Pilot damage

[carrick58 23]

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How true Olham. Throughout history men have been taking risks where women are concerned, the biggest of which being when we first say, "Hello".

 

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I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHEN WE SAID I DO ?

[Akmatov 1]

From Hello it is all out of our control. :)

[carrick58 23]

[Flyby PC 23]

Ahem, back on topic... British Squaddie shot in the neck but back on duty in weeks. -

 

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/2010/02/03/T03021024/

 

I was going to quote the Black Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail 'Tis a flesh wound', but I might be better to take a quote from Monty Pythons Life of Brian - 'You lucky lucky b**" rd!"

[carrick58 23]

Wow, He is a lucky lucky #$@% ! I killed my guy off 2 8mm bullet hits were just too much. Althought there was a recorded shooting a number of years ago outside a court house. Seems someone got a vid of it.

Anyway, a man was upset with his attorney about his case and pulled a 32 cal gun and started poping caps. The

attorney was weaving behind a tree and ended up catching 2 rounds then other people watching piled on the guy ( after the gun was empty) till the police arrived. The attorney survived the 2 hits. The distance looked 6 to 8 feet in the vid.

[Slartibartfast 153]

you have to remember that the earlier rounds (Bullets to the layman) had a lot less penetrating power than modern weapons so getting hit twice would give you a good chance...

 

To counter my own argument...

 

medical advances back then would balance that out I think...

 

Getting shot would leave a mark and sting quite a bit...

[carrick58 23]

Would give a person a bad day

[Flyby PC 23]

Anybody remember the US bank robbers armed with assault rifles and kevlar body armour? I'm not sure what the Police had, 9mm and shotguns I expect, but whatever thay had, they couldn't take them down. The robbers just walked down the street with impunity until one officer got close enough to put a round in one of the robbers neck from point blank range. I forget how they took down the second, but it was a pretty good illustration of the difference between handguns and high velocity 'man killing' assault rifles. (Not a bad advert for Kevlar too).

 

I wouldn't the call this the best shootout, I'd call it the worst.

 

http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

Edited March 6, 2010 by Flyby PC

[carrick58 23]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Olham 164]

Reminds me of the big shoot-out in the movie "Heat".