yeah, technically. But still, to the question "Do I know where my bullet will hit" I can definitely answer yes
@@Chrisss1176 They never said when the answer is yes, it is safe to to so, they just pointed out that if you don’t know, it is also very dangerous
Be aware of your target and what is beyond it
This is one of those things I've always wondered, but didn't necessarily need to know. Great vid! 😊
*Thanks so much for the likes!!!* ❤️❤️🥰
Same for me, so thought it was time to find out. Thanks for watching! 👍
I feel like that’s 95% of UA-cam lol
This is one of those things I already knew just through common sense.
I've had this question in the back of my head for years and decided to search about it today, only 2 days after the release of this video, the planets have aligned I guess 😊
Yes
My parents were absolutely anti-gun, but one day my dad came home with an archery set for me and my brother to practice with. This was not some kid's set, but an actual grown-up bow with real, very pointy arrows. So here we are, about two days later, shooting arrows at the target we had nailed to a tree, when one of us had the brilliant idea of shooting the arrows straight up into the sky, just to see how far they would climb. Even more brilliant, however, was the sun that afternoon. The arrow went up and we immediately lost sight of it in the sun's glare. Some seconds later, we heard a distinct THUNK on the ground and looked for the source of the sound. The arrow had landed in a perfectly vertical position, about two inches deep, less than a foot from my brother. We never used the bow again.
Yeah. Same here. And about that close to a friend. Felt a LOT closer though. Never did that again. Still shoot, but only at targets.
People often ignore the reality that when in the air, Mr Gravity is not your friend
I almost think it is a right of passage for kids to shoot arrows in the air and hope no one gets hit I know my friend's and I also did this as kids but we did it more often than I would like to admit it was quite a rush not knowing where the arrow was going to land.
It's always the people with the least experience with weapons who do the dumbest shit. Especially your dad in this case.
Bullets shot from a rifle will spin, but as the video says, if they go straight up, then when they come down they tumble in their fall and slow themselves down. Not so for arrows. The fletching (feathers) on an arrow will make it point downward and also spin so that it doesn't tumble. It will hit the ground with about the same speed as when it left the bow. We also shot arrows into the air a few times but I don't think we lost sight of them. They usually came down at least 20 feet away from us. Fortunately this idea soon got very boring so that we started shooting at actual targets again.
I've been worried about falling bullets all my life, and everyone else always shrugged it off as harmless. Thank you, I feel less stupid now!
People don't like the fact that it's possible to die randomly with no warning so they deny it.
What a wussy. I've worried about a lot of things, but falling bullets? Never.
I was never worried for my own sake. Whenever I saw people shooting up into the air, I'd be worried it might land on someone or something.
@@JimmyLundberg I wondered why you wore that tin hat.
@@andrewsauer9669 It's more likely that the people have fired off celebratory bullets all their lives with no one they knew of ever getting hurt, so they assume it's completely harmless.
As a 8 year old child I was worried about the bullets shot in the air during running competitions.
Only a couple years after did I realize those were blank shots, but anyway it's embarassing that an 8 year old me was more worried about celebratory gunfire than most countries in the world are nowadays.
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As a child we tend to have a more direct approach to everything, because learning involves observing and we WANT to learn or at least understand.
At some point we drop our learning attitude and instead go into a state of "who cares, it has always been like that".
@@groundloss Speak for yourself. I always seek answers. That "Always been like that" and "who cares" approch is the result of those that are used to ignorance.
Honestly, I find that more dangious then any falling bullet. I can trust an idiot that tries to use their brain. I can't trust someone that knows a lot if they say ignorance might be for the best. The very statement contradicts. How can you know if you don't know?
Thus,I make it about what people don't know. Goes further then "I know best". A shame the same can't be said for so many others.
@@taramaforhaikido7272 You really shouldn't trust either. And that's something that is also lost and causes many unfortunate absurd protests nowadays.
@@taramaforhaikido7272 i like you
I’ve always assumed that falling bullets were dangerous, but it is nice to see evidence.
Hehe same
Im definitely going to stop my wake up calls now, no more emptying an AK into the sky of a morning
It's like picking straws, you never know whose gonna be the chosen one, until it's over...
Nope, this video is full of crap.
A bullet shot straight up in the air is not dangerous.
@@maxdrags3115 I suppose you also believe the earth is flat...
As a Greek I always knew falling bullets can be lethal; it is customary in some regions here to shoot guns in the air mostly at weddings but also other joyous events & there have been numerous fatalities…
Just 3 months ago a 25 year old died not by the bullet he shot in the air but the high voltage cable he cut with it.
But anyways such fatalities are common occurrence here (especially in Crete) & I’m surprised not one incident was reported in the video.
It is legal in greece?? How can it be legal in EU lol
@@mateusznowicki9358 I don’t think it is but Crete is kinda like our Texas 😂
In 2020 I was working on July 4th in Stockton CA, the next day while working on a ladder i noticed that a bullet had gone through my van roof and became stuck in the head linner. the bullet is still there and makes for an interesting conversation piece.
"they will have flying cars in 2020s"
the people: **still discovering gravity**
What's the problem in getting knowledge? U r so lame
Hes jokin
flying cars is not possible
@@Space97. for now
Its possible now theres one but it can fly not so long.
