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.22 bullet found in Fossgate, York (real headline, NOT The Onion)
The York Press ^ | 8:57am Friday 21st January 2011

Posted on 03/02/2011 7:26:08 AM PST by 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.


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To: The KG9 Kid

Please see my post #95. : )


101 posted on 03/02/2011 8:45:59 AM PST by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: VeniVidiVici

You beat me to it with that picture. I often have 22’s and shotgun shells roll out on to the pavement when I open the door of my truck.


102 posted on 03/02/2011 8:49:28 AM PST by BobinIL
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To: FreedomPoster

Quick, somebody call the U.N. Hazmat Crew!

103 posted on 03/02/2011 8:56:53 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("And did you exchange a walk on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?")
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To: Eye of Unk

A friend in NSW had a .22 rifle and he said filling out the paperwork just wasn’t worth it and he turned it in during the ‘buy back’ frenzy a few years ago. But yeah, I saw some gun shops in Brisbane the last time I was there.


104 posted on 03/02/2011 8:59:53 AM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
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To: Red Badger

An excellent explanation of the whole Shooty, No Shooty issue.

http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/like-a-suppository-only-stronger/


105 posted on 03/02/2011 9:10:06 AM PST by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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To: FreedomPoster

Our kitchen sink backed up on us a few years ago. I took a plunger to it and ‘Lo!’ Four 22 cal rounds came up.

We live in my Grandparent’s house and apparently my Grandpa had lost a few down the sink many years before.

We had the plumbing redone shortly after that and don’t have that problem any more.

The Police were not involved.


106 posted on 03/02/2011 9:28:13 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: BobinIL
I often have 22’s and shotgun shells roll out on to the pavement when I open the door of my truck.

My 20-something son was over the house the other day. He's digging through a "junk drawer" in the kitchen. You know, the drawer that's filled with everything from toothpicks to batteries to small tools and coupons. Near the bottom of the drawer he comes across a single stripper clip filled with 7.62x39. He holds it up and looks over at me with a smile and says, "I always love coming over here."

107 posted on 03/02/2011 9:32:50 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Why are public employee unions attacking taxpayers?)
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To: Cold Heart

So I went shooting one night with a bunch of lawyers after work (so I had my suit pants on). 9mm, .38 and .380s. Lot’s of fun. Teh next week, I was wearign the same suit to work (had not been dry cleaned) and as I’m walking across the screen I hear clinking. Turns out I had a shell in my pant cuff that went bouncing on the street after it popped out of my cuff. Glad it did too, it would be hard to explain if I walked through the metal detector at Court that morning.

Real qusetion is, who uses a .22? In New York?


108 posted on 03/02/2011 9:36:49 AM PST by DEsaxum
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To: FreedomPoster
Does the Onion publish in the UK?

Did they actually make a crime scene out of the area?
Call out a hazmat team? What?

New way to paralyze a city... sprnkle dummy .22 ammunition in selected places.
You can't make this stuff up.

109 posted on 03/02/2011 9:38:12 AM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: andy58-in-nh

*How the !$^&* did these people ever survive the Blitz?
Oh, that was their grandparents. The last British generation with brains, guts, and faith. *

That generation really had no choice—remember, we had to send them guns because they literally were disarmed. One could posit that they only survived WW2 because of Hitler’s foolish choices. If he had sent the tanks onto Dunkirk instead of relying on Goering, the story might have ended differently.

The last truly brave generation the British seemed to have was slaughtered en masse in Flanders. After that, it looks to have all gone downhill.


110 posted on 03/02/2011 9:41:15 AM PST by j-damn
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To: VeniVidiVici

The other night I was looking for something in my wife’s night stand drawer after we went to bed. I left the light off and was trying to find it be feel, glasses case, tume bottle, .357 Magnum. Nope, not there. Maybe it’s in the box on the headboard. Speed loaders and magazines. Nope, not there either. Time to turn the light on.


111 posted on 03/02/2011 9:45:14 AM PST by cyclotic (Boy Scouts-Developing Leaders in a World of Followers.)
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To: Eye of Unk
Contrary to what most people think not everybody in Australia has been de-gunned.

Nor in Britain either. .22 rifles, along with other types of hunting rifle and shotgun, are still legal.

112 posted on 03/02/2011 9:46:46 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: FreedomPoster; Travis McGee; ATLDiver; Squantos; SLB
I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad. This is so fubar on so many levels.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

113 posted on 03/02/2011 9:49:28 AM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: FreedomPoster

That pansy would have a fit if he saw my house. Bullets lying about everywhere. On my dresser, under the sofa cushions, on the loading bench....


114 posted on 03/02/2011 9:50:04 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Mr Rogers; FreedomPoster

Instead of just a picture of the hero, too bad there isn’t also video of my daughter. She’d say “Thanks, I could use that” and load it into her Ruger. She’s 8 years old and her 10/22 is pink. Viewers could then be asked to identify which one is the littler girl...


115 posted on 03/02/2011 10:02:30 AM PST by philled (Lay on, Macduff! And damned be him that first cries “Hold, enough!”)
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To: philled

The taller one is the little girl.

LOL


116 posted on 03/02/2011 10:11:47 AM PST by texmexis best
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To: TSgt

It appears to be pining for the fjords....


117 posted on 03/02/2011 10:14:10 AM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: FreedomPoster
A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said the bullet had been put into safe storage

GOOD THING, TOO! One of those things could have leveled the entire hemisphere, and I hear if you shoot at the sun, you can put it out!!!!


118 posted on 03/02/2011 10:14:10 AM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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To: Squantos
Squantos, we need you to call EOD, we've got a hot .22 round here.


119 posted on 03/02/2011 10:18:46 AM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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To: Publius6961
New way to paralyze a city... sprnkle dummy .22 ammunition in selected places.

You can't make this stuff up.

LOL. Several years ago I found 15 or 18 rounds of .223 ammo laying at an intersection in central Texas. I just got out my pickup and picked them up. Brought them to work and gave them to a guy who has an AR 15. This idiot would have messed his drawers if he had seen them.

120 posted on 03/02/2011 10:19:21 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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