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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on July 07, 2010, 08:45:40 AM
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A child who dropped a toy gun in a bank sparked a mass evacuation when a customer spotted it and thought it was real.
A tot dropped the realistic looking black toy gun when he popped into the Lloyds TSB in Maldon, Essex, with his mother.
The toy handgun was spotted lying on the floor under a table in the bank just as a security guard arrived to deliver thousands of pounds to the branch.
Customer Victor Dabrowa, 55, said: 'I had gone to the bank to have a chat with staff. It is only a small branch, they asked me to sit down in an area where there were two chairs and a table in between them.
'A lady was sitting on the other chair and a couple of people were queuing up at the counter. One lady said 'What's that under the table? I looked down and there was a gun under there. People were shocked.'
Police were scrambled to the high street branch and panic-stricken staff and customers were evacuated while the security guard waited inside.
But when police examined the weapon they discovered it was actually a child's toy.
A spokeswoman for Essex Police said: 'Police were contacted to reports from staff in a bank.
They were saying they had found what they believed to be a gun.
'Officers attended and established the gun was in fact a toy and they seized it. CCTV footage showed that two young children who had been in the branch earlier had the gun and are thought to have dropped it.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292416/Toy-gun-dropped-child-sparks-panic-bank-branch.html#ixzz0t0J7iQgD
look out they will have a toy gun buy back and melt all those harmless toys to make it safer for everyone
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MTFU!!!
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MTFU!!!
that's HTFU mate!
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This is what happens when you remove people familiarity with common objects. They have no idea what they are supposed to look like and thus make wild assumptions about them. Any one of us would see this object and say "oh, that's a toy".
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/06/article-1292416-00B51535000004B0-69_468x376.jpg)
Wasn't there a story in England about a farmer whose dog dug up a couple of .50 BMG rounds? I believe they called the bomb squad and cordoned off the area...for a couple of unfired rounds!
Similar to the continuing urbanization of people...they are "shocked and sickened" by the process of farming and hunting. I can't imagine living so disconnected from life.
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This is what happens when you remove people familiarity with common objects. They have no idea what they are supposed to look like and thus make wild assumptions about them. Any one of us would see this object and say "oh, that's a toy".
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/06/article-1292416-00B51535000004B0-69_468x376.jpg)
Wasn't there a story in England about a farmer whose dog dug up a couple of .50 BMG rounds? I believe they called the bomb squad and cordoned off the area...for a couple of unfired rounds!
Similar to the continuing urbanization of people...they are "shocked and sickened" by the process of farming and hunting. I can't imagine living so disconnected from life.
Are you sure? That looks like one of that secret x-ray avoiding flachette guns that can shoot zillions of either knock-out or instant acting poison needles!
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