Blimey, mate... I thought he was wearin' a target.
Posted on 10/07/2008 7:48:32 AM PDT by AUJenn
A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.
Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'.
The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting 'I f***ing hate n*****s' and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Does anyone know the whereabouts of Robert Byrd when this happened?
whoa ...
So here’s a white guy saying the shooter should be tried and, if found guilty, hung promptly and publicly.
Next issue?
Sounds like a fiction to me. After all, they have gun control in Britain, so there aren’t any guns or gun crime.
And what happens if Hussein looses...
Zacherley right.
Just like in DC.
I was verbally assaulted for having a McCain-Palin bumper sticker...
Guns are not completely banned in Britain and a “gas-powered ball-bearing pistol” i.e. an air-pistol or BB gun, is an example of one that is perfectly legal to own...
Concealed carry.
Proud owner of a Georgia Firearms License.
Three shots at the guy. The gunman needs target practice.
Those racist Europeans. Good thing we don’t let them vote in our elections.
I see. We don’t call that a “gun” around here.
Blimey, mate... I thought he was wearin' a target.
The article states that it is a 'ball bearing' gun, aka, BB or pellet.
BTW, what kind of last name is 'Egwuatu'?
Are there any people of anglo-saxon descent left in GB?
Yes well, as the victim’s wife said: “’If he had been carrying a real gun I would have been a widow. It is just ridiculous.”
Sounds more like a drug deal “gone bad” to me.
UK shooting ping. Gee, gun control is really ‘great’.
You had to read deep into the article to find out it was a BB gun.
Mr Egwuatu's wife, Angela, 35, said neither of them had experienced anything like it during their childhood in Nigeria.
Sounds like they should just move back to Nigeria, if the UK is so awful. I know I sure would like to move to Nigeria.(/sarc)
I believe the article said the gentleman and his wife are Nigerian.
I don’t believe this story. I think it’s another attention-getting “hate” crime, like the Tawana Brawley “rape,” like the nooses and racist grafitti that college instructors and students were placing on their own doors until people caught on.
Yeah, Nigeria is high on my list of fun places. I love Sharia Law!
Impossible. Guns and shooting people are both illegal in Britain.
My McCain/Palin yard signs were stolen by border jumpers!
They got the first one clean but my Chesapeake Bay Retriever (an American breed) almost caught the thieves getting the second one.
I'm going to pick up some more today and then me and Jake are going to wait.................
The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder.
Fearing for his life and bleeding heavily, Mr Egwuatu raced away in his car and found somewhere safe to call for help.
He was taken to hospital and later sent to have a piece of metal removed from his jaw.
Yeah, one problem they have in London is all the people running around with guns. It was only a matter of time until this happened. ;)
Seriously, this had to be the only gun in the city becuase even the cops keep theirs under lock and key until something big happens.
IOW, it smells.
The perpetually offended will tear up their own neighborhoods causing hundreds of dollars in damages.
All — please forgive — not a real gun.
Ping retraction.
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>>Yes well, as the victim’s wife said: “’If he had been carrying a real gun I would have been a widow. It is just ridiculous.”<<
Or how about a real knife?
Yes, this is silly.
I saw a girl wearing a shirt that had a picture of McCain with the word “old” under it.
I thought later I should have asked her if I could get one of 0bama with the word “black” under it...
But, no, that would have been “bigotted”, now wouldn’t it?
I thought we weren’t allowed to use n*****s here, wasn’t it declared dead?
Couldn’t they have said, “racial slur pertaining to country of ancestral origin” or something simple like that?
** All — please forgive — not a real gun. **
Not a problem!
SO ... he’s not REAL dead, then, I assume?? :)
Would you mind inserting that this was a BB gun in the headline?
Denny Crane?
I used to frequent a website that would bleep out the word “Nigerian.”
A war with Obama's violent, roving gangs attacking Americans and acting like a bunch of d@mn palestinians.
Americans will have to defend their lives, families and properties against Obama's violent thugs.
He’s not even fake dead.
I wouldn’t worry too much about “roving gangs” - they’ll stay in their own neighborhoods.
Too many heavily armed rednecks in the “red” areas for them to target anyone but their own ideological compatriots.
Will we be free of racism’s tinge when we have an congressional white caucus, or when they become too ashamed to have a congressional black caucus?
Just askin...
While this was a dud, real murders and real guns are a problem since UK tried banning them:
The Numbers Speak For Themselves (gun control and murder rates of assorted countries)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331029/posts
The article says it was a “gas powered ball-bearing gun”, which I assume means a BB gun.
Speaking of fake guns, maybe I was ‘too quick on the draw’. =/ [red faced]. My promise to you — I will never learn.
Yes, I saw that eventually.
Cowboyway wrote:My McCain/Palin yard signs were stolen by border jumpers!
They got the first one clean but my Chesapeake Bay Retriever (an American breed) almost caught the thieves getting the second one.
I’m going to pick up some more today and then me and Jake are going to wait.................”
smear Prussian blue machinist dye all over the corners, when the sh#tbirds pick the sign up, it’ll take months for it to wear off their hands.
Having BB-Gun in the UK will get you life without parole.
“gas powered ball-bearing gun”
Teddibly sorry old bean, but I was preoccupied with
excavating wet and dried deritrus from my proboscis.
What the haps?
Where can I get some of the Prussian blue dye???
Noted, along with the Poison Ivy.
I saw headlines earlier that neglected to mention this [very important] fact. Couldn't be bias from the MSM could it?
....Does anyone know the whereabouts of Robert Byrd when this happened?....
I heard on the street that he and Teddy were at the granite shop checking out monuments
What the hell is some Brit doing with an “Obama” shirt in London?
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