View Full Version : Man cycles to hospital after being shot
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5335458.stm
:eek:
That's quite something. I'd wince on if I grazed my knee, but shot? Blimey.
i wish the idiot who repeatedly rang an ambulance cos he felt 'weak' could see this :mad:
mind you its only a short ride to kings.
For fuck's sake, these cowardly spineless shits with their pathetic guns are getting out of control.
Some guy got shot outside the Dogstar last week.
His crime? He tried to intervene in a street argument.
I dont care if people want to live their short, useless unhappy lives at the scraping along at the bottom,. but it starts to get a bit sad when they feel they have to spread their misery along the way.
Whay is it that more and more people in Brixton/ Peckham etc etc seem to be utterly utterly furious with everyone else all the time ? Ive noticed it more and more in the past couple of years :(
Donna Ferentes
11-09-2006, 16:02
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Orang Utan
11-09-2006, 16:06
:eek:
That's quite something. I'd wince on if I grazed my knee, but shot? Blimey.
Yes, but I would understand his reluctance to ditch his bike
Someone got shot opposite my block last month too.
That's two police incident boards on CHL now :(
Gixxer1000
11-09-2006, 16:59
Rambling derail (A friend got stabbed in Lisbon a few years back, whilst we were waiting in A and E a woman came in who had been shot in the head by a low calibre weapon. She had a open puckered wound in the middle off her forehead, couldnt believe that instead of being whisked away for treatment, she had to fill out registration forms:eek:)
we need some knee cappings, ira style :rolleyes:
Rambling derail (A friend got stabbed in Lisbon a few years back, whilst we were waiting in A and E a woman came in who had been shot in the head by a low calibre weapon. She had a open puckered wound in the middle off her forehead, couldnt believe that instead of being whisked away for treatment, she had to fill out registration forms:eek:)
i had a 10minute conversation with a man who'd been stabbed twice in the head on saturday. he was remarkably lucid.
Orang Utan
11-09-2006, 18:01
we need some knee cappings, ira style :rolleyes:
Silly person
Some guy got shot outside the Dogstar last week.
His crime? He tried to intervene in a street argument.
Virtually outside my house....I was out of London that night and the sign was the first I'd heard of it. As much as I like living in Brixton, having signs like this on my road really depress me.
Brixton Hatter
12-09-2006, 23:21
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5335458.stm
fuck, that's just round the corner from my place. i cycle through there all the time, never thought it was that dodgy... guess i'll keep an eye out for nutter gun-totin' kids eh. but yeah, at least kings college hospital is close - fairplay to the guy, the uses of a bicycle!
poster342002
13-09-2006, 09:31
I dont care if people want to live their short, useless unhappy lives at the scraping along at the bottom,. but it starts to get a bit sad when they feel they have to spread their misery along the way.
Whay is it that more and more people in Brixton/ Peckham etc etc seem to be utterly utterly furious with everyone else all the time ? Ive noticed it more and more in the past couple of years :(
It's exceptionally moronic to risk a 25 year stretch for the sake of a silly, petty argument, isn't it?
bad news, hope the police nail them. if more law-abiding people had conceal and carry permits it would even up the odds against the criminal, they wouldnt be so reckless if they knew armed response was likely.
It's exceptionally moronic to risk a 25 year stretch for the sake of a silly, petty argument, isn't it?
Yes of course, but the main problem is this idiotic 'respect' business that goes along with gun culture. That's the achilles heal that needs snapping imo.
if more law-abiding people had conceal and carry permits it would even up the odds against the criminal, they wouldnt be so reckless if they knew armed response was likely.
One of the most fucking stupid things I've read on U75 for a while.
you dont think it would deter? more armed criminals winding up dead after choosing armed law-abiding persons as victims sounds like improvement to me.
you dont think it would deter? more armed criminals winding up dead after choosing armed law-abiding persons as victims sounds like improvement to me.
Y'now what? I'm not going to rise to it.
The smell of a creature what lives under a bridge is getting strong!
Yes of course, but the main problem is this idiotic 'respect' business that goes along with gun culture. That's the achilles heal that needs snapping imo.
Beyond that, there's a general nihilistic attitude among many young people who get into gun culture and drugs and the like. "There's nothing for me here, every one has let me down, i can't see myself living beyong the age of 25 so f**k it, why not take the best out of life for me now". Self-fulfilling prophecy, of course.
