Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"Malcolm Hoar" wrote in message
Those videos depict exactly what I would expect. It looks
a much smaller piece of wood and it travelled just a few
feet.

The OP's scenario involved what I think was a much larger
piece of wood. And the distance involved was hugely greater.

Yes, it was larger in length, but narrow, like a spear. I could not find
the photo, but I've seen pieces even thicker through garage doors. 108 mph
is pretty fast for a spear.

The "unusualness" here is the apparent distance and the length of the
piece. While narrow, as I've mentioned earlier, it isn't symmetric nor
balanced like a spear or a rocket making _keeping_ it going once it got
started quite a trick. The entrance velocity being sufficient after the
traveled distance is a neat trick. Would need to see the whole area in
context to have any chance at all of figuring out what actually
happened. It's never been amplified that I'm aware, but I'd kinda' lean
towards the scenario being the work was going on at second floor or eave
height so it was actually falling most of the way after launch even
though above grade where it fell. But that's purely conjecture. Try
even through a piece of moulding like that as a javelin -- it isn't real
easy to keep it from going sideways and then air resistance knocks it
down very quickly. I still wonder if the whole thing isn't faked/hoax,
frankly, even though the OP claims not...

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