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I’ve always wondered what happens when you get separated from your friends at one of these events. How do you find them again when everyone is dressed so similarly?!
It’s like putting together one of those all black puzzles.
Ahmed would be a difficult one, I give you that. The easy one would be Mohamed instead. If you don’t go to him, he’ll come to you, so no problems there.
That's kinda like the old joke I remember hearing in Highschool in the early 2000s. Just yell in some random class or lunchroom "Hey party at Mike's house tonight!"
At least 300 different mikes from that school, including teachers, would have people showing up to their houses.
i wish i kept those from my childhood, feels like itd be great to break out while waitin for the mushrooms to kick in or some such similar situation haha.
Height, build, mannerisms, style of thobes on men, or abayas on women - I'd add things like voice and such if everyone there wasn't temporarily deaf lmao
I lost a mate at a metal festival 3 years ago. He's about 6 foot tall, slim build, long black hair, short black beard & he was wearing a black shirt & jeans. The number of times I'd be doing double takes at blokes walking past got exhausting. Never would have found him if he didn't find the group.
Mythbusters did this and they found that if they shot them straight up they would come back down at a fairly harmless speed. However they also found very real cases of deaths and injuries from celebratory gunfire.
Their theory was that if you shoot at even a slight angle, the bullet stays in a ballistic parabolic arc and thus maintains its aerodynamic orientation. This means it can get much faster again as it falls, so it's deadly when it comes back to earth.
People die or are injured every year from celebratory gunfire, especially at times like New Year's Eve when a lot of shooting happens.
One of the most basic rules of gun safety is to always know what you are shooting at and what's behind your target.
I remember reading the book Chasing Ghosts when I was a teenager, which is about a First Lieutenant's experiences in Iraq. He said the locals described the lead shower from the sky as "God's Bullets"
We lived in Bellflower California near Compton when I was real little. We always stayed inside at night during holidays because people would shoot in the air and there were many who were hit my bullets coming down.
Celebratory gunfire poses a real and deadly risk, injuring and killing people worldwide every year. Bullets fired into the air return to the earth at speeds sufficient to penetrate the human skull and cause serious injury or death, often at speeds greater than 200 feet per second.
Key Facts and Statistics
Mortality Rate: Studies have shown that the mortality rate for people injured by falling bullets can be as high as 32%, a rate significantly higher than typical gunshot injuries.
Common Injury Areas: The head, neck, and face are the most frequently injured areas, with up to 80% of injuries occurring in these regions.
Victims: Innocent bystanders, including many children, are often the victims.
Common Occurrences: In the United States, celebratory gunfire incidents are most common around New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July. Globally, it is an issue during various holidays, weddings, and political celebrations, particularly in South America, the Middle East, and parts of Asia.
Notable U.S. Tragedies
Yaneliz Munguia (2025): A 10-year-old girl in Florida was killed by a stray bullet while watching fireworks with her family on New Year's Eve.
Brayden Smith (2024): A 3-year-old boy in Memphis, Tennessee, was killed by a stray bullet that came through his family's apartment window on New Year's Eve.
Amethyst (2023): An 11-year-old girl was killed in Corpus Christi, Texas, by a stray bullet while celebrating New Year's Eve with her family.
Philippa Ashford (2019): A 61-year-old nurse in Texas was killed by a likely celebratory bullet in her own backyard on New Year's Eve.
Blair Shanahan Lane (2011): An 11-year-old girl in Kansas City was struck and killed by a stray bullet while celebrating the Fourth of July.
One of my friends lives in Erie Pa and he came out one morning and found his glass patio table shattered and they found a bullet amongst all the glass pieces.
I was in Iraq when they lost a major soccer match, so everyone went outside firing into the air like this. At the time, we were outside standing in formation for a Dignified Transfer. Rounds were landing all around us on the airfield, and our commander said, "I don't want to see anyone move." Those rounds definitely sounded like they would have been lethal, but luckily nobody was hit
Yeah, there's terminal velocity where the wind resistance will slow it down to a lower speed than it was going when it left the gun. But while it's not going muzzle velocity, it's more than enough to hurt or kill someone.
