bromdenlong
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Re: post 41
jtward01 wrote:
"One of the most amazing was a guy who was wanted for killing a police officer during a bank robbery. When the cops knocked on the motel room door he made the mistake of looking through the peephole. He caught a load of 00 buck square in the chest (this was back in the early 70s when things were done a bit differently than today). When we went into the room both shoes and one sock were in front of the door where he'd been standing. The other stock was still on his foot. He'd literally been knocked out of his shoes by the blast."
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jtward: Everything else in your post rings true, but I find this one almost if not entirely impossible to believe. It just seems to defy the law of conservation of momentum. Did you actually see this on site, or were you just told about it later?
then again, I was an electrician in the navy for a few years, and I saw some stuff that was electrically 'impossible', so don't think I'm calling you a liar. I'm just wondering if the story didn't get exaggerated somewhere along the way, or if the guy just happened to have one sock and both shoes be the door - not that unlikely if he was intoxicated at all. I've often peeled my shoes and socks by my door and just left them there - I'm not really a neatnik.
jtward01 wrote:
"One of the most amazing was a guy who was wanted for killing a police officer during a bank robbery. When the cops knocked on the motel room door he made the mistake of looking through the peephole. He caught a load of 00 buck square in the chest (this was back in the early 70s when things were done a bit differently than today). When we went into the room both shoes and one sock were in front of the door where he'd been standing. The other stock was still on his foot. He'd literally been knocked out of his shoes by the blast."
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jtward: Everything else in your post rings true, but I find this one almost if not entirely impossible to believe. It just seems to defy the law of conservation of momentum. Did you actually see this on site, or were you just told about it later?
then again, I was an electrician in the navy for a few years, and I saw some stuff that was electrically 'impossible', so don't think I'm calling you a liar. I'm just wondering if the story didn't get exaggerated somewhere along the way, or if the guy just happened to have one sock and both shoes be the door - not that unlikely if he was intoxicated at all. I've often peeled my shoes and socks by my door and just left them there - I'm not really a neatnik.
