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Over The Hedge: It's raining lead
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/12/31

No joke, those fools in the inner city of Houston will be shooting
their guns in the air tonight.

Lynn

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Lynn McGuire wrote:

Over The Hedge: It's raining lead
-a-a https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/12/31

No joke,-a those fools in the inner city of Houston will be shooting
their guns in the air tonight.

Lynn

I seem to recall that this was a problem for the locals in a late Van
Vogt novel, "The Darkness on Diamondia".

A similar event in LA is the setting for a murder in a Michael Connolly
novel, one of the Rene Ballard books, IIRC.

William Hyde
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Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

Over The Hedge: It's raining lead
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/12/31

No joke, those fools in the inner city of Houston will be shooting
their guns in the air tonight.

"Celebratory gun fire" is such an amazingly stupid idea, especially since people tend to do it with live rounds, not blanks. Well, as the saying
goes: "What comes up, must come down". And when it is a bullet, it might
kill someone ... and yes, sadly, people have been killed by this.

Kind regards,
Alex.
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
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