Surrounding area is definitely a danger. But you also need just one person to absent mindedly lower their weapon a little bit and then fire it, just like this, and it's bad news for someone there.
When i was a kid (like 4 years old or something) we lived in pakistans as my father was doing work for a university there. I vaguely remember we had to go inside one day because of some danger. Later I learned it was because there was a wedding down the street and they brought us inside because they were worried about bullets coming down and injuring us.
They are firing AK type rifles (most likely). Those accept a magazine, so you can load whatever you like. They could put a mag full of only tracer, which would make sense for a display like this. It's not like a pre-made belt where a tracer is every 5th, 10th, or Nth round.
Not saying they didn't load some non tracer rounds in, just that if the idea is to show off, it would make sense to just load a full mag of tracer. We (in the American military) used to load a full mag of tracer sometimes and use it instead of a signal flare in certain situations.
wtf Is the actual point of this except to waste ammo? Besides the loud af/going dead thing. Then there was some buildings but too far away, 4 stories, all lit up. What about the people in there? Just a couple hundred 7.62 rounds blasting through the hookah parlor no biggie. Like seriously. This isn't culture or religion or even comradery (given everyone looks identical how tf would you know where your buddies are anyhow? If this is a wedding, birthday, holiday, they celebration is highlighted by massive quantities of bullets shot into the sky? Nothing says true love like an AK round to the melon. And who's paying for the ammo? That video just bore off twenty grand in ammo if which half were tracer rounds. Those are pricey in 7.62/39. But in all seriousness, does anyone KNOW what the point of this is besides being aggressively stupid?
The hearing damage is real lmfao. Over the course of my life as a hunter I’ve taken probably 30-40 shots without hearing protection & I have noticeable tinnitus (paired with a dozen very loud raves/concerts w/o protection). Nowadays I take it more seriously & hunt with a suppressor and wear ear pro to concerts, but attending just one of these events would cause more hearing damage than I’ve accrued over my entire life.
Mfers will be going “MAAWWWWPP” when they get home lmfao
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How many of them you think have ear protection?
What?
HOW MANY OF THEM DO YOU THINK HAVE EAR PROTECTION
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Goddamit is that Joey with a Foursquare sweater!??? I have never seen this before
Mawp
Would you STOP that?!
ARE YOU ASKING IF THEY HAVE ERRECTION??
https://i.redd.it/ygxd7scs5o7g1.gif
The three words I would describe you as is aggressive, hostile and definitely difficult.
ARE YOU ASKING IF THEY HAVE ERRECTION??
HOW MANY HAVE EARPROTECTION!?
HEY I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS, I WONDER HOW MANY HAVE EAR PROTECTION?
Mwap
I’ve always wondered what happens when you get separated from your friends at one of these events. How do you find them again when everyone is dressed so similarly?!
It’s like putting together one of those all black puzzles.
I never thought of that.
Me neither.
I'm laughing at a guy walking through the crowd yelling, "AHMED! AHMED! WHERE ARE YOU, AHMED!"
Then, like 30 of them turn around and answer "Yes?" Yet, he still confused about which one of the Ahmeds is his friend.
Have you seen my friend Ahmed? Medium height? Mustache?
He's wearing a white sheet from head to toe. You can't miss him.
He's got a picnic blanket on his head.
Italian restaurant table cloth actually
Where do all the bullets land?
Yes
Browns skin, Brown eyes, wearing white?
Imagine being a cop looking for a suspect.
This is the hardest hitman level
Has an AK
Ahmed would be a difficult one, I give you that. The easy one would be Mohamed instead. If you don’t go to him, he’ll come to you, so no problems there.
Only if you are a mountain.
That's kinda like the old joke I remember hearing in Highschool in the early 2000s. Just yell in some random class or lunchroom "Hey party at Mike's house tonight!"
At least 300 different mikes from that school, including teachers, would have people showing up to their houses.
Can confirm. Lol
Hey everybody!! Party at this guy's house!
