Laptop Dad gets a visit from the authorities. (And they say "Meh!")

[Lizzie Poppet]

25. Lucky? Um...no.

Virtually zero chance of a ricochet under those circumstances, actually. Even if the rounds hit something in the laptop capable of deflecting them before they entered the ground (highly unlikely), they would have already penetrated far enough to be partially surrounded by other material, massively inhibiting velocity after the change-of-vector. That would have made it very nearly impossible for them to break back out of the casing into the air. Furthermore, the shots were fired from an angle not that far from perpendicular to the ground. Unless the surface the bullets strike is very, very hard, high velocity ricochets happen when the angle is shallow, not steep.

Arguments can be made against what the guy did, but not on safety grounds, really...