Minky Posted Sunday at 22:32 Report Share Posted Sunday at 22:32 BBC News - Man arrested after AIR weapon dischargedhttps://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.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Monday at 06:40 Report Share Posted Monday at 06:40 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted Monday at 07:21 Report Share Posted Monday at 07:21 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted Monday at 07:47 Report Share Posted Monday at 07:47 ‘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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted Monday at 08:30 Report Share Posted Monday at 08:30 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 🤔. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted Monday at 08:51 Report Share Posted Monday at 08:51 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 !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snarepeg Posted Monday at 09:27 Report Share Posted Monday at 09:27 Carbide in a screw top bottle, add water and run. we were, some still are barmy but i like it😊👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted Monday at 09:50 Report Share Posted Monday at 09:50 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted Monday at 09:53 Report Share Posted Monday at 09:53 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted Monday at 10:12 Report Share Posted Monday at 10:12 ‘Backyard Ballistics’. Great book. Anyone with kids, get it! 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clangerman Posted Monday at 10:18 Report Share Posted Monday at 10:18 the overkill now is deliberate demonising weapons makes ending private ownership easier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted Monday at 10:28 Report Share Posted Monday at 10:28 (edited) 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 Monday at 10:29 by old'un Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted Monday at 11:19 Report Share Posted Monday at 11:19 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westward Posted Monday at 12:58 Report Share Posted Monday at 12:58 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murray smith Posted Monday at 13:22 Report Share Posted Monday at 13:22 Caution guys,its possible the authorities may read this, all highly entertaining but you never know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted Monday at 13:27 Report Share Posted Monday at 13:27 03'20 on a Sunday morning seems a funny time to discharge a airgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted Monday at 13:28 Report Share Posted Monday at 13:28 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westward Posted Monday at 13:45 Report Share Posted Monday at 13:45 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted Monday at 13:48 Report Share Posted Monday at 13:48 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted Monday at 14:46 Report Share Posted Monday at 14:46 4 hours ago, clangerman said: the overkill now is deliberate demonising weapons makes ending private ownership easier Here we go again, a gun is a gun. A knife is a knife. The weapon thing comes from the intention to use? A work colleague into martial arts used to say that a twig would suffice. 1 hour ago, Westward said: 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. Correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted Monday at 18:39 Report Share Posted Monday at 18:39 8 hours ago, amateur said: 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. Just had a look through one of my late brother`s diaries to find the ingredients for gunpowder he used when Dad`s cartridges were unavailable (or hidden) as follows -: Homemade charcoal Saltpetre from Dimond`s the village butchers. Presumably they used it to cure meat. Sulphur from the chemist. It doesn`t say in what quantities but I remember it being quite lethal when used in a home made cannon, this time open ended firing musket balls found on our local beach. Happy days. OB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Monday at 18:42 Report Share Posted Monday at 18:42 3 minutes ago, Old Boggy said: Just had a look through one of my late brother`s diaries to find the ingredients for gunpowder he used when Dad`s cartridges were unavailable (or hidden) as follows -: Homemade charcoal Saltpetre from Dimond`s the village butchers. Presumably they used it to cure meat. Sulphur from the chemist. It doesn`t say in what quantities but I remember it being quite lethal when used in a home made cannon, this time open ended firing musket balls found on our local beach. Happy days. OB Careful, you'll get in to trouble as a potential terrorist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted Monday at 18:44 Report Share Posted Monday at 18:44 Just now, TIGHTCHOKE said: Careful, you'll get in to trouble as a potential terrorist. We are talking 60 years ago. I expect your Grandad can remember such things happening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted Monday at 18:52 Report Share Posted Monday at 18:52 during the war a flying fortress crashed in a field behind our house ...and in the 60's we used to walk over the field picking up bits of stuff and loads of live 50cal rounds ...someone loacal made petrol lighters out of them......and we did allsorts of things with the powder.... damn near pooped my pants when i got a 6" nail and knocked the primer out......first hit it went off with a hell of a bang ...there was a ringing in my ears for an hour or 2.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted Monday at 18:52 Report Share Posted Monday at 18:52 My late Father used a similar recipe prior to the 2nd World War. He went to several different chemists with his pocket money for the ingredients. Packed it all in to a tin and blew the coal hole up. Much to the annoyance of his parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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