This actually happened a few years ago in an L.A area middle school. Students were on recess break and were making lines to buy snacks. All of a sudden out of nowhere, and without any gun shot sound, a 12 year old boy yelled and immediately fell to the floor. He had been struck in the upper shoulder/ neck area by a falling 9 mm bullet. He survived, but he was in critical condition for a while.
Wow, you do realize that if he was position a little different, it could have landed on his head. Mashallah
@@confusedkilan962 you watched that from tik tok stfu
@@Therealdeal42069 Wtf do u mean?
@@Therealdeal42069 The world doesn't revolve around tiktok. You children need to get off your phones and go outside.
This is a fairly common occurrence, several people were struck by Falling bullets in North Carolina this year during New Year's celebration. With that said, less than 500 people are accidentally killed by Firearms each year in the US
I have wondered about this for years. Thanks for clarifying the issue. Great video.
A few years back, our home received a few falling bullet strikes. A home about 1 1/4 miles away (In visual distance, but diagonal to the roads) was celebrating new years or July 4th. We could hear them not just shooting, but doing rapid fire. We were out of the front patio, but when we something hit the patio roof, we came inside. We were "gifted" during the night, with cracked windshields on 2 vehicles. Many of us in the neighborhood called the cops... but they couldn't be bothered to show up.
After a serious accident in the 90's I spent a few weeks in a hospital and shared a room with a Swiss Red Cross worker who had been shot in Afghanistan while working in an office. It turned out he was hit by a stray bullet from two brothers who had a falling out, and decided to have a shootout over a mile away. The bullet came down, went through a window, hit him in the back of the head and came out through his mouth. In the process it smashed his upper pallet and knocked half his teeth out. He was on his way to a full recovery when I got discharged.
What was the caliber?
@@visceratrocar I didn't ask, but I imagine 7.62x39 if Russian era AK?
@@GdaySport The Russian era is the '47. Not a huge round person, but probably enough. Particularly if shot at an angle.
Everything was interesting until they interjected that commercial.
That doesn't sound like a falling bullet..
I once found an intact bullet on the roof of a parking garage, always wondered how it got up there. It had rifled grooves on the sides, and had clearly been fired, but evidently hit nothing.
Someone’s might be at the bottom of the seafloor ☠️
@@beluwuga its probably your mama, she was so dense. She pierced throught the land
Well, it hit your house.
"On" the roof and not "in" it? Your personal evidence seems to contradict this videos conclusion. (Almost every bullet fired into air comes back down doing no damage. Literally 99.999%)
@@therealblackout3659 I've found 2 bullets lodged in roofs in not great neighborhoods. Almost passed through the shingles, id think that might penetrate soft flesh.
I loved the comedic dialog, and (as you have pointed out ) gravity is consistent over time... Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Gravity! Your friend until it isn't.
I worked in Roofing business for 15 years and I pulled alot of bullets from the roofs tracing leaks. What goes up must come down ... anywhere.
This happened in the town I grew up in back in the 1970's. A guy working on his roof was found dead. They first thought it was cardiac until they did an autopsy and found he had been shot. After figuring out the angles - they determined someone had fired into the air. Long story short detectives found that some people celebrating in a nearby park a couple miles away (4th of july party) had randomly fired a rifle, sometimes in the air - which one of the bullets found its way into the guy working on his roof, killing him. It took several months to crack the case.
Did the guy with the gun get arrested? Because that should have happened.
@@MontananMusician really doubt there would be any proof anywhere
The bullet's markings should match the owner of the guns barrel.
@@MontananMusician was wondering the same thing
Like...didn't they see blood and gunshot on him? How can you assume cardiac arrest in such a case?
When I was in younger, a young lady I was dating was struck in the head by a falling bullet. It was on New Years Eve and she was in a group of people...nobody in the group heard a shot from nearby and it was determined that the impact was from directly above and not from ground level. This was a devistating Injury and although she survived she had to have more than one brain surgery and was never the same.
You dumped her because she had brain damage?
That's cold man
@@althor9997 Like you would continue dating her😂😂
Very uncalled for Levi
😥😭❤
@@althor9997 Its not cold, he just does not wanna live his life taking care of someone, you cant blame him.
I was an architect on a new urban high school campus in California. Nice facilities, community pride, all the modern bells & whistles, including solar panels on the roof. Even before the ribbon cutting, there were already several bullet holes in the rooftop panels. The bullets got thru the tempered glazing, and were embedded in the aluminum body of the panels. I don't know what caliber, but if it doesn't kill you outright, it's sure going to leave a mark...
As I understand it if you fire a gun into the air and that round kills somebody , it is not an unfortunate accident. IT IS MURDER.
I owned a machine shop in Houston, Tx. One morning, I opened my shop to find a bunch of assorted nuts & bolts scattered on the concrete floor. My 1st thought was a "small animal" knocked the plastic tray off of the shelf. I picked up the tray & found that it was broken. As I picked up the nuts & bolts, I found a "slug". I looked up & could see light coming through a hole in the metal roof made by the bullet. If a falling bullet could pierce a metal roof, shatter a plastic tray & knock the entire tray & its contents of nuts & bolts off of a shelf, then it could seriously hurt or kill you.
Thanks for sharing, people need to hear these stories
@@neildouglas2293 I agree - sadly, so many cannot believe or care until 'it' happens to them. Pick your 'it'.
cool story
The celebratory gunfire in Westbury is outrageous!
Maxo maxo
I have never understood the urge to fire a gun into the air.
