“If you protect the nervous nellies enough, you get the fiasco that happened in NY when the cops were called out because a single .22LR round was found in the street. “
I think that was York, England, but you were pretty close:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8805022.Fossgate_bullet_find_mystery/
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I agree with this statement but, what if the cops were not so “calm”? The outcome might not have been so cordial and he would (if still alive) had a reason to sue.