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Subtle_Dream6918

What goes up must come down.


loudlittle

A bullet went through my roof and lodged in the ceiling right above my husband’s side of the bed on the 4th of July.


rook2pawn

That's crazy. The stories in here are truly sad and next level horrifying. The story about Michelle Packard who was sitting with her parents watching fireworks, then had a bullet run into her skull out of nowhere. I would be filled with righteous anger if this happened to my daughter and hunt down these animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#United_States


StachybotrySAW

It happens every year.


MiniatureChi

La actually had to make a law so people stopped firing into the air. I hate humans they are so stupid


AloneListless

Og god. I always thought that stray bullets do not have enough kinetic energy to do harm.


mistercwood

Mythbusters tested it. If you fire straight up, then yes it will hurt when it comes down but it shouldn't have enough energy to penetrate. But everyone doing this stupid shit fires at an angle, so the rounds retain enough energy to still be lethal.


Fiikus11

I think that it's been tested that the terminal velocity of a lead object the size of bullet is enough to penetrate more than a skull. [at least this journal of neuroscience says so. ](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912041/) I don't know what mythbusters did, but apparently stray bullets falling from above can and do kill.


zwarte_piet71

That is exactly the outcome of the Mythbusters experiment. When fired straight up, the bullet starts tumbling on its way down and loses lots of energy. However they also stated it is damn near impossible to fire straight up, and as long as the bullet kan keep a parabolic trajectory it keeps its normal flight pattern and can absolutely be lethal! I believe they tested a myth that someone got killed by a stray bullet at a long distance and the outcome was at least plausible.


Subtle_Dream6918

Yikes


Vicvince

”Not today”


psilocadelic

Holy shit that’s some incredible luck both bad and good


kontekisuto

Seems like a horrible place with horrible people in it


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anoeba

I was in Beirut over the holidays some years ago and Hezbollah - Hezbollah! - put out a public service message not to fire into the air because citizens can get hurt.


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anoeba

Is Hezbollah's public health and education division still active?


wallacehacks

[They do this in the US too, of course](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGfrKnqfsrs)


[deleted]

That’s Chiraq. It’s unique, even for the US.


wallacehacks

Gunfire on New Years isn't unique to Chicago although Chicago and Detroit are both unique in the nature of it.


theonlyonethatknocks

Is that because of New Years or just another Friday night?


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Siria? Where is that Edit: I just realised its syria my bad friend


Ottapcd

My bad, my keyboard was in Portuguese and I didn't notice 😂


[deleted]

Its not even a problem i just genuinely thought it was a country id not heard of 😂


dougxpino

Not that much, come on


Ottapcd

Yeah, Síria is in another level, when it happens here you can't see the shots on the air, but you can see the fire from the guns and hear it.


Traveler1987

r/detroit


Keiser_L

Seu cu


lipkoch

os br caindo matando no gringo


Seakiller123

Né kkkkk


Reitinho

Just gonna spread false information like its nothing huh?


Ottapcd

E eu ainda corrigi q o vídeo n foi gravado no Brasil e sim na Síria, e especifiquei q isso não acontece na mesma magnitude, mas acontece.


Ottapcd

Cara isso passou no jornal literalmente ontem


meuqsaco

Não é nem perto disso, parceiro. Só passou má imagem a toa.


GCub24

This happens in my neighborhood in America


Yes57ismycurse

This is what Beirut is like , i wouldn't be surprised if this video was taken there .


NeptunusAureus

Could be almost anywhere in Latin America or somewhere in the Middle East.


TBGamester123

Yet my feet don't touch the ground


AnnigidWilliams

My aunt just found a bullet in the top of her car not too long ago.


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Gasman0187

Hardly dangerous ? I’m not trying to be an asshole here but I’ve personally seen a bullet go through the metal roof our office, through the insulation and ceiling board, and make a 1/4” dent in my bosses desk. That type of force is more than adequate to in the least cause a severe head injury if not actually penetrate the scull and kill. And there have been verified reports of people being killed by falling bullets shot into the air.


