12 Aug 08 06:40, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RN> On Sun 2008-Aug-10 18:22, Roy Witt (1:397/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW>> A co-worker I knew in the 70s and 80s told me of people who were
 RW>> hit by the .45 slug. One story involved a man who robbed the ticket
 RW>> booth at a movie theatre. The lady in the booth gave him everything
 RW>> he asked for, but she had pressed a secret button under the counter
 RW>> top in front of her. That called the manager, who came running with
 RW>> a .45 in his hand. As the robber ran down the street, the manager
 RW>> hollered his three obligatory (to him), 'stop or I'll shoot'. When
 RW>> he finally fired, the robber did a summersault in mid air and
 RW>> landed on his face, nearly half a block away. He had only been hit
 RW>> in the little finger and the impact had sent him sailing.

 RN> Some might find that hard to believe.  If the guy was still around
 RN> from the JFK echo that I was having a heated discussion with re: "the
 RN> head shot", I probably still couldn't convince him.  Although he was
 RN> an airline pilot, he claimed to know more about ballistics than I
 RN> ever will.  He's the guy my mother told me about when I was very
 RN> youmg.  "You can do anything or be anything with your mouth," she
 RN> said.

 RW>> Then there was the story about the guy who robbed two Navy SPs at
 RW>> gun point, who were carrying a bag of mail they had just picked up
 RW>> from the post office. That one is a grusome tale indeed.

 RN> How grusome?

When the SPs pulled out there .45s and fired, one of them hit the guy as
he ran away, right in the middle of the back. He landed on the sidewalk
and then slid a few feet in his own blood. When they turned him over,
there was a gaping hole in his chest.

                R\%/itt



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