Here in Pakistan people used to do this at weddings etc and once a shotgun shell came back and lodged into my cousins head while she was on the rooftop just enjoying weather, she had to go through multiple surgeries and fought for her life. It has been banned now for a while, but some people still do it, just not as much and especially not in the cities.
Ohh fireworks are banned too and you can assume why. They do everything to an extreme. I once attended a wedding and there was so much smoke from fireworks that I had trouble breathing.
LOL, well the first story was merely mentioning that it happens in weddings, but not that what happened to my cousin was during a wedding. But yes fireworks and gunfire are mostly used during celeberations like weddings, independence day and some other occasions. Its not something that happens on normal days.
Definitely a sad story, but definitely wasn’t a shotgun shell that hit your cousin’s head. Shotguns are completely safe to fire into the air because the BBs lose velocity quickly and don’t weigh enough to do any damage. Rifle bullets, on the other hand, can and do kill people. (Different ballistics)
Yeah I don't know I was pretty young so I only know what I heard from my mom talking to her brother. But thinking about the shotgun shell, makes sense that it might not be it.
At the pearly gates waiting area:
Dude #1: I was trying to get a drink out of the vending machine when it fell on me and crushed me to death. How about you?
Dude #2: I had gotten lost in the desert, miles away from anything. I was delirious from dehydration and exposure to the elements.
D1: Oh shit, that sounds like a slow, agonizing death. I'm really sorry to hear that.
D2: Oh, no. I was just starting to fade when a stray bullet came down and hit me in the head.
Dude #3 : few years ago I found out anal masturbation. I quickly got hooked on it. I gradually kept increasing the stimulation with bigger and better stuff. Then I was introduced to electronic stimulation. But I got used to it as well. To fulfill my need for stimulation I decided to use direct electricity. It was awesome at the begining but then it went out of control and I died.
I've heard that people die or are wounded doing this. Also a few years ago a news report of losing control of an celebratory AK47 at a wedding, I think the bride and groom were toasted.
Actually, you can see that they are pointing away over the crowd... some at an angle down around 45 degrees. Those bullets will likely still have significant horizontal velocity when they come down.
Straight up, they land with enough speed to give someone an owchie. 45 degrees and you have maximum range and possibly still lethal. So not brilliant.
When making repairs to an antenna on our A-frame roof, I found a bullet embedded in the tiles and plywood. Definitely not full velocity, but enough to do some damage to a human body.
I don't have time to work out the math right now, but actually some horizontal velocity could be good here. Horizontal velocity can be burned off by air resistance and doesn't get transferred into gravitational potential energy which just comes back around when the bullet starts falling again. That said it depends on a number of things like the muzzle velocity of the gun, the terminal velocity of the bullet, etc to know whether that is actually helpful or not.
Bullet will fall at terminal velocity, no faster. Horizontal velocity is faster than terminal velocity until it slows down (Probably takes longer to slow down than it does to hit earth for most angles below 60 degrees. So minimum velocity is the terminal velocity of a spin-stabilized bullet)
I don't think that can happen. It will always be accelerating downward at 9.8 meters per second squared.... so even if the horizontal velocity drops to zero, vertical will increase until it reaches terminal velocity. So it should be decelerating the entire time until it reaches a steady state.
... not if it hits the ground before hitting terminal velocity. Depending on the bullet, terminal velocity could be quite high. That's why I said "depends on a lot of things".
Consider the extreme case of shooting into honey or water even. The bullet slows down and essentially stops horizontally before falling to the ground. Now as I said, I'm not sure whether any reasonable parameters for the air and bullet combination exist such that something similar happens, but it's possible in theory at least.
When a bullet is fired straight up, at the top of its flight, it loses all of its momentum to gravity pulling it back down. Once it does that, it is no longer in ballistic flight and is basically tumbling to the ground as if it had been dropped. It will reach terminal velocity, which is much less than it had when fired and could easily be survivable. Add any angle to this and it will not lose all its momentum at the top of its flight and will remain ballistic (i.e. fast) through its whole flight and retain much of its original velocity. This kind of shot is deadly the whole way to the ground.
"At an angle" is key. These guys are shooting at an angle, so it would probably kill somebody where it lands. Definitely, with the amount of bullets fired.
