Posted on 12/10/2008 12:58:35 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A grandmother was left petrified when she was sent a police machine gun in the post by mistake.
The package was delivered by a courier to Catherine Roots when it should have been sent to firearms officers at the nearby police HQ.
Mrs Roots had been expecting a horse harness in the post so opened the package thinking it was that.
Instead, she found the Heckler & Koch black sub-machine gun staring back at her.
She called the police and two armed officers turned up and took it away.
Red-faced officers later explained a gun supply company made a one-digit mistake with the postcode when they sent it to Dorset Police HQ in Winfrith near Dorchester.
Mrs Roots, who is her 50s and runs a small-holding at Winfrith, said: 'I was absolutely and totally shocked, and petrified.
'I get a lot of packages and I signed for it thinking it was a harness for one of my horses.
'I just plonked it down and didn't think about it, but when I later opened it up I was terrified.
'You don't expect something like that to to arrive. I was petrified and I didn't touch it - I didn't know if it would go off.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I was wondering about that too.
I think it’s for riot control and audio broadcasts the phrase “Allah wants you to please return to your apartment...please”
Damn if a Heckler & Koch rifle showed up in my mail then finders keepers. What a waste of good fortune!
Legally, they could have done that.
Maudie Fricker - Armed and Dangerous - Jonathan Winters we need you.
They are now the perfect target for terror.
The FN 2000 is even scarier. Basically the gun from the game Halo, only real.
Terrorists: “It’s Master Chief, the alien fighter, run run run!”
That is not a firearm. That is a training device much like the old Nintendo "zapper".
You mean the headline is more than just a little misleading? Say it ain’t so!
She must have been Mrs. Forrest Gump. (stupid is as stupid does)
Thats my story and I’m sticking to it.
She’s petrified, we’re all drooling over here.
Is that proper english grammar?
I ask because I find it misleading. It would be more descriptive of what happened had it said Grandmother received sent a machine gun in the post that was meant for nearby police HQt.
Or “Grandma WAS sent a machine gun in the mail”.
Which gun specifically from Halo? There are lots of different guns in Halo, most of which would be pretty intimidating compared to anything we have...
Appalling -- she had ordered it in pink!
Is that proper english grammar?
The classic example is
"The police were ordered to stop drinking after midnight"
I've heard of one instance of an assault rifle being used by police in a situation that seemed to warrant it - the 1973 New Orleans sniper incident ended when an NOPD officer in a helicopter used an M16 to kill the sniper atop a downtown hotel. I think, though, that the M16 was actually privately owned, not police dept. property.
http://www.digitalsomething.com/media/images/halo3-1.jpg
http://www.hizone.info/data/2005/04/22/images/fn-2000.jpg
Some differences but the FN is modular so it can probably be made to look more alike.
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