Sick party bro
You have to be more specific and ask for last name: "Mohammad!?"
Party at Mike Mohammeds!!
It like a reverse Where's Waldo! Everyone is dressed like Waldo 👍
Same with kids and their moms in full burquas. Do they just trade moms sometimes?
it's like where's waldo but the impossible version.
Everybody’s Waldo.
I found Waldo in LA a little while ago
https://preview.redd.it/92szuxy9wk7g1.jpeg?width=3902&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5b19790633d779ea15748e792f93ca23252216e
I found him!
Where Wahl-Eed
Ah the Arabic version of where is Waldo. “Where is Ahmed”
Did you know they make where’s Waldo audiobooks? I was thoroughly pleased when I found one on YouTube
I can't even fathom how that even works.
Like this:
Not Waldo. Not Waldo. Not Waldo. Not Waldo. Window. Not Waldo. Not Waldo. Not Waldo. Not Waldo. Wolfs bone. Not Waldo.
I stopped listening before the narrator found Waldo. But it probably goes like this:
Waldo.
You forgot the important twist!
Striped beach towel. Wilma. Not Waldo. Dog dressed like Waldo. Striped beach umbrella. Not Waldo.
It was really intense.
i wish i kept those from my childhood, feels like itd be great to break out while waitin for the mushrooms to kick in or some such similar situation haha.
You see, each friend group decides on their specific color of tracer, so you can find them again
Not to mention all have white Nissan Patrol!
I spent a fair bit of time in that part of the world, and you more or less just learn to use different kinds of cues to recognize people
Yeah that is the question, what exactly is your cue since they are all dressed exactly the same.
Height, build, mannerisms, style of thobes on men, or abayas on women - I'd add things like voice and such if everyone there wasn't temporarily deaf lmao
I guess you’ve never been in the military, or any other walk of life where people might wear uniform?
If you go to one of these you are no different from the person next to you. Just take another one home, he’s now your new best friend.
Stop firing your gun and you’ll stand right out
Anybody seen Yusuf? About this tall, red and white scarf, with an AK-74? No? Anybody?
It's easy, man, just shoot up, they'll notice
Yall have a melody that yall play by shooting into the air. Or you use Morse code.
Just give them a good sniff. Thats how we used to do it before all this “name” bs
I work in a clean room, you get used to deciphering things like gait and size and the way people lean to identify them.
I lost a mate at a metal festival 3 years ago. He's about 6 foot tall, slim build, long black hair, short black beard & he was wearing a black shirt & jeans. The number of times I'd be doing double takes at blokes walking past got exhausting. Never would have found him if he didn't find the group.
bro 😂
What goes up....
Does anyone genuinely know what happens to these bullets? do they come back down, do they break down on reorbit, do they escape earths gravity, what?
Mythbusters did this and they found that if they shot them straight up they would come back down at a fairly harmless speed. However they also found very real cases of deaths and injuries from celebratory gunfire.
Their theory was that if you shoot at even a slight angle, the bullet stays in a ballistic parabolic arc and thus maintains its aerodynamic orientation. This means it can get much faster again as it falls, so it's deadly when it comes back to earth.
People die or are injured every year from celebratory gunfire, especially at times like New Year's Eve when a lot of shooting happens.
One of the most basic rules of gun safety is to always know what you are shooting at and what's behind your target.
They are shooting at the sky. Behind that, space. Problem solved!
and in islam god invented the sky, space and guns so they are all good!
I remember reading the book Chasing Ghosts when I was a teenager, which is about a First Lieutenant's experiences in Iraq. He said the locals described the lead shower from the sky as "God's Bullets"
Wasn't there also a CSI episode about this as well? Or am I making things up?
We lived in Bellflower California near Compton when I was real little. We always stayed inside at night during holidays because people would shoot in the air and there were many who were hit my bullets coming down.
