Crossing Broad
Meantime, in Northeast Philadelphia.
I believe that was gun fire ….Go Birds! This happened at Frankford and Cottman #philly #Philadelphia #GoBirds pic.twitter.com/SKYTNrrzes
— The Philly Captain (@philly_captain) January 27, 2025
“That was definitely a gun… Yo get us in the camera… I don’t give a fuck. Go Birds!”
Barely any reaction. Northeast Philly in a snapshot. Fazed by absolutely nothing.
Of course, it’s always a bad idea to do this because the bullets just don’t disappear into thin air. They fall back to Earth. This is from Patrick Kiger at HowStuffWorks.com:
The saying “What goes up must come down” is an appropriate starting point. If you fire a gun into the air, the bullet will travel up to a mile high (depending on the angle of the shot and the power of the gun). Once it reaches its apogee, the bullet will fall. Air resistance limits its speed, but bullets are designed to be fairly aerodynamic, so the speed is still quite lethal if the bullet happens to hit someone.
In rural areas, the chance of hitting someone is remote because the number of people is low. In crowded cities, however, the probability rises dramatically, and people get killed quite often by stray bullets.
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..no matter how high a bullet goes in the air, however, eventually it will decelerate until its velocity reaches zero, at which point it will begin to fall back to Earth, as detailed in this 2018 article on falling bullet injuries in the Journal of Neuroscience Rural Practice.
“Again, the height up is a non-issue as to the speed down, as the bullet (if no longer spin stabilized) will hit a terminal velocity based on its shape, orientation, and whether or not it is tumbling,” Walker explains in a follow-up email.
And most importantly, a bullet is unlikely to fall straight down, as wind can alter its path, Walker says. That makes it difficult to predict where a bullet will land.
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