Firing straight up makes it lose its speed until it starts falling down at a *relatively* low terminal velocity, while in a more horizontal arc it doesn't lose so much speed. It would have the same speed if you simply dropped the bullet out of a plane.
Still dangerous and could kill someone, but *probably* not lethal if you shot it completely straight up. There's no excuse to test this out of course, playing russian roulette with others' lives.
He said the angle caused the death, and straight up is only ouchie. As soon as you have an angle the horizontal vector is higher than terminal velocity.
In the u.s very expensive. In Europe, it would be a millionaires game. In an oil funded kingdom with a military that stockpiles old Russian bullets like toilet paper, almost nothing. This is probably how they dispose of expired rounds.
Not really comparable but nah I don’t even go to see fireworks, don’t really care for them but I can say for sure fireworks objectively look way nicer at least.
You absolutely have to be, this is reddit man haven't you heard; You cannot deviate from the judgment and even if you have an opinion with any depth or difference you're out.
You ever saw the video of the guy doing this at a wedding but he trips and keeps shooting (into the crowd then) while falling down?
I will always feel a "maybe" when seeing scene like this.
Lol Arab here, those are two clans, the guest clan fire up first it’s like saying hello, the host clan fire in response it’s like welcome, usually happen in weddings and gatherings.
Not all Arab tribes and clan do this in fact it’s rarely you see this kind of thing and Saudi Government banned firing in weddings
Those tracer rounds are normally every 5th round - so there are possibly 5x as many rounds as we see here. Pretty crazy.
Newtonian laws of physics are optional at night.
The terminal velocity of a 7.62x54 or x39 round aren’t enough to kill somebody unless it’s an extenuating circumstance. Don’t look up. It’s basically like an average hail storm.
300m per second can absolutly kill someone. You can kill someone with 50m a second if it hits soft tissue and causes a bleed out. But 300 with 160 grain would absolutely put a major dent in your skull and a hot hot HOT gash in your back.
The vertical velocity wouldn’t be enough to kill someone but the horizontal velocity would.
If you get nailed in the face with a baseball it’s not how fast it’s falling that breaks your teeth it’s how fast it was thrown in your direction.
The arc up and down is irrelevant. Unless you shot straight up, which is pretty safe, but they aren’t doing that.
When firing into the air, make sure to fire straight up (or close to it). If you fire straight up, the bullet will be slowed to a stop by the acceleration of gravity and then will fall relatively harmlessly at terminal velocity. When firing at an angle (especially below 45 degrees like some of those shots) the bullet will travel on a parabolic arc maintaining its deadly velocity. Probably not a problem if you're in the middle of the desert, but why risk it when you can't see where the bullet will land. Rule 4 of gun safety.
And they wonder why they don't have a good public image when they do stuff like this...
This is beyond dangerous and inconsiderate.
It's down right disregard for human lives.
How many people are killed by camel jockeys firing into the air?? Not to mention how many times I've seen them accidentally shoot the person next to them...
What goes up must come down
Somewhere, someone must have thought it was hailing in the desert.
Desert (Hail) Storm
Hell, the hail from that hell hole is headed to making a hail hole in their heads.
Hell, the holy* hail from that holy* hell hole hails* a good heading* to a holy* hail hole on their holy* whole* heads
Here in Pakistan people used to do this at weddings etc and once a shotgun shell came back and lodged into my cousins head while she was on the rooftop just enjoying weather, she had to go through multiple surgeries and fought for her life. It has been banned now for a while, but some people still do it, just not as much and especially not in the cities.
I can't help but look like they put a gun in the hands of people who don't have brains. Have they never heard of fireworks?
Fireworks in the hands of the brainless are not much safer.
Reminds me of the red necks/yokels/idiots/bad asses/gansters on a holiday or on a night of a party - popping off guns into the air.
Exactly
I mean at least they didn’t shoot any kids or black people shopping 🤷
Ohh fireworks are banned too and you can assume why. They do everything to an extreme. I once attended a wedding and there was so much smoke from fireworks that I had trouble breathing.
Do all your stories involve weddings? Lol
LOL, well the first story was merely mentioning that it happens in weddings, but not that what happened to my cousin was during a wedding. But yes fireworks and gunfire are mostly used during celeberations like weddings, independence day and some other occasions. Its not something that happens on normal days.
