Author Topic: Couple discover 7,500 machine gun, shotgun & pistol bullets in their back yard (Read 10074 times)

TechMan · « **on:** June 30, 2013, 09:40:48 PM »

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.

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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

it really is.

Tallpine · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2013, 09:44:48 PM »

Gee, why can't that happen to me?

41magsnub · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2013, 09:48:05 PM »

What is a 2.2mm rifle round

bedlamite · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2013, 09:57:37 PM »

Quote from: 41magsnub on June 30, 2013, 09:48:05 PM

What is a 2.2mm rifle round

Really small.

lee n. field · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2013, 10:01:35 PM »

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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.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2013, 10:10:43 PM »

I... The stupid... The sheer ignorance... I can't...

WTF? Good grief!

it's old WET ammunition, not a freeking A bomb!

MillCreek · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2013, 10:11:06 PM »

If my cat had opposable thumbs, I would probably be dead by now. She could load the ammo herself.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2013, 10:12:44 PM »

Quote from: MillCreek on June 30, 2013, 10:11:06 PM

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.

brimic · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2013, 10:30:28 PM »

Mr Tipping is a foppish lad isn't he?

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2013, 11:07:00 PM »

Quote from: 41magsnub on June 30, 2013, 09:48:05 PM

What is a 2.2mm rifle round

I think it's the tip of a tranquilizer dart.

just Warren · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2013, 11:09:43 PM »

It's made by the same company that makes the .9MM rounds I sometimes see mentioned in new stories.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2013, 11:29:00 PM »

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.

CNYCacher · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2013, 11:50:23 PM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on June 30, 2013, 11:29:00 PM

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.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #13 on:** July 01, 2013, 01:51:28 AM »

Seriously, Al Queida could bring the entire UK to it's knees with a single Fed/Rem/CCI 550 bulk carton.

Pharmacology · « **Reply #14 on:** July 01, 2013, 02:24:05 AM »

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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.

cambeul41 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 01, 2013, 07:30:36 AM »

What charges will be filed against the couple? Unlawful possession of explosives?

TechMan · « **Reply #16 on:** July 01, 2013, 08:18:56 AM »

Quote from: cambeul41 on July 01, 2013, 07:30:36 AM

What charges will be filed against the couple? Unlawful possession of explosives?

Probably.

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #17 on:** July 01, 2013, 11:03:59 AM »

Quote from: adively on June 30, 2013, 09:40:48 PM

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.

Read the comments too.

lee n. field · « **Reply #18 on:** July 01, 2013, 11:31:25 AM »

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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....

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2013, 12:04:05 PM »

"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.

TechMan · « **Reply #20 on:** July 01, 2013, 12:14:56 PM »

Quote from: fistful on July 01, 2013, 12:04:05 PM

"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.)

French G. · « **Reply #21 on:** July 01, 2013, 01:27:38 PM »

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.

AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 01, 2013, 01:35:51 PM »

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.

Tallpine · « **Reply #23 on:** July 01, 2013, 02:05:28 PM »

How long does the .22 LR have to be in the ground before they turn into machine gun bullets

AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 01, 2013, 02:20:51 PM »

Quote from: Tallpine on July 01, 2013, 02:05:28 PM

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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