Starting with my first hunter safety course, I was always taught that I was responsible for every round that leaves my firearm.
The urge is to fire the gun. People have the decided that doing it in the air is the safest thing for them to do without feeling the responsibility of potentially killing somebody
@@thottydagod457 🤦and that's why we need firearm safety courses to be far more common.
You fire a gun at a TARGET.
You DO NOT place your finger on the trigger until you've identified your target AND what's beyond it.
Firing a gun into the air is as reckless as driving a car 110mph down a city street.
What is a hunter course
A course taken usually at a young age as a safety course to make sure you know how to properly handle a firearm safely especially since hunting is usually done with a firearm, pretty common to take one in rural areas
@@terence602 safety course to make sure you know how to handle a firearm and all the laws of hunting for youth hunters, often required for a youth hunting license I took one when I was like 14 I think. It's boring but kinda good information for kids that young considering hunting accidents do happen
Thanks for this informative video. I need to send it to some of my neighbors that think it's OK to shoot branches out of trees. I've always been told (but always questioned) that the velocity of the falling bullet would reach the muzzle velocity upon impact. I always felt that there must be a terminal velocity for falling bullets that was much less than the muzzle velocity. Thanks for clarifying this!
It's safe with shotguns, which work best for shooting down branches anyway.
@timewave02012 just use the saw. Stop being an idiot.
Yes indeed. We had an incident on new years eve in New Orleans where a tourist walking along the riverfront suddenly collapsed and died. It was determined that she was struck by a bullet fired into the air from across the river. I stay inside now on Dec. 31st!
I had this debate with a co-worker once and it just astonished me how this person, who did have some background in physics, could not see how dangerous this was. "It's just falling from sky" he said. He couldn't grasp the energy equation minus friction meant a still very dangerous projectile. I mean, in warfare, archers would shoot arrows up at a more or less 45 degree angle. Did not the enemy fear such projectiles?
45 degrees isn’t 90 degrees. At 45 the object maintains all of its horizontal speed. At 90 there is no horizontal speed. A bullet falling from the sky wouldn’t go through a leather jscket
@@bcuniverse_ yeah, and those people shooting to the air are pointing their guns at 90°, sure.
@@mrmanolomax7328 obviously they are
@@bcuniverse_ probably in normal firing in the air,the angle isn't 90, it's almost 85 or something
@@bcuniverse_ how you came to that conclusion? 2 years ago a stray bullet went through a tin plate my father standing beneath. Luckily he didnt get hit. I hope you can grasp that a tin plate is a lot sturdier than a leathet jacket
I've always thought celebratory gunfire was one of the stupidest looking things ever. Glad to see its as deadly as I assumed.
what about Chicago on NYE?
"Glad to see its as deadly as I assumed." - really says it all.
Why are u glad
You're glad about it????
tf you glad about??
Oof, I always assumed the terminal velocity of a falling bullet would be way too low to do more than just hurt a lot as long as the angle was mostly vertical since air resistance would prevent it from going very fast, but I guess I was wrong since 90m/s is still pretty fast. Makes sense that something with the mass of a bullet at that speed could easily punch through the thinner parts of the skull and kill you.
Here in Greece celebratory gunfire was considered socially acceptable until a few years ago (continues to be in a lot of places). There have been deaths as you can imagine. I remember one being in a village near my city a few years ago when a small girl sitting in her yard was killed by a falling bullet fired some blocks away. It made the news and there was outrage but the habit continues to this day. The Easter of 23' there was someone outside the church I was at firing multiple rounds.
As an aircraft mechanic, I've dug several rounds where they penetrating the wings of parked aircraft. Also, we've had several roof leaks from falling bullets. Atlanta, you know!
~~ population density is a large factor - but I've lived in very rural areas and seen plenty of knuckleheads in the sticks do it - just a much better chance out there that it only hits the dirt.
Terminal birds.....
Metiorites.....
Blue ice.......
This video ruined my fun.
I live in Dekalb County, in the Atlanta area, and I can confirm that you are right. People around here are stupid as Hell. They drive like lunatics, with no fear of death or bodily harm. And that cluelessness extends to celebratory gunfire in the subdivisions on every major holiday. They seem completely incapable of envisioning the consequences of their actions.
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My daughter's roof had two bullet holes in it when it was inspected. Another time I talked to a man who was buying ammo to shoot on New Years. I advised him to shoot into the ground or into a tree. He was surprised and alarmed when I told him about falling bullets. Someone else told me they new of someone who had been killed by a,falling bullet.
..a man who was buying ammo to shoot on New Years.
Well, they could have bought some blanks, problem solved, everyone's happy!
Concerning how someone who does not know about all the dangers involving a gun, including falling bullets, is allowed to own one and buy ammo
It always surprises me that people enjoy just firing a gun in a random direction. Isn’t the fun part when you have good accuracy on the target or can shoot at fun stuff like chalk, shook up soda bottle, moving target, etc?
@@Lucas-zd9yn Chalk it up to Constitutional Rights. It should assume a certain amount of responsibility, but stupid beats responsible every time.
I inspect roofs and we found this all the time!
I was taught this at a very early age and have always wondered about this so thanks for the info. When I was a youngster back in the late 60's my dad was on the sheriff reserve or posse as it was called then and was issued a service revovler (38 special) and would shoot it in our back yard on the 4th of July and new years eve. He always told me to never shoot a gun up in the air because, you know, gravity, so he would would shoot it into the ground. Anyway, nice explainer video and thanks again.
