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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: koopmaster on January 22, 2015, 08:09:58 am

Title: Shot at !!!!
Post by: koopmaster on January 22, 2015, 08:09:58 am

Was cleaning a custy in wallington (sutton) yesterday and I heard wood chopping?

I opened the back gate and my dog ran in the garden while I cleaned the side windows....


then he came back and started hovering around my legs.

I moved to the back windows and hear the "CHOP" again and then a ricochet of a pellet on the fence and realized that the guy next door was sitting in his house with the doors open and had a full "rifle " sticking out and he was target practicing with his pellet gun. 

But one of the pellets had shot across and hit the fence right next to me.  I shouted to him and said "just wait till I am done"  but I dont think he heard me.

I buggered off asap.

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: Jakey boy on January 22, 2015, 08:15:34 am

Report to the police if you want some sort of justice, what an idiot, he could of blinded you, a friend of mine once accidentally blinded his mate with a stray air rifle pellet, not good.

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: SeanK on January 22, 2015, 08:20:49 am

Quote from: Jakey boy on January 22, 2015, 08:15:34 am

Report to the police if you want some sort of justice, what an idiot, he could of blinded you, a friend of mine once accidentally blinded his mate with a stray air rifle pellet, not good.

Totally agree report this Muppet to the police, he wasn't shooting at your dog by any chance ?

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: Elfyn on January 22, 2015, 08:50:05 am

I had the same happen to me a few years back - I was actually working at a school. I hopped over the fence, took the rifle off the guy and threw it into a big clump of brambles nearby.

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: deeege on January 22, 2015, 11:01:33 am

A fella who lives in a house that backs onto mine did this last summer. He was shooting targets on his back shed but they were bouncing off into my garden, couldn't beleive it, especially with a toddler in my garden.

I went and had a word and it hasn't been a problem since.

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: colin bird on January 22, 2015, 05:26:01 pm

next time you go have someone riding shotgun ! on a serious note report him to old bill

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: Steve foster on January 22, 2015, 08:21:22 pm

An offence is only committed if the pellet leaves the boundary of the property where the shooting took place. Same with any bullets or shotgun pellets.
I have to be careful on my shooting permissions with my .22LR as it ricochets quite easily.
Sounds like the guy didnt have a good enough back stop. 

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: deeege on January 22, 2015, 08:50:26 pm

Quote from: Steve foster on January 22, 2015, 08:21:22 pm

An offence is only committed if the pellet leaves the boundary of the property where the shooting took place. Same with any bullets or shotgun pellets.
I have to be careful on my shooting permissions with my .22LR as it ricochets quite easily.
Sounds like the guy didnt have a good enough back stop.  

So I wouldn't be breaking the law firing a shotgun in my back garden aslong as nothing leaves my boundary?

Title: Re: Shot at !!!!
Post by: Perfect Windows on January 22, 2015, 09:58:49 pm

Quote from: Steve foster on January 22, 2015, 08:21:22 pm

An offence is only committed if the pellet leaves the boundary of the property where the shooting took place. Same with any bullets or shotgun pellets.
I have to be careful on my shooting permissions with my .22LR as it ricochets quite easily.
Sounds like the guy didnt have a good enough back stop. 

If it's within 50ft of the centre of a road and is likely to upset or inconvenience someone, it's an offence even if the pellets stay on your land.

Vin