Florida Warns Residents Not To Shoot At Hurricane Dorian

[ehrnst]

The state of Florida is warning residents that shooting at Hurricane Dorian is a really bad idea because the bullets will come back at you.

Florida made the warning a picture:

Link to tweet

There is a reason why the NRA slogan isn’t the only way to stop a bad guy hurricane is a good guy with a gun.

Anyone who shoots at a hurricane is asking natural section to take its course.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/30/shoot-hurricane-dorian.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Not The Onion

[malaise]

33. The first thing I checked was the link

I was looking for the Onion or Borowitz

[JDC]

2. We are the dumbest people on earth.

[pangaia]

3. Do we're not. THEY are ..

[A HERETIC I AM]

21. Never accuse someone else of being stupid with a misspelling in the sentence.

As in "Your really stupid"

You fix, I delete!

[pangaia]

26. I Ain't fixin nuthin' Look at mu sig lne.

Knowo need to delet





Gaffe

[A HERETIC I AM]

28. ...

[Brother Buzz]

4. Fake News!

Reports are that Antifa super soldiers are launching an attack from inside hurricane Dorian. All patriots are urged to stay outside along the coast at all times to protect our freedoms, and fire into the hurricane with extreme prejudice

[sheshe2]

6. ...

[Coventina]

12. Thanks for the laugh. I really needed it!!

[Brainfodder]

16. Well said

muhaha!

Fatigued to the political maximum.

I no longer care about these asshats safety since they've put mine in jeopardy with no gtd healthcare bickering for decades with the backing of the obvious losers in what's right.

[durablend]

23. Oh please, stop it.

Everyone knows the Obama Weather Machine is being set up to wreak havoc specifically on Republican districts

[dchill]

24. "Extreme prejudice" is a given.

[RobinA]

41. Figures

What kind of name is Dorian, anyway. Sounds foreign to me. Nobody I know is named Dorian.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

43. Thought to have been invented by Oscar Wilde.

Dorian
Link: https://www.behindthename.com/name/dorian

Gender Masculine
Usage English, French
Pronounced DAWR-ee-ən(English) DAW-RYAHN(French) [key · IPA]
Expand Name Links
Meaning & History
The name was first used by Oscar Wilde in his novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891), which tells the story of a man whose portrait ages while he stays young. Wilde may have taken it from the name of the ancient Greek tribe the Dorians, or from the surname DORAN.

That name had my curiosity too.....

[Pacifist Patriot]

45. Nah, had to be from the Dorian mode in music.

[sheshe2]

5. That they even have to be told.

[smirkymonkey]

7. People are really doing this?

WTF.

[madinmaryland]

8. Well, there are a lot of floriduh men there!

[JohnnyRingo]

9. I hope this is a lame joke.

The science of ballistics do not support this warning. Sure, if someone fired into gale force winds the slugs could end up as debris carried in by the hurricane I suppose, but would be less damaging than a flying lawn chair.

If a bullet leaves a barrel at 2000 fps, or 1600 mph, it's not going to come back at that velocity in a 200 mph storm. Why would someone fire into a hurricane to begin with?

[LuckyCharms]

10. Is it OK to urinate at the hurricane?

[Harker]

15. For you...

[Marcuse]

11. It's stupid to shoot at Dorian. You have to nuke it from orbit. That's only way to be sure.

[haele]

13. Old folklore strikes again.

They used to tell me granny tales weren't beloved anymore, but if you have to warn people that great-grandpappy's practice of shooting at the leading edge of a hurricane, tornado, or thunderstorm to scare off the storm spirits isn't a good idea, well....
Seems there are a lot of people who need to go back to 5th grade earth science class.

Haele

[Mr. Evil]

14. When you have to issue a public service announcement

warning people not to shoot at a hurricane, it really should hit home just what kind of society we have. Currently governed by the dumb. Leading by an example of chaos, bigotry and division benefiting the stupid.

[In It to Win It]

17. LOL... As a Floridian, I'm sorry

[TimeToGo]

18. Kind of hard to find actual source

Anyone have it?

[Duppers]

35. Politicus for one.

Google gives other sources.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/30/shoot-hurricane-dorian.html

[TimeToGo]

38. Oh, no sorry

I was asking for the source, not just people who have made the joke. What's the source showing it coming from the state.

I'm not saying they didn't, I just didn't see it.

I do remember the same joke being mad many times over the years.

And I can't say no idiot hasn't tried it.

[Duppers]

42. Got ya.

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. In 2017, 54,000 signed up for a Facebook "shoot the hurricane" event, so the police put out

a warning - with that many people, you can't take the chance that some idiots would take it for real:

Florida sheriff's office warns people not to shoot at Hurricane Irma

By the time Hurricane Irma started to cross the Keys, more than 54,000 people had signed up for the Facebook event Shoot at Hurricane Irma.