I don't live in the US but my father served in the army in the Balkans and here we have tons of weapons and I remember as a kid going to buy an airsoft rifle and the girl selling it pointed the gun to the roof to fire to show it works even tho it was empty I remember my dad immediately grabbing the barrel and pointing it down saying to me and her that if you ever want to testfire a weapon you point it at the ground away from you.
I know of a case where a kid playing outside climbing a wall suddenly fell while his parents were having a BBQ on new years. turned out a bullet that someone shot in the air came down and hit the kid in the head killing him.
In the UK we don't generally have guns so we go outside and fire water pistols into the air, fortunately we all carry umbrellas and/or wear bowler hats so the returning water spray isn't a big deal.
😆 my sense of humour
That's the most English thing I've ever heard
wait so you don't discharge your swords and yell God Save the Queen, idk I'm American
@@origaminoob1037 We have a King now...
@@catpainblackudder01 should have discharged your swords
As a former roofer of 21 years, in Chicago, i have a collection of bullets that i have pulled from roofs. Some of them went THROUGH the plywood.
I hope I never set foot in Chicago.
As if I needed any more reason not to go to Chicago
with all those strict laws against citizens only the bad guys have guns there
Why wouldn’t it go through plywood
I worked on repairing an old couples' chimney flashing once and found 6 bullets on the roof nearby. I showed them to the couple and they said, yeah the neighbor fires his pistol into the air every new years and 4th of july. I asked if they ever called the police and they said they didn't want to stir up any trouble.
My Grandfather was hit by a stray bullet 90 years ago in Copan Oklahoma. He was standing behind their screen door in the kitchen looking at the garden. It loged next to his heart. Back then, they would not do such a operation and it remained there the rest of his life.
Damn. How long did he live?
He lived to be 85 and died from lung damage caused by German mustard gas.
I was taking out the trash in an apartment complex in a not so great area of Phoenix. I'm about halfway through the parking lot, heading to the dumpster, when I hear a metallic clinking sound on the ground directly behind me. I look back and theres a fresh bullet on the ground right behind me. I pick it up and it looks like a .45, still warm. If I would have come out 2 seconds later than I did, I would have got it. I also have a video on my channel of being pinned down behind some bushes while hiking through the desert north of Phoenix as bullets are loudly whizzing right over my head, and landing on the ground around me, as bullets seemed to be coming from everywhere by people who pulled up, hopped out, and just started shooting into my area without seeing me. It would be the second video on my channel where I'm nearly hit by stray bullets in the desert north of Phoenix. The first one I suddenly seemed to be in the middle of a shootout in the middle of nowhere, after not seeing a person for miles. Machine gun fire, shotguns, you name it were going off everywhere around me by what seemed like two groups firing at each other, while completely hidden in the large bushes all around me. I never saw one of them and all the shooting stopped as quickly as it started.
Working as a commercial roofer in mostly larger cities on the east coast of the US you wouldn’t believe how many bullets I pull out of roofs or how many holes I fix where the round punches clean through. I’ve seen pass throughs on metal, shingles and other asphalt roofs and membrane systems. I can’t imagine the stupidity required to fire rounds into the air
I find any where from 7 to 20 every year in roofs...its crazy to think it could hit someone
Yeah, it’s idiotic. Scary there’s that many.
Here in the Philippines during New Year celebrations, in the 80's to early 2000, there were several emergencies regarding people hit in the head with bullets and bullets found inside homes were a hole can be seen on the ceiling. Due to this the government became very strict in prohibiting firing guns during New Year. Even now, there are still some rare cases but no longer as many as before. Even the police during New Year, the nozzles of their guns has marked sealed taped on it to make sure none of them would use their guns on that day except on special emergency reasons.
Yes, I remember we are not allowed to sleep upstair when its new year.
@@odtuhan Damn those years, thankfully now its rarer to have these kind of incidents.
Why don't you use just the fireworks .
@@silvers2211 yeah but the most recent accident in the Philippines I think is it hit an infant
@@evilchamps7514 we do! LOTS AND LOTS OF IT. But gun owners can be jackasses too. Not to mention that on New Year's day there are a lot of drinking.
There are stories from pilots in WW I that saw some weird dark objects standing seeming still in the air.
The presumption is that these were artillery shells fired at a high angle, that were caught(=seen) at their zenith, where the vertical speed was zero before it started to fall back down again.
6:40 ... I'm Iraqi, every time the national football team wins the ER is flooded with cases of people (usually children) hit with falling stray bullets from the celebrations. But it has been decreasing over the past couple years so that's good.
😢 That’s sad but good if it’s decreasing
Who would have thought that bits of metal designed to kill, falling at high speeds could be dangerous, this is shocking 😳
I honestly won’t be able to sleep tonight 🤯🤯
@Douglas Pantera sure go ahead, world already have over 7billion peoples..
I thought 😂😂 I was always wondering when they fire the bullet will not disappear and it will fall 👍 but he cleared my doubt
@@gameweb1453 yeah it was actually quite interesting
@@AnthonyPiccirillo yes 👍
I used to do roofing repairs professionally. It wasn't uncommon to find bullets in the roofing materials. Usually, it did cause a leak but rarely went through the wood.
I do Roof repairs and find many bullets going thru the roof especially metal
I'll bet anyone $10,000 I can guess where you guys are from
Say it for the people in the back
If it did.......
