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Seeing as no one has been apprehended or stepped forward how can the police say it was random or an accident?
There is nowhere even close to there that anyone should be using a firearm!
Could also have been a rock from on coming traffic. Who actually knows, maybe just more propaganda, though the hole did look pretty round.
Who were the police shooting at
Lets hope its not the first-attempt of another retard; low angle might have come out of roadside-cover. Just sayin, too-much crazy FA-shit has happened since Chch
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.
Similar to when the American army had a machine gun range on long island with a safety zone that extended out to sea a few miles. Fisherman new and stayed well clear.
Changing to a boat tailed projectile added considerably to the effective range, and the army only found this out when a fishing boat about 2 miles outside the former exclusion zone got hit.
Passed the car on the side of the motorway at the time, looked like a break down.
A lot of houses back onto the motorway prior to that overbridge or even if it was around there.
Hope they are ok.
So they think it was a ricochet?
If so what was the shooter aiming at?
Woiuld seem to have brokenn several of the rules of shooting.
Ballistics evaluation should give an indication of where the shot was fired from.
If it was a ricochet wouldnt the round hole be elongated as in a sideways bullet hole
unless it was a round ball type projectile...slingshot perhaps???
Move along, nothing to see here - just someone been shot on one of the busiest motorways in the country.
The object has struck the wind screen at a height of what looks like 150mm above the bottom of the screen. It has then traveled at an angle across the car that allows it to strike the driver in the face. So would the object need to be traveling upwards at an angle from a low starting point ?. If a bullet, from someone firing from a prone position at the side of the road. To me this doesn't seem very likely.
I've always wondered what the FBI-Agent was working-on, or onto. She was shot through the head, supposedly by the same shooter.It didnt quite fit like the rest. None of the others were shot so 'precisely'... maybe I'm just a suspicious-bugger
They found that guy by pure fluke.
So the girl was driving a Ford Capri and had the back window open. There was a off duty cop following her minding his own business. Car slowly drove of the road and up a bank. Cop got out to investigate why. The corner said that the bullet that struck her behind the ear would not have had enough velocity to break the window if it had been closed.
The detective that took up the case thought they would never find who fired the shot. But it was an unusual caliber for the US being .303
They started door knocking on the other side of the bay from where the women was shot.
Second place they knocked was a garage/service station. Asked if anyone owned a .303?
Guy says yes he dose. Was given to him when he brought a boat as a shark gun.
Detective then asked what were you do on day X ?
Guy then says oh I was out on the bay and tried the rifle out by shooting at a buoye.
So he got done for manslughter I think.
The bullets ricocheted off the water and traveled up to two miles before passing through the narrow open back window of the Capri hitting the lady behind the ear. One in a billion chance.
Guess when your time is up it’s up.
1 in a million of finding who shot too.
Always identify your firing zone!!!
Cheers S
Until we see the bullet recovered from the car driver, I wont believe that it was a bullet. The hole in the screen is not round and if it was a bullet hitting the screen at such an angle that it could travel across the car, then the entry hole in the screen would look different. I don't know what did it but I am calling foul !
Could have been some one with a slingshot, lawnmower etc
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..........
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.
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.
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 :yuush:
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 :)
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