Another reason why jdoey doesn't know what they're talking about
I read a study in the last year where hundreds of gun criminals were interviewed in prison. All had been robbed and assaulted before they took up the gun. It's a downward spiral that seems unstoppable.
Beyond that, there's a general nihilistic attitude among many young people who get into gun culture and drugs and the like. "There's nothing for me here, every one has let me down, i can't see myself living beyong the age of 25 so f**k it, why not take the best out of life for me now". Self-fulfilling prophecy, of course.
Its utterly appalling isnt it. I see it on the journey home at night around Peckham- bitter men & women - sometimes Boys & Girls absolutley seething with resentment and anger at seemingly everyone they come across - Its so very very sad and wasteful ..
Maybe Im getting older and pay more attention to these things, but I cant imagine growing up in such circumstances & having that much anger whilst in my early teens
Im sad now:(
poster342002
13-09-2006, 11:50
A mate of mine (who understands French) once told me about three years ago of an incident where they overheard some French tourists on a bus remark about London that "everyone here seems so angry".
All this anger - and none of it being directed at anything productive. Instead just a random, directionaless war against everyone else. :(
" Anger is an energy" as John Lydon once saidm but its a dangerous and unpredictable source :(
Herbsman.
13-09-2006, 12:40
" Anger is an energy" as John Lydon once saidm but its a dangerous and unpredictable source :(
Is it renewable? Perhaps we could harness the energy and use it as an alternative to fossil fuels :D
I hate guns :( :mad: I feel sorry for the poor guy who got shot. I'd like to know more - the story is very brief and lacking detail. Do you think they'll update it?
I'm particularly interested in what he was shot with (the police would be able to tell if the bullet was still in his knee, would they not?), and I'd also like to hear the man's story in a bit more detail.
Guns are so depressing :(
happie chappie
13-09-2006, 16:28
I don't live in Brixton, nor London any more, but this type of mindless gun crime pisses me off no end. The shooting of the lad in Moss Side is just another example of senseless "respect" n "gangsta" style attacks that have to be stopped. We are becoming more and more like the USA with every passing day - we already ape their politics; culture; and food and now we're aping their gun crime.
IMHO we as a society have a limited amount of time to break this violent gang culture before it breaks us - by using any means necessary. Once gangs really get embedded in a community, they are almost impossible to remove. If we don't take what some might think is draconian action now, then even more draconian action will have to be taken later, with far less chance of it succeeding.
happie chappie
:) :)
detective-boy
13-09-2006, 18:29
I'm particularly interested in what he was shot with (the police would be able to tell if the bullet was still in his knee, would they not?),
My money is on air weapon. Any "proper" bullet would leave someone quite unlikely to be able to cycle to hospital after a shot in the knee (unless it was a glancing blow). If the bullet or pellet was still there then, yes, the police would be able to tell what sort of weapon in the vast majoprity of cases.
Herbsman.
13-09-2006, 18:59
My money is on air weapon. Any "proper" bullet would leave someone quite unlikely to be able to cycle to hospital after a shot in the knee (unless it was a glancing blow). If the bullet or pellet was still there then, yes, the police would be able to tell what sort of weapon in the vast majoprity of cases.
I was thinking that at first, too. TBH I thought it a bit odd that he could still pedal after being shot in the knee with a proper bullet. I've had some pretty painful bike crashes that weren't even serious injuries but left me with a swollen knee so painful that I couldn't even bend my leg, never mind pedal a bike. I've never been shot though, so I dunno.
When I saw that the article didn't mention what he was shot with, I instantly thought "What with? A pellet gun? A spud gun?". It's because I've read so many news stories of people getting 'shot', where it just turns out that they've been shot with what is essentially a toy in comparison to a real gun.
I don't know much about guns but if the bullet was in his knee, I don't think he'd be riding anywhere, unless it was a ricochet, or perhaps just grazed him, or hit him at very low velocity.
But then, I wonder, if it was just a pellet gun, why would he ride to hospital? If a pellet gun could cause enough damage for you to need hospital treatment, surely it must have been fired from fairly close by... maybe close enough for him to see who did it.
So many questions, no answers...
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