@@ayejae4519 hmm... yeah.. I know that Wooden bullets as well as that silicon bullets, metal bullets? Ah, yes that’s a rare bullet that one is.. bruh.....
3:27 „a velocity which increases by 9.81 m/s - every second“. It really took me until today to understand how the m/s^2 unit used for measuring acceleration works 🤯🤦♂️
I Always wondered about that. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍
Growing up, someone across the street from me would fire bullets in the air every Wednesday, and I was always curious how dangerous it was. Had a feeling it was stupid
@@simonthuondungu7004 like ur mom
To keep the neighborhood prices down?
@@simonthuondungu7004 I'm telling your mom you said that.
It's Wednesday bitches!!! Arrrrrrrrgh 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
@@JokkaCokka but at what cost?....
*camera starts to zoom in on my face*
*slams fist on the table*
..... BUT AT WHAT COST?!?!?
I’ve always wondered about that. You don’t hear too often about people being killed from bullets falling out of the sky. I’ve always thought shooting a live round in the air was a stupid thing to do regardless because of the risk
4.6% of all gun deaths according to this thing. As stupid as I think everything is, that still surprised me.
@@TheRealDrJoey 4.6% of deaths FROM STRAY BULLETS.
NOT ALL DEATHS.....the words were very specific.
I'd like to know who was paying for a study for 7 years to go around studying only deaths from strays and how they determined it was strays versus a somewhat steep or shallow trajactory based impact.
Sounds like alot of this info is cherry picked or made up.
It's crazy how much misinformation and irrational fear about guns, mostly from people that don't even have guns let alone ever shot one.
And i think most of gunfire celebration using empty gun
I mean yeah, even if you don't happen to hit a person, you could hit a bird.
On 4th of July one year, I could hear them cutting down through the trees I was under and one hit the sheet metal porch and left a dent. Couldn't tell where it came from because it seemed like half the town lit-up at dark. There were fireworks too.
My grandfather was at a party in the 50s and someone died on the spot from a bullet falling into his head. Someone had shot a pistol into the air a few blocks away.
Well, considering my truck had 2 bullet holes in the roof, the morning of New Years Day and the over hang over the side entrance to my house has a bullet hole, I would say the threat of falling bullets from firing in the air is very real.
ONE bullet hole in the roof of a car or in one's house roof, I would write off as "one of those things." But THREE hits in one night? you were deliberate target practice, not "unlucky."
@@demef758 Not likely, the Sheriffs Department came out and took a report, they told me what I suspected, the bullets came from up above. For someone to have intentionally done that, they would literally have to be floating and shoot down from the sky onto the roof my 7 ft truck and over hang of my house. The more likely scenario is someone was shooting into the sky and the bullets came down.
Also had a hole on my VW bug on New Years, had to use Bondo to patch it up.
With terminal velocity and all the factors considered. What is the difference between a falling bullet and lets say hail?
Stand outside and throw a small rock in the air. Is it going to cause injury when it comes down?
@@demef758 Deliberate target practice? That's a bit of a jump. A guy shooting in the air will typically fire in the same direction, and if he was properly braced when firing to manage the recoil, the shots would take a similar path, especially with low recoil calibers. I wouldn't be surprised if the lawn took some hits too, but that's usually harder to notice. The easy ones to notice are the ones in his vehicle and house.
In 2007, a cop of Macau fired 5 rounds into the air during a street protest and one of the bullet hit a random guy's chest 300m away which almost killed him. It definitely can be lethal.
That’s stupid
If you don’t have a weapon or have not been around a gun all your life don’t believe everything someone tells you. Have any of you ever dove or duck hunted? Shot from a shotgun rain down all over. The only way you could be injured is if you were looking up without eye protection. However hand guns and rifle projectiles are different. Angle and velocity play the major factor in severity of injury. Fact. Do you know the range of the weapon. Do you know the weight of the projectile? Most important, do you know who or what is down range? Fact, only an idiot would fire a hand gun or rifle into the air.
If the bullet is not on a ballistic arc, the fastest it can go is terminal velocity, which is no faster than if it was dropped from a height.
Firearms expert Julian Hatcher studied falling bullets in the 1920s and calculated that . 30 caliber rounds reach terminal velocities of 90 m/s (300 feet per second or 186 miles per hour). A bullet traveling at only 61 m/s (200 feet per second) to 100 m/s (330 feet per second) can penetrate human skin but that's a lot slower than a fired round.
No it can’t
7:45 Snipe 100
💀💀
Midnight on New Years or 0000 hrs in Vietnam 1968 an m-60 gunner on our perimeter decided to fire straight in the air leaving a nice tracer trail. This also prompted two more perimeter guards to fire their m-60’s straight up. When I grabbed and put on my steel pot and stood straight up a couple of my squad mates laughed until the morning that is when two of those 7.62 mm rounds were found having gone through the corrugated metal roof and stuck in the wooden floor of the only “building” in the base camp as the rest were 6 man tents on dirt.