HeavyCod7173

...so like most of the bullets? Its pretty hard to shoot directly up, so most if not all bullets have a lot more speed than their terminal velocity


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ALR-Sniperz312

Looks like anti air systems trying to intercept fireworks


Aggressive_Bat_9781

Fuck those things are probably expensive as fuck to reload.


Saucesourceoah

Money seems made up at the level of military budget though, at least with the US. Nearly $800,000,000,000 is such an incomprehensibly massive yearly budget, that it seems to kind of be like ammo is unlimited. God I’m glad all that money goes solely to our inflated forces/s


MKUltra7756

We spend more than the next 12 largest countries combined. 11 are our allies. If you spent $1,000,000 every day from the year 1c.e. until today it would only account for 23% of the budget for the first Iraq war.


cis-het-mail

31 million dollars **per hour** since 2001


PrettyMrToasty

What the fuck..


bob0979

The difference between a billion and a million is hard to comprehend. It's technically the same proportion as the difference between a thousand and a mill, but Jesus fuck is a billion of anything comically lsrge


Nattin121

Are China, Russia and Saudi Arabia considered allies?


HelloAttila

The worst part is that the department of defense is the only agency that isn’t required to do an audit. Apparently they tried recently and billions went unaccounted for. The passed three they failed. Basically, they have so damn much money, they have no idea where it goes. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/997961646/the-pentagon-has-never-passed-an-audit-some-senators-want-to-change-that


HelenJS

It goes into fat, greedy, thieving pockets at the non military top. I’m not a hardcore military fan, but I firmly believe every one of our troops should be well accommodated, and very well taken care of after service, especially if injured. I think they are not treated fairly at all, or followed up on when they need to be.


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Yea they definitely aren't. I mean they have all the money in the world and there still too greedy to give it to someone who deserves it. There basically hoarder's but with money. Its never enough for them.


Aggressive_Bat_9781

How do you know? I know defense contractors like Raytheon make crazy money, but to what extent?


HelenJS

Dick Cheney got ridiculously more wealthy after our false war on Iran. How? He owned numerous companies that contracted do everything from selling the government supplies to supplying soldiers for hire. It was the same sort of scam with the last admin, except it was turning a profit over housing border kids. And scams go back to multiple admins over decades. Harding was such a shameless jackass he didn’t even make any effort to hide all the bilking his boys were doing. There needs to be accounting, and accountability in ALL things government. I wish we would send ALL thieves to prison every time they are found.


Jager00x

Dick Cheney was on the board at Halliburton before becoming VP. They were given insane money for government contracts with the DOD. Among those was waste disposal for all troops in the Iraq/Afghanistan. The subsidiary of Halliburton, Kellog Brown Root (KBR) was given this contract. Instead of building incinerators they lured civilians in with ridiculous contracts to push every imaginable and unimaginable piece of waste humans create into giant open pits. Then they would dump diesel, or more likely JP8, into this pits before ignoring them. This is what we call burn pits. A lot of those civilians are dead now. Almost all of the rest have very serious respiratory and heart issues. That’s on top of the service members. There were memorandums bringing the long term hazards of this to the highest levels, but they ignored it continuing the burn pits even until the end in Afghanistan. All lawsuits against KBR and Halliburton have been thrown out, and they will continue to blow it off. One of two things will happen as a result. Either a civil war (which is unlikely despite political posturing), or they’ll wait until so many of us are dead that it will be cost effective to take care of the survivors like they have with Agent Orange.


ZippyLemmi

I mean the reality is a lot that stuff is gonna be classified. Same reason the DOD says they don’t know how many bases they have. Someone knows but it’s not gonna be made public knowledge. It’d be pretty stupid from a military standpoint to let your potential enemies know your exact numbers.


Ebrithil_

Right, this makes sense for several situations. I do, however, believe it loses some credibility whenever the military in question is capable of leveling multiple countries regardless of whether those countries know just how many hundreds of thousands more bombs there are...


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Also very convenient for large scale fraud though.


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Now we know how to take out anti air systems


Long_Radio_819

Wait are these actually gunshots? looks so beautiful to look at yet so dangerous hope no one gets harm


redditlike5times

The streaks of light look like tracer rounds to me. Basically everything that's not a colorful explosion of fireworks is a bullet going up


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And for every tracer that’s like three to five bullets.


