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. 

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

How grusome?


Regards,

Roger 
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