Many years ago I was just getting in my truck to go to lunch. I was in the parking lot of my company which was located about a half mile from a gravel pit where the local Sheriff's had a makeshift shooting range for the deputies. I could hear the shooting but it was a normal thing so I didn't pay any attention to it. Suddenly, I was hit in my upper back, right of my spine and it knocked my into the side of my truck. I looked down and there was a .40 bullet laying on the pavement. I later proved in a court like meeting with the Sheriff and the county attorney that the officers involved were shooting up in the air at an angle of approximately 40 degrees. The bullet matched one of the deputy's weapon. I still have the bullet. The bullet made it through tall pine trees on top of the hill and struck me unimpeded. It was late fall and I was wearing a heavy t-shirt, flannel shirt and a heavy leather flight jacket. I had a bruise that went from the impact point to below my buttocks on the right side. It hurt like hell and I'm pretty sure if it hadn't been for the leather jacket, it would have slightly penetrated my skin. The jacket still has the impression of the bullet over 30 years later.
Stupid cops...smh
Thanks for sharing, I'm glad your ok. Hope you got the justice and compensation you deserve.
Well jackets don’t heal Soo…
You surely are a badass man. Having a 30-year-old bullet that almost penetrated your skin once.
Ya or the trees. Probably would have gone pretty deep if not for them. I used to gold pan down a hill from a shooting range. Heard the bullets wizz through the trees above me alot
YOU are accountable for EVERY round that leaves YOUR gun.
Seriously
A little girl died in Virginia at a place called Sunday Park during a 4th of July celebration. A bullet fell from the sky and strucker in the head. I have also personally witnessed a rifle bullet come down from the sky in Hawaii and go through the metal roof of my landlords office, landing in his chair. The round was going much slower, but it was till enough to kill anyone unlucky enough to be in its path
did anyone get caught for either?
@robi6317 unfortunately no, it's almost impossible to trace a single bullet fired into the air, please stop someone if you see them doing that (as long as it's safe to do so)
When I was replacing the shingles on my house around 1997 I found what looked like a .22 embedded in one of the shingles. It was half way melted in the shingle.
My father once told me a story from his days in the army: During a combat drill one soldier tripped and shot one bullet into the air at a rather flat trajectory. Later that day news came in that several villages away from the training ground a senior got hit by that very bullet while gardening in his yard - in his butt. Probably the luckiest unlucky guy I've ever heard of.
It rearly happens
@@michaelpelham9699 happens enough to not shoot in the air.
@@rey6708 butt not rearly
What happened to the stumbling squaddie? Was he assigned a desk job, preferably one where he had to sit on his bum all day every day in charge of accounting for the base's supply of ammo? Until he had learned his lesson.
lucky or unlucky
I am from Germany and for me the idea of randomly shooting in the air sounds absolutely enormously rediculous
Baust du wirklich Bananen an?
@@aramisortsbottcher8201 Nein
@@bananenbauer9877 Wäre ja zu schön :D
Basically the same here , since i am from the netherlands.
It’s pretty much ridiculous everywhere except the Middle East and maybe some really poor places in Africa and South America.
A girl that I knew when I was younger later on in life my mother had told me that she caught a falling bullet on new years. I asked if she was alright & my mom said yes. I never saw that person again since I was younger.
The best source material for this is "Hatcher's notebook", by Julian Hatcher. He rewrote all the books on ballistics, and answered many questions about exterior ballistics.
When I was a kid, was hit by a falling bullet on my foot, I just had a stinging effect that was over in seconds, this made me believe that they were not dangerous. I now understand that it depends on many factors.
Were you standing up? Cuz you are probably quite lucky it only hit your foot
@@minorcomet282 I was standing, I don't think it would have killed me if it hit me in the heard, there was no skin damage, so I suppose it wasn't a powerful firearm.
@@santopino2546 nah bruh, that was just hail 😂 lmao, a bullet would've gone through your foot
@@santopino2546 yeah sorry but it was probably something like a fast bee
Ya i doubt it was a bullet that was shot in the air. Slowed down ricochet maybe
I had debated this to my friend for literally years now that falling bullets are dangerous. I hope this helps him understand.
Your friend sounds like they need to go to a 5th grade physics class
@@Jkrocsko You mean 10th grade right? Very few primary teachers let alone 5th graders are capable of a comprehensive presentation nor an understanding of physics. Even high school courses are basically physics samplers, and far from comprehensive. Physics belongs at the university.
By the way, this is a fun video, but it's geared for midwits...a cartoon for fanboys to make them feel up-to-date and smart
In our country, people die or hit by stray bullets yearly (every new year's eve) because some idiot prefer shooting gun in the air rather use fireworks. The youngest victime I've known was 9 y old. She died.
@@jeromewesselman4653 I was with you until you just couldn't help but being smug.
Yeah I think this is an over exaggeration. Straight up is a very low probability but this guy is using some very deceptive statistics. Probably a Democrat...
Several years ago I was the RN in the ER of a small hospital when an older man was brought in from a local golf course with an arm injury. The arm had been bandaged by the EMS so my concern was his overall condition since he was a heart patient. After assuring he was stable I removed the dressing while interviewing him to see how he was injured. I seems he was sitting in an open golf cart and was resting his arm on his leg when he suddenly got a severe pain in his arm just above his wrist. Upon removing the dressing, I discovered a round "hole" in his arm that went completely thru his arm. I recognized it as a bullet wound. Upon further examination he complained of his leg hurting. He had blood on his pants which I thought came from his arm but after removing his pants I discovered another entry wound and a thru and thru leg wound. When examining his pants I found a hole in the top of the leg but not in the bottom. Since the was now stable , I called the golf course and talked to the police who were there and asked if they had looked in the golf cart. They had not so I asked if they would because I believed this man had been shot. They found a bloody 223 cal bullet on the floor of the cart. The bullet came down almost vertically with enough force to go thru his arm, the first layer of his pants, thru his leg but could not go thru the other part of his pants. When he stood up to get out of the cart the bullet fell out of the leg of his pants onto the floor of the cart. If I wasn't there I would have a hard time to believe it but it happened. You can't make this stuff up.