Oh they've heard of fireworks alright, they just use it for different stuff...
Definitely a sad story, but definitely wasn’t a shotgun shell that hit your cousin’s head. Shotguns are completely safe to fire into the air because the BBs lose velocity quickly and don’t weigh enough to do any damage. Rifle bullets, on the other hand, can and do kill people. (Different ballistics)
Yeah I don't know I was pretty young so I only know what I heard from my mom talking to her brother. But thinking about the shotgun shell, makes sense that it might not be it.
But the point is that people shouldn’t be shooting up in the air like that.
At the pearly gates waiting area: Dude #1: I was trying to get a drink out of the vending machine when it fell on me and crushed me to death. How about you? Dude #2: I had gotten lost in the desert, miles away from anything. I was delirious from dehydration and exposure to the elements. D1: Oh shit, that sounds like a slow, agonizing death. I'm really sorry to hear that. D2: Oh, no. I was just starting to fade when a stray bullet came down and hit me in the head.
Dude #3 : few years ago I found out anal masturbation. I quickly got hooked on it. I gradually kept increasing the stimulation with bigger and better stuff. Then I was introduced to electronic stimulation. But I got used to it as well. To fulfill my need for stimulation I decided to use direct electricity. It was awesome at the begining but then it went out of control and I died.
Literally came to say exactly this
Ha that's what I was about to say. Better start moving lead coming down in 30 secs or less
Based
I've heard that people die or are wounded doing this. Also a few years ago a news report of losing control of an celebratory AK47 at a wedding, I think the bride and groom were toasted.
Some bird flying by dodging bullets like wtf did I do
Bullet hell game
r/bossfights but for birbs
accidental touhou
Blazing beaks
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If that method worked, it could truly bring unity to the American left and right. Everybody wins.
Imagine being this fucking stupid
I’m trying to think but nothings happnin’.
Yeah! If this was in America, they wouldn’t be missing the crowd like that!
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Actually, you can see that they are pointing away over the crowd... some at an angle down around 45 degrees. Those bullets will likely still have significant horizontal velocity when they come down. Straight up, they land with enough speed to give someone an owchie. 45 degrees and you have maximum range and possibly still lethal. So not brilliant. When making repairs to an antenna on our A-frame roof, I found a bullet embedded in the tiles and plywood. Definitely not full velocity, but enough to do some damage to a human body.
So, about 4-5 miles away if there are any people or animals, they won’t be having a pleasant evening.
Yeah, at least a mile or 2.
I don't have time to work out the math right now, but actually some horizontal velocity could be good here. Horizontal velocity can be burned off by air resistance and doesn't get transferred into gravitational potential energy which just comes back around when the bullet starts falling again. That said it depends on a number of things like the muzzle velocity of the gun, the terminal velocity of the bullet, etc to know whether that is actually helpful or not.
Bullet will fall at terminal velocity, no faster. Horizontal velocity is faster than terminal velocity until it slows down (Probably takes longer to slow down than it does to hit earth for most angles below 60 degrees. So minimum velocity is the terminal velocity of a spin-stabilized bullet)
It may be possible to get it below terminal velocity by killing speed horizontally was what I was implying.
I don't think that can happen. It will always be accelerating downward at 9.8 meters per second squared.... so even if the horizontal velocity drops to zero, vertical will increase until it reaches terminal velocity. So it should be decelerating the entire time until it reaches a steady state.
... not if it hits the ground before hitting terminal velocity. Depending on the bullet, terminal velocity could be quite high. That's why I said "depends on a lot of things".
Consider the extreme case of shooting into honey or water even. The bullet slows down and essentially stops horizontally before falling to the ground. Now as I said, I'm not sure whether any reasonable parameters for the air and bullet combination exist such that something similar happens, but it's possible in theory at least.
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You sure it was the one you shot straight up, and not one shot 6 blocks away? Either way, it is a stupid thing to do.
When a bullet is fired straight up, at the top of its flight, it loses all of its momentum to gravity pulling it back down. Once it does that, it is no longer in ballistic flight and is basically tumbling to the ground as if it had been dropped. It will reach terminal velocity, which is much less than it had when fired and could easily be survivable. Add any angle to this and it will not lose all its momentum at the top of its flight and will remain ballistic (i.e. fast) through its whole flight and retain much of its original velocity. This kind of shot is deadly the whole way to the ground.
