Hell freezes over
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,396
Police / MOD use British public's ignorance of guns to keep people away from the recent US military helicopter crash site by claiming that the live ammunition on board could be dangerous -
To further compound the total farce, both the news and the Police Superintendent refer to the live rounds as 'bullets'. (If you don't know the difference between live rounds and bullets, ten seconds on Google will explain it thoroughly.) Thankfully for the rozzers, the minds of the British people are like empty vessels which they can fill up with utter bullcrap, so people will stay away for fear and being mowed down by these self firing (?) 'bullets'.
It's not that the rounds are hazardous in any way, they just don't want members of the public wandering all over a crash site.
Well since a bullet is the front bit of a round, the news statement is technically correct and using the word bullet is perhaps more sensible for the lay public who might think "rounds" are frisbees or suchlike.
And while rounds are not inherently dangerous at the scene of a crash (unless it is on fire) they can be dangerous if picked up as "souvenirs" and fiddled with afterwards in an attempt to open them.
However I agree with you that unless the crew were incredibly careless it is unlikely that the rounds are scattered about; they are far more likely to be still in the magazines.
Quote: billwill @ 8th January 2014, 1:02 PM GMTAnd while rounds are not inherently dangerous at the scene of a crash (unless it is on fire) they can be dangerous if picked up as "souvenirs" and fiddled with afterwards in an attempt to open them.
Same with normal batteries or a thousand other everyday devices. But like I said, they are using the ignorance of the lay person to keep bods from going fortune / souvenir hunting, like kids did in WW2 whenever a Stuka came a cropper.
I once watched mythbusters and they threw live rounds of all calibers into a fire.
They exploded but the bullets didn't shoot out as there was no barrel for them to go down.
The myth was 'can you get shot if someone throws a bullet on the fire'
They placed cardboard people all around the fire and none were shot
Result : Busted.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 8th January 2014, 1:05 PM GMTlike kids did in WW2 whenever a Stuka came a cropper.
Evidence?
I didn't know you wuz that old RC.
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On the other hand I have to admit to finding live rounds in the grounds of our school in North Germany a few years after the war ended, and subsequently using army bedsteads to twist the bullets off so that we could use the cordite propellent to make paper rockets.
All strictly forbidden of course.
Quote: billwill @ 8th January 2014, 1:22 PM GMTEvidence?
I didn't know you wuz that old RC.
I'm old enough to remember a show called 'The Machine Gunners' in which four 10 year old extras from Oliver and a retarded elephant stole a machine gun and defeated Nazi Germany.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ 8th January 2014, 3:55 PM GMTI'm old enough to remember a show called 'The Machine Gunners' in which four 10 year old extras from Oliver and a retarded elephant stole a machine gun and defeated Nazi Germany.
Where we going now then?
Shut up or you don't get a milk bottle.
There are no where near enough armed officers in the police, because vindictive families and human rights groups, make it such a dangerous and uncertain careers for police officers.
Usually I'm a soggy liberal.
But too many crimes are got away with, because there aren't enough police capable of dealing with armed crims.
I think if you make a practise of robbing other drug dealers, or carrying a firearm. Then you should spend the rest of your days not giving the police an excuse to shoot you.
Quote: sootyj @ 8th January 2014, 4:32 PM GMTShut up or you don't get a milk bottle.
'Where are we going now then?' 
I'll give you a bloody milk bottle.
Quote: Jennie @ 8th January 2014, 4:43 PM GMThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25657949
Someone want to explain to me how an unemployed father of four could afford enough bling to make Beyoncé blind?
"He was executed and we still believe that, and we're going to fight until we have no breath in our body for justice for Mark, for his children, and for all of those (unclear) with deaths in custody that have had nothing."
"We are not giving up. No justice, no peace."
I think there was plenty of justice that day. The subsequent riots that followed were a prime example of just how f**ked up this country is.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ 8th January 2014, 7:18 PM GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/01/08/dennis-rodman-sings-happy-birthday-to-kim-jong-un-video/
What a dickhead!
I know, it should have been 'Who let the dog's out?' or 'Uncle F**ker' from South Park.