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Bullet in Snow: Childhood Shootout

Key Points

  • As a 12‑year‑old fascinated by abandoned burned‑out sports cars, the narrator sneaks onto a track where a distant pickup truck approaches before a series of gunshots erupts.
  • The narrator is hit in the leg by a .22 caliber bullet, describing the wound as a warm “hot pocket” that quickly turns into a painful puncture, leaving the bullet lodged rather than exiting.
  • In the chaos, the narrator’s friends panic, flee over a fence, and abandon him while he struggles to stay upright despite the sudden loss of feeling and intense adrenaline.
  • He eventually manages to hop over the fence, rides his bike to a hospital for treatment, and vows revenge, though the promised retaliation never materializes.

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# Bullet in Snow: Childhood Shootout **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfVjdZlvWQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfVjdZlvWQ) **Duration:** 00:21:48 ## Summary - As a 12‑year‑old fascinated by abandoned burned‑out sports cars, the narrator sneaks onto a track where a distant pickup truck approaches before a series of gunshots erupts. - The narrator is hit in the leg by a .22 caliber bullet, describing the wound as a warm “hot pocket” that quickly turns into a painful puncture, leaving the bullet lodged rather than exiting. - In the chaos, the narrator’s friends panic, flee over a fence, and abandon him while he struggles to stay upright despite the sudden loss of feeling and intense adrenaline. - He eventually manages to hop over the fence, rides his bike to a hospital for treatment, and vows revenge, though the promised retaliation never materializes. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfVjdZlvWQ&t=0s) **Childhood Gunfire Near Burned Cars** - A 12‑year‑old narrates a 1991 incident wandering among abandoned, burned sports cars, hearing gunshots, fleeing a nearby pickup truck, and describing the bullet wound on his leg as feeling like a “hot pocket.” ## Full Transcript
0:15thank you 0:251991 it's like Snowy out there used to 0:28be a bunch of burned up 0:31sports cars out here and things like 0:33that and so me as a 12 year old was just 0:35obsessed with that and so I decided to 0:36ride down the tracks this way so we see 0:38a pickup truck in the distance and it 0:41come comes closer and we're just like ah 0:44I don't know who this is you know we're 0:45probably we're not supposed to be back 0:46here anyway and then all of a sudden pop 0:48pop we hear these pops and so I start 0:51running that way my group of friends 0:52start running that way and you keep 0:55hearing these pops where were you 0:57exactly when the shots rung out do you 0:59know like right a little bit right over 1:01here how far away is the truck 35 like 1:05probably half of a block we ran this way 1:07and 1:09uh it this is a lot more treacherous at 1:12the time there's like a lot these plants 1:14weren't quite as high there's a lot of 1:16garbage everywhere you're constantly 1:17running where are the cars exactly all 1:20over the place like it almost seemed 1:21like people would like burn up a car and 1:23leave it here as an insurance scam or 1:25something the scar is like a slice and 1:27then you could see the actual Bullet 1:28Hole so like slice the skin a little bit 1:30and then win in it was a 22 felt like a 1:33Hot Pocket was just on my on my leg and 1:37was it because hot pockets are somewhat 1:39large compared to a bullet hole did it 1:41really like did the heat like cover that 1:44much of your leg Yeah Yeah it literally 1:46felt like my leg was just warm and I was 1:48just running and you know and this is 1:50like one of those things where like this 1:51probably took a total of 10 seconds but 1:53like in my head it's like this 10 minute 1:55long like thing where I'm like my leg is 1:58starting to get warm actually it's 2:00uncomfortably warm wow it's hot now oh 2:03it feels like a cigar is poking into my 2:06leg and by the time I reached in it just 2:08went perfectly through the hole in like 2:11my snow pants and into the Bullet Hole 2:14like my finger just went right in there 2:16and then you know it took a minute to 2:19realize what was happening like I was 2:20like I have a bullet in my leg and then 2:23immediately my body just gives out I 2:25fall on the ground you scream into the 2:27snow what do your friends do they're 2:29just won't Escape gone they go over that 2:31fence the the bikes are on the opposite 2:33side of the fence at the time I was I 2:35was upset that they had left but I 2:36completely understand when children run 2:38away from another child that had just 2:40been shot and then I managed to hop over 2:42the fence in like you know in a shaking 2:44panic and then by the time I got on my 2:47bike I was angry the adrenaline gland 2:49just kicked in I didn't feel anything I 2:51don't think I felt anything I kind of 2:53didn't care as