MAN FIRES NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATORY BULLET INTO AIR, BULLET COMES DOWN AND KILLS HIM

A Mexican man who celebrated the New Year by firing his gun into the air was killed when the bullet came back down and struck him. The unidentified victim was outside his home early January 1st in San Juan del Rio, about 100 miles north of Mexico City, when he was killed by his own errant bullet. The man’s girlfriend called for help, but paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
* Hoisted on his own petard, as it were. Look it up.
* Should have gone with the kind of shot you drink.
* They really ought to require a high school physics test along with a background check when you buy a gun.
* Here is some information from a 2017 Forbes.com article about shooting a gun into the air: A bullet fired straight up, with no wind, might reach a height of 10,000 feet (about two miles, or three kilometers), but will come back down at only around 150 miles per hour, although military ballistics tests have shown a .30 caliber bullet has a terminal speed of 200 miles per hour. The generally accepted threshold for breaking the skin barrier is 136 miles per hour. The pointier a bullet is, the slower it can be moving and still break your skin. All a bullet needs to do to be potentially lethal is break the skin.