okay we've got a
solid core door a solid wood door with
two panels similar but not exactly the
same as oscar's bathroom or toilet door
and here we have a cricket bat
and we're going to see what kind of
noise we can make
by striking this against the door of
course there's several ways to strike a
door i mean one way is baseball style
this way
another way is
sort of hatchet style this way or
sideways that way
and then another way would be
like this if you're trying to push
through the door
how was actually used in the incident we
don't know
but i want to see what kind of noise we
make because i'm recording here
but i'm also recording down there which
you'll see in a minute
which is about 180 meters from here with
the recording device to see what kind of
sound is projected down there where some
of the witnesses were
so first i'll try just the baseball slap
method and see what kind of noise we get
put some damage in the door there
it's pretty loud it's probably louder
than you hear it on this microphone
because
this has a limiter so it doesn't
overload the microphone but it's pretty
loud
that's pretty loud
now that
sounded to me
something like a gunshot and if i was
somewhere out here a few feet away my
back turned
i might think that's a gunshot but i'm
very close here we don't know how it
sounds down there
okay this is the microphone the
recording instrument
downrange
you can see there's 180 meters
between the microphone and the door
there's the door in the holder
i'll fire the gun now
well after comparing the sound here i
had my assistant
hit hit the door with the bat and then
fire shots
and i was up here and then i had him uh
listen here while i was down there
firing shots and using the bat against
the door and i'll tell you the
difference is not as great as you would
think i think you'll hear that on the
recording here with a microphone
if you if you shot one i mean if you
shot the gun and then hit the bat and i
said which was a gun and which was the
bat
i think you could tell
but if you didn't hear them to compare
them
you would have a very difficult time
just
understanding that the bat strike
against the door is not a gunshot
because when you hear that it makes a
definite crack the bat against the door
makes a definite crack
that you could think as a gunshot
especially if you couldn't compare it
you have to hear them both to know the
difference
and without a comparison
that bat strike even at 180 meters
up here sounds like it could be a
gunshot
you