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  • Over The Hedge: It's raining lead

    From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Wed Dec 31 13:56:07 2025
    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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  • From William Hyde@3:633/10 to All on Wed Dec 31 16:15:49 2025
    Lynn McGuire wrote:
    Over The Hedge: It's raining lead
    ÿÿ https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/12/31

    No joke,ÿ 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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  • From Alexander Schreiber@3:633/10 to All on Wed Dec 31 22:35:59 2025
    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.
    --
    "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
    looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison

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