Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun!
I was travelling downhill at the time and it all happened quite quickly - I saw the van coming in the opposite direction with it's window open which I thought strange considering the temperature, I heard a crack and immediately felt a searing pain in my upper back.
At the time, I thought I must have a pellet lodged in the side of my upper back. Thankfully, my clothing wasn't even marked and I just have a nasty welt where it hit and I'm thankful it didn't hit my eye.
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
You really should report this to the police. Next time the idiots with the airgun could *seriously* injure someone. Plod may well wander out that way and have a mooch about to see if he (or she) can find out who is doing this.
Glad you weren't seriously hurt.
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Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
It may well be probable they can't do anything, but not for sure. This is a serious business, and they should at least be informed.
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Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
Definitely yes. You may have scant evidence but they may well have a bigger picture into which your small jigsaw piece fits. We had a window and outside light hit by air rifle shots and informed the police. They were highly interested, had been dealing with a lot of similar attacks in the area and were most pleased to be able to recover the airgun pellets hit as part of the evidence they were collecting.
Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun!
I was travelling downhill at the time and it all happened quite quickly - I saw the van coming in the opposite direction with it's window open which I thought strange considering the temperature, I heard a crack and immediately felt a searing pain in my upper back.
At the time, I thought I must have a pellet lodged in the side of my upper back. Thankfully, my clothing wasn't even marked and I just have a nasty welt where it hit and I'm thankful it didn't hit my eye.
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
Do report it but don't expect any joy. I was shot while cycling. Car full of chavs pull up alongside and one leans and with a bloody pistol. They then promptly got caught in traffic and in an adrenelin fueled sort of way I almost caught up. Fortunately the jam cleared and I was saved from a good 4 on 1 kicking. I did, however, get the make and reg of the car.
Immediately reported to the police who promptly did nothing. They came round for a chat a few hours later and reported back to me a few days on that I had ID'd the right car (ie make & reg matched). But the registered keeper said he'd sold the car on and it wasn't him.
The only silver lining was that they promised to make life very difficult for the driver next time they came across the car. Never heard any more.
Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun!
I was travelling downhill at the time and it all happened quite quickly - I saw the van coming in the opposite direction with it's window open which I thought strange considering the temperature, I heard a crack and immediately felt a searing pain in my upper back.
At the time, I thought I must have a pellet lodged in the side of my upper back. Thankfully, my clothing wasn't even marked and I just have a nasty welt where it hit and I'm thankful it didn't hit my eye.
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
This should certainly be reported- off the top of my head I can think of at least three offences being commited *before* they shot at (and hit) you.
Although you may not be able to identify the shooter or the driver any description of the van or it's ocucpants may fit other reports of similar incidents.
As a former pistol shooter who still does an occasional bit of shooting I have a deep dislike for lawbreakers who bring target sports into disrepute through their criminal stupidity.
*deep breath before rant starts*.
I'm sincerely glad you weren't more seriously hurt & wish you a speedy recovery. -- Tim.
Bummer, glad to hear you're OK Mark. I had a chav lean out his bedroom window and take a shot at me when I was cycling nearby Peckham Rye Park. Didn't bother reporting it though, he missed, not that that's the point.
Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun!
I was travelling downhill at the time and it all happened quite quickly - I saw the van coming in the opposite direction with it's window open which I thought strange considering the temperature, I heard a crack and immediately felt a searing pain in my upper back.
At the time, I thought I must have a pellet lodged in the side of my upper back. Thankfully, my clothing wasn't even marked and I just have a nasty welt where it hit and I'm thankful it didn't hit my eye.
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
Sheeeit, or is that shooooot .. 😉
Glad you weren't hurt, and most definitely one to tell the Police. Whatever scant descripotion you bring just might allow the Police a lead of enough size to stop the tossers doing this again.
-- Paul ... http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php (8(!) Homer Rules ... 😉 "A [censored] is a [censored], no matter what mode of transport they're using."
Bummer, glad to hear you're OK Mark. I had a chav lean out his bedroom window and take a shot at me when I was cycling nearby Peckham Rye Park. Didn't bother reporting it though, he missed, not that that's the point.
You had someone try to shoot you from a bedroom window and didn't report it ... sheesh, an address that I'm sure the Police would have taken an interest in.
Shame on you I say.
-- Paul ... http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php (8(!) Homer Rules ... 😉 "A [censored] is a [censored], no matter what mode of transport they're using."
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:55:01 +0000 (UTC), "Mark Drinkwater" <[email hidden]> wrote in message <[email hidden]>:
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Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun! Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
Yes! This is a serious criminal assault.
Guy -- "then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales
"Mark Drinkwater" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun!
I was travelling downhill at the time and it all happened quite quickly -
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saw the van coming in the opposite direction with it's window open which I thought strange considering the temperature, I heard a crack and
immediately
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felt a searing pain in my upper back.
At the time, I thought I must have a pellet lodged in the side of my upper back. Thankfully, my clothing wasn't even marked and I just have a
nasty
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welt where it hit and I'm thankful it didn't hit my eye.
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
I think it's unanimous. Report it. Why are you wasting time reading these answers when you should be leaning across the desk of the station demanding an armed response unit :-). OK, maybe not, but please do report it; if we don't, these incidents become accepted.
"Mark Drinkwater" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
May I add my voice to the unanimous tide?
They may not have injured you particularly badly, but what about the next cyclist, who just might get a pellet in the eye? How are you going to feel when you read the report and realise that you did nothing?
Cycling home through Buckhurst Hill last night, I was shot at by an idiot with an airgun!
I was travelling downhill at the time and it all happened quite quickly - I saw the van coming in the opposite direction with it's window open which I thought strange considering the temperature, I heard a crack and immediately felt a searing pain in my upper back.
At the time, I thought I must have a pellet lodged in the side of my upper back. Thankfully, my clothing wasn't even marked and I just have a nasty welt where it hit and I'm thankful it didn't hit my eye.
Any thoughts on whether I should report this to the Police considering the scant evidence I can give them?
Yep, if they'd had half a brain cell they would have swiped Mark with the van instead using an air pistol as it only counts as a minor lapse of care ;-^)
If you have any further details, ideally the registration number of the van, then they *may* be able to take things further.
Even if you don't have any details, they can use this information for intelligence purposes. It may be that the van is well known and your information will help them build up a picture of it's activity. Alternatively, if any similar vans are stopped in the next few days and an airgun is found, then it may give them cause to investigate the occupants further.
If you see the same van again, call the police immediately -- don't try to stop the van yourself!
