Bus Gets Shot At

JOHN MC · 28-09-2007 4:04pm #1

just to let you all now a bus got shot at in edenmore today
and it just missed the driver i was told it has happend 2 or 3 times now
so were going to get more bad press

Cuddlesworth · 28-09-2007 4:06pm

Bus was shot at with what?

xFROSTY Gx · 28-09-2007 4:08pm

Im guessing an airsoft gun of some sort

H.O.T.A.S. · 28-09-2007 4:10pm

I'd love to catch the little toe rags doing that. FFS making us all look bad :mad:

o1s1n · 28-09-2007 4:13pm

If it just missed the driver I assume it went through a glass window and couldn't have been anything airsoft related?

|I.R|PaddyPower · 28-09-2007 4:14pm

Suprised its taken this long to happen after the Garda was shot they need a good story to sell more papers the bus driver is lucky in edenmore they normally fire stones at the buses now dont get me wrong its not ok to shoot an aeg at anyone but me I think aeg vs a 2kg stone ill the the aeg hit lol.

B0X · 28-09-2007 4:14pm

o1s1n wrote:

If it just missed the driver I assume it went through a glass window and couldn't have been anything airsoft related?

Maybe they fired it in the door?

Lemming · 28-09-2007 4:15pm

Hang on asec lads ... lets not jump to conclusions here.

With what was the bus fired upon exactly? Until it's confirmed as being an airsoft device, lets not get up in arms over this (well, overly so ... yes a bus driver being attacked is a sh*te state of affairs regardless, but what doe sthis have to do with airsoft yet?)

projectmayhem · 28-09-2007 4:16pm

B0X wrote:

Maybe they fired it in the door?

aye if it was fired inside the bus, or while the door/window was open it could have happened this way. or the hysteria around it caused bad reporting.

either way, if it is an airsoft/paintball gun used, then we'll end up with a situation where someone will have to go out to the press and make sure the media and public know that those actively part-taking in the sport are responsible people... not clowns. otherwise you could easily see a countrywide ban

|I.R|PaddyPower · 28-09-2007 4:19pm

As i said I live very close to edenmore its more likely a stone or in their case a paveing stone something that hurts they do not throw stones to miss up there they mean buisness.

Fiach Dubh · 28-09-2007 4:22pm

Tell me about it, Edenmore AKA bandit country

~Marky~ · 28-09-2007 4:22pm

I say it could be a kid with a catapult they can easily smash windows..dont think a airsoft gun could smash it unless your where standing near it.

Evolute · 28-09-2007 4:27pm

~Marky~ wrote:

I say it could be a kid with a catapult they can easily smash windows..dont think a airsoft gun could smash it unless your where standing near it.

A legal one cant although Air guns can hence needing a firearms license. But as was said we dont actually know if it was an Aeg or a Gas pistol so not really much to say about it:P

Fiach Dubh · 28-09-2007 4:28pm

A 450-550 fps Boltaction could get through a window at 20-30 feet. Chances are though it was a Airgun not an Airsoft.

o1s1n · 28-09-2007 4:30pm

Fiach Dubh wrote:

Chances are though it was a Airgun not an Airsoft.

Or a real pistol, or a rock, or a slingshot...or a feckin stale club sandwich. Until there's more information given by the OP or some news article, there's really no point speculating.

liamo333 · 28-09-2007 4:31pm

^Unlikley it would go through
bus window, I'd imagine there fairly tough.

Lemming · 28-09-2007 4:33pm

liamo333 wrote:

^Unlikley it would go through
bus window, I'd imagine there fairly tough.

Bus front windows are a) thick and b) curved, which would give them an extra resistance to BBs or other perfectly rounded objects, within reason of course.

It's most likely a catapult, air gun or a pellet gun was used.

Fiach Dubh · 28-09-2007 4:34pm

It may do, not saying it would for sure. An AEG firing 370 fps will leave a big crack in a window. I doubt it would go through the windscreen but the side windows on buses aren't as tuff.

You're right Oisin, speculation is pointless. /slaps own wrist

|I.R|PaddyPower · 28-09-2007 4:37pm

Not so sure Lemming that stale club sambo sure looks mean and menising at 20-30 foot.

Harekin · 28-09-2007 4:42pm

JOHN MC wrote:

just to let you all now a bus got shot at in edenmore today
and it just missed the driver i was told it has happend 2 or 3 times now
so were going to get more bad press

How exactly did you find this out? Source? Other info? Dont just post potential rubbish like this, its such an "Evening Herald" method of reporting. Think of the guests browsing this site.

Cuddlesworth · 28-09-2007 4:42pm

Lemming wrote:

Hang on asec lads ... lets not jump to conclusions here.

With what was the bus fired upon exactly? Until it's confirmed as being an airsoft device, lets not get up in arms over this (well, overly so ... yes a bus driver being attacked is a sh*te state of affairs regardless, but what doe sthis have to do with airsoft yet?)

Exactly. What was shot at the bus driver? From every bus I have seen recently you have windows and a plastic cover on the inside. A airgun could crack glass, but those things are the equivalent of a .22 . Not a airsoft rifle.

o1s1n · 28-09-2007 4:47pm

No offense to JOHN MC, but I'm going to close this thread. If it wasn't an airsoft, (Which it may not have been, we just don't know) there's no point in associating it with the event through speculation.

If anyone finds any more information and wants the thread reopened, send me a PM.

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