UK grandma shoots intruder with crossbow

April 19, 2018, 02:33 AM

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It suddenly hit him like a Bolt!

"I should'a not messed with Grandma."

"Oh, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. And just when I was about to turn myself around."

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April 19, 2018, 10:04 AM

synthplayer

I was amazed at the comments. A lot of them had to do with doubting the grandma's story, insinuating that she may have lured the intruders to her house in order to shoot them with her crossbow. Sheesh - talk about brain-washed by the liberal media!

April 19, 2018, 10:38 AM

Icabod

quote:
Originally posted by walkinghorse:
Discussion points... Type of point on the crossbow bolt; broadhead, or target point? If a broadhead, width of point, and/or number of blades, two or three? If a broadhead of some type, could definitely be messy! If a medieval point, broadhead or armor piercing, in case armor of sometype is involved!
Anyway good on her, not wanting to be helpless!

Crossbows are legal in Great Britain. People under 18 can't buy or process them.
Broadheads are legal but "highly discouraged." You cannot hunt with them.
Hunting, unless on private land is illegal in the county.
Police, may seize crossbows if the person is under 18. I'm not sure but expect they took her crossbow as evidence or part of the nvestigation. However, the news articles show her again with the crossbow so she must have gotten it back.
In the article she says:
"I had it loaded. I practice with it in my garden, which is 130 feet long. The bolt I shot him with was dirty because I had been using it. It was six inches long and disappeared into him"
It sounds like she was target practicing. Between that and the law on broad points odds are good it was a target point (dirty)

http://www.ukpreppersguide.co.uk/crossbow-laws-uk/

April 19, 2018, 10:40 AM

JALLEN

At least one doesn’t need hearing protection, or suppressors, and no muzzle flash to set your mustache on fire.

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

April 19, 2018, 10:54 AM

msfzoe

Samson slew 1,000 Phillistines with the jawbone of an ass.
Can you get donkey parts in the UK?
Permit required?

April 19, 2018, 12:44 PM

Expert308

quote:
Originally posted by Icabod:
Police, may seize crossbows if the person is under 18. I'm not sure but expect they took her crossbow as evidence or part of the nvestigation. However, the news articles show her again with the crossbow so she must have gotten it back.

Or she has a spare. "Two is one and one is none."