Life's Persistent Questions

What goes up must come down?

Right? Watching news coverage from the Middle East is often filled with people celebrating. Clearly there are so much to celebrate there. Births. Marriages. Funerals. Free elections. Terrorists winning free elections. And what do they do when they celebrate? They fire off AK-47. Com'n, this is their culture--think of the Chinese with their fire crackers at New Years or Mexicans with their pinadas. Fine. It's loud and grabs attention, not to mention counter fires from U.S. military.

But where do the bullets go? I used to worry these innocent gun totters injuring themselves when they fire into the sky and get hit by the bullets when they return to earth. But I noticed that they usually don't fire straight up, but at 70 or 80 degreess. Nevertheless the bullets have to come down eventually, right? Do they hit buildings? Or worse, people? Could we get some stats on this? Annual injuries due to celebratory fire. I got to know .

posted by hedgehog @ 1:22 PM