Path: utzoo!lsuc!hcr!john
From: john@hcr.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Toronto Police
Message-ID: <4761@hcr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Jan-89 10:22:44 EST
Article-I.D.: hcr.4761
References: <157@aimed.UUCP> <4674@hcr.UUCP> <89Jan23.093655est.38021@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <4742@hcr.UUCP> <1989Jan24.133658.23930@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: john@hcrvax.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Distribution: tor
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <1989Jan24.133658.23930@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
|In article <4742@hcr.UUCP> paulg@hcrvax.UUCP (Paul Gooderham) writes:
|>In my understanding, the police shot at the *tires* of the stolen car
|>and that a ricocheted bullet struck the young driver.
|
|Somehow, I doubt that a bullet can hit a car tire and ricochet up about 3 feet
|and forward (if the back tire was shot) or backward (if the front tire was
|shot), go through the window (or metal) and hit the driver anywhere near the
|head.

Note that Paul said "shot *at*" (emphasis mine), not "hit".  Hitting
the tire of a moving vehicle from behind is no mean feat.
-- 
John R. MacMillan	"Life is like a baseball bat. It's long and
HCR Corporation		 hard and hurts when you drop it on your foot"
{utzoo,utcsri}!hcr!john			- Christopher J. Rotherforth