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.
Such shoddy reporting! The story leaves one vital question unanswered: Did Mr. Stark wet himself when he saw the terrifying Fossgate Bullet?
It’s a sad day for British journalism.
Having grown up in America, I had only a tenuous idea of what it meant to be British (or Dutch, Belgian or French) during the war. My education was significantly advanced when I spent time abroad in the 70s and had occasion to speak with people who lived through it, and visited some of those cemeteries whose marble stones seem to stretch into infinity. And standing in the middle of Coventry Cathedral, alone on a Sunday morning, looking up at the sky... a very eerie and quiet moment.
My father always said that what was once meant by "Europe" truly died during World War I. The Brits of that generation were decimated, of course, but the French: they were truly finished off. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Franco-Prussian War, a whole surviving generation of young men rushed headlong into German machine guns and artillery fire shouting "Elan!" to the last man.
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MAANNN... One measly bullet!!
That’s nothin’! I was out running down the street last month and found a WHOLE box of .22 hollowpoints lying on the side of the road!
I’m thinking some gang members must’ve been being followed by the cops and tossed ‘em out the window, since they were actually on the street, with some scattered about.
I was so frightened, I scooped ‘em up and brought them home, since I’ve got a .22 bolt-action Winchester! FUN!
And the sad/funny thing is, he looks like he thinks he actually did something to advance civilization.
I have a few thousand of those evil things stashed around the house in various places. It’s a wonder I’m still alive!
It kind of feels good to cheat death every day.
Call out the Royal Marines! Quickly!
Oh good lord! In West Virginia?
>>Real qusetion is, who uses a .22? In New York?
Didn’t the answer to that used to be “Mafia hit men”?
Not sure if it’s still the case.
>>You can’t make this stuff up.
I swear, I don’t know how parody/satire sites like The Onion make it these days. Real life is as weird as anything they come up with, day after day.
Something this silly....I’d have used a case of C-4 to blow it in place. Break windows an scare the populace over sad evil an dangerous .22 round of ammunition. Make noise, charge the city thousands of dollars. Tie up traffic for hours etc... Continue the stupidity as long as possible....:o)
Too funny....no wonder cities are broke.
That has got to be the most ridiculous news item I have ever seen in my life. Such hysteria is hysterical...
*Many of the same British generation that survived WWI were in their 40s and 50s when the German bombs began falling on London and environs. They endured hardships that few of their modern counterparts could imagine, beginning with the economic dislocations of the 1930s, the shortages and rationing that came with war (again), the need to send their children to the countryside to escape the Luftwaffe and the rockets, none knowing when or if they’d ever see each other again. *
True—but the same generation that saw that slaughter in Flanders, Gallipoli, etc., were in charge in the run-up to WW2. The only person(s) who had enough sense to stop Hitler early on was marginalized as a war monger. They were so keen to avoid slaughter again that they waited far too long and hence, had very little choices when the fighting finally broke out.
You’re right, of course - but it wasn’t just the Brits who suffered from delusions about Hitler’s intentions. Wishful thinking and willful blindness were amply evident on this side of the Pond as well. The devastation brought about by WWI (and in my opinion, America’s ultimately unnecessary involvement in it) not only sowed the seeds of the next Great War, but caused many people to delay serious consideration of the true dangers created by Nazi and Japanese imperialism, for fear of more of the same. Instead, the weakness, fearfulness and blindness of the democratic powers only made war inevitable - just as Churchill had warned.
Fortunately, it was not a pointed stick.
Silly Arthur King who’s afraid of a duck, you know.
Silly Arthur King who’s afraid of a duck, you know.
This thread died a year ago........
A saw a .22 caliber bullet drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s... his hair was perfect.
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