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You can't go to Memphis without getting shot at
Very hip city though. I spent the 4th at my cousin's house in Midtown. I took my '85 300cd, and had to do a few repairs, and got done around dusk when people started with the fireworks. I came out the next morning to find a dent in the roof from a bullet falling from the sky, never did find it though. I really can't be mad about that, has to be filled under the **** happens clause. I am just glad I wasn't still working on the car, and it didn't hit on the back window about a foot away.
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I lived in midtown Mempho from 80-84. When you bought beer at the Walgreen's at Poplar and Cleveland - you were ready to dive on the floor to avoid armed robberies. Sorry to see your baby with a boo boo.
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it could of been worse, it could have struck a small child... idiots
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oh, well
*#&T Happens.
I haven't had any problems where I live....but I don't live near Midtown, either.
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...this is why you buy blanks for the 4th, and save the live round for the woods
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Wow!
Mythbusters did a show on this. Gawd if that landed on a skull, might
have hurt. We have a "Dent Pro" in my area that may be able to fix. Search "paintless dent repair". Kinda like a hailstone repair.
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Idiots, you don't fire a gun like that.
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There are several other flaws on the car, I just going to patch it with some sanding, primer and spray paint off the shelf. I have a few other things to spend money on before a new paint job.
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Memphis? Heck, sounds like Houston too!
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Or Baghdad...
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Quote:
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I remember reading somewhere that in some cultures ("where men are men -- and sheep are nervous") it's common practice to fire weapons at the sky in celebration of one thing or another. The point of the report was to document how many people had been hurt when the lead came back down to earth. As lowriderdog notes, he was lucky it wasn't worse.
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Or Huntington Station.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E4DA163BF930A25757C0A9659C8B63 |
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