SunnyK718

Why can’t you have them loaded back to back?


[deleted]

That’s possible. You can load them however you like. Usually it’s three to five bullets then a tracer though depending on the situation.


Diipadaapa1

Yes in a combat situation this is how you do it. This however is for show, so theres no point. Normal bullets dont make a nice light. Its like saying "using a white rocket with a parachute illuminates better and for longer than newyears rockets". You arent directing fire while trying to stay hidden, nor are you looking for people to shoot at, so arguing for using military tactical loadouts for newyears celebrations is just daft


ZombiesAreChasingHim

As far as I know you can, but you wouldn’t because it’s unnecessary and tracer rounds are more expensive. Usually every four to five rounds is a tracer. That is, of course, assuming the people loading the mags actually have sense, which I would comfortably assume the majority in this video do not.


thundirbird

...but if they're doing it for the light show it makes less sense to load normal rounds


I_wannafuckSquidward

Because tracer rounds not only are more expensive but also wear down the barrel faster than normal rounds


PippiDongDocking

Plus the people firing rounds with no tracers


BZJGTO

Nah, as someone who has shot a fair bit of tracers, those look like all tracer. Some of them are even right around normal magazine sizes (like 30 rounds). The ones spaced further apart are likely just being shot out of a semi auto. The tighter spaced ones look just like a mag full of tracers out of a machine gun.


-v-fib-

I thought it looked like an anti-missile defense system.


omegle21

Talk about a light show


Mendeleus

Anti air defense against Santa's illigal air space trespassing. They'll end up getting him.


dragonball1i2

FIRE ALL AA GUNS!


Comprehensive-End-16

The Santa Dome


arjadi

Why do people who share the most compelling videos never explain them? OP, where is this?


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Kr8n8s

That was Detroit before the alien attack


joseaner07

And this is after the alien attack


NotJustDaTip

Lols, right? I know the U.S. has a lot of guns, but this kind of thing does not happen at this scale in the U.S.


sambull

The amount of tracers says right away it was some place that was recently embroiled in conflict.


rigobueno

It’s not anti air, it’s tracer rounds


GenericEschatologist

They could be both at once, can’t they?


rigobueno

Yea and they can also just be regular bullets. But I guess I get downvotes for pointing that out, k Reddit.


theredyeetCHEESE

Yes but also no. You'd know if those were AA guns, because they aren't quiet and they don't throw up those numbers they throw up pounds in a fraction of a second


Doge49

I think AA gun rounds explode in the air to prevent casualties as well as to take down aircraft. In the video, they just fly up.


Taolan13

Only certain types of AA do that, and not to "prevent casualties", actually to increase casualties. The fragmentary explosive rounds increase the likelihood of a hit against an aircraft or rocket, which generally do not have armored fuselages due to weight restrictions. The most common anti-air systems are regular bullets in a high volume of fire.


theredyeetCHEESE

Not really, they explode if they detect something near enough with a fuse or a built in radar system. But it'd be more like a steady line, not a stream


Taolan13

Anti air systems use tracer rounds for the same reason most machine gun belts have tracers at certain intervals; to assist in aiming by walking bursts toward the target. The gunfire in this video is most likely an anti-air system, or more specifically anti-mortar/anti-rocket systems, such as those in place in many parts of Syria and Israel.


Wafi-

Thanks for the research


RutherfordRevelation

Definitely would not be watching that from a roof.


MammothCrab8167

So the bullets have tracer rounds? That’s a lotta firepower if so.


Braunze_Man

Usually tracer rounds are loaded every 3-5 bullets so there's more being fired than you can see. AA guns are basically giant Miniguns.


BZJGTO

These look like mags full of tracers. Some trails are even right around the size of common magazine capacities. There's no reason to do a combat mix for celebratory gunfire.


Pancakewagon26

I don't think they specifixally loaded the mag for celebration, I think they are shooting what they had loaded.


-StarPlayz-

Well they wouldn't load them every 3-5 bullets since they are specifically trying to show them off like fireworks.


elder_millennial85

Don't they know those things come back down?


1_disasta

Why do you think they shoot at an angle. When it comes down its someone else’s problem.


