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Re: Somerset Levels, Cache of Weapons
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:11 pm
by Racalman
Countryman wrote:froggy wrote:Should have been quite exciting for a kid ...
Cant believe he through some back instead of calling his mates and have a "play with" ... Sado ...
I remember a book from my childhood called The Machinegunners about a gang of kids that recover a machine gun from a downed German Bomber and use it to shoot down another.
They clearly don't make kids like they used to.
During the war there was a facility in the home counties nicknamed Winston Churchill's Playground, where they experimented with weapons.
A local lad got under the fence one day, found a rocket launcher and fired it off. He received a caution for his contribution to the war effort, but that didn't deter him because he did it again.
They certainly don't make kids like they used to.
Re: Somerset Levels, Cache of Weapons
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 6:48 pm
by JS569
Hang on.... Playing with the gun before mum took it off him. Most of these appear to be section 5. Surely he was in violation of the firearms act. Or has common sense prevailed?
Re: Somerset Levels, Cache of Weapons
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:13 pm
by Outsider
Countryman wrote:froggy wrote:Should have been quite exciting for a kid ...
Cant believe he through some back instead of calling his mates and have a "play with" ... Sado ...
I remember a book from my childhood called The Machinegunners about a gang of kids that recover a machine gun from a downed German Bomber and use it to shoot down another.
They clearly don't make kids like they used to.
Thanks for reminding me of that book. I loved it as a kid. It's always been a fancy of mine to dig out a nice cosy dugout somewhere and reading that as a little b****** just made my eyes light up.
Hell, if I was 14 and found this stash of rusted iron on my own, well, I'm sure I would do the responsible thing and call it in to the police, if you understand where I was coming from.
Re: Somerset Levels, Cache of Weapons
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:18 pm
by Swamp Donkey
I was trying to remember the name of that book t'other day. Cheers for the reminder :)
Re: Somerset Levels, Cache of Weapons
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2015 11:32 pm
by snayperskaya
Countryman wrote:froggy wrote:Should have been quite exciting for a kid ...
Cant believe he through some back instead of calling his mates and have a "play with" ... Sado ...
I remember a book from my childhood called The Machinegunners about a gang of kids that recover a machine gun from a downed German Bomber and use it to shoot down another.
They clearly don't make kids like they used to.
In the Machinegunners wasn't it a geordie lad called Chas Mcgill?, I seem to remember it as a kids TV show as well.If I remember right didn't they find a German airman as well?.