in Lebanon, its dangerous to go out during world cup season because whenever a team scores the fans will shoot with kalashnikov. its also common in weddings, burials especially when the deceased is young, and when they announce the results of school graduation, in new years celebration, and when theres a fight between two neighborhoods
One of my friends got shot in the head by a lost bullet at a house party when we were in College. The bullet came through the roof and got stuck on his brain. It didn't kill him but he lost his ability to talk, walk and it aged his body incredibly. He looked 55 by the time he was 25. He was the bread winner in his family too. Please don't do this, it can be life changing not just for the person getting hit but by all his loved ones.
USA ?
That's crazy dude Im surprised he Survived that.
usa??
Yes, it was in Seattle. We were students at the University of Washington
Of course its USA.
It’s extremely ironic that random gunfire isn’t illegal everywhere. “But officer I wasn’t *aiming* at him, he just happened to be in the falling trajectory of the bullet”
Yes, you'd assume that would be illegal in all 50 States and many other places of the world. Unless using the weapon in self defense, hunting or training and you have no control over where it goes reliably, you have no business discharging the weapon.
@@tilasole3252 I'd assume while not directly illegal you'll still be charged for it for another reason.
@@arvidodinson6206 not at all, unless you injure or kill someone. And even then you can feign ignorance and give a fake apology and most likely all be well.
@@tilasole3252 i dont think thats how it works. if you actually kill someone with the falling bullet, you'd still be held accountable for the death. Although you wouldnt probably be charged with murder, most likely you would be charged with negligent homocide/Involuntary manslaughter.
@@marcuspoosz2190 depends on the lawyer, what state and the judge. Too much goes on today with direct proof and people still get off with hardly a slap on the wrist.
It was one of the first things i was taught about firearms and bows. My nan told me a story about a kid in the street she grew up in shooting an arrow up in the air and it coming back to hit him in the eye. Not sure if it was a real incident or just a story to scare me, but it got the point across.
I found a bullet lodged in the top layer of a flat roof I was servicing in Hempstead NY one time. Also found a little .22 that was thrown on another roof close by there. It was old and it crumbled in my hands when I picked it up to move it.😂
About 40 years ago, an acquaintance was watching July 4th fireworks when he was struck by a celebratory shot from a .45 automatic fired about 2 blocks away. He was hit in the leg and suffered roughly a 30% permanent disability due to muscle and nerve damage in his lower leg, resulting in a dropped foot. Police caught the culprit, who was tried and convicted and served a multi-year prison sentence.
Legs are below head level , what was he doin laying down ?
@@correctpolitically4784 watching the july 4 fireworks?
My friend, the Pentagon Bird... developed the 85mm Recoilless Cannon, in the barnyard, and when he tested it on his outlying farm, it got air response from two air biases here in Ohio, and FBI/ATF, and a Contract from the Department of Defense to continue testing at the Picatinny Arsenal in the Potamic. Transporting the weapon there, it blew up a large Gasoline Station in the DC Beltway. The gun was a huge success and Bob won his case... it was setup to blow up, by someone stupid.... WOW.. Please Read the Book, "The Pentagon Wars".
I had some friends years ago that wanted to celebrate New Year’s Eve with the discharging a firearm. They stepped outside their house and fired up into the air shooting off the electric power line to the house. Basic gun safety tells you to be sure of your target. Firing indiscriminately cannot turn out well.
I work in a rail yard just south of Chicago and on July 4th and New years you could hear the falling bullets hitting containers and trains all around us, luckily our supervisors dont have a problem with us just staying inside for like an hour until the shots die down. Be safe out there guys.
who on earth would have a problem with that lol
Get yourself a steel umbrella.
Sorry, but even the best marksman is incapable of shooting a gun straight up in the air and hitting an intended target. No, those hits you heard that night were semi-horizontal shots, not vertical shots.
@@GodInHisPrime You'd be surprised
" Shut up and get back to work maggot, comma you can hide from bullets on your own time. we're not paying you to sit in the break room and do nothing."
Ah the good old days
Take an early lunch
As a roofer, I’ve found 2 bullets buried 1/3 of the way into shingles. One was 9mm the other was .380 and the .380 had a shallow angle. The 9mm was almost straight into the roof. Neither one went through 2 layers of roof shingles.
damn dude that looks scary place to live in
What state?
I saw similar in Louisiana myself once looking at rooftops from hurricane damage 10-13 years ago. It did not penetrate thru the decking. I don’t remember the size of the bullet.
I found 4 in a freshly roofed warehouse a couple years ago in Memphis right after new years day.
Solid roofings are probably sufficient covers for stay bullets. However, the risks are still there for when people are not below such roofings. Where I come from, falling stray bullet deaths are from bullets going through thin metal roofs or just out in the open.
I knew a guy who had a bullet come thru a section of their roof and penetrate their heater in the attic and cause it to stop working. They found bullet shot thru an electrical panel. This was on new years when people typically shoot guns into the air
This surprised me, and I am a physics teacher. Simply because I thought a bullet need much more speed to be lethal.
