For those who are tired of the usual stuff, here's a fascinating video of some sort of very colorful event in Japan. (Fun to watch and hear!)

To the accompaniment of cymbals, medieval looking wagons full of soldiers crash into each other over and over again while the crowd cheers.

If you don't want to bother with the video, here's a still:

(A harmless sort of culture war. . . .)

I stumbled onto this while engaged in a near-impossible search for pictures of another kind of crash; bullets colliding in mid-air. (Such an event is an extremely unlikely occurrence -- at least according to physicists.)

These are the best I can do so far.....

From a Japanese site:

(According to the above, in the "most fierce battle "Taharazaka", 320,000 bullets were shot in a day," and some collided in mid-air.)

From an American Civil War site:

(The above collided in the seige of Petersburg. Called "the longest military action ever waged against an American city," the heavy losses led to Lee's surrender at Appomattox.)

As to symbolism, I wasn't looking for it, and considered it meaningless to my search for colliding bullets. But I did find one web site -- apparently devoted to exploring "Queer Horror" -- and found this reference to colliding bullets in a Stephen King novel:

Towards the end of the novel, the two gay men face off in an old-fashioned dual. They shoot simultaneously and their bullets collide in mid-air, deflecting them from their killing paths. The two seem to come to their senses, but are killed in an explosion set by other characters.

REMINDER: Never challenge Justin to a dual.