Thread: bullet ricocheted through the windscreen?

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.

Originally Posted by Allgood

Sorry to hear this news. Hopefully she will make a full recovery without any permanent damage or scars etc

However, once the Govt has finished introducing all the new firearms laws which will make NZ safer, then the alleged offender would have been apprehended within 20 mins, 30 mins tops.

Once all the illegal firearms are handed in and the Gun register is completed and up to date without any errors, the Police would have been able to consult their database, ascertain a radius for the caliber, come up with a list of firearms owners living within that radius, then used their ART units to carry out 'No Knock' raids on all the 'suspects. addresses. Jacinda would then be hailed as a hero and would be a shoe in for the Nobel peace prize.

The NZ Police........Making communities safer..........

AND THAT IS WHY YOUR CALLED “ALL GOOD”

Man I’ve seen some tongue in cheek but ^^^^^thats just gold

Unless the Police are sitting on unannounced evidence (eg; the remains of a bullet) then talk of a shot, or a ricochet, is pure speculation. Something pinched up from the road (stone, nut, bolt, etc) by a passing vehicle is a more likely scenario. The Police could just be taking advantage of all the unfounded anti-gun garbage spouted by the news media these days.

Originally Posted by gundoc

Unless the Police are sitting on unannounced evidence (eg; the remains of a bullet) then talk of a shot, or a ricochet, is pure speculation. Something pinched up from the road (stone, nut, bolt, etc) by a passing vehicle is a more likely scenario. The Police could just be taking advantage of all the unfounded anti-gun garbage spouted by the news media these days.

Maybe a lead wheel weight ricochet?

Originally Posted by Cordite

Maybe a lead wheel weight ricochet?

Exactly! As good a theory as any.

If the car is still 'undergoing forensic investigation', how do they know it was 'a high powered rifle'?
If the bullet was removed from the unfortunate victim, then a simple caliper measure would've supplied the calibre answer.
Perhaps the bullet in question is 0.224" in diameter and the police are unsure whether one of their own could be the guilty person - or someone else - like an 'approved FAL', who may also be a gang member or associate.
Safe then

Nothing more in the news? Would have been leaked by now if it was a bullet
So I recon not a bullet.

I still say it was a bee wearing a hard hat

Originally Posted by doinit

I still say it was a bee wearing a hard hat

https://youtu.be/XWGXc0qAwXw

A friend had a leak in the roof of his shiny new flash harry beach house a few years back.
Got the builder to investigate and he found a weird shaped piece of steel sticking through the colour steel.
It turned out to be part of a contractors mower blade that had shat itself a week previously, while mowing a reserve aprox 200 meters away.
How it found its way onto the roof of a 2 and half storey house though...wtf

Originally Posted by madjon_

https://youtu.be/XWGXc0qAwXw

Forensic proof eh........and he got away with it