much I was just like ah 2:57I'm going to go to the hospital I'm 2:59gonna get this sewn up and then I'm 3:01going to get them back you know which 3:03never happened but the bullet was in 3:05there so it wasn't through and through 3:06yeah they pulled the vote out 3:10a few weeks ago a story dominated my 3:12news feed researchers at University of 3:15Chicago have used AI to repeatedly and 3:18reliably predict crime with a 90 3:20accuracy within a range of about a 3:23thousand feet 3:24now I know that headlines like this 3:26typically contain hyperbole but this 3:28paper actually checks out I felt like my 3:30particular journey and perspective might 3:32be good at helping my viewers make sense 3:34of all this or so I hoped 3:37to a lot of people AI prediction seems 3:39pretty scary but it's virtually 3:40everywhere and chances are that if you 3:43woke up tomorrow and it was gone you'd 3:45probably be annoyed by the inconvenience 3:47for example some of you might pick up 3:48your phone and open up your app menu 3:50around dinner time and notice that Uber 3:52Eats is in your recommended apps smart 3:53thermostats can look at weather data and 3:55learn from our behaviors and predict 3:57what temperatures will make us 3:58comfortable throughout the day while 3:59increasing Energy Efficiency and oddly 4:02nobody seems creeped out that Google 4:04literally finishes our sentences when we 4:06search something what might surprise you 4:08is that AI crime prediction is actually 4:09nothing new in fact it's been pretty 4:12problematic in the past AI bias is not 4:15all that different than human bias as 4:17I'm sure you already know in a lot of 4:19cities lower income areas are often 4:21coupled with higher crime rates and if 4:24an algorithm tells a police officer to 4:25go to a specific neighborhood with a 4:27heightened expectation of finding crime 4:29guess what happens they find crime but 4:32they find crime disproportionately 4:34someone might be abusing their spouse in 4:36public in a rich name neighborhood while 4:38all the police are spending their time 4:39finding people for broken tail lights in 4:42a poor neighborhood it's just bias 4:44policing with a much higher price tag 4:46what makes this particular algorithm 4:47different is that it attempts to avoid 4:49this bias by creating a model with much 4:51smaller tiles that can avoid traditional 4:53or political boundaries which might make 4:56things a bit less generalized and 4:58therefore less prone to bias full 5:00transparency I'm not yet sold on it 5:03which is why I wanted to meet some of 5:04the algorithms Architects to try and 5:06understand it better 5:09foreign 5:15[Music] 5:20[ __ ] I hope the jack-booted thugs to 5:23which you're providing this crime 5:25forecast AI never turn it on anyone you 5:28hold dear you're quite simply a vile 5:32oppression-enabling worm this person has 5:35good grammar let's put it that way for 5:37what for like the lunacy of what they're 5:39saying it is it's kind of a haiku of 5:41vileness 5:42[Music] 5:47in a perfect world like where would this 5:50end up Prime data is kind of complicated 5:53because you you're never measuring the 5:55crime itself it's like through polish uh 5:58response you're measuring that reported 6:00crime so there's always that factor that 6:02you're not really looking at actual 6:03crime all these things like people 6:05having the confidence of people and 6:06calling the authorities all that factors 6:09in so ideally maybe we can go to words 6:12where we can actually get and handle of 6:15what the actual Dynamics is and help 6:18people optimize what kind of 6:20interventions decisions needs to be 6:21taken to reduce crime the ultimate way 6:25to predict a crime is to just talk to 6:29people who might commit those crimes are 6:31you angry are you in a gang are you are 6:33do you have some sort of 6:35reason to commit this crime do you have 6:37access to a weapon do you have a weapon 6:39you know things like that to be absurd 6:41you know the ultimate way to predict 6:43crime is to produce crime yeah um which 6:46is which is you know like uh to commit 6:49crime and I think what's interesting 6:52about that and non-trivial is this has 6:54been uh you know one aspect of criticism 6:57about crime enforcement you know in 6:59general like we can make crime very 7:01predictable by squeezing it into certain 7:04parts of the city sure to certain 7:06sub-populations into certain regions and 7:09they're not entirely wrong as we show 7:12basically from our analysis so no 7:14criminal records essentially it's all 7:16really public data all the cities that 7:18we have looked at it's all public data 7:20when I look at this whole this whole 7:22situation the salesman is the problem 7:24are you worried is there is there any 7:27possibility that for-profit company 7:28would try to sell this to a community 7:30and then you would have you know 7:33somebody a cop seeing it as probable 7:34cause we were using this to basically 7:37identify