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SeoulMan6 · Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Location: Gangwon-do

In LA, around New Year's, the city posts billboards saying "What goes up, must come down" as a warning to people not to fire guns to celebrate.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Shannon's Law

Shannon's law refers to specific changes in Arizona statutes, enacted in 2000, making it a felony offence to
discharge firearms randomly into the air, resulting in injury or death.
Shannon's law is named after Shannon Smith, a Phoenix fourteen year old girl killed by a stray bullet in June 1999. Smith's parents, after being informed that the alleged assailant's activity constituted, at most, a misdemeanor offense, advocated for stronger penalties, to prevent future tragedies of this kind.

Violation of Shannon's law is defined as a felony offense in Arizona. However, as with most felony offenses in US jurisdictions, a person charged with this offense can strike a plea bargain with prosecutors, and may be eligible for only a misdemeanor conviction.

On December 31, 2003, police in the city of Glendale began using equipment which alerted them to the location from which a shot was fired. As random discharge of firearms are common in some areas of the U.S. on New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, and other holidays, four arrests of Shannon's law violators were made that night, and it is expected that more Arizona police departments will receive similar equipment.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%27s_law_%28Arizona%29"

The Shannon Smith Memorial Foundation
233 E. Pasadena Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85012-1514

She was talking on the phone sitting by the pool.

wikepedia, az republic

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

and this just in; sammyd changes his name to 5 1/2

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

sammyd; international man of mystery. Look out, he may be spying on you.

The Cosmic Hum · Joined: 09 May 2003 Location: Sonic Space

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Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

That sounds like a fun game. Yes, an arrow would kill you if it hit you in the right place. That's why armies used to fire them, I believe Laughing

. Like someone already mentioned, it's all about velocity. But a penny wouldn't mortally wound a person, let alone hurt them very much. Anyone who buys into that probably believes fans are lethal when used in a closed room.

Has hail ever killed anyone? Maybe it smarts a little, but that's only because you're likely to get pelted by thousands at a time. In the same way that one drop of water won't get you wet, one coin (or hail stone)won't maim or kill you. Now if it ever happens that coins pour from the sky, perhaps we'll see some mayhem.

Sparkles*_*

Beavis · Joined: 24 Jan 2006

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Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Mills · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon

In the Marine Corps they constantly drilled us to feel naked without something on our head so that we would always wear our kevlar in combat zones. Not because a helmet would protect from direct fire, but because falling debris creates a lot of casualties too.

Bo Peabody · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

I don't know about a penny but a British Pound coin will properly do your head in. I guarantee it.

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joe_doufu · Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere

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pegpig · Joined: 10 May 2005

How about if you apply that fancy equation to my query about how long it takes for said bullet to return to it's point of takeoff? How high does it go? I'm serious. Next Canada Day I don't want to accidentally shoot down some plane flying overhead. Or, catch it on the bullet's way down. I guess in that case you could really kill two birds with one bullet. One on the way up and one on the way down - provided the bullet goes through the first one.