Janet Bostwick wrote:

> sf wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:26:38 -0600, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:44:42 -0700 (PDT), Gregory Morrow
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> [Looks like the golf course must be close to the ghetto...it *is* New
>>>> Orleans, after all...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/26/prudhomme
>>>>
>>>> US chef hit by falling bullet
>>>
>>> He's actually lucky. Several years ago the Chicago suburb of
>>> Bloomingdale was having it's 4th of July festival. Someone in
>>> Keeneyville (yes that's actually a town) was a little over served and
>>> decided to shoot into the sky. The bullet traveled over a mile and
>>> landed in some kids head. It took the cops awhile, but they were
>>> able to figure out where the bullet came from and the shooter did (or
>>> is doing) time. IIRC he got 7 years.
>>>
>> I thought that sort of thing was discredited by Myth Busters.
>
> What?, that a bullet can travel that far? I had a bullet fall next to me

Even a little .22 slug has a range of a mile, according to the packaging
(as it used to be, at least, when I was a hunter).


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