Cars run over live ammo littered on state highway
PLEASANT HILL, Ore. - Traffic set off rounds of ammunition scattered along Highway 58 on Friday morning, Oregon State Police said.
Police do not know how the hundreds of .22 caliber shells and a box of 30-caliber rifle ammo wound up on the shoulder and roadway of Hwy 58 just a mile east of Interstate 5.
Adjacent businesses reported hearing ammo discharging as motor vehicles ran over the bullets. No one was injured, and no damage was reported.
The Oregon Department of Transportation cleaned up the ammo without incident, police said.
"Cars run over live ammo littered on state highway"
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Gasp! Gee, I hope none of it was injured or killed!! ;-P
I'm just wondering what idiot felt that this would be a super great story to call in and tell KATU about it? Â No life...
Yet another responsible gun owner.
 @browntown Yet another sensationalist-media-fueled knee-jerk gun-tugger.
Sensationalism at its worst!
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Just one more good reason to take KATU's news with a grain of salt.
 @Freedom1267 And their anti gun bias.
Ok... I just do NOT believe that running over 30cal ammo would set it off... .22 being a rimfire, *maybe* but a centerfire shell, I don't think so.
If you just look at facts, there never was any chance of this stuff hurting anyone. SAAMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, a group formed at the request of the federal government in the 1920's) put out a surprisingly thorough torture test of ammunition to let firefighters know facts (not sensationalism) about what happens when you drop, burn, shoot, crush under bulldozer ammo of various sorts. They have posted a professional video documenting their testing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c&feature=youtu.be It's fascinating (and fun).
"No one was injured, and no damage was reported."Â As I would expect. Nice sensational headline designed to terrify people. In fact, driving over ammunition would pose no more danger to anyone than driving over gravel. Many of the rounds would go off, but because the rounds are not contained in a chamber, the gas created by the explosion would dissipate without sending the projectile more than a few feet and at very low velocity.
Very lucky there was no damage or injuries. Somebody has to know it is missing.
 @I812 If sprinkled on the road on purpose?! I do 1 1/2" roofing nails all the time and it never makes Tabloid Journalism...
 @boned  @I812 Are you saying you dump roofing nails on the road?I had four of my tires destroyed when some inbred Deliverance hicks from Oakridge dumped them all over the road to sabatoge a media tour of an old growth arson site. Of course, the police and thus the media blamed it on ecoterrorism.
 @I812 Some drunk yayhoo still hasn't figured it out  that it fell from  the back of his poacher's truck, and is instead all angry that one of his drinkin' buddies "stole it!!"
'Cars run over live ammo littered on state highway'
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LOL, who writes such a headline? and..
What would a headline such as 'Cars run over dead ammo littered on state highway' mean?
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Which begs the next question:
If it ['ammo'] is 'dead', is it still 'ammo'?
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 @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsPhredE It IS a picturesque headline.Â
 @whirledworld That ammo just made a bang and the actual projectile went nowhere, but it makes for spectacular Tabloid Journalism since, "No one was injured, and no damage was reported." Give me 2-3 pounds of 1 1/2" roofing nails sprinkled in the same area if you want to see damage, but that is OK and would never make press...
 @boned I was picturing the drivers and the surrounding pedestrians jumping and freaking out over the bang noises. Ahhhhh...the guilty pleasures of shadenfreude. Â
Sad. Wasted ammunition.
It should be a crime to waste ammunition.
Let's make a new law.
I guess the only way to truely bust this is some one to upload a video when bullets are ran over. So any volunteers?
 @lee986321 ...easier to just swallow your pride...go have a crowsant.
So what KATU?
The real loss here is the .22 ammo, it's sold out everywhere!
Loose ammo is no more dangerous than a firecracker. Without a barrel to contain the pressure and accelerate the bullet, nothing to worry about.
 @HuskyKMA  You need to take the bait offered to you by katu. You're supposed to be simultaneously outraged and terrified of something that would cause no harm to anyone.
"Police do not know how the hundreds of .22 caliber shells and a box of 30-caliber rifle ammo wound up on the shoulder and roadway of Hwy 58 just a mile east of Interstate 5."
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Bounced outta the back of somebody's pickup. Duh. You buy .22LR by the hundreds, and a box of 30-cal usually only holds 20 rounds. The effective range of a shell that's not in a chamber is very limited, and traction and traffic chaos were probably much more dangerous.
 @Playanekes I bet they left it sitting on the bumper.
Dang it, if it weren't for the seriousness of the situation on Where the rounds could go or where they could penetrate, I would call it Amusing..I am so glad no one got shot or killed.
 @lee986321 You never watch Mythbusters, do you? The case is lighter than the bullet so it's the part that goes flying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAK2dDQ-S4Q
 @NGerblansky Not if it is trapped between tires and Mythbusters haven't always been truthful..IE Hydrogen FeulCell..They did a myth buster on that and they forgot to add Electrolyte.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydEkV-E0mP8
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Do you own a gun? and do you Load your rounds?
There is a difference between tossing ammo in a fire and Running the ammo over thus pinching the rounds trapping them under tires ... That would not bode well..
after searching youtube there is no subject on this matter. aside from
Cars are not fire. So the debate is still open. I much rather trust my brother on this one he served in the military and says "Running Over Ammo is really BAD!
 @lee986321  @NGerblansky  "Running the ammo over thus pinching the rounds trapping them under tires ..." No more to be concerned about than a rock being pinched under a tire and thrown out. The headline was simply designed to scare people.
 @lee986321 It's funny, all these weeks of you talking about making your own hydrogen fuel cell to run your car and I just assumed that you knew what a fuel cell was. Trace amounts of hydrogen and quite a bit of water put through your engine does not a fuel cell make. It makes for a damaged engine. Â
 @lee986321 No, that myth was busted by many others. Adding baking soda does not make the water-for gas scam any less of a scam. The scam is NOT a hydrogen fuel cell, they were creating and burning hydrogen in the most ineffective mannor possible. If you are going with a hydrogen fuel cell, don't use the method in the video even with baking soda.
 @lee986321  @NGerblansky Even better than mythbusters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SlOXowwC4c Seriously, ammo that's not contained by a chamber and bolt is not a big deal in the least.
Darn it, I'm having trouble finding ammo to buy and there it is all over the road for the taking.
 @The Resistance Unfortunately, the ammo didn't cause a beer truck to collide with a cigarette delivery van or you'd have had the ATF trifecta.
 @Playanekes  @The Resistance Or game day at my house.
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Don't forget the diesel truck and the fertilizer truck (amfo) to get the E on the end of the BATFE.