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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:10:43 PM EDT
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Even all the science aside, there is no way it was straight down because then only way for that to happen would be if it were fired from his roof straight up. Anywhere else it would have had to have been in an arc to hit his house.
Either way scary situation. Hopefully the moron that fired it falls down a flight of stairs into a store room at a metal dildo factory. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:10:45 PM EDT
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. He lives in Atlanta and was asleep. A rifle round (looks like 5.56) came vertically down through his roof and put a good dent in his hardwood floor. PSA - I’m sure we all know this by now.... don’t fire into the air! 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:11:25 PM EDT
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https://m.imgur.com/gallery/87bJfOR
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:12:24 PM EDT
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Problem is no one fires them off at 90* When your arc them they go a long way and still fuck stuff up |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:13:39 PM EDT
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What goes up must come down. Simple physics! https://www.space.com/43151-how-particles-escape-black-holes.html |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:15:11 PM EDT
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I worked at a large inner city hospital 15 years ago or so. Standard operating procedure was to have a crew inspect the roof of the main buildings at daybreak the next morning. Always 3-5 holes found and patched. Rubber roof. Shortens the life span, too. Roof was on a shorter replacement schedule than suburban facilities.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:17:14 PM EDT
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Even all the science aside, there is no way it was straight down because then only way for that to happen would be if it were fired from his roof straight up. Anywhere else it would have had to have been in an arc to hit his house. Either way scary situation. Hopefully the moron that fired it falls down a flight of stairs into a store room at a metal dildo factory. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:19:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You are familiar with the technique of "plunging fire", correct? http://www.tpub.com/seabee/12003_files/image240.jpg |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:20:13 PM EDT
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Arab wedding near by? Mike |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:21:55 PM EDT
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Not a perfectly round hole. This would be expected.
It could the the iPotato pic quality but if you look at the tip of the bullet there seems to a fairly flat portion on the ogive. That is how the bullet impacted not on the point. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:22:23 PM EDT
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What goes up must come down. Simple physics! |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:23:05 PM EDT
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Someone did a magdump getting on the freeway by my house last night.
Morons. A couple of years ago I found what looked like a .45 slug (just lead, no jacket) in my driveway. Didn't hit the house or anything but it smacked something pretty good before winding up there as it was pretty mangled. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:30:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:34:53 PM EDT
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A few years ago Florida Man killed himself firing a pistol straight up. Good shot!
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:36:00 PM EDT
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Mythbusters never read T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence mention the Arab habit of discharging firearms in the air, sometimes with fatal consequences to man and beast alike.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:42:36 PM EDT
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That looks like a 30 caliber bullet that fell base first (which it would).
That would have enough sectional density to do what op suggested. OP is vindicated. 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:47:33 PM EDT
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I call total BS. A fired bullet would never hit the roof tip first unless it was fired straight down. A bullet in a ballistic arc does not "Nose Over". The spin on the bullet keeps the bullet aligned to axis of the bore the entire flight, that is the whole point of the rifling. Bullets are not footballs. A bullet will stay aligned with the bore, more or less, until the center of gravity and the center of pressure on the round diverge enough to create a moment strong enough to overcome the rotational stability created by the rifling. Once the moment caused by the center of gravity and the center of pressure overcomes the bullet's stability, it will start to meander towards whatever direction is most aerodynamically stable for that bullet type/shape/weight. I believe it was the Brits, on shooting their .303 at extremely long ranges, found that it often landed base first. Just think about shooting a round that is too heavy for a particular rate of twist. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:48:17 PM EDT
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A woman was killed last night in Houston TX. Woman dies after being hit by celebratory gunfire https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/pd-child-injured-by-random-gunfire-in-phoenix |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:50:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 2:54:32 PM EDT
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I’ll tell him to do this, I’ve only seen pictures but it looks like it came in literally vertical. Through a roof and attic Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Use a long thin dowel rod or even string to connect the ceiling and roof holes to see the actual angle of entry. At long distances bullets are dropping fast. Use a ballistic calculator set to 10 yard increments and see the drop rate. At 1000 yards StrelokPro says my 80 grain Sierra Match King is still doing over 1000 fps but dropping about 10 inches for every 10 yards. At 1500 yards it’s doing 850 fps and dropping over 30 inches every 10 yards. Someone else can calculate the angle of those drops. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:00:23 PM EDT
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A few years ago Florida Man killed himself firing a pistol straight up. Good shot! In real life, the equation is much more complex, as air resistance plays a significant deceleration role. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:01:46 PM EDT
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At my last job, someone found a bullet on the office floor after New Years that had come down through the roof our the metal building. When the workers went up to fix the hole, they found another round on one of the ceiling metal beams.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:03:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:05:16 PM EDT
