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NYE 2013: Celebrate by Raising a Glass, Not a Gun
New Year's Eve brings out an odd Southern tradition: Celebratory gunfire.
At first I thought I was dreaming. But drip, drip, drip of rainwater hit my forehead with enough regularity to wake me up from my sleep. So I stared at the ceiling, grumbled, got the bucket and pushed the bed out of the way. The roofer who came to fix the leak a few days later put a small piece of metal in my hand that he extracted from the roof and explained it was the genesis of what had become a fairly sizable hole. "What is it," I asked him. "It's a bullet," he answered with a look that suggested he thought I was some sort of bumpkin for not knowing. "Well, how did it get up there," I asked. "New Year's probably. People shoot their guns for New Year's Eve to ring in the new year." Funny, up until then, I only saw people in the Middle …
Carol
11:42 am on Monday, May 21, 2012
I am hearing gun shots almost every night, I called the police around 1 am last night, more ›