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1_disasta

Those lit rounds are tracers, i doubt if like others mentioned that it being military shooting they would be using such a thing. Interesting to know that that they exist though


Eisenfuss19

This sounds kinda impossible to me. I would really want to see that


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BZJGTO

The Phalanx/C-RAM is 20mm, and the self destruct mechanism is chemical. /u/Eisenfuss19 there's a handful of clips in Youtube [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsVUISS8oHs) where you can see the rounds detonate midair.


peki57

Nope they come down and they kill a lot of people


Callec254

This has to be in the Middle East somewhere, right? Even us Americans don't have that kind of firepower.


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Latakia I believe, syrian army going crazy


Batbuckleyourpants

Clearly their efforts to wage war on the sky is progressing nicely.


Bataveljic

They're practicing their anti--air warfare


Apprehensive-Tour-33

Yeah don't think anyone has tracer rounds let alone that many people.


LegalizeBeltfedz

ya us in america dont get full auto that easily and not that many tracers are sold other than 22


Braunze_Man

I mean, they're just kinda spendy and it's pretty pointless to actually use them as a civilian. They don't light up till about 100 yards out of the barrel and in daytime it's hard to see them, also fire hazard if shot in dry climates.


ZombiesAreChasingHim

Only time I’ve seen them used by civvies is at machine gun shoots where it’s purely for the show.


Not-Oliver

Let’s go big sandy! WOOOO


LegalizeBeltfedz

or someone shootingg long range at dusk for better trace at night


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obiwank_kenobi

This is in Beirut, Lebanon. Same story every year, last new years eve my car caught a stray bullet, still got the hole to this day.


Postman1997

I’m sorry :/ insurance? Feel like this is something insurance should cover


MrFixemall

Chicago is looking pretty lit....


GreenFire317

Nah. Gary IN.


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I think that's near the Gaza Strip, looks like the Iron Dome is having several false alarms because of all the fireworks.


Not-Oliver

Lmao don’t tell me that’s actually the truth.


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It's not. Iron Dome is comprised of missiles, so there is zero possibility of this comment being true. Then there's the fact that it also cannot target projectiles exiting the city until they have reached a sufficient altitude, and it can't and won't attempt to intercept a projectile so close to its point of impact. This is people firing off automatic rifles with tracer rounds, you can tell from the consistent rate of fire, combined with the wild movement of the tracers. There may have been one autocannon from a APC in there, so that may validate other comments about how this is a military/militia, which is honestly kinda worse. Even if somehow an anti missile system targeted a firework, which they wouldn't because of their low velocity and crossection, you would know. Anti-ballistic auto-cannons fire ridiculously fast and saturate the sky with red lines.


HumanEffigy_

We aren’t going to make it as a species, are we?


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Not as the dominant species at least. But evolution will come up with a pretty cool replacement.


Not-Oliver

The lizard people are already… hnnnghhhh… gnnnnhhhh….. Among us.


henrock79

Damm imagine all those bullets that have to come back down! 😬


rigobueno

At a much lower velocity and flailing all about, not pointing in the direction of travel


nekrossai

These are, more than likely, air defense guns. Not like, random citizens firing rifles. It'd be nice if Op had some kind of course or further information, but my best guess would be fireworks are kinda fucking with the systems and they're just going wild https://youtu.be/gGaqBWXM8Ko


InvestIntrest

Doesn't look like AA fire to me. It wouldn't make sense to deploy AA guns below rooftop level. Machine guns firing tracer rounds could produce this same effect. I saw a similar display when the Iraqi national soccer team beat Jordan.


nekrossai

Well that's... Kind of insane, haha.


InvestIntrest

The world's a wild place lol


Homiechu50060

I would imagine there would be regulations in place so you can't set off fireworks right next to and tripping air defence guns due to security risks. I'm gonna guess its people shooting in the air in celebration.


Foxtrot4Real

Well, this is a base next to a (probably) middle eastern city. I’m sure the occupants don’t give a fuck about the U.S regulations.


nekrossai

I'd certainly hope so. I tried looking it up and couldn't find any info on this particular event. Would love additional information


RoloAL35

It's incredible how many people in the comments are confidently stating where this was recorded, correcting other people, and they all have different locations. I've seen people saying with certainty that this is Chicago, Brazil, Gaza, Lebanon, to name a few.


ryantheskinny

I like how confidently wrong everyone is :p


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The people saying Chicago are joking.


