COPS SAY DON'T USE GUNS TO CELEBRATE.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer Although every year local law enforcement send out warnings about the dangers of shooting guns in the air at the stroke of midnight, the bulletin has taken on an urgency with the coming of the new millennium, authorities said Wednesday. "Everybody is gearing up for the party of the century," said Ventura Police Sgt. Skip Young For the Sweet Brown Sugar who competed in the Memphis-area during 1982-83, see . Skip Young, also known as the masked Sweet Brown Sugar, is an American professional wrestler who competed on the Southeastern regional promotions during the late 1970s and . "We're concerned that it might get carried away this year." The Ventura Police Department, which recently sent out a bulletin, said though it does not have statistics on injuries in the past, each year gunfire pierces the night air right after the calendar changes. As a result, the department - which has dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. its campaign "What Goes Up, Must Come Down" - will have extra patrols on the streets Friday and will make arrests. When a bullet is fired into the air, it reaches a velocity between 300 and 700 feet per second as it comes down. Further, a bullet velocity of 200 feet per second is enough to penetrate the human skull In humans, the adult skull is normally made up of 22 bones. Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, synarthrodial (immovable) joints formed by bony ossification, with Sharpey's fibres permitting some flexibility. , authorities said. Authorities said during the years 1985 and 1992, the city of Los Angeles
"Not only is it dangerous, it's illegal, and if we catch you we'll arrest you," said Ventura County Sheriff spokesman Eric Nishimoto. "The bullets come down as fast as they go up. It's comparable to someone pointing a gun at you and shooting." Deputy Norm Campbell of the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff Station said the area it patrols - the unincorporated Adj. 1. unincorporated - not organized and maintained as a legal corporation unorganised, unorganized - not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government" Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County area and the cities of Hidden Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills and Malibu - do not historically have problems with guns being shot. However, he said no area is really safe from the practice, and the station will have extra patrols out on New Year's Eve to make sure those celebrating the millennium don't get out of hand. "All the hype hype 1 Slang n. 1. Excessive publicity and the ensuing commotion: the hype surrounding the murder trial. 2. has been blown so out of proportion that everyone seems to be going the other way," he said. "But we're still trying to get the word out, get posters in businesses. We want to let people know we don't put up with it. "There's no warnings, no, `Sorry, we didn't mean it,"' he added. "It's serious business. You go to jail." |
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