[Gamecock]

I would love to see one of these bad boys utilized:

[Cowboy Bob]

The Picts have had enough!

[Magnum44]

That’s it. They need to outlaw catapults...

[moovova]

“Officers were called to the Masjid Qamarul Islam mosque on Fosbrooke Road, Small Heath, at around 10pm...”

Sounds like they’re gonna need a bigger Heath.

[onedoug]

Don’t worry about the rest of the population, but protect the muslims at all costs.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Perhaps the worm has turned.

[Magnum44]

firearms officers were deployed as a precaution

Because in GB, the firearms officers are the only one we can trust with firearms.

[bk1000]

I have a feeling ‘catapult’ is British for slingshot.

Also I am thrilled some Brits are pushing back. I wish they would push hard enough to encourage repatriation of the invaders.

[Mr. K]

They make the area a ‘no-go’ zone for police, then call the police?

[Darteaus94025]

Hmmm. A very insensitive cretin might joke that catapult tossing of Muslims might be like dwarf tossing.

Fortunately, we have no one like that on FR.

[RandallFlagg]

How’d they get all of the felines in the launch basket at once?

ba-DUM-bum!

[petro45acp]

Don’t the brits call slingshots catapults? America and Britain, two nations divided by a “common” language.

Probably hid the catapults in the boot after the deed to nip down to the pub for a pint or two....

KYPD

[Vaquero]

RUN AWAY!

[Bringbackthedraft]

I suspect the catapult was nothing more than a slingshot with tire tube or surgical tubing. Most likely with a larger pad to hold several ball bearings. This report was hyped for a reason.

[logi_cal869]

https://www.theslingshotforum.com/threads/catapults-vs-slingshots.32793/

[spokeshave2]

[marktwain]

As part of the extreme weapons law inflicted on the Australians in 1996, slingshots were defined as prohibited weapons.

[KingLudd]

Read: Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa by military historian Who Flung Poo

[Tell It Right]

It’s too funny as an American reading this and seeing the word “catapult”, making us do a double-take. I’m sure this is talking about slingshots. I forgot what Brits call catapults.

But....wouldn’t it be nice if they did deportations by catapults...across the English channel. The France employed the same technique to try to catapult across the Mediterranean into Algiers.

Better yet, a reality show on who can make the best deportation catapults, with frequent testing needed.

[SoCal Pubbie]

That’s a trebuchet, not a catapult!

[Fido969]

This is getting medieval.