Comments on: For Real? http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:58:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Anne http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/#comment-138965 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:59:43 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/#comment-138965 Lileks could make me believe anything, but I think this was simply a fantasy he had -- and that we all share. Got to go practice with my dart gun now..... Lileks could make me believe anything, but I think this was simply a fantasy he had — and that we all share.

Got to go practice with my dart gun now…..

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/#comment-138834 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:30:24 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/#comment-138834 Yeah, you must be right. Eah, I tend to be credulous. I try to avoid getting into downright gullible territory, but ... eah. Yeah, you must be right. Eah, I tend to be credulous. I try to avoid getting into downright gullible territory, but … eah.

]]> by: Bill http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/#comment-138829 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:18:13 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/24/for-real/#comment-138829 I've not read the source you've linked but, I have some experience with tires going flat from projectiles into their sidewalls. They don't "POP", they just "Hissss" Also, it takes a fairly goodly amount of energy to puncture a modern auto tire even in the sidewall. Much more energy than can be provided by any blow gun I am familiar with. And then as far as how powerful a blow gun could be if it were a "long thin bamboo tube" that could be whipped out of some discrete location, not by half! And how would the blow gun sniper manage to hit three tires from one side of the vehicle? All *after* they drove by hurling insults!?!? Followed by the youths pushing instead of driving the vehicle. Why? Because a car with flats makes the motor not work? All in all, not very likely. Not even very possible. I’ve not read the source you’ve linked but, I have some experience with tires going flat from projectiles into their sidewalls. They don’t “POP”, they just “Hissss”

Also, it takes a fairly goodly amount of energy to puncture a modern auto tire even in the sidewall. Much more energy than can be provided by any blow gun I am familiar with. And then as far as how powerful a blow gun could be if it were a “long thin bamboo tube” that could be whipped out of some discrete location, not by half!

And how would the blow gun sniper manage to hit three tires from one side of the vehicle? All *after* they drove by hurling insults!?!?

Followed by the youths pushing instead of driving the vehicle. Why? Because a car with flats makes the motor not work?

All in all, not very likely. Not even very possible.

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