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2022-01-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

British doctor, 31, who was shot dead in Atlanta while asleep next to his girlfriend died when stray bullet fired 'recklessly' from apartments nearby travelled 800FT through FOREST and hit him in the head

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-22 10:48|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 You have a better chance of being hit by lightning than winning the lotto sort of thing. The odds.

Except 1 - someone does win, 2 - your chances are infinitely greater if you play than if you don't.

Lots of people play a similar game in urban areas.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-22 11:11|| 2022-01-22 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Chances of being struck by a meteorite even slimmer. But it has happened, with both fatalities and survivors.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-22 11:12|| 2022-01-22 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in the day, when I still lived up there, a guy in eastern PeeAye was jailed after a round from his 7mm Rem Mag killed someone inside a home. It was determined that the rifle in question should not have been used in a populated area. Which was the correct call. It's a high-performance long-range round that's just out of place in a built-up area. A pistol round at 800 ft, through brush and the wall of a dwelling? That's very, very bad luck for the guy who got killed. But it's still a crime.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-22 11:16|| 2022-01-22 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Murcek, How do you know it was a pistol round? Alot of high powered rifles floating around Atl in "rappers" hands.

Posted by Chris 2022-01-22 11:52|| 2022-01-22 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I in fact don't know. They tend to like AKs, and a 7.62x39 round is bad news in the scenario being discussed here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-22 11:54|| 2022-01-22 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 That's 266 yards. Had to be arifle.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-22 11:59|| 2022-01-22 11:59|| Front Page Top

#7 What is this forest in Atlanta? Some sort of Central Park type feature?

Shot myself right between the eyes with a BB gun once. 30 yard shot, target painted on warped-ass plywood, leaning against a tree.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-22 13:40|| 2022-01-22 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Had a neighbor where I used to live who was missing an eye. He was shooting at a cooking pot laying in a field with a .22 rifle. It sent a round right back into his eye. Could have killed him easily. Way worse odds than a million-to-one shot.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-22 13:46|| 2022-01-22 13:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Atlanta is known as a city in a forest

Posted by Chris 2022-01-22 13:47|| 2022-01-22 13:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Absolutely crazy to think about...the chance of making that shot, or how little to nudge any of those 100 variables and I would be in the parrot raising business.

I mean, that's one of those deals where the barometric pressure had an influence.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-22 14:36|| 2022-01-22 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 True or not, it puts some weight behind the idea that "When your number's up, your number's up..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-22 14:48|| 2022-01-22 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Buckhead is trying to breakaway from Atlanta and become an independent community; one with its own police force. Atlanta does not adequatelly address Buckhead growing crime problems. Moreover, Buckhead represents 10% of Atlanta's population but pay 40% of the taxes.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-01-22 18:24|| 2022-01-22 18:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Two men hunting feral pigs in western NSW. Brushy country with scattered small - 1 to 2 feet- rocks. Doing it by the book, walking parallel, 20 yards apart. Man on left shoots, kills young pig, clean heart shot. Bullet travels on a few yards, strikes rock, goes right 20 yards, strikes second rock and goes right again. Now coming back to second man . Bullet now totally mangled, still in one piece. Has just enough energy to punch through his chest and stop inside his heart.

Posted by Grunter 2022-01-22 18:25|| 2022-01-22 18:25|| Front Page Top

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