The story makes no sense. If he was hit by a bullet the casing wouldn't be there. It would still be in the gun or on the ground near the shooter. Casings don't travel with the bullet.
LOL!!! Either way, it is God talking!
When my oldest daughter was in college a couple of years ago, she was at a friend's apartment. At 1:30am she decided it was time to begin her half hour walk back to her home. The girl she was with begged her to stay and spend the night. My daughter said no because she prefers her own bed and gave an excuse. Her friend countered with a solution and in fact, for each excuse for not staying that my daughter gave, her friend had a solution. Finally, my daughter relented.
She went home in the morning and discovered that there was a murder at 2 AM in the parking lot of her apartment, right on the path my daughter would have taken. My daughter could have been the victim!
I saw this on tv. The slug looked to me, like a slug used in a muzzle loader.
The bullet must have been mostly spent if a cellphone stopped it. I don’t think those little plastic boxes have nearly the stopping power of a pocket bible.
One heck of a Prez!
Does any reporter any where have a clue about firearms and ammunition and how they actually work?
Kinda reminds me of an old movie with James Garner called "Support your Local Sheriff". The last sheriff had been killed and they offer the job to James Garner and hand him a badge that was dented by a bullet. Says the new sheriff "Looks like this badge saved the man's life!". The Mayor says, "It sure enough would have if it hadn't been for all those other bullets flying in from everywhere!".
Guess this farmer was lucky many other "casings"(can reporters be any dumber)weren't flying in from everywhere.
.45’s don't travel far. Very heavy, very slow moving. One of the slowest moving round. Think the shot put of pistol rounds.
Anyways, say it came out of a long barrel. I'm not sure it would be much faster than a 4 inch pistol barrel as the powder isn't that much.
Supposedly he was hit at 45 degrees. I have doubts as to how he would know that.
What are the odds, that someone is pointing a .45 in the air at 45 degrees, and outside of a war zone full of .45 caliber weapons, it hits a guy? Anywhere?
This is a tall tale. A bored rural guy, getting his name in the paper.
It is my understanding that a casing is what is left after the bullet is fired. So does this mean the guy shot himself?
He was shot by a bullet CASING?
Did it auto-dial 911?
Quite right that you shouldn’t edit a story. If you like, you can put corrections or “sic” in square brackets, or add a comment.
Yes, almost anything could have happened, since this reporter is evidently clueless. Was it .45 caliber? Maybe, or maybe just a good-sized slug.
Someone mentioned a muzzle loader, and that’s possible. Some states have complicated hunting laws, with weeks set aside for bow and arrow hunting and weeks set aside for muzzle loaded hunting, as well as the regular season.
It must have been just about spent when it hit the cell phone, or I wouldn’t think something as thin as that would have stopped it. Most cell phones are plastic or very thin bits of metal.
The casing doesn’t travel with the bullet.
Idiot reporter
...tumbled out..."