Posted on 06/30/2013 3:53:42 PM PDT by marktwain
A couple who recently moved into a rented home discovered a cache of 7,500 bullets in a pond in their back garden.
Neil Tipping, 33, who lives with his girlfriend Eleanor Mercer, 32, made the shocking discovery while he was clearing weeds from the water feature.
He said he saw a flash of metal and thought it was a piece of gold, but upon closer inspection he found that it was actually a bullet.
Police officers arrived at the house where they discovered 2.2mm rifle rounds, up to 30 machine gun rounds, shotgun cartridges, and a cache of 9mm and 8mm rounds.
Hands-on: A police officer wearing purple gloves lines up a number of the bullets found in the pond at Mr Tipping and Ms Mercer's home
Now the pair are worried there may be more rounds of undiscovered ammunition in their home.
Mr Tipping said: 'It’s really unnerved us. I’m terrified that next time I’m mowing the lawn I’ll run over a bullet that hasn’t been found yet. One of us could be seriously hurt.
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Haven’t they heard about the ammo shortage?! They could make a fortune!
“2.2mm rifle rounds”
Reeeeeallly?
Well, if I found a 2.2mm rifle round I’d be pretty skeert too. That’s .086 caliber. Apparently the insects in the UK are packing.
2.2mm? Half the size of .17 caliber? Used for shooting horseflies?
Those look like round nose rifle cartridges. Maybe for a lever-action?
A fading relic of forgotten liberties. The fear this wuss has of inanimate objects would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.
Those sure look like .22LR to me.
/johnny
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Yep. I had to look twice to realize that those purple things are human fingers. I don’t see any shotgun “cartridges”, though.
/johnny
Shotgun bullets????
Mr Tipping would probably have a heart attack if he saw what the UPS guy left on my front steps on Friday.
Hard to believe that the same nation with a storied history going back a thousand years is now just a bunch of scared little girls peeing themselves.
Gnat-nut shooting?
“Mr Tipping would probably have a heart attack if he saw what the UPS guy left on my front steps on Friday.”
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He would piss all over himself around here.
Mr Tipping will probably be arrested.
"..gimme yo cheese"
Dig a little deeper, John Deere... (snort!)
“...what the UPS guy left on my front steps on Friday.”
Dear Mr. Sooth222,
Thank you for that interesting tidbit of information.
Regards,
The NSA
PS: Your neighbor has more than you do.
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