Celebratory gunfire poses a real and deadly risk, injuring and killing people worldwide every year. Bullets fired into the air return to the earth at speeds sufficient to penetrate the human skull and cause serious injury or death, often at speeds greater than 200 feet per second. Key Facts and Statistics
Notable U.S. Tragedies
One of my friends lives in Erie Pa and he came out one morning and found his glass patio table shattered and they found a bullet amongst all the glass pieces.
https://i.redd.it/o4r1hq004l7g1.gif
Corpus Christi, Texas is a real place? Woah
muricans are fucking bizarre.
I was in Iraq when they lost a major soccer match, so everyone went outside firing into the air like this. At the time, we were outside standing in formation for a Dignified Transfer. Rounds were landing all around us on the airfield, and our commander said, "I don't want to see anyone move." Those rounds definitely sounded like they would have been lethal, but luckily nobody was hit
Not to be mean but it scares me you don’t know this.
The part that got me is thinking the bullets travel far enough to leave orbit.
Please feel free to be mean.
They come down with roughly the same speed as they went up. Very deadly.
Edit: bullets come down with a much slower speed.
Both deadly but the bullet comes back down at a fraction of the speed.
Yeah, there's terminal velocity where the wind resistance will slow it down to a lower speed than it was going when it left the gun. But while it's not going muzzle velocity, it's more than enough to hurt or kill someone.
I double checked and you are absolutely right. I'll edit my comment. Thanks.
Yup
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Bullet-falling-from-the-sky-kills-Houston-man-5989581.php
I wonder how many people get injured, per year, at this event…
Not many at the event, but in the surrounding area... thats another story
Surrounding area is definitely a danger. But you also need just one person to absent mindedly lower their weapon a little bit and then fire it, just like this, and it's bad news for someone there.
Oops
Ope, did I getcha there?
“Whoooopsiedaisy…sorry Frank! Hmmm…I think I gotta tampon in my bag to stop that bleedin”
And that's how you get away with murder!
The event is Burning Imam.
Some guy just accidentally shot the groom at a wedding doing this stupid shit, groom ended up dying
When i was a kid (like 4 years old or something) we lived in pakistans as my father was doing work for a university there. I vaguely remember we had to go inside one day because of some danger. Later I learned it was because there was a wedding down the street and they brought us inside because they were worried about bullets coming down and injuring us.
Funny that.
So funny
That's one hell of a circle jerk.
Imagine showing up to the party and every other guy picked the same outfit. How embarrassing
I mean, really? Again with the red and white checks Anwar?
Alright, one of us is going to have to change.
If I’m not mistaken what we see is only the tracers. There actually are many more rounds flying around.
They are firing AK type rifles (most likely). Those accept a magazine, so you can load whatever you like. They could put a mag full of only tracer, which would make sense for a display like this. It's not like a pre-made belt where a tracer is every 5th, 10th, or Nth round.
Not saying they didn't load some non tracer rounds in, just that if the idea is to show off, it would make sense to just load a full mag of tracer. We (in the American military) used to load a full mag of tracer sometimes and use it instead of a signal flare in certain situations.
Bullets magically disappear into the air…where they come down I do not care. 🤦
“The ak47 is the party popper of the developing world” -Jeremy Clarkson
Sick. Not in a good way.
Later that day on the news. "25 shepherds have been killed in strange circumstances"
Literally the dumbest thing
Sometimes you have to be ashamed to be human.
Only sometimes?
Must be new to redditt
What goes up must come down. Unless its these peoples IQ then its just down.
RIP to whoever existed where those bullets come back down.
Hopefully no airplanes flying low that night
I feel sorry for whomever was on the other side of that hill.
or birds, or wombats, or squirrels! but yeah, fuck them planes
Not sweaty, moronic.....
So much boredom, smooth brained men with no intellect to do something actually meaningful.
Congratulations, you've just discovered Islam.
Hey, that actually does look like fun times. Just not safe times.
Birds are like doing a ww2 flak run
Dude I was in Baghdad when Iraq beat Iran in the World Cup. This shit is NOTHING compared to that celebrating.
The Bullets hitting the Saudi Princes Bentley in the parking lot
Burning Man used to be good.
