I'm perplexed as to how it was going fast enough to leave a 1 foot wide crater in the ground, but only left a scar on his hand. I would think anything hitting y

I'm perplexed as to how it was going fast enough to leave a 1 foot wide crater in the ground, but only left a scar on his hand. I would think anything hitting your hand at 30,000mph would simply rip your hand off?