Cops and loud music draws gunfire at campground

pasusan wrote:
Here's a new busted myth for you then. At a New Year's Eve celebration in our town a few years ago a man did just that - fired a gun into the air. The bullet came down onto and into a little girl's head - she died.

Well, either that did not happen, or that is the story the boyfriend told. First, it is almost impossible to fire straight up. The bullet is always at a slight angle (Mythbusters couldn't get a bullet to fall straight back down). A bullet can be fired into the air and have enough velocity when it returns to cause damage, if it has a low enough arc when it is fired. How low that is I'm not sure, but everyone you can see is safe. Terminal velocity of any bullet just isn't that fast.