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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: TechMan on June 30, 2013, 09:40:48 PM
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350657/Couple-discover-7-500-machine-gun-shotgun-pistol-bullets-garden-weeding-pond.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350657/Couple-discover-7-500-machine-gun-shotgun-pistol-bullets-garden-weeding-pond.html)
This reads like an Onion article but I believe it isn't one.
Couple moves into a rental home and are out back weeding and they discover some ammunition.
Who on here lost some bricks of ammo? Who was recently over in England? Fess up.
Now the pair are worried there may be more rounds of undiscovered ammunition in their home.
Mr Tipping said: 'It’s really unnerved us. I’m terrified that next time I’m mowing the lawn I’ll run over a bullet that hasn’t been found yet. One of us could be seriously hurt.
'We have friends with young children who could have put one of the bullets in their mouth, or one of our cats could have got hold of one - it doesn’t bear thinking about.
'We were planning to be in this house for years - now we want to move out as soon as we can.
You really have read the full article to get the appreciation of how :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: it really is.
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Gee, why can't that happen to me? =(
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What is a 2.2mm rifle round ???
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What is a 2.2mm rifle round ???
Really small.
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'We have friends with young children who could have put one of the bullets in their mouth, or one of our cats could have got hold of one - it doesn’t bear thinking about.
Our kids and cats have had plenty of opportunity.
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I... The stupid... The sheer ignorance... I can't...
WTF? Good grief! :facepalm: it's old WET ammunition, not a freeking A bomb!
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If my cat had opposable thumbs, I would probably be dead by now. She could load the ammo herself.
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If my cat had opposable thumbs, I would probably be dead by now. She could load the ammo herself.
I wouldn't worry about the guns if Pharoh had thumbs. I'd be more concerned about all the edged weapons. Cats like an up close and personal kill.
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Mr Tipping is a foppish lad isn't he?
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What is a 2.2mm rifle round ???
I think it's the tip of a tranquilizer dart. ;)
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It's made by the same company that makes the .9MM rounds I sometimes see mentioned in new stories.
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IIRC, they closed down a block or more of downtown London a few years back because someone saw a loose round of .22 LR laying on the sidewalk.
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IIRC, they closed down a block or more of downtown London a few years back because someone saw a loose round of .22 LR laying on the sidewalk.
I remember that as well. It was actually about 6 or 7 years ago, because I remember the job I was working when I read that article to my coworker.
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Seriously, Al Queida could bring the entire UK to it's knees with a single Fed/Rem/CCI 550 bulk carton. :facepalm:
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Safe: Despite the thousands of bullets that were found, the police did not feel the need to evacuate the couple
I suppose they'll be quarantined and receive IV antibiotics for a few weeks, though.
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What charges will be filed against the couple? Unlawful possession of explosives?
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What charges will be filed against the couple? Unlawful possession of explosives?
Probably.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350657/Couple-discover-7-500-machine-gun-shotgun-pistol-bullets-garden-weeding-pond.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350657/Couple-discover-7-500-machine-gun-shotgun-pistol-bullets-garden-weeding-pond.html)
This reads like an Onion article but I believe it isn't one.
That article is hilariously sad. =D =( Read the comments too.
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ONLY 7,500 rounds? Hell I got that in my bottom drawer alone! LOL How in the hell did you Brits go from the most power nation on early to a nation of panty-waist men who are affraid to touch a bullet? Wow....
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"I don't want to stay in a house where that kind of thing has been found in the garden. I'm gutted."
Indeed you are. I had no idea the Brits were so far gone that they called the fire department over some waterlogged cartridges, and the firefighters actually showed up.
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"I don't want to stay in a house where that kind of thing has been found in the garden. I'm gutted."
Indeed you are. I had no idea the Brits were so far gone that they called the fire department over some waterlogged cartridges, and the firefighters actually showed up.
That's because the underwater search unit was unavailable (seriously.)
