Paul Prudhomme Grazed By Falling Bullet

[Lord Blackadder]

getting hit by a stray bullet wasn't inherently humorous.

Very true...most people would be thinking "new underpants time!".

Chef Prudhomme should come up with a new dish based on the experience. Maybe a curry - something that stings and then loosens your bowels.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Very true...most people would be thinking "new underpants time!".

Chef Prudhomme should come up with a new dish based on the experience. Maybe a curry - something that stings and then loosens your bowels.

The base of the sauce could be gun stock.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

The base of the sauce could be gun stock.

Nice.

The the spicyness could be determined by caliber, from .22 Rogan Josh all the way up to .50 Vindaloo, the latter being served only after the signing of a waiver.

 

[kylos]

It's very unlikely for the bullet to have been tumbling - it was almost certainly on a ballistic trajectory. As Kyle? pointed out, a high-angle ballistic trajectory produces a much higher velocity than the terminal velocity of the same object in free fall - of course it's nearly impossible to fire a bullet *straight* up in the air without putting the gun in a vise and using a level or protractor.

The .22 is so lightweight that even a light breeze could have slowed it down quite a bit and possibly even caused it to tumble though.

One more shot (haha) at armchair scientist. After this, I promise I'll give it up.

According to what I've read about bullets fired at a vertical trajectory, they tend to fall back to earth in the same position as they were fired, that is, point up, flat side down. This would make sense as that is the orientation with the lowest center of gravity, so the bullet would not be prone to tumbling. However, a .22 has a higher drag to mass ratio than almost any other caliber, so I would agree that it may be prone to tumbling simply because of the relatively large amount of buffeting compared to its mass that it undergoes during its return to earth.

Also, as an aside, concerning NPR, my brother and I used to have fun doing fake news reports imitating the perhaps excessive gravitas of Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer on All Things Considered. It was a rather fun little routine and it managed to amuse our family at least a little bit. Or they may just have been pretending to be amused.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Nice.

The the spicyness could be determined by caliber, from .22 Rogan Josh all the way up to .50 Vindaloo, the latter being served only after the signing of a waiver.

They'd better. A person could get chile powder burns.

 

[Lord Blackadder]

a .22 has a higher drag to mass ratio than almost any other caliber, so I would agree that it may be prone to tumbling simply because of the relatively large amount of buffeting compared to its mass that it undergoes during its return to earth.

The .22 is also one of the few round-nosed bullets still in wide use in "modern" firearms, which is why it has such high drag.

...perhaps excessive gravitas of Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer on All Things Considered.

That's what I was going for, but couldn't put into words. I like NPR, but sometimes they take themselves a little too seriously.

They'd better. A person could get chile powder burns.

Just imagine what the exit wound must look like after eating that vindaloo. <Johnny Cash sings "Ring of Fire">