biased enforcement and this 7:41substantial biased enforcement I mean 7:42this is you know how you know I'm not 7:45saying how it is that they allocate how 7:47they're thinking about allocating police 7:48officers but systematically when crime 7:51goes up then they draw them to high 7:53resource areas you know and so I think 7:56our our hope you know how is it this 7:59could be used in many ways it could be 8:00used but our hope is that 8:02um we can basically build 8:04um or begin to build a base where people 8:06who are you know citizens or surveilling 8:10I mean this you know public data 8:11resources allow us to surveil the 8:14surveillance you know in ways that allow 8:16us to hold them accountable in ways that 8:18were previously impossible if you had 8:20one message for just a general media 8:24writer who wants the click bait of uh 90 8:28crime prediction Minority Report Etc 8:31what would you tell what do you want to 8:32so recently I mean uh maybe in the last 8:35couple of weeks or two or three weeks a 8:37few articles have come out which are 8:39kind of 8:40framing this as some kind of conspiracy 8:42theory like they are pushing this so 8:46that they can they can get more control 8:47and they're rolling this out I mean who 8:50are they 8:51it's us oh my gosh the day you're the 8:56man no no there is no conspiracy going 8:59on I mean does the academic world 9:01doesn't work like that even the funding 9:02World in general doesn't work like that 9:04uh yeah there are concerns of this kind 9:08of Predictive Technologies we have to be 9:10aware of being used incorrectly or 9:13wrongly and that's that's a measurement 9:14concern but getting off the rails and 9:17kind of going into this conspiracy how 9:19are people reading our minds the 9:20University of Chicago is ironically a 9:2315-minute drive from some of the 9:24neighborhoods suffering the worst from 9:26violent crime and just south of 9:28Englewood less than three miles from 9:30where I was shot is Saint Sabina a 9:32Catholic parish led by Pastor Michael 9:34Flagger and Michael is not at all what 9:37you would expect from a Catholic priest 9:43foreign 9:45we don't take cars Away by putting 9:47titles on them why can't we do that with 9:49guns and every gun in America so if 9:51somebody who's buying 200 guns selling 9:53them on the streets if they can't 9:54transfer those titles and they're going 9:56to be held responsible for the guns that 9:58they sell 10:05service growing up was in Latin so it 10:07was like being always nice 10:10I reached out to pastor flager and he 10:13put me in touch with purpose over pain a 10:15non-profit founded by a group of parents 10:17who lost their children to gun violence 10:19they predict violent crime in their own 10:21way they talk to people they talk to 10:24gang members and find out what they're 10:25angry about they find out if they have 10:27access to Firearms they do their best to 10:29offer help to people in need whether it 10:31be crisis counseling or access to Mental 10:33Health Care their organization is a role 10:35model of what effective community 10:37policing should be you know they get 10:39paid to do different researches on on 10:41our community 10:43and uh then they always come in and be 10:45like we'll give you 50 of this and that 10:46we never hear the outcome but but then I 10:48say I'm you know for my young people my 10:51young kids I'm not letting them do it 10:52anymore because not for like they 10:53exhibit you know so and then you know so 10:56I I don't know I just I just I you know 10:58it's a little frustrating with that yeah 11:00people just researching just research 11:02then you go these these events and 11:05that's how you see is numbers but we 11:07seeing when we talk to people we seeing 11:09people like our kids that's buried in 11:11the ground so I'm like I don't need a 11:13number yeah I need some type of plan and 11:15I'm not knocking anything we need 11:17something done to to make this stop but 11:21um you can't just keep giving me data I 11:24mean you gotta you got to show me some 11:26action we down on the grounds we working 11:27every day we're in and out these 11:29communities 11:30um doing a lot and and we're on the 11:32grounds working so yeah and people in 11:34these communities don't want to hear 11:36numbers they want to see action since I 11:38moved to Georgia one thing that I 11:39consistently hear is people saying oh 11:41well isn't it funny that Chicago has the 11:44strictest gun laws yet has the highest 11:46you know and my thinking tomorrow I'm 11:51going to go across the border and try 11:52and buy a gun in Indiana to see how hard 11:54it is how do you think that's going to 11:56go it's going to go easy 11:58um not only that you don't even have to 12:00go to Indiana you can go to outside of 12:03Chicago just to Riverdale really so 12:05Riverdale to checks we have strict laws 12:07in the city of Chicago but you can go a 12:10couple blocks over and you can get the 12:12guns one gun Bill