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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manchester Evening News, 13 July 2000 Toddlers' game with a loaded gun by Neal Keeling Two toddlers wer discovered playing a deadly game after they found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals. The children, aged four and three, were already playing with a toy machine gun when they discovered the real weapon and five rounds of live ammunition hidden in bushes just feet from their home in Swinton. They then started to take aim at each other and swapped the guns. It was later found that there were two live rounds in each barrel of the gun. Today the mother of one of the boys said it was a 'miracle' that neither was killed. The deadly game ended when the sister of the four-year-old spotted the gun. She ran inside to alert her parents, who took the gun off the boys. A police armed response team was sent to deal with the incident. Chief Inspector John Carlin, of Swinton police, said: "This was a very disturbing incident. It is a miracle that neither of the children who found the gun was injured or worse. We are using every means at our disposal to try and identify who left it there." The toddlers found the gun and cartridges in an Aldi supermarket bag. It had been dumped in a garden, built down the middle of Mount Street as a traffic calming measure. The incident happened only 250 yards from Swinton police headquarters. The mother of the three-year-old said: "I was at the door and heard the other boy's sister shout 'It's a real gun'. I ran over and the boys were arguing as to whose go it was next with the real gun. They were pointing it at each other. My son had some of the cartridges in his pocket. Why they didn't pull the trigger I don't know - it was a miracle. My boyfriend ran out and took it off them, brought it back into the house and called the police. It is hard to believe this would happen on your own doorstep. The bag was just partly buried in soil and the boys pulled it out. I asked one officer if they would have been killed if it had gone off and he said 'Without a doubt'." The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed. Stuart Heal Quiet loner with an arsenal of weapons. http://olympia.fortunecity.com/naseem/170/ FREE Web-Based email from Keep And Bear Arms!!! Sign Up for your FREE email account today and support the 2nd amendment. Go to http://mail.keepandbeararms.com Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, > which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed. She'll succeed of course, you can't argue with an enraged Mother unles you wan't to be branded as a potential kiddie Murderer. This Country is really pathetic. Jonathan Laws. -- Yes, all bushes everywhere should be banned, you never know what might be in them. Bush Control Inc., where are you when we need you? Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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From: "niel fagan", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, >which have been in the street for more than 20 years, >removed. > [...] > Why is it that logic is sorely lacking in modern >man? > >ET
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From: Adrian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Two toddlers were discovered playing a deadly game after they >found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals. > >A police armed response team was sent to deal with the incident. > Why armed? Were they expecting to shoot the toddlers or the parents? -- Adrian Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Manchester Evening News, 13 July 2000 Toddlers' game with a loaded gun by Neal Keeling Two toddlers wer discovered playing a deadly game after they found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals. --snip-- The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed. [...] Concerning that last statement, removing the bushes is supposed to accomplish . . . what? Well, heck, why not remove every last bush, tree, and level every knoll in sight in order to have a clear view of the whole darned countryside! And while she's at it, lets make every house (and clothes too) transparent. Seems to me that the kid's mother is trying to cover for the lack of her own attentiveness. "Go play outside, kiddies!" Yup, and don't overlook what mummy should have seen by a careful observation of just where she was sending those kids to play. Why is it that logic is sorely lacking in modern man? ET Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, > which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed. My garden's a hell of a mess. I'm thinking of putting one of my old shotguns in the grass and scattering some cartridges about, then calling the boys in blue. Cheaper than a gardening service... Paul -- Wasn't there an IRA joke along similar lines a few years back? Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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From: Ken Wyatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No doubt that "call-out" by the kevlar cowboys will be recorded in the annual stats for Greater Manchester Police. Many more "armed Incidents" in the area and surely the force will qualify for the acquisition of a helicopter gunship or other such neccessity in this, now gun-free society of ours. On the grapevine I hear that some forces are evaluating ghillie suits for their armed "Ninja's" I used to work in Moss Sidea ghillie suit hung with dustbin lids and half bricks I gotta see. Ken (Plodwatch UK) Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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From: Neil Wareham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, > >which have been in the street for more than 20 years, > >removed. > > [...] > > Why is it that logic is sorely lacking in modern > >man? > > > >ET > From teletext yesterday I note that Leeds or Liverpool have enacted local > by-laws banning Glass in public places, as "Glass is seen as a major cause > of violence", Cause? > > Ho, Hum, same, different. > > Niel In a similar vein, there was a report on the evening news the other day about the practice of attacking young women in Bangladesh with acid. It seems that this is a common revenge for rejecting the advances of a male suitor. The solution? Calls for the regulation of car battery acid. I suppose it's slightly comforting to know that we don't have a monopoly on morons in positions of authority. Neil Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
