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2006-11-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Oh the Horror! - Bullet found in doorway

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Posted by Haliburton Blazing Saddles Reference Division 2006-11-12 08:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OMG!!!!! We need to investigate, and sue the manufacturer.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-11-12 10:04|| 2006-11-12 10:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The bullet, of Swiss origin, was still in its brass casing, complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself.
The ignorance of the media would boggle my mind, if I hadn't already lost my boggle.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-11-12 10:05|| 2006-11-12 10:05|| Front Page Top

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-12 10:09|| 2006-11-12 10:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Good grief. Pictured is a .22 Short round (AFAIK the wimpiest round currently manufactured), with the caption "LETHAL: The .22 calibre bullet found in Walthamstow High Street on a market day morning".

Where did Britain put its testicles?

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-11-12 10:18|| 2006-11-12 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm probably wrong (actual gun nuts will correct me), but I've been told that a round which explode outside of a chamber (say if overheated, or through chemicla decomposition for really old rounds) doens't project the bullet as it normally would. Danger comes from the relatively small explosion and fragments, but there's no actual risk of receiving a bullet.
BS?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-12 10:41|| 2006-11-12 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6 they didn't find the other rounds of bullet and the shutter gun?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-12 10:54|| 2006-11-12 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Geez. A .22 short. A bullet so puny that it's hard to tell if the rifle has been fired from lack of report or recoil. Quite accurate, though.

A guy I know used to win bar bets by shooting the "o" out of a Coke bottle with iron sites at 25 feet. Any further and it wouldn't chip the glass.

Ironically, the .22 caliber is a far deadlier round than the .25 caliber, for an odd reason. It has a proclivity to nick internal organs in just the right way as to cause peritinitis. So you don't die from the bullet, you die from the infection.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-12 11:07|| 2006-11-12 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't this the caliber that the Israeli Intell uses for killing? At very close range very deadly and very quiet. Put a towel over the muzzle and you have a silenced pistol.

Posted by sam3rd">sam3rd 2006-11-12 12:25|| 2006-11-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 IIUC actual hitmen use em because they enter the skull and bounce around, without enough energy to exit, and soft enough so they deform, leaving no traceable marks

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-12 12:40|| 2006-11-12 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 When did The Onion start writing for the Guardian? :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-11-12 13:59|| 2006-11-12 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought the Brits already confiscated all the guns and ammo from law abiding citizens. And now are starting to deal with the dangers of Swiss Army knives.

Posted by DMFD 2006-11-12 14:27|| 2006-11-12 14:27|| Front Page Top

#12 I like the horoscopes...

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-12 14:31|| 2006-11-12 14:31|| Front Page Top

#13 The bullet, of Swiss origin, was still in its brass casing, complete with enough gunpowder for it to fire itself.

Oh, the humanity! Did they handle it with tongs? Did they bring along the bomb disposal truck to contain any potential explosion while they transported it back to headquarters for analysis?

More and more, John Cleese's skit about defending yourself against a man armed with fresh fruit seems increasingly reality based.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-12 15:03|| 2006-11-12 15:03|| Front Page Top

#14 MoneyPenny, find Bond...

Posted by Capsu 78 2006-11-12 16:12|| 2006-11-12 16:12|| Front Page Top

#15 If you put a bullet in the furnace, it will explode.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-11-12 17:34|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-11-12 17:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Channelling Bill Cosby, Jackal? :o)

Posted by badanov 2006-11-12 17:43|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-11-12 17:43|| Front Page Top

#17 lol! They have 1600 identified terrorists wanting to blow them up and this is what they get excited about.

Posted by Clkethel OHlkdj 2006-11-12 17:55|| 2006-11-12 17:55|| Front Page Top

#18 Oh, the humanity! Did they handle it with tongs? Did they bring along the bomb disposal truck to contain any potential explosion while they transported it back to headquarters for analysis?

No, they cordoned off the block and burned it down.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-12 17:56|| 2006-11-12 17:56|| Front Page Top

#19 Not the bullet, just the cartridge. The bullet will hit somewhere in the furnace wall and become a deformed slug.

I know... as I kid I stole a couple of pistol cartridges from my father's shelf (he was in the army and unwittingly left it there) and when making bonfire outside with buddies I dropped one in the middle of it. Yea, was 9 and experiments-inclined. The cartridge exploded with a loud crack, rocketted about a yard high and then split and the bullet with a part of the cartridge whizzed away into the neighborhood. The next I heard was a broken window. Buddies thought I dropped a blank into the fire. Did not want to correct them. It was also the last time I did something as stupid. I did few stupid things later, but that took the prize.

Of course, if I was instructed by my father about ammo, I would likely take his word for what may happen.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-11-12 17:57|| 2006-11-12 17:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Somebody dropped a single .22 cartridge and the whole city goes nuts?

Good Lord, I used to fire .22's a;; the time as a kid. Dropping a few rounds while reloading was commonplace (and you could almost never find them all if you accidentally dropped a whole box while out in the field or the woods plinking targets.

The UK has been thoroughly immasculated.

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