Posted on 07/11/2015 11:52:14 AM PDT by PROCON
DELAND, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35 ORLANDO) - Heather Charlebois showed us the wound and bruise on her right thigh. What she thought was a firework hitting her leg on the 4th of July turned out to be a 38-caliber bullet.
She said, "Suddenly it felt like something blew up in my lap".
You can see in this surveillance video, Charlebois was sitting with her boyfriend watching a band at Cafe Da Vinci in DeLand with some friends at around 10:30 Saturday night. She said, "We heard a loud pop and I felt pain in my leg, so we all assumed it was a fire cracker. We never figured it was a gun shot." In the video, you can see the blood stain on her jeans as she walked away from the table.
For the next four days she was in pain. Finally, her friends convinced her to have it checked out, so she went to the hospital. She said, "Yesterday everyone was telling me it looked like a bullet hole so they wanted me to go to the hospital, so I did." A surgeon told her it's very close to an artery, so the bullet will stay put.
Police believe someone was firing their gun into the air during fireworks somewhere outside the restaurant and one of the bullets it Charlebois. They and Charlebois would like to know who fired that gun.
She said, "I'm all for firearms, you know. I'm not anti-gun, but I'm anti 'idiot carrying a gun!'"
The DeLand Police Department Criminal Investigations Unit is investigating and working to identify the source of the gunshot. Anyone that may have seen or heard anything that could be related to this incident should contact Detective C. Jusick at 386-626-7424 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-277-8477. You may remain anonymous.
Yes, the old idiot detector is yet to be invented.
She's darn lucky the bullet didn't hit her femoral artery.
Is this anything like those fat chicks that have a kid, and didn’t know they were pregnant?
“Is this anything like those fat chicks that have a kid, and didn’t know they were pregnant?”
I’ve read several shot-but-didn’t-know-it stories over the years. It sounds unlikely, yes? The other day I shot an armadillo three times with a nine millimeter at about 50 feet. They were all body shots as the head is hard to see and low to the ground. He started flopping around but I expected him to die, or at least stop moving from one shot with an FMJ. But, no. I had to put three more shots into him to stop him from moving.
A 4 year old child was killed several years back in El Paso Texas by celebratory gunfire...
Friend of mine once found a “spent” rifle round sticking into the top of one of his backyard fence posts.
My wife’s Aunt, a farmers wife, went to get the mail from her roadside mail box and couldn’t raise her arm...small trickle of blood indicated a puncture...she didn’t feel it hit...
She didn’t remember the caliber...could have been a .22 rimfire slug that the doctor remove from her arm...probably “kids” hunting over the hill...
still it was a lack of training...
Idiots are everywhere.
This is especially dangerous in the Middle East when AWACS and Specter aircraft are prowling around.
What was the purpose of shooting the armadillo? Was he eating your cattle?
“What was the purpose of shooting the armadillo? “
He was living under my house, directly under my bed. At night he’d have his frat buddies over and they’d party down.
I’d have trapped him and moved him, but I inadvertently caught a bear cub and mama bear tore my steel trap up to get him out. Country life has its tribulations.
A man was killed the next town over from me about 20 years ago in just this manner. The idiot with the gun got 15 years for manslaughter.
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“Terminal velocity of a bullet is dangerous.”
Terminal velocity, if the bullet is fired at a high angle, is not very dangerous.
But a lot of idiots in celebratory gun fire, fire the rounds at less than 45 degrees from the horizontal, and the horizontal velocity remaining makes them quite dangerous.
Terminal velocity of a bullet free falling is usually less than 400 fps.
Actually up to 80 degrees can be dangerous. If the bullet tips and keeps it’s rotation, it can come back down very fast. Only when it falls back on its base and tumbles does it slow down to nondangerous speeds.
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