we asked for was one 12:15gun a month 12:16um 12:17that wasn't even that was a common sense 12:20why would you need 12 I need 12 guns 12:23even from a collector right so then if 12:25my household me and my husband want to 12:27buy one that's 24 guns that's two guns a 12:29month it's illegal guns that's flooding 12:31our community so you have more guns than 12:32you have books people say well illegal 12:34guns you know that has nothing to do 12:35with us because we own legal guns and 12:37it's like well they were all legal at 12:39one point it's not like people are 12:41building guns in their garages if you 12:43had the power to to make this decision 12:46would you rather see an increased or 12:48decreased police presence 12:50decrease yeah to some of my viewers 12:53there's narrative missing here I imagine 12:55a lot of people don't understand the 12:57logic of Crime Victims wishing they'd 12:59have less police that's because most 13:01statistics about the effectiveness of 13:03policing come from police in fact the 13:05most broad independent study on this 13:07will tell you that it takes an average 13:09of 17 full-time police officers to 13:11reduce the average City's homicide rate 13:13by one a tiny fraction of that money can 13:16save more lives by simply increasing the 13:18capacity of a shelter or funding a 13:19rehabilitation program if you don't feel 13:21like reading exhaustive sociology 13:23studies then you could just use common 13:24sense if police spending directly 13:27decreased crime then America would be 13:30the safest country in the world not a 13:32spectacle of out of control gun violence 13:34a great example of why these 13:36neighborhoods are at odds with police 13:37can be exhibited in the first 13:39documentary style YouTube video I ever 13:41made long before I started this 13:43particular Channel it was initially a 13:45video to help a small charity on my 13:47block raise money so they could continue 13:48giving children something to do and keep 13:50them away from gangs and off the streets 13:52that evening while editing the video the 13:54Chicago Police broke into their building 13:56and stole all of the money that they had 13:58raised on their street sale oh oh I know 14:00this sounds [ __ ] insane but luckily I 14:04was able to leave my camera recording 14:05long enough so that the cops could 14:07incriminate themselves 14:14turn this thing off man 14:16okay I'm leaving not that it made any 14:18difference or was even out of the 14:19ordinary but now you might understand 14:21why a lot of people in South Chicago 14:23want less police it occurred to me that 14:25it's probably very easy to blame a 14:27disconnect between researchers and 14:28victims on the researchers because of 14:30their privilege but it's an important 14:33reminder that shanu and James are not 14:35Community organizers they're not paid to 14:37reduce gun violence they're scientists 14:39who are excellent at Gathering and 14:41finding new purposes and data and one of 14:43their data sets happens to be violent 14:45crime and it appears like they're 14:47trailblazing and leading this area of 14:49Technology they've created an incredibly 14:52scalable tool it's just not up to them 14:54how it's used the researchers 14:56unilaterally want this to be open data 14:58and Pamela repeatedly mentioned that her 15:00community is exhaustively part of other 15:02types of sociological research but none 15:04of the researchers ever shared their 15:06data with those equipped to make use of 15:07it that's difficult to hear and also not 15:10surprising reducing people to numbers 15:12that become packaged as intellectual 15:14property is incred incredibly 15:16dehumanizing and it's unfortunately how 15:19a lot of psychological sociological and 15:22economic research exists but again 15:24literally every single person in this 15:26video wants this research to end up as 15:29open data it's still unclear to me how 15:31one can make that happen though another 15:33thing that was unclear to me was 15:34Indiana's gun laws some sources said 15:36that I could buy anything that I wanted 15:38others said that I couldn't buy a 15:41handgun living out of state I decided to 15:43just stay a little bit longer and find 15:45out 15:53[Music] 16:06wow we 16:07all right so quick rundown of what I did 16:09back there I picked out like the 16:11cheapest handgun that they had and then 16:13passed a background check using my 16:16passport card not my driver's license so 16:19it didn't have my address on it but I 16:21assumed that they were able to verify 16:22that through the background check 16:24because I did have to enter my address 16:26on the computer when doing the 16:27background check but I really don't want 16:29a handgun and I don't want to pay money 16:31to put another one on the streets so I 16:34changed my mind and I looked at the 16:36assault rifles I asked if there was a 16:38MAG limit there is not so I could have 16:39gotten a nice semi-automatic assault 