1 way to catch a car burglar

[ArmedBear]

Falling bullets do kill people.

Falling bullets from celebratory gunfire killed 31 Iraqis when Hussein's two sons were killed. Falling bullets on New Year's Eve kill people occasionally in cities in the US Southwest, including my own city.

It's a Mexican tradition, apparently. Every year, there are PSA's on the radio asking people not to do it, and I think the practice is waning.

That said, the shot you fired in the air is infinitely less likely to kill someone than if you'd shot the guy center-mass right away.

 

[2lucky]

>> I would be cautious about deliberately getting oneself involved in such situations while on your job. Are you really doing what your company wants you to do and are paying you to do? Is it really wise to do this sort of police work while on your non-police work job? If you got yourself killed would your company's general manager miss one game of golf? Would they name a mall parking space after you?

Personally I would be ninety nine percent inclined to fire you if I was the mall owner and you set up what you did in my parking lot and exposed my corporation to all sorts of opened ended risks.

Can you imagine the corporate board getting together with their lawyers and insurers and deciding that the best business practice is to have a mall manager at one of their Dallas properties set up a sting and chase felons across the company owned parking lot while shooting a pistol in the air?

Let cops do cop work and mall managers do mall manager work. <<

Fortunately the only person I have to answer to shares my bed .

While there are absolutely significant risks and potential liability that go along with the kind of activity I've described, part of my "job" is to provide a reasonably safe business environment for the many tenants that choose to rent from me.

"Let the cops do cop work..", boils down to letting cops take reports. Usually by phone.

I think we can agree that our society as a whole benefits from citizens that choose to take a reasonable, cautious, proactive posture against criminals

 

[crofrog]

I think we can agree that our society as a whole benefits from citizens that choose to take a reasonable, cautious, proactive posture against criminals

Luckily for all of us you showed us how to be to, reasonable and cautious by firing your gun into the air in a parking lot of a mall.

I'm also sure your patron's and renters greatly appericate gun fire outside their stores has a way to increase revenue.

 

[real_name]

Occasionally, the video clips of the thefts will be aired on the news. Once, the crooks were joking, "I hope this isn't one of those bait cars", or something to that effect. As soon as they drove out of the parking lot, they're busted

http://www.baitcar.com/videos

 

[John Hicks]

Armed Bear,
the Army study said (a typical bullet), from the 1920's that's probably a 30-06, or maybe they only tested a 45.

I have read reports of people dying from that, but you're right, it's a lot less likely. Also, if the round isn't mostly up, but up and out (like an artilery round), it might not slow down as much. Plus, heavier bullets will have a higher terminal velocity, so while a pistol bullet might not be lethal, a 7.62x39 might be.

food for thought anyway . . .

jh