.22 bullet found in Fossgate, York (real headline, NOT The Onion)

The York Press ^ | 8:57am Friday 21st January 2011

[FreedomPoster]

A STARTLED man has told how he found a bullet lying in a York city-centre street.

Tim Stark said he was unloading items into the MOR Music store where he works in Fossgate yesterday morning when he spotted what he believed to be a live .22 bullet gleaming in a puddle.

He said he immediately called police, who came and took it away.

“I have no idea what it was doing there,” he said.

A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said the bullet had been put into safe storage, and CID had confirmed it was not thought to be connected with any incident currently under investigation.

He asked anyone with any information about the bullet and how it came to be in Fossgate to phone the force on 0845 60 60 47.

[FreedomPoster]

The UK, she is done for. Their men are wetting their panties and calling the police over a .22 round found in the gutter? And it makes the newspaper?

Speechless.

[Red Badger]

These bullets hit my house!...............

[FreedomPoster]

Just damn.

Oh, and there is a picture of the incredibly dangerous and concern-causing round at the link.

[FreedomPoster]

And our presstitutes ate it up, as I recall.

[sockmonkey]

Good Grief, the write up makes it sound like a .22 round is an IED. Sad. Sad. Sad.

[The_Victor]

Someone was prolly just using it as a car fuse. </ mythbusters>

[no-to-illegals]

This has to be misinformation, for there are no bullets in York, unless someone spit one.

[TSgt]

I hope the mods don't pull this horrific graphic photo or ban me for posting it.

GAH!

[Hodar]

I remember finding old, corroded unspent .22 shells out in the fields, growing up on a farm. It wasn’t unheard of to dump a partial box of those shells in your pant’s pocket when you went out varmit hunting. Occassionally, a couple would drop out.

Back then, I used to buy a box of 50 of the Rochester brand, for around 80 cents. Cheap as dirt, and almost as plentiful too.

[SLB]

I found five 12 ga shotgun shells on my bed last night. I unloaded before cleaning. When I went to bed four were tucked safely in line and one was standing at the ready.

[Tijeras_Slim]

A classic!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887305/posts

[TSgt]

Actual photo of the offending item:

GAH!

[dead]

A saw a .22 caliber bullet driving an SUV, yelling anti-gay and racist slogans at the children.

[PastorBooks]

That is so sad.

[dead]

It moved! I swear I saw it move!!

[Oztrich Boy]

“I have no idea what it was doing there,” he said.

Not a lot. Just lying there, minding its own business.

[Cobra64]

Those are not bullets.

[Celtic Cross]

"The bullet has been put into safe storage."

Are you...Sure? It won't sneak out and get me, will it?

[Snickering Hound]

[cripplecreek]

I have a .44 magnum round here with my keys hanging from it.