16:43rifle with a scope and a laser and an 16:46extended mag with absolutely no 16:49restrictions I could have showed them an 16:50Illinois driver's license saying that I 16:52live just down the road on the south 16:55side of Chicago and they would have sold 16:57me that assault rifle with the extended 16:58mag so I chose a pretty classic looking 17:00Cowboy rifle that shoots the same 17:03caliber bullet that entered my leg when 17:05I was 12 years old 17:07it's a nice ending right with open data 17:11being such a driving narrative here the 17:13last time Chicago published a gun Trace 17:15report was 2017 and sure enough even 17:17then the exact Cabela's I visited was 17:20directly supplying guns used in violent 17:23crimes in Chicago not that I needed a 17:26report to tell me this since half of the 17:28cars in the parking lot had Illinois 17:29plates in fact in the very brief time I 17:32was there to buy a gun I saw people 17:35video chatting with their phone to 17:37select a handgun before making the 17:38purchase Cabela's has actually been sued 17:40for their lack of vigilance regarding 17:42the few existing gun laws they do have 17:44to follow so you'd think at the very 17:46least they'd have a no literally using 17:48FaceTime to be a surrogate for someone 17:50who can't own a gun policy but hey you 17:53would also think that a gun a month per 17:55individual would be a completely 17:58acceptable limit you'd think that 18:00magazine sizes mirroring what our Armed 18:03Forces typically use would be a 18:05no-brainer but no instead you have 18:07irrefutable data showing that just a 18:09dozen stores in the Chicagoland area are 18:12supplying Chicago with thousands upon 18:15thousands of illegally obtained guns in 18:18the last decade there have been over 12 18:21000 crime guns recovered in Chicago in 18:242021 alone so there's actually an 18:26incredibly simple solution to this 18:28horrific problem it's just that nobody 18:30who has the power to enact it gives a 18:32[ __ ] I say this because last year more 18:35children were victims of gun violence in 18:37Chicago then died of covid in all of 18:41America in fact as an example of proving 18:44how little of a [ __ ] is given I tried to 18:46find out how many children were shot in 18:48Chicago in the period of time that Gabby 18:50Patito and Brian laundry were dominating 18:53the media last year the number of 18:55children murdered by guns in Chicago in 18:58that brief two-month period 19:0123 19:02the total number of gun deaths in 19:05Chicago last year in 2021 is 19:10854. there are a lot of complex problems 19:13in Chicago but the most obvious and 19:15glaring one is that children are heavily 19:18armed in killing one another to the 19:19point where we are reducing them to a 19:22constantly growing number of dead bodies 19:25and we know exactly where their guns are 19:27coming from and we know exactly who is 19:28profiting from it the puzzle has been 19:31solved decades ago so you tell me what 19:34the [ __ ] is the point of broadly 19:36predicting crime when nobody in our 19:38federal government will do anything to 19:40stop it 19:43well as depressing as it is to have a 19:46solution that we have to avoid because 19:49some politicians require the votes of 19:52irresponsible gun owners 19:54there might be something we could do so 19:56let's just say this video inspires 19:57somebody who can pull some strings in 19:59the University of Chicago gets that 20:01crime prediction algorithm running again 20:02and maybe even tweaks it to have more 20:05localized clusters and instead of trying 20:07to get law enforcement to pay attention 20:09we could give this stream of data to 20:11Michael Flagger or purpose over pain as 20:14they can look at one of these squares 20:16and likely know what gang or even 20:18individuals are there after all they're 20:20already out there on the street doing 20:22this and a heat map might be able to 20:24just provide them with a hint to where 20:26they could better provide de-escalation 20:28services and if that worked even just a 20:31little bit you would be creating hard 20:33evidence that tax dollars can go much 20:35farther working with communities than 20:37they can by simply hiring more police so 20:40what do you say a person who's in charge 20:42of an endowment fund you get to be a 20:45hero if you're one of my subscribers or 20:47my returning viewers I apologize for 20:49just throwing some emotionally 20:52exhausting content in your face but 20:55sure you could probably agree that it's 20:56for good reason since this dips its toes 20:59in a political issue part of me thinks 21:00that the comment section might be a 21:02dumpster fire if you say anything 21:04disrespectful about any of the people in 21:06the video you're gonna get blocked from 21:08engaging with my channel of course I 21:09imagine that I'll be losing some viewers 21:11or Subs it is what it is it doesn't make 21:13anything in this 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