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What signals the New Year where you live?

21, 22 and 23 regiment getting drunk where i was ushered in the new year, went for a night out with friends am now on the electrolytic drinks and rehydration kit :icon_lol:
 
N2056 said:
Straight up is just as deadly if it comes down on you. Several years ago some one here was killed by an idiot shooting up in the air. People forget that when the bullet hits the ground it's going as fast as it did leaving the gun...:eek:
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Hole is better in their head, than in the wall of my house. :icon_lol:
 
Well judging by the scanner... a drive by shooting and a major fight in the parking lot of a bar around here. And this is a rural area.
 
Times Square for EST people, if you were sober enough and awake.

Me, heck my Hokies brought their A-Game to the Jaw-ja Dome last night.

Wait a minute, I don't have any hair, how come my head hurt so bad? :ernae:

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N2056 said:
Straight up is just as deadly if it comes down on you. Several years ago some one here was killed by an idiot shooting up in the air. People forget that when the bullet hits the ground it's going as fast as it did leaving the gun...:eek:
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Mythbusters tested this one once. Turns out there's a little bit on non-intuitiveness (i.e., "common sense" does not apply) going on. They fired 30.06 rounds from an M-1 Garand straight up. The returning boolets had not the energy to kill. But, this didn't make sense because there are documented cases of people being killed in this way, so what was going on? They found that when fired straight up, the bullets stop, then tumble down and never gain enough speed to be lethal. But, if fired at an angle off verticle, the bullets don't stop, and, most importantly, they keep spinning, thus maintaining thier aerodynamic profile, and the speed does not fall off much at all.. These bullets will kill.

So it's still stoopid to shoot off your guns in the air where other people live.

Here 12:00 was marked by fire works, at very close range! Big ones too!
 
I remember looking at the clock at 11.48, hearing the lady on the radio say that there were just twelve minutes to go and I wondered how long the fireworks would last and how annoying they would be.

The next thing I knew it was 6.30am. I was out the door by 7.30 and had the whole of Central London to myself for a few hours. It was wonderful.

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Where I live, it's usually marked by a bunch of idiots shooting into the air too. I'm just glad they're close enough that the rounds fall somewhere else.

On a similar note, I can fully attest to the non-vertical part of that. There's a hole in my roof (sealed with silicone now) from a .45 FMJ slug that came down and landed in my kitchen floor. The officer that came to my house called another one on the radio that had gone to a "shots fired" call. Everyone had cleared out, but there were fresh .45 shells on the ground. That was about a mile and a half away from where I live!
 
N2056 said:
Straight up is just as deadly if it comes down on you. Several years ago some one here was killed by an idiot shooting up in the air. People forget that when the bullet hits the ground it's going as fast as it did leaving the gun...:eek:
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when i was a kid we used to play a game called "intruder". we would take the pellets out of 2 shotgun shells. one guy put on a couple of coats and an old football helmet and went outside. the other guy waited inside in the dark for 10 minutes. the outside guy had to get into the house, and into the bathroom without being shot by the plastic wad
 
N2056 said:
You left out the neighborhood idiot firing his gun in the air :pop4:
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Oh, that would be my cousin, the deputy sheriff. No, I'm not kidding, 38 Specials fired almost vertically. Of course, there is a big farm behind his house, so the falling bullets are landing in an empty field. Then again, he is still discharging a firearm within a neighborhood and that is a big no-no around here.
 
cheezyflier said:
when i was a kid we used to play a game called "intruder". we would take the pellets out of 2 shotgun shells. one guy put on a couple of coats and an old football helmet and went outside. the other guy waited inside in the dark for 10 minutes. the outside guy had to get into the house, and into the bathroom without being shot by the plastic wad
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Wow, dude. Not safe. You grew out of that, right?

