Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: DPIROT%UALTAVM.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca (Don Pirot) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Small caliber velocity Message-ID: <13374@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 22 Jan 90 06:02:59 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 25 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Don Pirot I was in the Philippines over the past New Years holiday. On New Years Eve there, military personnel sometimes celebrate by firing their weapons into the air. In the Manila Bulletin of January 2nd there was an account of the injuries and deaths which occured as a result of this and other activities (8 dead and 1542 injured, according to the headline). One of the injured was a 12 year old child who was struck in the head by a stray bullet. A couple of days later, there was a further report that the child had died. There were further details in the later report. Bystanders said that the child was standing when he was hit. The entry wound was in the top of his head, and the bullet lodged in his lower jaw. Since a number of local police were firing their weapons into the air speculation was that the child was killed by a falling round. There were no details about what kind of weapons were being fired, nor of the type of round which killed the child. Don Pirot, | BITNET: DPIROT@UALTAVM University Computing Systems, | UUCP: alberta!DPIROT@ualtavm.bitnet University of Alberta, | ARPA: DPIROT%UALTAVM.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. | What luck for rulers that men do not think. | Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)