I'm not making this up

One of Mobile's finest traditions is to shoot your gun in the air to celebrate the New Year. In that vein, may I present to you, the first amazing story from the Mobile Press Register for 2008:

Stray bullet strikes woman

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

By GEORGE R. ALTMAN

Staff Reporter

A woman inside a Prichard church was shot in the side of her face shortly after midnight on Tuesday, police said, apparently as a result of New Year's gunfire.

The woman, whom police did not name, was hit by a bullet that entered through the sanctuary roof at the Showers of Blessings Church of God in Christ, according to Prichard police Maj. Marvin Whitfield.

Yeah, it doesn't get much more poetic than that.