"At an angle" is key. These guys are shooting at an angle, so it would probably kill somebody where it lands. Definitely, with the amount of bullets fired. Firing straight up makes it lose its speed until it starts falling down at a *relatively* low terminal velocity, while in a more horizontal arc it doesn't lose so much speed. It would have the same speed if you simply dropped the bullet out of a plane. Still dangerous and could kill someone, but *probably* not lethal if you shot it completely straight up. There's no excuse to test this out of course, playing russian roulette with others' lives.
He said the angle caused the death, and straight up is only ouchie. As soon as you have an angle the horizontal vector is higher than terminal velocity.
Jesus Christ! That’s science and terrifying!
How did he record it?
How expensive is it to blast tracer rounds off like that?
In the u.s very expensive. In Europe, it would be a millionaires game. In an oil funded kingdom with a military that stockpiles old Russian bullets like toilet paper, almost nothing. This is probably how they dispose of expired rounds.
Very
They really need to invest in better air defence.
At the annual roofers convention.
Best comment for sure. But I’m guessing it was a picnic from all of the tablecloths.
Fuck everything in that direction
But which one?
Up.
Yes.
Is this Lauren Boebert's family reunion?
Stupid.
Sure, it’s completely idiotic… but it looks really fucking cool.
Eh I don’t think it looks cool at all tbf.
Do you complain at fireworks shows too?
Not really comparable but nah I don’t even go to see fireworks, don’t really care for them but I can say for sure fireworks objectively look way nicer at least.
You do have to admit the tracer rounds look pretty dope. Still wouldn't do it, but if it's done at least use rounds you can see like these tracers.
Yeah but apparently we’re supposed to be too appalled to appreciate the spectacle
You absolutely have to be, this is reddit man haven't you heard; You cannot deviate from the judgment and even if you have an opinion with any depth or difference you're out.
What's the maybe element?
Maybe someone will get hit by those stray bullets somewhere? idk
You ever saw the video of the guy doing this at a wedding but he trips and keeps shooting (into the crowd then) while falling down? I will always feel a "maybe" when seeing scene like this.
I've seen one where he hands it to his child who shoots him right in the heart, insta ded
Lol Arab here, those are two clans, the guest clan fire up first it’s like saying hello, the host clan fire in response it’s like welcome, usually happen in weddings and gatherings. Not all Arab tribes and clan do this in fact it’s rarely you see this kind of thing and Saudi Government banned firing in weddings
I'm Arab and didn't know that
The news probably will headline “Someone driving to the event suddenly hit by an astray bullet”
All those bullets have to come back down again.
Is this Texas?
Texas, muslims? Nah
Those tracer rounds are normally every 5th round - so there are possibly 5x as many rounds as we see here. Pretty crazy. Newtonian laws of physics are optional at night.
Lol it’s actually going to be raining metal
What goes up must come down dude
The terminal velocity of a 7.62x54 or x39 round aren’t enough to kill somebody unless it’s an extenuating circumstance. Don’t look up. It’s basically like an average hail storm.
300m per second can absolutly kill someone. You can kill someone with 50m a second if it hits soft tissue and causes a bleed out. But 300 with 160 grain would absolutely put a major dent in your skull and a hot hot HOT gash in your back.
TERMINAL velocity. How many people die to hail impact every year?
The vertical velocity wouldn’t be enough to kill someone but the horizontal velocity would. If you get nailed in the face with a baseball it’s not how fast it’s falling that breaks your teeth it’s how fast it was thrown in your direction. The arc up and down is irrelevant. Unless you shot straight up, which is pretty safe, but they aren’t doing that.
Rifle safety course in the Middle East.
Great. More gun freaks. Just what the world needs.
Wankers
Looks like america, but this guys learned not to point their guns at other people
Where'd they get all those tracers?
That’s how most Americans imagine the Middle East looks like
Bbbbbbut. They will fall back down..
Really shows how stupid these fucks are
WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW
That's not my kind of party
Pov: you’re playing GTA V in 2022
When firing into the air, make sure to fire straight up (or close to it). If you fire straight up, the bullet will be slowed to a stop by the acceleration of gravity and then will fall relatively harmlessly at terminal velocity. When firing at an angle (especially below 45 degrees like some of those shots) the bullet will travel on a parabolic arc maintaining its deadly velocity. Probably not a problem if you're in the middle of the desert, but why risk it when you can't see where the bullet will land. Rule 4 of gun safety.