Last year in a small town near here, a police chief and his officers were celebrating the rookie's completion of some career goal by getting plastered in the chief's basement bar. They cleared and unloaded their weapons, then started doing 'quickdraw' competitions. Towards the end of the evening, the rookie's wife arrived to pick him up. The chief said something like "how about one more quickdraw?" The rookie promptly turned around and blew the chief away. Upon getting ready to leave, the rookie had re-loaded his pistol.

I do'nt think I've ever played reindeer games with firearms. I guess it has to do with carrying firearms at work and being around thermonuclear weapons. Well, I did get my picture taken doing the whole 'Dr Strangelove' thing once. :kilroy:
 
PRB said:
Mythbusters tested this one once. Turns out there's a little bit on non-intuitiveness (i.e., "common sense" does not apply) going on. They fired 30.06 rounds from an M-1 Garand straight up. The returning boolets had not the energy to kill. But, this didn't make sense because there are documented cases of people being killed in this way, so what was going on? They found that when fired straight up, the bullets stop, then tumble down and never gain enough speed to be lethal. But, if fired at an angle off verticle, the bullets don't stop, and, most importantly, they keep spinning, thus maintaining thier aerodynamic profile, and the speed does not fall off much at all.. These bullets will kill.

So it's still stoopid to shoot off your guns in the air where other people live.

Here 12:00 was marked by fire works, at very close range! Big ones too!
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I don't believe mythbusters at all after the whole 'airplane on a treadmill' conclusion.

Bullets have a terminal velocity of whatever material they're made of. That's the end of the story. Sure, they'll keep on cooking if fired at a slant.
 
tigisfat said:
Wow, dude. Not safe. You grew out of that, right?
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we did alot of stupid stuff then that i don't do now. it's a miracle i survived some of it. it's why i scratch my head at some of the ridiculous precautions people take these days, though.

i have to admit though, when my buddies mom would come home and ask "what is that smell?" after we would play the game, i always got a chuckle from that. :icon_lol:
 
Well here in the NYC area it's being at Time Square if you are young and dumb; older and wiser just watch it on tv but then again the tv route is geared for young people. Some of this alleged "talent" on tv though I don't get. Guess my parents didn't get us either back in the late 60's, early 70's either so...

Poor Dick Clark (American Bandstand fame) is still hanging in there though even though he's had a stroke. There was a group that was working hard to have him removed from the tv cast because, now get this, because of his speech impediment from his stroke he sounds drunk and they felt it would send the wrong message on New Years! Can you believe that? Discrimination due to a disability is what that is! Glad he did his thing anyway!

Of course here in this crazy area gunfire and various explosions begin about 10 minutes before and to usually about 20 minutes after midnight seems normal. I'm really surprised that more people aren't injured more so than what happens (or reported perhaps). Haven't heard of or read any casualty reports...yet! This is not as bad as the 4th of July though as that sounds like a war zone and the smell of spent gunpowder is heavy in the humid, usually breeze less air.

Happy New Year all...GOD bless

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Wow, can't say that I've ever done a quick draw competition by aiming at another human being. That is a good reason why alcohol and firearms do not mix well.
 
Tako_Kichi said:
Seeing as it's New Year's Eve I just got to thinking about this.

In the UK the New Year is signalled by the chiming of the largest bell in Westminster Tower, known the world over as 'Big Ben' (incidentally the bell is known as 'Big Ben' and not the tower as many people seem to think).

For the eastern side of North America it's signalled by the dropping of a left-over 70's disco ball on the top of some large building or other (I have no idea why).

So what signals the New Year in your part of the world?
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Around here in Ohio the New Year is usually greeted with gunfire into the ground, but everyone is hoarding their ammunition.

Bones
 
Well, the drunks across the street made enough noise so I knew it was midnight and 2010 was here. My apologies to those that imbibe, but that's all these people do on a Holiday.... and Christmas was no exception. I would have called the police, but then they would have been told who had made the complaint. And then I'd have even more fun in the future. :frown:
 
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