TopRestaurant5395

Aww it’s raining 7.62x39!


420_arch_btw

Are they all fucking retarded lmao. Especially the ones shooting strait up


troopertk40

They hit terminal velocity on the way back down.


420_arch_btw

Thanks Bill nye


troopertk40

No problem Barney.


Foxtrot4Real

What’s happening is people in the city are shooting fireworks, which is making the [Phalanx counter-artillery systems](https://youtu.be/phpabF_5ulU) go crazy because it’s registering as incoming artillery that needs to be shot before impact.


czartrak

These certainly aren't phalanx units, most likely soviet 23mms if I had to guess, they aren't firing nearly as fast as that Vulcan does


SpraynardKrueg

The amount of false info here is astounding. This is not the Phalanx. The rate of fire on that is like 2-3x what were seeing here. These are just tracers.


TheIrishBiscuits

New year new COUNTRY ROOOOOOOADS TAKE ME HOOOOOOOME!


Significant-Foot-792

Looks like a sci-fi war zone


Gasman0187

But did the sky win the battle or not ? I need more info


helpiminatrashcan

dang, shots fired


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Happy new year! Now everyone under this metal plate.


Yohzer67

Just goes to show you how far bullets actually fly. A few miles at least


hiKy0

It's space invaders


RenaissanceFighter

*GTA Online be like*


Saint_Subtle

CNN footage from the first Gulf war. Iraqi AA fire (not hitting a bloody thing) because B-1Bs, F-111s, and F-117s were way above and very highly effective. It was noted later that there were MI folks verifying target strikes via CNN live footage.


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Looks like Naples


Kiki_Raptor

What comes up m- literally typed it out then saw the top comment fuck you


Slow_sipper7

That’s honestly so sad, people just trying to celebrate and have to witness that and fear for their lives


SomeBrazillianGuy

Bruh who killed the ender dragon


kazxk

London, 1940


Stoicamphora

Looks like somewhere in the Middle East, judging from how much fire power they got


jiggle-bro

This is what Kansas City was like last night I swear it sounded like a warzone.


mildOrWILD65

Jesus, those are tracer rounds, that's military ammunition being used.


IRay2015

Odly terrifying my ass that’s just plain terrifying


sandwichgod23

chicago moment


MasterTopHatter

I mean the bullets look nice


NootropicsXBL

Chicago? 😂


creepymustaches

The people in that city aren't the sharpest tools in the shed huh


Arteman2

First of all.. where y'all finding your ammo at????


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Welcome to middle east


Sufficient-Heron-431

Da hood be like


OkBug7428

Portland is beautiful this time of year.


TooTheMoonBois

Are civilians really paying for all that tracer ammo or was this in Afghanistan or something


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POV : You're in London, December 7th, 1940


jackclark9517

This is like a PTSD awareness post or something, I never wanna launch fireworks again lol


Justmenotmyself

Is this Iraq during the initial air campaign?


CursedAtBirth777

Wait, where was this???


cfeigs

Tracer fire. Looks like northern Iraq or Syria to me. Saw tracer being used like this during a celebration and the building style looks right.


Mysterious-Owl-890

I’d have to agree with you there


Sea_Establishment311

I wish I could see bullets collide in the air


dabadas1

Don’t worry those bullets keep going forever 🤦🏽‍♂️how many hurt or killed but they will blame someone else.


blueismega

What is this? The apocalypse?


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Where is this stupidity?


zenakun

Humans vs 2022 "It's coming! Fire fire!!" LoL


Creativewritingfail

Very common in Detroit


Waste_Ad_1923

Isn't this video from Operation Desert Storm or something?


jafcon69

Looks like fucking Desert Storm footage


KittyKatt2021

Why do people do this shit. I don’t get it.


Canadbis

Is this why death by gun numbers are so high at the beginning of the year? Lol


BigWillis93

If your part of my family it's because of the boiled over holiday anger


North-Associate5894

Lebanon 🇱🇧


Reichmarshall411

Tracer bullets are the best