Woman hit by New Year's celebratory gunfire at Busch Gardens Tampa

It was probably a NASCAR fan.

Nah, I think this one was from the One-Niners....oh wait...wrong coast.

Celebratory gunfire? Your country mystifies me sometimes.

The firing of guns into the air on New Years Eve was completely foreign to me until I moved to San Diego. Apparently it's a tradition that came from south of the border. Drives the local law enforcement crazy. It's not unusual for them to have several of these calls on NYE here.

Rick_UK said:

Celebratory gunfire? Your country mystifies me sometimes.

Mystifies quite a large percentage of US, too...

Certainly mystifies me. "I'll shoot this small projectile into the air so that it can plummet to Earth somewhere." How is that fun? What's the point?

I watched an episode of "CSI:" years ago where someone shot a bullet into the air and it came down and killed someone.

Quite frankly, I'm mystified as to why anyone wouldn't want to wildly shoot a gun into the air.

I'm a little disappointed that the practice is reserved for celebratory purposes.

Me too! Sounds like noisy, home-spun fun!

Truthfully, here in south-end Columbus, New Years is a good night to find a room deep in the middle of the house and stay there. Fourth of July too, for that matter.

Sorry for getting all Piers Morgan on your arses

Speak American! ;)

Spoken like a true NASCAR fan.

Seeing how I was at the park earlier that day, and having seen what the surrounding neighborhood looks like these days.

I doubt it was a NASCAR fan in that neighborHOOD.