Chinese Shooting in Phnom Penh Street at Dawn

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More chance of dying slipping in the shower, road accident or any other random accident than a stray bullet hitting and killing you.
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That Rick O'Shea chap used to cop the blame for random shooting miss-haps quite regularly in the past.
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mannanman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 5:21 pm More chance of dying slipping in the shower, road accident or any other random accident than a stray bullet hitting and killing you.
True.
Not very reassuring to be honest.
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Big Daikon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:12 pm
mannanman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 5:21 pm More chance of dying slipping in the shower, road accident or any other random accident than a stray bullet hitting and killing you.
True.
Not very reassuring to be honest.

Very reassuring to the person that is hit a by a stray bullet.
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Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:26 pm
Big Daikon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:12 pm
mannanman wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 5:21 pm More chance of dying slipping in the shower, road accident or any other random accident than a stray bullet hitting and killing you.
True.
Not very reassuring to be honest.

Very reassuring to the person that is hit a by a stray bullet.
Slipping in the shower would make me feel like an idiot. Getting randomly shot is not really one's fault. Still would suck.
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The shootings may have increased of late with the Chinese being new gun carrier's. But not let us forget there had been plenty of Khmer shootings over the years.
It was not long ago when I saw a bullet being removed from a victims lung, many of the incidents don't make the news.
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Albror wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:47 pm
Why would this cause any concern for you about random gunmen? It was two groups of chineese that had a dispute if you missed it so not just a random shooting.
The bullets that missed the target had to hit something, right?
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:03 pm
Freightdog wrote:Fired (more than) ten shots, and the victim was seriously injured.
How many shots found their mark, and how many went wide? Or exaggeration?
Anybody used to shooting handguns knows that's quite possible. Even when you're trained it's fairly difficult to hit a moving target that's more than 30m away, so with a stressed, untrained henchman wielding the weapon, your odds of success diminish tremendously. Possibly on meth too... Not at all like in the movies.
True. Also some people get shot loads of times and don't die, other people are unlucky and die quickly from a pellet. :shock:
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Anybody used to shooting handguns knows that's quite possible. Even when you're trained it's fairly difficult to hit a moving target that's more than 30m away, so with a stressed, untrained henchman wielding the weapon, your odds of success diminish tremendously. Possibly on meth too... Not at all like in the movies.

Hitting a moving target at 10 meters with a handgun would be difficult.
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Anyone saying that nobody should be worried needs to search Khmer news and even this site or TOF for "ricochet" :-)
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