Thread: bullet ricocheted through the windscreen?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...andom-accident

Seeing as no one has been apprehended or stepped forward how can the police say it was random or an accident?

There is nowhere even close to there that anyone should be using a firearm!

Originally Posted by Rushy

There is nowhere even close to there that anyone should be using a firearm!

Apart from armed police of course.

Could also have been a rock from on coming traffic. Who actually knows, maybe just more propaganda, though the hole did look pretty round.

Originally Posted by Walker

Could also have been a rock from on coming traffic. Who actually knows, maybe just more propaganda, though the hole did look pretty round.

I guess they would have dug whatever it was from her face

Originally Posted by Walker

Could also have been a rock from on coming traffic. Who actually knows, maybe just more propaganda, though the hole did look pretty round.

I suspect there was a lot of evidence pointing to it being a bullet that went through the screen but as another poster said - wtf was anybody thinking when firing a rifle in that area??

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

I suspect there was a lot of evidence pointing to it being a bullet that went through the screen but as another poster said - wtf was anybody thinking when firing a rifle in that area??

The tone of the Stuff article is very low key...makes me think police involvement.

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

The tone of the Stuff article is very low key...makes me think police involvement.

We'll probably never know.

Who were the police shooting at

Lets hope its not the first-attempt of another retard; low angle might have come out of roadside-cover. Just sayin, too-much crazy FA-shit has happened since Chch

Can remember same type of incident in good old USA many years ago, projectile entered car thru partially open drivers window striking the driver behind the ear. When finally solved, bullet came from a fishing boat a couple of miles out to sea. Shot had been fired at a seagull, one chance in many millions of ending up where it did.

Originally Posted by tetawa

Can remember same type of incident in good old USA many years ago, projectile entered car thru partially open drivers window striking the driver behind the ear. When finally solved, bullet came from a fishing boat a couple of miles out to sea. Shot had been fired at a seagull, one chance in many millions of ending up where it did.

Remember that story. He took a pot shot at a can in the water with his rifle. If she had had her window closed she'd have survived. The kind of story people should be told when instructed in firearms safety.

He didn't actually come forward. Police were able to trace several owners of rifles of the caliber used and started going visiting. One of the first persons they happened to ask, a gas station owner, broke down on initial questioning. He had read what had happened in the paper and had already drawn a line between the dots.

Similar to when the American army had a machine gun range on long island with a safety zone that extended out to sea a few miles. Fisherman new and stayed well clear.
Changing to a boat tailed projectile added considerably to the effective range, and the army only found this out when a fishing boat about 2 miles outside the former exclusion zone got hit.

Passed the car on the side of the motorway at the time, looked like a break down.
A lot of houses back onto the motorway prior to that overbridge or even if it was around there.

Hope they are ok.