Lady hit by falling bullet in Denver.

[DEAGLER]

DENVER -- A Denver woman has an amazing story of survival after being hit by a falling bullet.
Wendy Shaya said she nearly lost her life in the middle of a quiet peaceful afternoon along East 58th Avenue in Green Valley Ranch.
Shaya said, ?I had put a lock back on the house, walking back to my car, when all of a sudden I felt a really sharp pain in my foot and look down it was gushing blood everywhere."
Shaya said her first thoughts were that she?d been hit by a rock or that a vein had ruptured. Instead, doctors at the emergency room at University Hospital showed her an X-ray of her foot with a 9 MM bullet inside.
Shaya says she never heard gunfire and police told her it was a falling bullet that could have been fired from as far as two miles away.
Her sister, Allison Cohen said, ?My immediate thought was she absolutely could?ve died, had been half a second sooner or later. Had a bullet going anywhere different this outcome would be different she wouldn?t be with us."
Shaya is sharing her story with hopes that this doesn?t happen to anybody else. "The biggest thing is that it is illegal to shoot guns in the air and the idea that if you do that, the bullet is still deadly," she said.
Denver police tell us they are investigating the falling bullet and, according to Shaya, are trying to match the bullet with gun involved in any other crimes.

[MrAK]

Growing up in San Antonio Texas, it seemed that every New Year’s Eve the news would broadcast a PSA about “three little kids die every year from people shooting their guns in the air at midnight, please don’t do that”. Seems that every New Year’s Day there’d be a report of another handful of kids dead from falling bullets.

[Irving]

I've pulled bullets out of roofs on occasion.

[kidicarus13]

"Lady hit by falling bullet" and "Green Valley Ranch". ...

[BPTactical]

"Lady hit by falling bullet" and "Green Valley Ranch". ...

This is my surprised face

[fitz19d]

I've had a Denver PD cop talk about problems with some of the hispanic bars in the area are notorious for patrons leaving at night and along the route home having some celebratory gunfire.

[kidicarus13]

I've had a Denver PD cop talk about problems with some of the hispanic bars in the area are notorious for patrons leaving at night and along the route home having some celebratory gunfire.

in the middle of a quiet peaceful afternoon along East 58th Avenue in Green Valley Ranch

[packratt75]

At an office building about half city block in size located next to government supplied housing in New Orleans, I recovered a handful of bullets, mostly handgun, from the roof after New Years.

[BPTactical]

At an office building about half city block in size located next to government supplied housing in New Orleans, I recovered a handful of bullets, mostly handgun, from the roof after New Years.

Username checks out

[Colorado Osprey]

" A bullet fired straight up, with no wind, might reach a height of 10,000 feet (about three kilometers), but will come back down at only around 150 miles per hour: just 10% of the speed and with only 1% of the energy as the originally fired bullet." --- https://www.forbes.com/sites/startsw.../#6c821cbc3d22

That mean a 9mm fired into the air that has a muzzle energy of 350-400 ft/lbs would only be 3.5 to 4 ft lbs of energy. Less energy than someone dropping a soda on your foot from waist high.
Another analogy.. an underhand light toss of a baseball has 3.4-4 ft lbs of energy... one that you would not need a baseball mitt to catch.
Yes now put that on something with a smaller surface down to .356" diameter with a blunt tip and you have the penetrating capability of penetrating soft tissue between 1/2 to an 1". Any human bone would stop that bullet without penetration. Probably would not even break a finger bone.

This lady is a little far fetched to believe she almost died.