Injuns WTF

Or perhaps some fearful curtain-twitching media victim saw a kid with a water-pistol/banana/rolled-up Greenpeace newsletter and called the coppers.

I don’t know about ‘society failing’ it just seems the whole country has gone mad, this is from my local paper.

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Doub’t if it was a ‘longbow’, at 20ft it would have gone clean through him, but what the hell is it all coming to ? This looks like a set up by a pair of total nutters just five miles from where I live in ‘quiet’ rural Essex. :confused:

You think that’s bad? Just a few weeks ago, I was plodding down to my mate’s house for a night of drunken debauchery, when I was stopped by cops from going through a barrier strung across the road – apparently some nutjob was running around with a GUN, just two hundred yards from my back door – and the guy lived in the flat under my mate!!

The links change as it’s an automated system connected to a database rather than a permanent set of webpages.

Intriguingly enough, only a matter of days before this was reported, there was a snippet in the local Colchester rag about some archery equipment being stolen from a shed in the area…

Hmm for some reason they keep changing the link. Cut & pasted from the Colchester Evening Gazette Published Monday, May 23, 2005.

“Great Bromley: Man shot in back by bowman

Police were today hunting a bowman who shot a man in the back with an arrow.

The assault took place in a narrow country lane near Great Bromley.

The victim had got out of his Transit van after finding his path blocked by another van.

On the driver’s side of the red Ford Escort van, he found a woman crouching down by the door speaking into a mobile phone. Not wanting to disturb her, the 46-year-old builder took a step back.

It was then he was hit by an arrow in the back. As he looked up he saw a man standing in a field on the other side of a gate about 20ft away holding a longbow.

The man pulled the arrow out of his back but feared the bowman was about to reload.

He rushed back into his van and reversed it along Mary Lane North towards Chase Road East.

The injured man was taken to Colchester General Hospital but released after treatment.

Det Con Bernie King said the man had been extremely lucky as he was shot just below his left shoulder and his ribcage had prevented any vital organs being damaged.

The Ford Escort van was driven off towards Parsons Hill, Great Bromley, but it is not known if both the man and the woman were in it.

More in today’s Evening Gazette “

That link obviously now goes to a different story about scooter stealing. Can you find the one referred to?