These gender reveals are just getting out of hand.
What goes up must come down 😬
Some men will do absolutely anything rather than go to therapy
If they started shooting in the right direction they could even start winning some wars /s
Now that's what I call gun control! /s
I hope here is no one down range.. like in any direction at all!!
A plane flying by with a female pilot?
So just how hard is it to get fully auto weapons over there?
Easier than the US
Tracer rounds are cool
Looks like they’re making a run at Kentucky
https://theonion.com/iraq-kentucky-vie-for-world-shooting-into-the-air-supr-1819566747/
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Some random village miles away
https://i.redd.it/oum0p0pkxl7g1.gif
Random livingroom two miles away.
Total sausagefest.
wtf Is the actual point of this except to waste ammo? Besides the loud af/going dead thing. Then there was some buildings but too far away, 4 stories, all lit up. What about the people in there? Just a couple hundred 7.62 rounds blasting through the hookah parlor no biggie. Like seriously. This isn't culture or religion or even comradery (given everyone looks identical how tf would you know where your buddies are anyhow? If this is a wedding, birthday, holiday, they celebration is highlighted by massive quantities of bullets shot into the sky? Nothing says true love like an AK round to the melon. And who's paying for the ammo? That video just bore off twenty grand in ammo if which half were tracer rounds. Those are pricey in 7.62/39. But in all seriousness, does anyone KNOW what the point of this is besides being aggressively stupid?
Where the women at? Oh yeah….
Damm, they must have really boring lives to think this is fum
Sketchy
“Commercial airliner mysteriously shot down over Saudi airspace.”
How many times do you think someone’s been struck with a bullet that was shot in the air like this?
Is the price of ammo significantly cheaper there or are they just rich?
Do they just forget that gravity is a thing?
Whole next town is Swiss cheese
sponsored by hearing aid companies
Fuck that one patch of desert in particular
Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time
Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine.
Tracer rounds! Someone has wealthy parents!
I have never understood this. Bullets come down.
Why
A mile or two away at an oasis the weather is raining lead bullets❗️🤣
Do they realize those bullets have to land ?
What goes up must come down.
What goes up must come down
"Guys! Guys! You know those bullets come back down, ri-"
Imagine being on the other end of that when those rounds come back down. Just sipping tea and the your house just catches all those bullets
Fortnite when a new free skin drops
Stupidity at it's max
People are stupid and dangerous
Morons of epic proportion!
Well, thank goodness that bullets magically evaporate if they are shot into the air.
Otherwise, this would be sooo scary, like omigod.
What a waste of ammo.
Fucking idiots.
Not a woman in sight
Aloha snack bar
What type of roofs are used on those parts? Seems like yiu end up with a lot of leaks.
Saudis do love their guns.
what goes up must come down
"All those rounds, come down..."
Ammo free in Saudi? I’m watching thousands getting sent to the sky.
why anyone would want to willingly move there is beyond me
I'm really glad celebratory gunfire never caught on where I live.
Looks like a few were using Metro dirty rounds.
What goes up must come down
I just want to know why?
The hearing damage is real lmfao. Over the course of my life as a hunter I’ve taken probably 30-40 shots without hearing protection & I have noticeable tinnitus (paired with a dozen very loud raves/concerts w/o protection). Nowadays I take it more seriously & hunt with a suppressor and wear ear pro to concerts, but attending just one of these events would cause more hearing damage than I’ve accrued over my entire life.
Mfers will be going “MAAWWWWPP” when they get home lmfao
Bullets travel fast…
their trust level is uncomparable.
All those rounds have to land somewhere. Hope they brought a brolly.
I asked my Arab friend if this is safe? Won't the bullets fall down? He said yes, just don't point the gun straight up 🍻
How many people die from this?
Trashy
Meanwhile in Sudan ...
Are the bullets free or something?
Now that's a cockfest
Hmmm not enough gender equality
Huh, Burning Man looks different this year.
Forecast says a 100% chance of lead hail.
I guess the ladies weren’t invited.
These are the guys buying up the world?