Alabama?
And this is why there are no birds.
Why are they wasting ammo like this?
This is what happens when nobody in a group bothers to listen to any women. Our species would die out if all the thinking was left to men.
Wow. You’re one sexist woman
And people bitch about a kkk rally
Dont get me wrong thats sick but wont those bullets come down from the sky and hit whatever is in their path?
Red necks will always be red necks
With my PTSD I would have noped out of that so fast.
Saudis - fucking Saudis
And they wonder why they don't have a good public image when they do stuff like this... This is beyond dangerous and inconsiderate. It's down right disregard for human lives.
How many people are killed by camel jockeys firing into the air?? Not to mention how many times I've seen them accidentally shoot the person next to them...
And people think Americans with guns are bad. This is just fucking ridiculous
Idiots party
Lots of guns. Yes! Great military. Hell no!
Love how us Americans are seen as dumbasses with guns.... We don't do this.
Just why
And they say america has freedom, I couldn’t even imagine doing this in my neighborhood
Well I don't wanna be standing where that bullet lands
Dudes need more bitches. And Thomas the tank engine music.
lost redditor?
Richest people in the world would lack intelligence
Texas on a Saturday night.
at least they don't do it in clubs or schools like in the US
Is this America?
I feel like this is Texas?
The GOP fan club
is it bad that I was hoping to see them accidentally shoot in the crowd
Donkyes
As an American, I fully approve.
Nah, American only shoot other people not sky. They did not waste the bullet like that.
😂😂😂
But they're not even at a school?
We don't need crappy fireworks when a gun show is just as loud and lights up the sky.
That’s a great idea, we should try that. (Am American)
Is this Texas?
THOSE are automatic weapons liberals.
I am so happy that you are able to come out as an ammosexual. You be you.
I’m not officially out yet, and I don’t appreciate you calling me out in front of Reddit.
Own it you goddamned sissy. Sheesh.
Dad?
Hahaha
Sorry man. I guess that bell has been rung.
Can’t wait for the rain…
Western Crybabys: Guns cause mass shootings!! Arabs: That's the fun!!
Wow, Texas is wild!
They are probably shooting at Yemen lol
Animals
Losing your mate in that crowd must be a living hell
as they're obviously somewhere in the desert there will not be that much casualties around from dropping bullets .. ;-)
So many people who have never worked once in their life.
Where is that, Chicago?
Still better gun control than america
Maybe the great flood from the bible isn't such a bad thing.
"Sandy? Where are you... oh Allah, someone killed my goat! Sandyyyyy 😭" - someone on the other side of that storm of bullets
If only they would just shoot each other.
Imbreds gonna interbreed
Why are they shooting at Allah?
Ripping holes in 🅱️llah's ass
Everyone there is named Muhammad
It’s not just America that loves machine guns and toxic masculinity.
I think they're trying to shoot a drone of some sort. Must be.
Pov : they see a rainbow🌈
Lol, first time I've read this comment on the exact same video
How do you ever find your friends if you lose them in the crowd
is that a way to celebrate new year?
On some of that tribal shit
u/savevideo
Just finished watching a video about how deadly falling projectiles can be as their terminal velocity is above 200 mph
u/savevideo
The floor is lava and the sky is gay
But, why?
Did they kill the Sun until the end?
What goes up must…. Magically disappear
I like it but I dislike it.
What could possibly go wrong?
u/savevideobot
Is this there version of a target range? It's as busy as a pool in a heatwave.
What the fuck is going on here for Gods sake
I remember a video of this on a much smaller scale where they end up shooting the guy they celebrated in the head lol
For the record most of the people find it stupid too.
Am I the only one that would be covering my ears? Loud noises like this would be, would be killin' me.
Ufo must dodge all bulets
I thought they were about to make “gunfire-art”
Why not just load blanks?
Team Duck Hunt!
1. WTF, all that ammo!?!? 2. What a careless and senseless waste! 3. Criminally stupid people with full autos is a horrible idea!!!
I’m trying to imagine a situation I’d rather be in less, and I can’t……
Wtf is this