"Let's show Irma that we shoot first," says the description of the event. Florida is a Stand Your Ground state, after all.

The event is obviously a joke, but that's not stopping Pasco County Sheriff's Office from warning the public that it's not a great idea.

"Over 99% of the people out there have common sense and are listening, but we in law enforcement deal with the 1%, so we are trying to get the message to them," explained Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/10/florida-sheriffs-office-warns-people-not-shoot-hurricane-irma/650909001/

[yaesu]

19. luckily the track shows it may be a nothing burger for the US but still impacting the islands. nt

[dameatball]

20. Our ancestors knew that a more effective method was poking it in its eye with a pointy stick.

Sticks were probably much longer then.

[James48]

22. Um... Did anybody tell

The pResident not to nuke it?

[patphil]

25. Don't shoot a hurricane, it will just make it angry, and you won't like it when it's angry.

[RandySF]

27. Is this a joke?

I can't tell anymore.

[ZERTErYNOthe]

29. Not a Joke #StandYourGround

This is not a joke, clearly the guvmint is interfering with our second amendment constitutional right to bear arms and stand our ground. It would be helpful if you could push back against these government overlords, and make it clear that people like Ted Nugent and Wayne Lapierre have admirably served our country and truly understand deep constitutional arguments. Not just academically, but they have truly lived it to the best of their abilities. #NRA #ShootDorian

[Hotler]

30. "Ted Nugent, Wayne Lapierre, admirably, academically"

the stupid only hurts till I have a shot of tequila. Reading that makes me look at my neighbors in a different. Are they one of them and I just don't know it?

[Blue_true]

31. The MAGATS here heard directly from Trump that them all shooting at the

hurricane at the same time would "kill" it.

BTW, the bullets won't come back to the shooter, more likely to strike and maybe kill some innocent person. The velocity even of a relatively spent bullet is much greater that hurricane wind velocity, so the bullet would cut through the wind, with minor perturbations.

[kurtcagle]

34. Not fully true

Remember that when you fire a bullet, the explosive force that propels that bullet occurs over a few fractions of a millisecond, but winds moving at 150 mph are applying a force for potentially several seconds - enough force to knock down walls and pick up cars. If you fired a bullet dead on into the wind, it would lose momentum very quickly. If you fired it close to perpendicular to the storm, the bullet would not lose much kinetic energy but it would curve in a potentially tight arc, and could very well arc back towards you. So, yes, it is possible to shoot yourself in a Cat 5 hurricane.

[Blue_true]

37. Friction slows a bullet and high wind certainly has friction.

But your logic seems both flawed and circular. Flawed in that you assume that the muzzle velocity, which is a number of times faster than. 150 mph wind, will drop to a non lethal value in a distance that people are likely standing at. If a bullet hits nothing, it will lose all momentum to air friction and fall to the ground, but that distance is long, even for small caliber guns. I would not want to be standing 500 feet from a knucklehead that shot a 38 caliber into a hurricane in my direction. Your logic is circular in that you opined that the same wind friction that would extinguish the distance velocity of a bullet would turn that bullet in a distorted u-shape and send that bullet back to strike the shooter with lethal force, both the conditions that you laid out can't exist simultaneously, if friction makes a bullet non lethal at a distance of 500 feet, then the bullet that returns to a shooter can't have a velocity higher than the velocity at the point where the wind bent it back toward the shooter, to get turned, the bullet would have to have an forward velocity of zero and after that can not gain more speed than the maximum gust wind velocity as it went backwards, so if an average 150 mph wind gusts up to 215 mph, the maximum speed of a turned bullet would be 215 mph.

[rockfordfile]

32. Not surprised considering the traitor in the White House would nuke the storm

[Duppers]

36. The whole notion ➕ warning is the most dumbassed,...

ridiculous thing.

If these gators-headed rednecks wanna do it, let 'em. The fact that the state of FL government made this serious announcement is head-shakingly stupid:

"...because the bullets will come back at you." Seriously?!
That's also a HUGE fallacy!!

Hey, Florida, contract any university physics dept., you idiots! All of you.

[ecstatic]

40. Maybe they know but chose to mislead because they know that

the type of person who would shoot at a hurricane wouldn't give 2 shits about a random person dying. So they lied to make the warning more personal.

[ecstatic]

39. These mofos are allowed to carry killing machines

even though they're so f*cking stupid that they have to be warned not to shoot at hurricanes?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

44. Some Floridians will claim Dorian is armed, so Stand Your Ground and shoot.

KY...........

[Mendocino]

47. Don't mess around with Jim

Don't pull on Supermans cape
Don't spit into the wind
Don't shoot a gun into Hurricane Dorian
Because that shot will spin