I'm a unemployed drug addict Liar and they've shot at me- you too?

[Tucker]

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 01:39 PM
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Has anyone here ever felt a bullet whiz by their ear?
   
And if so, did you crap your pants?

I did when it happened

Even thinking about that sound makes my heart jump

rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 01:43 PM
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2. yes, at a much younger age
   
I was @14 and (living in a rather small town setting) I had no idea what it was until my friend told me we were being shot at.
Then my heart nearly stopped.

Why the commercial @?

Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 01:46 PM
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4. I was 22 and I still crapped my pants
   
Never go hiking on the Thai-Cambodian border. EVER!

I never knew. Teverner, like John Kerry was in Vietnam.

ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 01:46 PM
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5. no, but I have been shot twice...
   
once on accident and once on purpose. even had another gun pointed at my face during a robbery. yay idiots with guns!

sP

panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU!    Sat May-21-11 01:48 PM
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7. Once, years ago, when defending an old girlfriend
   
from an asshole, the guy pulls out a shotgun and blew a big hole in a door about two feet away from me.

sixmile (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 01:51 PM
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9. I've had a gun held to my head
   
And seen people get shot, but never had a bullet whiz by my head. That makes me feel like a greenhorn.

And from Mr Hamburger Hill

11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:01 PM
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11. Yes and no.
   
The sensations accompanying the yes part are pretty much indescribable. A quick "phfffft" followed by a WAY too late attempt to dig yourself even deeper into the ****ing mud. As for the second part, I'm pretty sure that's just because I hadn't eaten for over 24 hours.

Remember, It's only a movie.

Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:02 PM
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12. Was it during a war?

11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:10 PM
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17. Yeah ... July, 1970 in the A Shau Valley. I found out later I had been part of something called ...
   
Operation Texas Star.

For reference.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093137/

Storyline

A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infanty Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed "Hamburger Hill" because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shreded hamburger meat. Written by Matthew Patay <1792a@aol.com>   

Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:08 PM
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14. I had a ,45 pointed at me once.
   
I was drunk and belligerent. I told the duty NCO I was going to kick his lifer ass. He believed me and pulled the pistol. Fortunately, my two not-as-drunk friends tackled me. I never ran across the guy again so I never got to ask him if he would have pulled the trigger.

Kip Humphrey Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:12 PM
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18. Had my car window shot out right behind my head. Police said, happens all the time.

ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:18 PM
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20. Yes
   
No I did not lose bladder or sphincter control. I have also been hit a few times. You know it clearly at the time.

ProgressiveProfessor is a class A gun grabber who posts in the gungeon.

formercia (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:26 PM
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22. Yes
   
It was close enough that I could feel the shock wave against the side of my face.

Been shot too. That's no fun either.

Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-21-11 02:48 PM
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24. Had some idiot fire a live 75 cal round from a musket......
   
went sailing past me and hit a tree...amazing sound as it was snapping through the leaves. I knew exactly what it was. I tried to get real skinny, fast so I could hide behind the next tree. I was riding with my uncle in a fuel oil truck during hunting season, has a slug hit the tank just behind the cab. Its a good thing it was an old truck with a steel vs aluminum tank. I've had my house shot up on several occasions, long story, but after weeks of a stake out an investigation the offender was apprehended. It wasn't juvenile either.

More bullshit than a barnyard.

[BEG]

I must live a charmed life, never been fired at or around.

[catsmtrods]

A lot of DUmmies get shot at! Go figure?

[Airwolf]

I have. Not anything to talk about now. The  time was on the KD range at Ft Cambell. Someone let off a round fron one of the XM-21 rifles on the range and no one bothered to tell those of us on the end raising the targets that the range went hot and the first round comes down to our end and hits the wooden frame and sends splinters at me and a few others near by. Near being shot at twice by our so called allies . Once while doing a perimiter check on the fence in Italy on the base I worked on and the other tike was by the ROK army stopping our company on the road when the curfew was on and we were late getting back to Camp Liberty Bell. Bunch of trigger happy **** ups.

[Rebel]

DUmmies would never survive in basic. They did that shit on the assault course. They're up in towers firing at a general area (say the size and shape of a football field. You have to enter from the side, say your own 10 yard line, turn, and crawl under barbed wire towards them. If they weren't real, they sure as hell sounded real. Not to mention grenade simulators going off in barrels on the course enough to make a constipated man, um, "unconstipated".

[Tucker]

DUmmies would never survive in basic. They did that shit on the assault course. They're up in towers firing at a general area (say the size and shape of a football field. You have to enter from the side, say your own 10 yard line, turn, and crawl under barbed wire towards them. If they weren't real, they sure as hell sounded real. Not to mention grenade simulators going off in barrels on the course enough to make a constipated man, um, "unconstipated".

I can see it now. A company of DUmmies, all with bolo badges.

[Mr Mannn]

I've been shot at. In the deserts of Arizona. A guy on a hilltop was shooting at me. I had to run for my life.
I kept my head, jumped into a dry wash and used what cover I could find. Police said it was probably drug runners.

Never once did I crap my pants.
I won't fault a person about how they react to danger. Everyone's different.

But a group that consistently craps their pants when faced with guns... I can only guess that progressive revolutionary uniform will not include white pants.

