Posted on 12/10/2008 12:58:35 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A grandmother was left petrified when she was sent a police machine gun in the post by mistake.
The package was delivered by a courier to Catherine Roots when it should have been sent to firearms officers at the nearby police HQ.
Mrs Roots had been expecting a horse harness in the post so opened the package thinking it was that.
Instead, she found the Heckler & Koch black sub-machine gun staring back at her.
She called the police and two armed officers turned up and took it away.
Red-faced officers later explained a gun supply company made a one-digit mistake with the postcode when they sent it to Dorset Police HQ in Winfrith near Dorchester.
Mrs Roots, who is her 50s and runs a small-holding at Winfrith, said: 'I was absolutely and totally shocked, and petrified.
'I get a lot of packages and I signed for it thinking it was a harness for one of my horses.
'I just plonked it down and didn't think about it, but when I later opened it up I was terrified.
'You don't expect something like that to to arrive. I was petrified and I didn't touch it - I didn't know if it would go off.
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‘She called the police and two armed officers turned up and took it away.’
SSSSSSSSSSShhh!!!
It was from Santa. Sometimes you keep your mouth shut.
Today's Britian. People traumatized by the sight of a gun. Makes me want to puke.
Yeah, what package? I never got a sub machine gun in the mail officer.
Assistant Chief Constable Adrian Whiting, of Dorset Police, said: 'Because this item isn't actually a firearm it is lawful for the company, the suppliers, to use a courier as they did.
This Grandma might have played with it a bit before making that call. ;)
Merry Christmas to me!! Why can’t I be so lucky?
Oh...please Santa....deliver me just one.......
Yeah no doubt, kinda like findin 97K in the bathroom!
Yeah, I was looking at the power supply plugged into the pistol grip butt.
Some sort of training aid most likely. Can’t have the coppers firing of live rounds, now can we.
That is a GORGEOUS gun. I would love to own it.
However, as gun rights fanatic as I am, I am somewhat convinced that automatics do not belong in untrained hands.
At the very least do a background check and a 2 week training course
Appalling -- she had ordered it in pink!
When the terrorists strike, maybe they can use the laser to temporarily blind them. Or maybe since the rifle is so “scary looking,” they will just crap themselves and give up.
However, as gun rights fanatic as I am, I am somewhat convinced that automatics do not belong in untrained hands.
Well, I’m trained, I’ll take one. However, I’ve never really heard a good explanation for why police departments need fully automatic weapons either. I can’t put together a scenario, no matter how well armed the bad guys are, that spray and pray would be the best tactic.
A while back there was a dead serious article about a loose .22 shell that someone found in an entryway of some shop. I kid you not, they made it sound like someone found a live 155 mm. round in a schoolroom or something. It was absolutely surreal. And it was serious, which I found unbelievable at the time. Not at longer though, from this steady flow of articles showing what the UK has become.
Granny Get Your Gun?
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