What Goes Up....

You know, I don't know who is the stupider party in this story, the guy tied to the tree with a noose around his neck or the moron firing live rounds into the air.

Joining the Klan or not, what would possess a man to willingly allow a noose to be placed on his neck as he's tied to a tree? From the sounds of it, the only difference between an initiation and a lynching is where the rope is tied to the tree.

And didn't the guy firing the gun understand basic physics? You fire a live round, that lead slug has to come down somewhere. It doesn't just harmlessly disappear into thin air if it doesn't hit anything on the way up. Hell, even the Palestinians have figured this out - they at least hold their AK-47s at a slight angle when they fire off their celebratory shots. Is it extraordinarily unlucky that Jeffery Murr ended up getting hit in the head with a bullet from heaven? Yes. Was it unforseeable? Not to anyone who had passed eighth grade science (which as I think about it is probably doubtful for Freeman).

God Almighty these guys are clueless.

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