Ka-Boom

Every once in a while my youngest brother would spend the night in the living room on the couch. He was watching television and fell asleep.

In the morning he would wake up and go about his day. My brother was around 10 years old at the time.

One morning he overslept. Mom went in to wake him.

She noticed a hole in the storm window above the couch. It had not been there before.  The window itself was not damaged.

Looking further Mom found a bullet between the windows. It was simply lying on the sill. 

There was an empty apartment building across the street and down the block a ways.  It seemed that the bullet came from there.

Someone was probably playing with a gun. They fired it into the empty outside not thinking it would travel for a distance.   

Luckily a bullet decelerates over a distance. By the time it reached the window of my parents' home it did not have enough speed to enter both panes of glass.

My brother was so fortunate. He could have been seriously hurt.

After that Mom made sure he slept in his bed in his room.