[mamacags]

I had shotgun fire over my head but it was wayyyyyy over.  The shot was raining down on our heads though.  My car got shot in the driver's side door during hunting season once.  It was far enough off that it just left a big dent but didn't penetrate.  I didn't shit my pants either time either. 

[GOBUCKS]

I guess DUmmy Taverner is lucky it was a rookie cop.
DUmmy numbersBravo has been pretending to be an infantryman for a long time.
He served with TiTtyboy and John F'n. Seared into his memory.

[dutch508]

 


funniest. thread. ever.

[Rebel]

I had shotgun fire over my head but it was wayyyyyy over.  The shot was raining down on our heads though.  My car got shot in the driver's side door during hunting season once.  It was far enough off that it just left a big dent but didn't penetrate.  I didn't shit my pants either time either. 

I've had that happen to me several times propped up next to a tree while squirrel hunting. Just have to hold your head down so it doesn't pepper your eyes.

[Tucker]

What I find amazing is not the number that have been shot at, but the number that have been shot.

I live in a tri county with close to 4 million people and know of only one person who was shot. It was my Father during a hold up. He was shot with a 22. It didn't kill him, but he's the only one I know of.

[Randy]

A group of us were walking through the woods in N Fl one day when the BANG BANG pellet rain came. 4 people hit the ground and the rest of us stood there laughing at them while they tried to hide behind weeds. I made the comment that it was easy to see just who'd been shot at before and who hadn't. (my 5th at the time, 1 more since)

Out of all of us no one soiled themselves nor was there any life altering mental damage. Of course none of us were DUmmies either. I wonder if there's a connection? 

[GOBUCKS]

A group of us were walking through the woods in N Fl one day when the BANG BANG pellet rain came. 4 people hit the ground and the rest of us stood there laughing at them while they tried to hide behind weeds. I made the comment that it was easy to see just who'd been shot at before and who hadn't. (my 5th at the time, 1 more since)

Out of all of us no one soiled themselves nor was there any life altering mental damage. Of course none of us were DUmmies either. I wonder if there's a connection? 

Shotgun pellets falling from the sky are about as hazardous as a brisk rainfall, and much less hazardous than the smallest hail. If you've been in very many good-sized organized dove hunts, you've heard that pitter-patter.

[BattleHymn]

The only time I have been close to the wrong end of whizzing bullets was at a shooting range where an old man didn't see myself or my brother in law head down to change our targets.  His rifle had malfunctioned, and he sent two rounds down our direction.  The first one went right between the two of us, we both looked at each other with a "WTF?" look, and before I could get out "cease fire", another round came withing five feet of hitting my shoe.

Neither of us had to call for our brown pants. 

[tanstaafl]

I once had a ricochet whistle past my ear when I was a wee lad. Does that count?

It taught me to check what was exactly in the target backdrop area. It was a old spade and that .22 came almost straight back.

But I didn't crap my pants.

[Randy]

I was shot at two different times while roofing in Texas, seems like someone thought it was a sport or something. Once in a Drive-in theater an errant round twittered on by me. 2 shotgun incidents and a late night neighborly dispute had a shot make it past the actual combatants and headed my way. In total a solid 12 shots my way with no hits. Of course I really don't think anyone was really trying to hit me in particular. 

[formerlurker]

Remember, It's only a movie.

 

[dandi]

I was hit by a spent ricochet from a .357 once. Not even enough to break the skin. Does that count?

Oh, and I was robbed at gunpoint once. No shots fired though, thankfully.

[GOBUCKS]

Amazing stories. I've been up to my eyeballs in guns, hunting, competitive shooting, fun shooting, reloading, etc., with handguns, rifles, shotguns, and muzzleloaders, since age five, and I've never had an experience that was even remotely dangerous.

I had a hangfire once on the skeet range, where the gun went off a second after I pulled the trigger. That startled the hell out of me, but I kept the gun on my shoulder, and would never have swung the muzzle around. That's the only time out of bazillions of rounds, and I still don't know how it happened. A misfire I can understand; have had a number of those, but a hangfire is a different, scary breed of cat. I don't want to think about being shot at.

[miskie]

The only time I have ever been 'shot' was with a nail gun. The contractor working next to me was using one and the nail hit a real tough knot it the wood, it deflected the nail which then ended up in my arm...barely...

Freak accident.

[JohnnyReb]

CLOSE!!!!! Daddy told me not to hunt with "That Damn Thing". It was a hammer double barrel....with hair triggers. Flushed the quail and cocked the hammers as it came up to my shoulders. One barrel went off before it got to my shoulder....it shot out of my hands and I was looking down the other barrel as it was about to hit the ground. I ducked as quickly as possible and it went off when it hit the ground.....right over my head. I have that gun now but it hasn't been fired in over 50 years.

I didn't mess up my pants...but I think of how close that was... I almost do today.

[AprilRazz]

But a group that consistently craps their pants when faced with guns... I can only guess that progressive revolutionary uniform will not include white pants.

But what would they use to make their surrender flags?

Had a gun in my face once. Funny thing is it was during the handgun ban in that liberal bastion known as Washington DC. Guess no one told that guy that handguns were illegal.