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Not the sort of thing you want to find embedded in your car
By adamg on Mon, 07/21/2014 - 10:49pm
A resident of Sherwood Street in Roslindale reports finding this bullet and a bullet hole in his car today.
However, he says it's possible the bullet came from nowhere near Roslindale:
Bullet was shot into the air, pierced the car on the way down!!! However, note the rust around the bullet hole itself. This could have happened days ago, & the car was on tour of the US. Mystery 4 eva.
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That's a Speed Hole
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Any pics from the inside of the car?
Any noticeable damage to inner door panels?
Shouldn't the bullet be
Shouldn't the bullet be deformed from striking the metal of the car? It looks perfectly intact.
What 1mm of aluminum?
Please you could stab a hole in the roof of a car!
Two things
Cars are sheet metal. They offer little resistance.
The bullet was said to hit the top of the car, so it is likely a bullet that either ricocheted or was shot in the air and would have hit the car with a lot less energy than if it had been shot straight at the car. Likely enough to pierce the sheet metal and embed, but not to deform.
Color me skeptical, too
Would a falling bullet even penetrate a car roof? It wouldn't have been traveling at muzzle velocity but terminal velocity. Whether or not it would penetrate, the impact would have deformed the bullet.
Also suspicious: the links to Twitter are now dead. The newest tweet on JahHills' page is a week old.
Yes
Mythbusters tested this. When shot *exactly* vertical, the bullet tumbles upon falling and only hits terminal velocity. However, that's pretty much impossible for a person with a gun to pull off. So, if you're off of vertical by a bit, the bullet can maintain its spin and carry its momentum. It would return to Earth at more than terminal velocity and be capable of a lethal velocity.
Near Archdale projects -
Near Archdale projects - 'nuff said.
Nowhere near
Nowhere near Archdale. Lives in earshot of Sherwood.