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LyD@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamondEnglish1·5 days agoHe said a ricochet was possible and put an argument together with video examples and distance numbers. You haven’t done much except express disbelief, and that isn’t very convincing.
You said a ricochet at the correct angle to land in the baseball field would be impossible, and you asked me to draw the trajectory.
Honest question, why is this so hard to imagine? He posted this video, can you watch it and tell me what you think? https://youtu.be/0ABGIJwiGBc
I think we all know this was probably just redneck shit, no argument there.
LyD@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamondEnglish2·5 days agoI’m still not seeing any issue. A bullet can ricochet in any direction. The first thing @AlDente@sh.itjust.works posted was a video example of a bullet ricocheting directly backwards (nearly straight up I think?), then ricocheting again off the ground and into the shooter’s earmuff.
He showed enough examples and hard numbers for distance to convince me that this could be a freak accident. If you want to change my mind, you’re going to have to provide counterexamples. I’m even convinced that it could happen with many bullets in a row if the shooting was consistent.
LyD@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamondEnglish31·6 days agoI think he made a good case for it being possible. That baseball field really isn’t far away from a bullet’s perspective. He mentioned his first time shooting tracers, which makes me think he has a lot of real life experience shooting FMJ bullets and seeing them ricochet. He posted videos showing ricochets, you can see them maintaining almost all of their momentum.
LyD@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•‘Who builds a ballpark next to a gun range?’: Coach injured by gunfire that crossed into baseball diamondEnglish91·6 days agoI am pretty sure this is the gun range and you’re supposed to shoot in the direction of the blue arrow. That big mound of earth is where the targets would be and is supposed to catch stray bullets. Something tells me that redneck fuckery was involved.
Found it on Google maps, I think I was right.
I am Canadian. People in Europe would always ask if I was American after hearing me speak, and their faces would always lighten up when I told them I was Canadian.
In Spain it was the worst. I would sometimes overhear service staff tell each other I was American and proceed to get awful service. It got to the point that I started going in to random stores to try to (unsuccessfully) find something with a Canadian flag on it.
I will try my best to be obviously Canadian next time.
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