.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.

[Red Badger]

Still funny after all this time............

[cajuncow]

And to think I TOUCHED that nasty live shotgun shell I found lying in the Walmart parking lot during duck season and didn’t bother the cop parked 70 feet from me.

[Soothesayer]

Someone please nuke Britain and put those idiots out of their misery.

[Red Badger]

She said they were!..............

[NewHampshireDuo]

Yes, they are kind of like pennies. You keep a bunch in your pocket and every now and then one gets dropped on the ground.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That photo reminds me of another classic. My personal favorite.

The Media Gets a Lesson on Cartridge vs. Bullet

[Eye of Unk]

I bet they would sound the emergency sirens, declare martial law, bring out the tanks if a person left a brick (500 rounds)lying around.

I bet they called a SWAT team, a bomb disposal specialist or a robot to pick it up.

Or to really muck them up and to create a national furor, mail them out in a couple thousand envelopes, or tape one to a small helium balloon, let go with a couple thousand balloons upwind.

A friggin nation of lambs with all its neighbors building slaughterhouses.

[TSgt]

I have a 20mm round on my shelf here in my office.

[Tijeras_Slim]

GMTA

Shooty!

[listenhillary]

The press and the lady called them bullets. Who are you going to believe? (/sarcasm)

[Mr Rogers]

The hero of the story:

Where do we get such men?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Did they put the military on high alert?

[listenhillary]

From the UK.

[UCANSEE2]

My best guess.

Someone dropped it.

Canz I beez a detective now ?

[Eye of Unk]

They deserve to pay over $9 a gallon for gas.

[Travis McGee]

Cordon off the block and call EOD!

[Conan the Conservative]

“.22 bullet found in Fossgate, York”

OMG! That poor man. I hope he’ll be ok.

[Concho]

The once proud Brits have become the wussey laughing stock of the world.

[Charles Martel]

Actual photo of the offending item:

Egad! Looks to be from a Remington "golden bullet" bulk pack, which means there are around 499 more of those evil, nasty things strewn about. < rolls eyes >

Roger the Shrubber was absolutely right - there *is* a pestilence upon that land.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What a chuckle. I love that video.

This past weekend, I was teaching my wife on the handling and loading techniques to be used on my rifle. I made the mistake of holding up a cartridge and pointing out the "shooty end" versus the "non-shooty" end. She was not amused and the look she gave me indicated that she did not need a rifle to kill anything that was within 10 paces of her.

[dila813]

EOD had a Bomb Disposal Robot safely load the charge into an explosion containment vessel where the charge was safely detonated in a controlled explosion.

Your tax dollars at work! I feel safer already!

[Jeff Chandler]

A LIVE .22 bullet? Oh, the hu . . . well, you know.

[dead]

[Roccus]

A couple of years ago the entire school system in my rural county went into lock-down because a .22 round was found on the HS property.....in the grass. Five elementary schools, the middle school and the high school were locked-down. Sheriff’s Dept, PD from nearby city (pop 7K), State police, SWAT, EMT and HazMat were called to the scene. This was in a RURAL area of WV about a day or two into squirrel season.

[Eye of Unk]

It would be totally ironic in a Benny Hill way, they use a block of demolition compound to destroy a .22 long rifle.

[Cold Heart]

Brits should do a flash mob drop of .22’s all over GB.

As many posters have replied to the weird stories out of UK, Great Btitain is DONE.

[FreedomPoster]

Such a classic. I love that he’s using Che wearing Mickey Mouse ears for his network bug.

[listenhillary]

Did the kids keep leaving more cartridges around after that incident to keep getting out of school?

[ModelBreaker]

Whew. That was really close. But they got it to safe storage before it found a gun, loaded itself into the gun, and then talked the gun into shooting someone.

[Eye of Unk]

Here in America we them as emergency fuses in our trucks!