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k8conant

(3,030 posts) Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:02 AM Jan 2019

The guns are shooting off...

Happy New Year!

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The guns are shooting off... (Original Post) k8conant Jan 2019 OP

Sounds like cannons now... k8conant Jan 2019 #1

Happy New Years and keep your head down! marble falls Jan 2019 #2

What ever happened to banging pots and pans? trixie2 Jan 2019 #3

I remember doing that! k8conant Jan 2019 #4

Fireworks here radical noodle Jan 2019 #5

Not into the air, I hope Clash City Rocker Jan 2019 #6

Just after midnight in suburban Dallas and yes, guns NotASurfer Jan 2019 #7

So dangerous trixie2 Jan 2019 #10

Mythbusters did an episode firing guns straight up NotASurfer Jan 2019 #12

We had some gun-crazy neighbors a few houses over for a while. Aristus Jan 2019 #8

Lol! love_katz Jan 2019 #9

Love it... DontBooVote Jan 2019 #11

k8conant

(3,030 posts)

1. Sounds like cannons now...

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:03 AM

Jan 2019

Yikes!

marble falls

(57,077 posts)

2. Happy New Years and keep your head down!

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:13 AM

Jan 2019

trixie2

(905 posts)

3. What ever happened to banging pots and pans?

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:30 AM

Jan 2019

k8conant

(3,030 posts)

4. I remember doing that!

Reply to trixie2 (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:39 AM

Jan 2019

60 years ago!

radical noodle

(8,000 posts)

5. Fireworks here

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:39 AM

Jan 2019

Happy New Year!

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)

6. Not into the air, I hope

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 01:55 AM

Jan 2019

Stupid tradition, people die that way, for no good reason at all.

NotASurfer

(2,149 posts)

7. Just after midnight in suburban Dallas and yes, guns

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:27 AM

Jan 2019

are being discharged for reasons other than stopping a bad guy with another gun right now

If I had a wish coming, these would be the last gunshots of 2019

trixie2

(905 posts)

10. So dangerous

Reply to NotASurfer (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 08:11 PM

Jan 2019

Where do they think the bullets go?

In the Detroit area they have a saying, "Ring in the New Year". You are supposed to ring bells. I like it.

NotASurfer

(2,149 posts)

12. Mythbusters did an episode firing guns straight up

Reply to trixie2 (Reply #10)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 08:32 PM

Jan 2019

I think they figured there's a ballistic trajectory where muzzle velocity is lethal, but firing straight up was more like dropping bullets from a hovering helicopter after they stopped going up. They hit terminal velocity and might sting, but not lethal by themselves

I wouldn't want to be hit by one either. Just my luck I'd put my eye out by looking up at the wrong time. And "neighborhood rains spent bullets occasionally" might not be the best selling point to most prospective home buyers

Wish Texans could just ring bells too!

Aristus

(66,316 posts)

8. We had some gun-crazy neighbors a few houses over for a while.

Reply to k8conant (Original post)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:35 AM

Jan 2019

A couple of years. Every New Year's Eve and every Fourth of July, they'd build a bonfire in their backyard, and then shoot off their guns in what to them, I suppose, was an appropriate form of celebration. Eveyrone else in the neighborhood called the cops instead.

They moved away finally; back to East Cornpone, Arkassippi, or wherever the hell they came from ...

love_katz

(2,578 posts)

9. Lol!

Reply to Aristus (Reply #8)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:59 AM

Jan 2019

East Cornpone, Arkassippi!

DontBooVote

(901 posts)

11. Love it...

Reply to Aristus (Reply #8)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 08:16 PM

Jan 2019

East Cornpone, Arkassippi.

I think I drove through there, once.

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