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Out riding this morning, and some ****wit in a silver golf pulled alongside my mate and gave him a load of verbal, then sped off round a roundabout to double back and as he was passing shot me with an airpistol (I think). Now my mate was a little ahead of me, so there was no way of knowing we were together, so he just shot a random cyclist because (i guess) anger. Took me a little while to work out what happened, I thought a stone had been flicked up and caught my leg, then I realise there had a noise like several pops, before it hit me, no real damage done but it did break the skin.
This happened just a little north of Ventoux
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It happened to me years ago. I heard the noise of the rifle, then a pellet whizzed past me and I saw a window close on the other side of the road. Unfortunately it was pre-mobile phone, because these days I'd quite happily ring the police and watch the fun when the firearms team storm the house.
Such weapons are illegal up here in Bonnie Scotland.
Id contact the police asap.
These incidents, left unreported only serve to embolden the perps. Then it escalates into animal offences, etc.
These incidents, left unreported only serve to embolden the perps. Then it escalates into animal offences, etc.
As much as I like animals, thats not an 'escalation', quite the opposite. A person being shot at, is far, far more serious than people shooting animals.
That should be a 999 call instantly, and I'd expect an appropriate (armed) response to "I've just been shot at".
Air rifle or not.
Definitely needs reporting
there are different types of lower powered guns out there, from airsoft guns through to full on air pistols which can put a pellet into your skull, someone shouting at you then shooting you isn't on the fun side of things
What did the gendarmes say OP?
I assume there's a manhunt under way as we speak?
As in north of Mt Ventoux?
I’ve called the police on people waving what later turned out to be an air pistol/BB gun. It was certainly amusing watching the armed officers arrest the guy to his protests of ‘it’s not a real gun’ and their replies of “you’re arrested as it’s still illegal to threaten someone with it”.