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Chuck wrote:

'We have friends with young children who could have put one of the bullets in their mouth, or one of our cats could have got hold of one - it doesn’t bear thinking about.

'We were planning to be in this house for years - now we want to move out as soon as we can.

The couple, who have been together for 10 years, moved into the rented house last September

A right pair of tw'ts, talk about hysterical pantywetting...Is this REALLY what this nation has descended into?

oh and SHOTGUN bullets???

Chuck I was looking for words to describe these fools but you have summed it up nicely.
I did wonder what the cat was going to use to fire off this ammo?

I thought it funny that the "underwater search team wasn't available".............how small are these guys to get submerged in a garden pond? Had someone lost them in their pockets!!!

At one point I lived in the Philippines as a kid (father was a tobacco dealer) we used to find all sorts of left overs from WWII .. Particularly after heavy rain .... Now some of that stuff WAS dangerous !!

Badger: it's not so much their stiff upper lip that needs refurbished as their quivering rectal orifices and flaccid appendages - which they both appear to be imitating.

'We have friends with young children who could have put one of the bullets in their mouth, or one of our cats could have got hold of one - it doesn't bear thinking about.

Everyone knows how much cats like to get hold of live ammo, darn cats.

Sensationalism and misinformed opinions, perfect copy for the paper. Interesting that the first picture looks to be empty cases.

etprescottuk wrote:'or one of our cats could have got hold of one - it doesn't bear thinking about.

Hmmm, imagine moggie going on the rampage with a couple of sawn-offs and an AK !

I'm trying and trying to search my mind to find words to describe not only this incident, yeah incident joke, and the pathetic wet spineless ill informed attitude of these people.
If this is representative of a section of our population, then there is no hope left, what are these people going to teach their children the mind just boggles.
As for the actual journalism side of it well say no more.

ovenpaa wrote:Sensationalism and misinformed opinions, perfect copy for the paper. Interesting that the first picture looks to be empty cases.

These stories of "GIANT CACHE OF DEATH NEUTRALISED BY BRAVE COPS" are invariably based on police press releases made available to local and national reporters alike. Some of those pictures are obviously taken with a phone camera by the family themselves, while the pictures of the dud ammo has all the hallmarks of police PR - gloved hands (intended to make the reader think "ah, forensics, they'll catch the buggers!) and zoomed out far enough to make actual details difficult to pick out.

This type of thing usually makes it as a page lead on a local paper because it's relatively rare, and because neither reporter nor editor nor (the vast majority of) readers actually understand that the greatest danger from hauls like this is more likely to be lead poisoning rather than any ability to explode or be fired.

Police like to plug these things heavily to try and win brownie points for their "public confidence" agenda. With a bit of nouse you can see most of what they recover tends to be either stolen tacticool .22s or rusty old pistols that haven't seen any maintenance since May 1945.

The logical conclusion of this police PR strategy is the shocking and disgraceful raid on Mick Shepherd, which was done hand-in-glove with the press (who enjoy being invited along to see a few doors kicked in, heads banged together and some hardware to play with - as would anyone here, I suspect) purely for PR purposes. As we all know well, Mick was as innocent as a newborn lamb and the police fishing expedition failed to turn up anything.

I would put money on the couple in this story being interviewed either after a briefing from the police PR, to "suggest" things to mention to the reporter, or with the PR handlers actually present to prompt them to say how terrified they were when they found the corroded old brass (clue - not so terrified as to pick it up, walk off with it and show it to their mates!) and how glad they were to see brave PC Plod turning up to save them from CERTAIN DEATH or some such rubbish.

As a local news editor I always avoided running these PR pieces unless I could tell for myself that they'd found something worthwhile. That happened rarely.

Not entirely surprised by this couples reaction! I have had friends who don't shoot go all weak at the knees and jumpy when I offer to let them have a look at a live bullet! They seem to think that just the act of holding a live round will cause it to explode in their hands causing hideous maiming injuries! Pitiful really!

Their comment about what if a child puts it in their mouth had me creasing up in hysterics of laughter, nothing beyond a bit of copper poisoning in reality! Actually I would be more worried about the pond slime they would have to drink in the process of chewing on said bullet!

Neither the press or the police help as they both happily work together to portray an inert object as something ready to explode at any second! Two fire engines and a forensic team! REALLY?!?!?!?!?! Some numpty for reasons lost to history decided to throw some left over ammo into the pond, very naughty but hardly equivalent to finding a 1000lb WWII German bomb is it! How many times have we at open firing ranges found dropped unfired ammunition, it is hardly unusual! We certainly aren't throwing a cordon up until the terrifying death bullet has been disposed of!