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Well, it depends. A bullet will stay aligned with the bore, more or less, until the center of gravity and the center of pressure on the round diverge enough to create a moment strong enough to overcome the rotational stability created by the rifling. Once the moment caused by the center of gravity and the center of pressure overcomes the bullet's stability, it will start to meander towards whatever direction is most aerodynamically stable for that bullet type/shape/weight. I believe it was the Brits, on shooting their .303 at extremely long ranges, found that it often landed base first. Just think about shooting a round that is too heavy for a particular rate of twist. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I call total BS. A fired bullet would never hit the roof tip first unless it was fired straight down. A bullet in a ballistic arc does not "Nose Over". The spin on the bullet keeps the bullet aligned to axis of the bore the entire flight, that is the whole point of the rifling. Bullets are not footballs. A bullet will stay aligned with the bore, more or less, until the center of gravity and the center of pressure on the round diverge enough to create a moment strong enough to overcome the rotational stability created by the rifling. Once the moment caused by the center of gravity and the center of pressure overcomes the bullet's stability, it will start to meander towards whatever direction is most aerodynamically stable for that bullet type/shape/weight. I believe it was the Brits, on shooting their .303 at extremely long ranges, found that it often landed base first. Just think about shooting a round that is too heavy for a particular rate of twist. That was my point about "nosing over" tip-forward flight requires spin stabilization. At long distances the tip is above the axis centerline, once it is not spin stabilized it will fly base forward. Good video explaining it.  Bullet Stabilization and Barrel Twist |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:05:45 PM EDT
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A few years ago Florida Man killed himself firing a pistol straight up. Good shot! Quote HistoryQuoted:
A few years ago Florida Man killed himself firing a pistol straight up. Good shot! Quoted: In a vacuum, a bullet fired straight up is decelerated by the force of gravity. On its way back down, it is accelerated by the force of gravity. The two forces are equal. It will hit at the same velocity that it left the muzzle, IN A VACUUM. In real life, the equation is much more complex, as air resistance plays a significant deceleration role. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:17:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:18:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hitting the roof likely altered the angle of the trajectory. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:49:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 3:50:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Was a less than vertical flight path. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:12:29 PM EDT
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. Fired perfectly straight up, a bullet will sometimes fall base-first, sometimes, not, but it can certainly kill someone if it hits them coming down. Fire not perfectly straight up - like anyone actually shooting into the air like a tard - and the horizontal component of the velocity isn't affected by gravity, only by air resistance, and they will be going A LOT faster and can easily go through exterior walls and roofs. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:14:02 PM EDT
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this didn't happen, but if it did, it was fired by someone claiming that they had a draco
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:23:22 PM EDT
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news said a lady got hit by a round last night in Delray, Florida. they think it was a falling round.
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:28:48 PM EDT
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I'm going to hell for laughing. Wouldn't wind also play a role? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A few years ago Florida Man killed himself firing a pistol straight up. Good shot! Quoted: In a vacuum, a bullet fired straight up is decelerated by the force of gravity. On its way back down, it is accelerated by the force of gravity. The two forces are equal. It will hit at the same velocity that it left the muzzle, IN A VACUUM. In real life, the equation is much more complex, as air resistance plays a significant deceleration role. And like a previous poster said, if NOT fired straight up, the horizontal component of velocity is not affected by gravity. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:36:42 PM EDT
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There was some idiot down the road doing a mag dump last night. What a waste of good ammunition. 
We did a couple of mag dumps last night. Into my backyard range. IIRC, the Mythbusters segment on this was their only one where they determined it to be Busted, Plausible, and Confirmed. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:41:51 PM EDT
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Brother is a Sheriff Deputy at an airport in FL. Couple years ago he came out and found a bullet hole in the hood of his police car after new years. It went through the sheet metal and stopped by the hood frame. It definitely came from someone firing into the air but what angle, no idea. It had to be filled and repainted. |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:41:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:42:52 PM EDT
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn’t be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. He lives in Atlanta and was asleep. A rifle round (looks like 5.56) came vertically down through his roof and put a good dent in his hardwood floor. PSA - I’m sure we all know this by now.... don’t fire into the air! |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:52:05 PM EDT
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I pull a ton of bullets out of roofs. They ALL get stuck in the top of the roof without penetrating the deck and going into the building. The only full penetration I’ve found was on a shitty rusted structural metal roof - those don’t have anything below the metal.
If a bullet went through your friends roof, deck and ceiling then it was fired in an arc at the roof and was not just falling down. Roof bullets: 
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Posted: 1/1/2020 4:59:21 PM EDT
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A woman was killed last night in Houston TX. Woman dies after being hit by celebratory gunfire |
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Posted: 1/1/2020 6:37:30 PM EDT
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Also GD has concluded that Home Owner stood on top of his
Roof and shot straight Down into his Own Home while Asleep!! 
It can't Happen, OP is Lying, Someone Shot into the Roof on Purpose???   So the Hole in the Ceiling and the Hole Mark in the Floor
must be Photoshopped then??  
Damn, GD is full of Loony Tunies!! Diddiidde, Deddididide, That's All Folks!!! . |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:07:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:16:36 PM EDT
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No way in hell the terminal velocity of a 55-grain bullet is high enough to penetrate a roof AND ceiling, let alone have anything left over to dent a floor.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:19:30 PM EDT
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Yeah but only if shot straight up*. Most fools shooting are shooting off at angles less than 90 degrees. * except when shooting from a tread mill Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If I remember correctly the myth busters said falling bullets wouldn't be lethal because the terminal velocity of gravity would slow down a bullet but now I disagree. Most fools shooting are shooting off at angles less than 90 degrees. * except when shooting from a tread mill |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:30:50 PM EDT
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People die every year from celebratory gunfire in cities, its fucking dangerous.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:31:21 PM EDT
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If I dropped or shot that to the edge of space, you wouldn't be in much danger and it wouldn't go through a shingled roof/plywood and drywall. If I shot it from say 45 degrees it so it probably would, that is the difference. If you shoot something near vertical its probably not going to do much, that wasn't shot near vertical.
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:37:05 PM EDT
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The bullet has to have maintained trajectory. A bullet free falling is tumbling and will not hurt anything. |
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Posted: 1/2/2020 7:42:31 PM EDT
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Call 'em god bullets.
And yeah, you can get fucked up from one. |
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