Bullets found at a house - Daily Mail Sensationalism (again)

[bobthedug]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...otgun-pistol-bullets-garden-weeding-pond.html



Had to laugh, especially at "what if the cat had brought one in"

 

[375win]

Despite the thousands of bullets that were found, the police did not feel the need to evacuate the couple
Now that is hilarious

 

[snowy]

Feck me the underwater search team was also unavailable .

 

[Paul at Fechan]

I've got to get me a garden pond, seems like it's not just money that gets chucked in!

 

[Lloyd90]

The only good thing about the article was that lil blonde police woman... tell her to pop round with her hand cuffs

 

[Barkingsnake]

Harrumph...load of xyz but at least they got their pond drained.

I grew up amongst a cluster of airbases from WW2 and the place was littered with "stuff" from 303 to 50BMG (inc guns if somewhat rusty)...never batted an eyelid.

I can remember a mates mum doing up her house and discovering an old ex-air defence position complete with ammo. I can't remember what we did with the shells.

 

[paul o']

so WTF is a 2.2 mm round i saw a few 7.62 some shorts maybe a 556 and a .22mag lots of .22 rimfire but not 7.5k of machine gun ammo !! saw 5 old bill and 1 c.i.d prob others maybe even dive team bet that cost £thous to drain that size pond !no rspca on site looking after the fish and bugs!!!
thay would fall over if thay dug around the thames and our foreshore we often find bits and bobs thay would need to shut off my corner of the uk down for years let alone a yank ship full of ww2 bombs etc still if it ever go's ! off surfs up

 

[teabag_46]

I'm not colour blind, but it was good of the paper to tell everyone what colour the gloves in the (colour) photograph are!

 

[johndeere]

The biggest danger to their friends children is the pond .
i know witch i would sooner leave a toddler unattended near.

 

[pilgrimmick]

What is a machine gun bullet? With very rare exceptions they are just standard rounds that can also be fired from an automatic weapon! The police must be very sharp to tell the difference!
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[weeman]

The officer in the illuminated vest made me laugh I've seen that stance many times hands in vest.

 

[finnbear270]

What,No mobile police station?

 

[Jagare]

I am truly shocked that people on this site would laugh at such a serious bit of reporting.
Its well-known that lead in that concentration in the pond water could have stripped the nail varnish of the police woman’s well-manicured hands if she if she had not been wearing protective gloves.
What about the urban foxes and badgers? They could have ended up with a lower IQ than a Daily Mail reporter if they had drunk from that pond.
It’s no wonder there are no sightings of Osprey in towns. There’s a good chance they have all died through eating lead contaminated fish from that pond. Don’t even get me started about the poor ducks and geese that use that pond.
Somebody on this forum must know who dumped this ammo in the pond?
Time to name and shame.

 

[paul o']

OKok i did it thay were hot loads !!!
my AA GUN kept jammin and the pond gnats were driveing me mad so i got the fish to oil them up for me ! but the tad poles hid some under the weeds damn and blast them kids if thay had kept out of it i would have got clean away


QUOTE=Jagare;610122]I am truly shocked that people on this site would laugh at such a serious bit of reporting.
Its well-known that lead in that concentration in the pond water could have stripped the nail varnish of the police woman’s well-manicured hands if she if she had not been wearing protective gloves.
What about the urban foxes and badgers? They could have ended up with a lower IQ than a Daily Mail reporter if they had drunk from that pond.
It’s no wonder there are no sightings of Osprey in towns. There’s a good chance they have all died through eating lead contaminated fish from that pond. Don’t even get me started about the poor ducks and geese that use that pond.
Somebody on this forum must know who dumped this ammo in the pond?
Time to name and shame.[/QUOTE]

 

[ndt man]

looks like remmington yellow jacket .22 rounds to me I need some more who do I phone I have them.

 

[The Burpster]

I know who it was - it was SAS Action Man on recce mission in a nearby garden. Had to dump excess ammo I an E&E to get away from a cat that had had sussed the 'slightly plasticy' smell of his gillie suit.

i have drawn this conclusion with 30 years investigative experience based on the fact the the bullets were 2.2mm rounds. Only Action Man (and his American cousin GI Joe) could be using rounds that frikking small.....!

 

[Bart308]

Is it just me or does any one else find the guy (Mr tipping) a bit irratating.

 

[Chanty Wrassler]

Well I've found a market for my used interdental brushes - I'll market them as cleaning brushes for 2.2mm rifle barrels

 

[The Seeker]

Will the RSPCA now intervene and remove the cat from a potentially life threatening situation?

Only to put the cat to sleep 6 weeks later as they failed to find a suitable home for it

 

[Brithunter]

So now they want to move out because they're so afraid .............................................. Hmm methinks I smell a compensation claim in the wind although who the think they can claim off is beyond me.

​Pathetic comes to mind.