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For me that be a happy skip down to Bass Pro, buy a turkey fryer and a cast iron pot and commence to repurposing all the projectiles.
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I think the "2.2mm" rounds are actually .22LR rounds, and the brit journos and info sources forgot about the imperial measurement system and mislabeled the cartridges as metric.
They're rimmed. Look to me like .22LR rounds.
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How long does the .22 LR have to be in the ground before they turn into machine gun bullets ???
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How long does the .22 LR have to be in the ground before they turn into machine gun bullets ???
Until your culture's man card decays into frilly lace doilies, I think.
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Wow, what would have happened if there had been actual gun in that pond?
I guess then the cat would have shot everyone, since they apparently assume the worst about the cat.
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I read the article, I wept.
For a nation of people who kept the Nazi's at bay, while enduring severe hardships, including the bombing of their cities, they have largely become a nation of, well, a nation of... (pick your word to insert here).
=(
bob
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And most of the rounds look to be lead semi-wadcutter, so not exactly your Black Talon exploding rounds of death.
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I guess then the cat would have shot everyone, since they apparently assume the worst about the cat.
Not necessarily a bad assumption. The way the cat looks at me sometimes, I am happy that I am further up the food chain than her. And I can use tools.
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I read the article, I wept.
For a nation of people who kept the Nazi's at bay, while enduring severe hardships, including the bombing of their cities, they have largely become a nation of, well, a nation of... (pick your word to insert here).
=(
bob
Gutted weenies?
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I used to have relatives that live in (f)GB. I disowned them all after reading that. I don't care that they may not actually share the viewpoint of those two t%$#*waffles and 99.99% of the rest of the country - if the former relatives were worth being related to they would be going around with a ditching spade http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spear-Jackson-Grafting-Fibreglass-Shovel/dp/B0044TPTBS/ref=sr_1_38?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1372707238&sr=1-38 banging people up side their heads for that and similar lack-of-thought.
stay safe.
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Gutted weenies?
I believe they sell them in TESCO, next to the Spotted Dick.
stay safe.
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Seriously, Al Queida could bring the entire UK to it's knees with a single Fed/Rem/CCI 550 bulk carton. :facepalm:
Or they could fund their operations for a year selling that same ammo in the US.
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It wouldn't be that surprising for two people to be hopeless bliss ninnies. When the government and media seem to share their point of view - :O
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Gutted weenies?
Literally. WWII did a pretty good number on their population - which had probably not fully recovered from WWI - and killed a LARGE number of men of military age, the population that was most likely to resist this claptrap and teach that resistance to their offspring.
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Headline says 7,500, story indicates 2,300 or so. I'd guess that they were disposed when complete BS gun laws took hold and the former owner dumped them rather than turn them in and be charged or some such. I hope the owner is dead because I'm sure they will find them if not.
I wish I could show that brave british couple my closet. Brains asplodey.
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A far as I could tell, I thought they were all empties.
Maybe someone dumped them in the ponds to control algae?
I am disappointed in the attitude of fear so many of Great Britain's subjects have to anything related to firearms. I wonder if that's happening in Australia as well.
Do you suppose that's the difference between subjects and citizens?
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A far as I could tell, I thought they were all empties.
Maybe someone dumped them in the ponds to control algae?
I'm not sure why people are saying this. In the pictures I've seen, there are at least quite a few loaded .22 LRs. No empty casings that I've seen.
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Headline says 7,500, story indicates 2,300 or so. I'd guess that they were disposed when complete BS gun laws took hold and the former owner dumped them rather than turn them in and be charged or some such. I hope the owner is dead because I'm sure they will find them if not.
I wish I could show that brave british couple my closet. Brains asplodey.
According to the story: 2200 were found in first pond and 5600 were found in the second pond.
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I think he's right to be concerned that his cat might get hold of the ammo. If a single cat had a few thousand live rounds, I think it could take over the whole country.
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Does anyone have the gif with the cat blasting away with his AK?
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Does anyone have the gif with the cat blasting away with his AK?
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