There's a guy in a bar staring at his drink when ....

[kentuck]

http://www.gazette.com/articles/guy-91739-bar-heard.html

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Have you heard the one where the meteorite comes through the ceiling and nearly hits a guy sitting at the bar?

Neither had the patrons of the Red Rock Lounge on the west side until Wednesday night, when they heard a huge boom around 11:30 p.m. and a 4-inch hole opened up in the roof.

“They thought they were being attacked,” said Karol Sandvig, owner of the bar at 31st Street and West Colorado Avenue. She said there were about 15 to 20 people in the bar when the ceiling exploded, sending insulation wafting through the air.

Five days after the incident, Sandvig and firefighters still aren’t sure what caused the hole in the bar’s roof, but a meteorite hunter from Arizona drove through the night to spend Monday searching above the bar’s ceiling tiles for a piece of space rock. He hoped it had bounced off of a heating vent and was hiding somewhere in the ceiling.

“If you look at that hole, it shows that something small hit the roof at a high velocity,” said Robert W. Ward, who travels the world to find, collect and sell meteorites. “The most logical explanation would be a meteorite.”

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[Orsino]

1. Sounds like a warning from God to quit drinking...

...or to start. :shrug:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. airliner toilet ejection...

still frozen on impact :-)

sP

[midnight]

3. I'm not a weapons expert, but doesn't that look like a bullet hole?

[Cleita]

6. Seems like the most plausible explanation. n/t

[Lance_Boyle]

7. In a vertical surface, maybe. Not on a near-horizontal surface.

Unless maybe a round was shot downward from a plane or helicopter. Or upward from inside the bar.

[Historic NY]

4. frozen potato cannon.

[Iggo]

5. God to Patron: Quit staring at it. Drink it!!!

[davsand]

8. We saw meteorite on New Year's Eve.

We'd been out to eat dinner and were on the way home in the car. Eastern sky, sometime around 9PM Central time. Very bright, fairly big, and pretty high up. We both saw it and commented on it.

Before you joke about it, we'd each had one glass of wine and a shot of DiSaronno with coffee after dinner. We were not exactly drunk...



Laura