Raining lead

Well, I survived the raining lead last night. Damn there are some BIG guns around me including fully automatic weapons. My house was struck and I could hear the lead cutting through the trees right off my porch. It went on for 45 minutes and the police never came...again 🙁

Seriously? People still DO this? What is this? 1845?

Anytime I encounter incomprehensible behavior such as this, I am forced to remind myself that the vast majority of humanity is stupid.

Iris Tramm,
In 1845 they didn't have automatic weapons!*-)

They do it in the states too. Especially in the the bigger cities.

And in the suburbs of larger cities.

explain? were people shooting off guns to ring in the new year? i moved here from texas, how have i never heard of this form of celebration lol.

explain? were people shooting off guns to ring in the new year? i moved here from texas, how have i never heard of this form of celebration lol.

Yup. They started at midnight. The machine guns were a special treat.

Heard a story from a neighbor today. A dad was sitting outside with a child standing between his legs. When the child went inside to go to the bathroom, a slug landed right between the father's feet - right where the child had been standing.

I just moved here from Texas - this happens all the time in Houston and San Antonio. Typically a few deaths every year, unfortunately. No idea why they keep doing it.

I just moved here from Texas - this happens all the time in Houston and San Antonio. Typically a few deaths every year, unfortunately. No idea why they keep doing it.[/quote

The Taliban of Texas?

 

I recently moved and, for the first time in a couple of decades, I DIDN'T hear it. I thought I might have heard a couple of far-away "pop pops" but nothing like I've been used to so it was a nice change. It's always amazed me that nobody's apparently been killed over the years as what goes up has to come down ...

I just moved here from Texas - this happens all the time in Houston and San Antonio. Typically a few deaths every year, unfortunately. No idea why they keep doing it.[/quote

The Taliban of Texas?

*laughs* yes - really more the Hispanic population though. A cultural thing there.

 

Puerto Rico suburbs are THE places to be for lead collecting on New Years Day.
@Iris ...I think that believing that the majority of the human race is stupid must be a very lonely and sad place to be...how about...the vast majority of humanity is a puzzle to me....or I don't understand how the majority of human beings think...or I guess we are all different?

Slightly less judgmental and a lot nicer, no?

Puerto Rico suburbs are THE places to be for lead collecting on New Years Day.
@Iris ...I think that believing that the majority of the human race is stupid must be a very lonely and sad place to be...how about...the vast majority of humanity is a puzzle to me....or I don't understand how the majority of human beings think...or I guess we are all different?

Slightly less judgmental and a lot nicer, no?

Not if one has any hope for evolution and enlightenment, no.

Puerto Rico suburbs are THE places to be for lead collecting on New Years Day.
@Iris ...I think that believing that the majority of the human race is stupid must be a very lonely and sad place to be...how about...the vast majority of humanity is a puzzle to me....or I don't understand how the majority of human beings think...or I guess we are all different?

Slightly less judgmental and a lot nicer, no?

Not if one has any hope for evolution and enlightenment, no.

Reminds me of a most peculiar little man, a copywriter for a large pharmaceutical company who was my first boss when I emigrated to the US in 1968. I bounced into the office on my first day and wished him a cheerful "Good Morning". He turned and fixed me with a steely glare and said, "There is nothing good about any morning. The day that you are born, you start going downhill until the day you die." Cheerful chap he was, just the sort I loved inviting to a dinner party. Needless to say my job there lasted only a very short while. 😀

And in the suburbs of larger cities.

Very true. Meant to add that.

I just moved here from Texas - this happens all the time in Houston and San Antonio. Typically a few deaths every year, unfortunately. No idea why they keep doing it.

i knew there was a reason i avoided those cities like the plague.

Puerto Rico suburbs are THE places to be for lead collecting on New Years Day.
@Iris ...I think that believing that the majority of the human race is stupid must be a very lonely and sad place to be...how about...the vast majority of humanity is a puzzle to me....or I don't understand how the majority of human beings think...or I guess we are all different?

Slightly less judgmental and a lot nicer, no?

Not if one has any hope for evolution and enlightenment, no.

Reminds me of a most peculiar little man, a copywriter for a large pharmaceutical company who was my first boss when I emigrated to the US in 1968. I bounced into the office on my first day and wished him a cheerful "Good Morning". He turned and fixed me with a steely glare and said, "There is nothing good about any morning. The day that you are born, you start going downhill until the day you die." Cheerful chap he was, just the sort I loved inviting to a dinner party. Needless to say my job there lasted only a very short while. 😀

HA! And totally irrelevant to the point I was making.

Wow - you aren't a very happy or kind person are you?

Bottom line - it's a stupid, dangerous thing to do and stupid people do it all across the country.

Bottom line - it's a stupid, dangerous thing to do and stupid people do it all across the country.

Bottom line - When you report automatic weapons fire in a residential neighborhood, in most places under a US flag, the police will respond. They didn't.

Maybe, but not necessarily on NYE.

I think the point Iris might have been making is along the lines of a saying I've heard many a time, "The masses are stupid; the individual is intelligent." People do tend to act in nonsensical and incomprehensible ways when they are in groups. How else to explain two terms of George dubbya Bush?

Iris: Unfortunately, though, if enlightenment in the spiritual sense is what you seek, then you will have to understand that you are one with the rest of humanity as well as everything else that exists, and that is neither good nor bad. It just 'tis. *-)

Aussie: I really think that you need to do a remix of "It's Raining Men" by the Weather Girls with the replacement of "men" with "lead." That would be a fantastic NYE diddy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGLZqDXau98

It's raining lead... hallelujah, it's raining lead...aameen!

Iris Tramm,
In 1845 they didn't have automatic weapons!*-)

Didn't they have the gattling gun by then? That would have been a "automatic" weapon of the time period. Right?:S

Wow - you aren't a very happy or kind person are you?

Because I'm disappointed that human beings in the 21st century are unable to recognize and cease engaging in a dangerous and lethal practice which serves no valid cultural or social purpose, but which you'd rather characterize as "a puzzle" or a mere "difference"?

Uh. No. That has nothing whatsoever to do with me being happy or kind, and everything to do with me being rational and concerned for the safety and relative intelligence of my community.

Cheers, tho'.