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    a_john Guest

    More bad airgun news

    I caught a brief anouncement on the midlands news this morning. Seems a young girl was hit by a pellet in West Brom. It hit a major artery and there was a lot of blood loss.

    This is just the sort of thing that we need. <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_mad.gif" alt="Mad" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:-->

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    gary_cooper Guest
    Been done already mate

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    a_john Guest
    I can't find any trace of it. Seems this happened over the weekend. If it was longer ago than that I must have missed it. West Brom CID are asking for witnesses. If anybody can I would suggest that they help all they can.

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    gary_cooper Guest

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    a_john Guest
    Thanks.
    Just announced on the main 10-30 pm news. A 14 year old boy and a 37 year old man have been arrested.
    I wonder just how many pellets where shot on that day. Nobody will care about any of them - only that one. <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_frown.gif" alt="Frown" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:-->

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    a_john Guest
    Having just read the other post:
    I thought that there was allready a ban on airguns in public places.
    The comment on nutters may not be quite correct. It's more likely to be a case of a shot where there wasn't a backdrop or there was and the shooter wasn't even capable of hitting that or maybe he was absolutely certain he was. Might even be a gun going off by accident. I wish I knew which.
    The moral probabley is though that it generally doesn't pay to shoot at anything in a tree, or on top of a hill or on top of a house unless 1000% sure you know where it is going to go. And above all else - don't shoot in a park.

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    boltaction Guest
    So you reckon someone using an air rifle in a small public park is NOT a NUTTER then. <img src="http://jsramsbottom.co.uk/bbs/e/icon_frown.gif" alt="Frown" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin:-->

    jim

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    a_john Guest
    I don't know what or where it happened so I can't comment. One things for certain though - this incedent is perfect as far as the ban brigade is concerned. The loss of 4 pints of blood really is serious.
    I should add that I think that the incedent is absolutely deplorable and that given a few very simple precautions it just would not have happened.

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    boltaction Guest
    You say you can't comment, but you already have, you say you dont know where it happend.

    Well I do.........and anyone who shoots an Air riffle in a small public Park with loads of people about, unless its on a controlled range....is a nutter.....end of story!.

    jim

    [This message was edited by boltaction on 11 November, 2003 at 22:47.]

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