Sidenote: One big risk with celebration gunfire is if you hit the edge of a window and ricochet down to the people in the room with quite some speed
While walking through the woods one sunny spring afternoon I heard shots in the distance and didn't think anything of it. They were a long way off and gunfire is pretty common. Then there was a crack and my chest hurt. A 38/357 round fell from probably half a mile off, skimmed/ricocheted off a tree, and hit me square in the chest. Still have the bullet.
OMG. Did you survive?
@@AutPen38 no, he died unfortunately
@Arty Lee. Here's your sign!!!!!😂
@@AutPen38 yah. he died.
WOW Dude! I know that feeling too. Thank God that we are still here to tell about it.
Shannon Smith, mentioned in this video, was the daughter of our neighbor, just two houses away. She was only 14 when a bullet "fell out of the sky" and ended her life. Maybe this video will make a few people think before shooting carelessly into the air.
Wait really you knew her also as someone who has grown up in Phoenix all 15 years of my life gun fire is still very common in the middle of the city I wish this law was more widely enforced
Bullshit
Nah, it is a common trend of internet trolls pretending to be present or know someone who happened to be part of an event.
Yup, which Is why the majority of Americans want guns to be banned, but the right wingers are crazy attached to the constitution and think it's like the 10 commandments and can't ever be changed.
As Obama said, the constitution is fluid, and was never intended to be permanent. God bless him and Biden for trying to rid the US citizens of guns.
Cops aren't going to respond to those calls, especially if its a neighborhood on the " wrong side of the tracks"..
Though I guarantee that if gunshots rang off in one of those gated white folk communities then the SWAT team would he there in a matter of minutes.
One of the top five rules of gun safety is to "Know your intended target AND what lies beyond". To we the responsible gun owners, that means NO RANDOM SHOOTING period.
I was getting out of my car in the driveway one afternoon when I heard a clunk next to me, I looked on the ground and found a small crater in the concrete with a pea sized chunk of metal in it.
I thought it was a meteorite at first because guns are uncommon in suburban Australia so I took it to a local university and they told me it was a bullet
I was an Airforce helicopter engineer doing a stint in Iraq at Basra Airbase around 2008. I was sat in the office doing my paperwork when the fan next to me made a loud noise and dust kicked up around it. Turns out a football celebration bullet had returned to earth down through the roof of the cabin and hit the fan. We had over 400 rockets fired at the base while I was there but that stray bullet was the most memorable.
Glad your are ok.
To all the people in the world who are learning English, please take note of the following:
The text: ... I was sat in the office ... is WRONG. It should be either : ... I was sitting in the office ... or ... I sat in the office ...
@@christopherknee5756 Even more wrong? Being in Iraq during a football celebration.
@@christopherknee5756 No, that's normal grammar in some regions. It definitely reads as a bit old-timey though.
@@christopherknee5756 are you familiar with the existence of British people?
I was at a bar with a friend on July 4th and right before my eyes he was hit with a stray bullet fired from somewhere across town. It nearly missed his head and instead lodged into his shoulder/collar bone area missing his rotator cuff luckily. I couldn't believe it when it happened but it definitely happened.
Must have sucked
@R S 😆
@@dynevor6327 "Near miss" is a term that technically means "near hit". Doesn't make much sense lol but it means something that missed, but was near an object it COULD have damaged.
@@dynevor6327 I near miss doesn't mean it nearly missed, it means a miss that was near (to hitting)
Some years back an Australian girl celebrating New Years in New Orleans was killed by a falling bullet , it was so sad.
I can't even fathom how people can be so stupid that they would do this. Even as a little kid I always thought "isn"t it gonna fall down and hurt somebody?" Nice to see a video about it.
I seem to recall the Mythbusters doing this one, reaching the conclusion that a bullet shot straight up won't necessarily fall with lethal velocity, but at an angle it can keep its spin and remain sufficiently dangerous.
I seem to recall they gave that one a verdict of “Busted… _and_ Confirmed?”
It really all boils down to weight and speed. No.9 birdshot can be fired straight up safely because of its very light weight and low velocity. Compare that to something like an artillery shell, which even accidentally dropped from 3ft on one’s foot will hurt.
@@SquirrelDarling1 exactly no small arms projectile even the largest that are weighed in grains could be lethal falling at terminal velocity.
Exactly man saw that episode and basically shooting straight upwards a bullet isn’t lethal but any shallow angle is.
Most bullets fired in the air will be at some angle other than straight up. It would be quite difficult to shoot at exactly vertical.
A couple of years ago I noticed a bullet hole in the roof of my car. The bullet penetrated the outer skin and stopped when it hit the metal pan underneath the area under the retracted sunroof. I only noticed the whole thing when hearing the bullet rolling around as I was driving.
saw them have to be pulled out of a truck hood with plyers...and find them mushroomed on the pavement...yes not that rare.
I guess I won't buy anymore convertible top cars, or sleep in a tent. LOL
This is probably God shooting at you.
Here in Atlanta we've had more than one person killed in their home when a bullet came through the roof. It's frightening.
On an unrelated note talking about escape velocity it's always fascinated me to think that the first man-made object that was ever put into orbit is almost certainly a manhole cover. Google it it's a great story.
Very helpful video. OKay, so what about a bullet hitting an object or person after it passes through the object or person's less then fatal area (arm, leg, shoulder)?