Overkill.!!!

[Minky]

 

 

BBC News - Man arrested after AIR weapon discharged
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy48e9n11kpo

Really  THE BOMB SQUAD...   EVACUATE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. ?.   Are they doing this to justify their existence or just a display to show off.  It's like when they attend a situation they all have to have the blue lights flashing. Why.?

[TIGHTCHOKE]

From that BBC article above.

"A man has been arrested after an air weapon was discharged at an address in Kent, police said.

Officers were called to Lismore Road, Whitstable, at 03:20 GMT on Sunday.

Patrols, including armed officers, attended and a man was arrested in connection with the incident.

Kent Police said they seized two air rifles and a BB gun while searching an address.

Some neighbouring households were evacuated as a precaution, police said, but residents have now returned to their homes.

A Ministry of Defence explosive ordnance team has attended and an investigation is under way."

 

I wonder if when the call comes in from someone complaining and all that is said is "that a gun has been fired" and then all the police turn out to see what they can find.

I note "A Ministry of Defence explosive ordnance team has attended and an investigation is under way."

I wonder if he had some fireworks left over from last November?

[Old Boggy]

Never had that response from Kent police when my brother made a bomb from a piece of drilled and plugged brass rod filled with powder from Dad’s cartridges and set off with jetex fuse in our garden. Quite a loud explosion and blew some windows out of Dad’s greenhouse. He was not amused, but quietly admired my brother’s initiative.

That was 60 years ago, so I guess times have changed somewhat.

OB

[Scully]

‘Discharged at an address’. So do we know if the address was his? Was it in the house? Was it in the garden? Nothing illegal about either as long as he wasn’t endangering anyone else and the pellet didn’t leave his boundary. 

I discharged many a pellet at my address. 🤷‍♂️

Do we know who reported this and why? 

[bruno22rf]

1 hour ago, Old Boggy said:

Never had that response from Kent police when my brother made a bomb from a piece of drilled and plugged brass rod filled with powder from Dad’s cartridges and set off with jetex fuse in our garden. Quite a loud explosion and blew some windows out of Dad’s greenhouse. He was not amused, but quietly admired my brother’s initiative.

That was 60 years ago, so I guess times have changed somewhat.

OB

Did a similar thing many years ago, after getting bored putting aerosol paint cans on camping stoves and watching them explode in flames we filled a thick cardboard tube with black powder and sealed the ends just leaving a hole for the blast. I honestly cannot remember how we ignited it but I remember it shot into the air until out of sight. Apparently the remains were found in the grounds of a local Prison. Kids just dont know how to have fun these days 🤔.

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, Seems very OTT but that is the way things go now, I remember going back as a teenager people making bombs from Sugar and Something , Hell of a bang !!!!

[snarepeg]

Carbide in a screw top bottle, add water and run.

we were, some still are barmy but i like it😊👍

[amateur]

I also didn't have any response when I set off the solid block of gun-cotton on Sheppey marshes that I made when I was a sixth former.

The recipe for making it was handily provided in my chemistry textbook.

[johnphilip]

25 minutes ago, snarepeg said:

Carbide in a screw top bottle, add water and run.

we were, some still are barmy but i like it😊👍

Dad used one down the mine,  had an old one in the shed. Can still remember  the smell many years  later 

[Scully]

‘Backyard Ballistics’. Great book. Anyone with kids, get it! 👍

[clangerman]

the overkill now is deliberate demonising weapons makes ending private ownership easier 

[old'un]

11 minutes ago, clangerman said:

the overkill now is deliberate demonising weapons makes ending private ownership easier 

weapon meaning, an instrument used for the purpose of killing or injuring, anything used against an opponent, adversary, or victim:

does the headline mean he used the air rifle against someone? If not, why use the word ‘weapon’

Edited 4 hours ago by old'un

[marsh man]

We have all done some silly things but kids were kids back then and by the grace of god we are still here  , When one of the lads who we messed about with started to reload cartridges we would often all meet up in his shed and watch this state of the art machine work , this was a hand machine that took what seemed ages to reload one cartridge , anyhow in those far off days I smoked then and I got hold of a dummy cigarette, while we sat glaring at the table with the jars of shot and powder scattered about I started to puff away at this cigarette , smoke came out of it and the end glowed like a real one , while we were having a larf about something I opened the jar of powder and chucked this smoking cigarette in , we were all pretty fit then and I had never seen 4 or 5 people move so quick in all my life , the language was un repeatable and we were all waiting for the shed to explode , after the joke was fathomed out then things quietened down and life returned back to normal   MM

[Westward]

2 hours ago, clangerman said:

the overkill now is deliberate demonising weapons makes ending private ownership easier 

There could be an element of that but we have to understand that the police chiefs have arbitrarily redefined the role of the police from dealing with what the public wants them to do, which is dealing with crime, to "PROTECTING THE PUBLIC".

No one actually knows what this means or how it could possibly work in reality, but it's a neat sound bite that allows them to demonstrate how serious they are by turning out en masse - and of course informing the press - for something that would once have been quickly dealt with by a Bobby on a bicycle.

[murray smith]

Caution guys,its possible the authorities may read this, all highly entertaining but you never know

[Bigbob]

03'20 on a Sunday morning seems a funny time to discharge a airgun 

[wymberley]

22 minutes ago, Westward said:

There could be an element of that but we have to understand that the police chiefs have arbitrarily redefined the role of the police from dealing with what the public wants them to do, which is dealing with crime, to "PROTECTING THE PUBLIC".

No one actually knows what this means or how it could possibly work in reality, but it's a neat sound bite that allows them to demonstrate how serious they are by turning out en masse - and of course informing the press - for something that would once have been quickly dealt with by a Bobby on a bicycle.

I naively used to think that it was the duty of the police to carry out the Parliament introduced legislation which has patently now changed. Some change too. There's a big leap between, "bobbies on bicycles two by two", to police in 4 X 4s four by four.

[Westward]

13 minutes ago, murray smith said:

Caution guys,its possible the authorities may read this, all highly entertaining but you never know

I get that Murray but I don't regard the police as "the authorities". They are public servants supposedly policing by consent and therefore not above criticism.

[Bigbob]

18 minutes ago, wymberley said:

I naively used to think that it was the duty of the police to carry out the Parliament introduced legislation which has patently now changed. Some change too. There's a big leap between, "bobbies on bicycles two by two", to police in 4 X 4s four by four.

We get the police on bikes going threw the scheme usually on a Sunday morning if its fair in and out each street but normally it just one in a car