berettaman1 Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Just been looking at a story in the daily Mail, A ten year old boy playing in the street with a daft looking -plastic sub machine gun was surounded by nearly a dozen armed police officers and ordered to put the weapon down, his mum said they took the toy away for one hour to check to see if it was real!! If the story is true, then theres some right numpties running round with H&K weapons. this country is getting madder and madder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Just been looking at a story in the daily Mail, A ten year old boy playing in the street with a daft looking -plastic sub machine gun was surounded by nearly a dozen armed police officers and ordered to put the weapon down, his mum said they took the toy away for one hour to check to see if it was real!! If the story is true, then theres some right numpties running round with H&K weapons. this country is getting madder and madder. Possibly but imagine the scene at 02:45 in a city ghetto overun with drugs. Most of the runners are under the legal age of prosecution, thats why they are used, then the gaffa's turn up as a youth has been spotted by joe public brandishing a MP5. If you can tell the real thing from plastic you should be in the force...........Luke. Have a think about it and let and share your thoughts with us.. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Thing that gets me is it took them an hour to work out it's plastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted July 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 No LB, this incident happened in daylight , ok if It was 2.30 am, then I could understand the Police responding in the manner they did, but this was a 10 year old white kid playing with a daft looking plastic gun that looked like it came from a star wars film, there is no ghetto in dudley, and there is no way a 10 year old white child in daylight could be mistaken as a dwarf islamic terrorist. Pity the 10 armed response team where not based at Glasgow Airport. and I did say if the story and pictures were true then to take one hour to verify the plastic gun was a toy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Yeah he has a point. Also all toys guns these days have bright orange muzzles. I would love to see a picture of the toy gun in question. If it is what I think it is, then this whole caper is just another page in the book of daftness. Common sense required, as per normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve b Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Even real guns firing 5.56 rounds are plastic, remember that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Two sides to every story comes to mind. Do the cops ignore a call from joe public or even turn up and dismiss the idea by 'deciding' the gun is plastic, or do they do what they are paid for and do a thorough check. Don't get me wrong I see the coco the clown side of it, but I also get a hint of the other side. Hope it was one of those ones that as you pull the trigger little sparks go down a red tude on the side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death from below Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 it would be nice to know all the facts...I know several gun cops in the Met and all are very sensible professional blokes who take their job ultra seriously. this story does seem a bit strange.......just a couple of weeks ago a kiddie up north attended his school and blasted other lass mates with a BB gun......that as "just a toy" but could have led to serious injury. The influx of crappy plastic toys from china still do not have bright orange bits on them and often do look very real......as to why it took an hour to figure out it was plastic, well that sounds a bit suspect to me. Anyway berettaman, its your jokes that are offensive weapons not plastic guns.....if there were joke police you would be doing a 10 stretch right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted July 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 it would be nice to know all the facts...I know several gun cops in the Met and all are very sensible professional blokes who take their job ultra seriously. this story does seem a bit strange.......just a couple of weeks ago a kiddie up north attended his school and blasted other lass mates with a BB gun......that as "just a toy" but could have led to serious injury. The influx of crappy plastic toys from china still do not have bright orange bits on them and often do look very real......as to why it took an hour to figure out it was plastic, well that sounds a bit suspect to me. Anyway berettaman, its your jokes that are offensive weapons not plastic guns.....if there were joke police you would be doing a 10 stretch right now ha ha ha, DFB , at least I have got a sense of humour, I dont do jokes now anyway, like Snakebite I am a reformed charactor, My case comes up next week, I only reported the story as was in the Daily Mail , wish I hadnt now , anyway with your jokes you,de be doing life! ( whats orange and sounds like a.........) Oh Perrrleeeze.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death from below Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Guilty as charged M'lord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berettaman1 Posted July 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Guilty as charged M'lord Hee Hee Hee, Yes OK,DFB. I had to snigger, see youve just blown £80.00 for nothing for your pigeon magnet, when you missed out on the free one!! Ha Ha Ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 haven't seen the story but bearing in mind its in the daily mail its unlikely to be that factually correct. No armed response officer would need an hour to work out it was a toy gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 What about a happy medium? The police react as they shoul but upon seeing it is a plastic toy (hopefuly within 6 seconds not 60 minutes!) they say to the boy "you had us going there sonny, run along whilst we politely suggest to your mum that maybe her neighbours are over reacting and in the mean time play with it in the garden" Job done, public safe in the knowledge that police are doing their job and common sense prevails in the light of the fact it is atoy gun. Is it really that hard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSA Shaun Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Unfortunately it is the society we live in that makes us paranoid. Who's to say that said child had not found an adults illegal firearm and decided it was his toy. How good a view did the police get of it? Not enough facts to really judge. I concede to your point tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Harry Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Don't forget the police would only be there because a member of the public called and said that there is someone with a gun in the street. How do you thunk they should respond to that? And I would guess that it took the police 1 hour to return the toy gun and about 2 seconds to work out it was a toy. Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gully Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 I know a guy who's a tree surgeon for a council in west London. He turned up in a street to trim some trees. Put cones out, put his high vis jacket and protective gear on and had been trimming trees for about 10 mins before an armed response vehicle turned up after someone had reported 'a man in the street running around with a chainsaw' Do people really have such empty lives that they need to worry about things like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 just a couple of weeks ago a kiddie up north attended his school and blasted other lass mates with a BB gun......that as "just a toy" but could have led to serious injury. Just wondering, has anyone actually heard of an airsoft gun actually causing 'serious injury'? I'm sure if you got a pellet in the eye at close range you wouldn't enjoy the experience but has anyone 'had their eye out' with an airsoft? Never heard of it happening myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusk2dawn Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Don't forget the police would only be there because a member of the public called and said that there is someone with a gun in the street. How do you thunk they should respond to that? And I would guess that it took the police 1 hour to return the toy gun and about 2 seconds to work out it was a toy. Harry .......... Then about six hours doing the paperwork to cover the "incident" Daft,mad call it what you like. D2D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Here's the same, justification for getting the helicopter out, this happened up our way the beginning of last month, OVERKILL springs to mind, make you think which MUPPETS the law have running round with peashooters these days. http://www.police-shoot-dog.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGalway Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 just a couple of weeks ago a kiddie up north attended his school and blasted other lass mates with a BB gun......that as "just a toy" but could have led to serious injury. Just wondering, has anyone actually heard of an airsoft gun actually causing 'serious injury'? I'm sure if you got a pellet in the eye at close range you wouldn't enjoy the experience but has anyone 'had their eye out' with an airsoft? Never heard of it happening myself. I brought over a BB handgun from Crete, 9 Euro, not the most powerful one I could've got but I was skint, how could I resist. I'm not quite getting one hole groups at 25 yards yet but after denting beer cans across the length of the apartment in Crete I wouldn't like it in my eye. I reckon they could blind an unlucky person no problem. My point before about it taking them an hour to figure it's plastic, yes I know plastic guns fire real bullets, I meant a plastic plastic gun smartass, an hour for gods sake (kidding ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNAKEBITE Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 I'm sure if you got a pellet in the eye at close range you wouldn't enjoy the experience but has anyone 'had their eye out' with an airsoft?Never heard of it happening myself. I have never heard of it myself either, however logic dictates I am not putting my hand up to volunteer to have it done to me. I guess you are not at the front of the line either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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