Ever had a gun pointed at you?

weiland79 · 07-10-2012 08:02PM #1

Twice for me.

First time i accidently pushed the panic button in work.
Armed police where there minutes later. Went to the shop door to see what all the commotion outside was, and there was the fuzz with their weapons drawn and pointed at me.

Second time was in this bar
http://www.toytowngermany.com/munich/paddys_irish_pub.html.

I was sat at the bar when a guy walks in and pulls out a gun points it at us and says he's looking for someone.
The barman said he hadn't been in that day and your man left.
Funny thing was that he didn't go very far, we could see him standing outside waiting. The barman called the cops who promptly arrived and apprehended the gentleman.

juan.kerr · 07-10-2012 08:03PM

No. Unfortunately I've lead a sheltered life...so far anyway.

anncoates · 07-10-2012 08:04PM

Yes. Held up once in work years,ago.

Biggins · 07-10-2012 08:06PM

Yes.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 07-10-2012 08:08PM

Yes, by nasty people who have absolutely no regard for human life. Once in civy street and the rest away with work.

chillywilly · 07-10-2012 08:08PM

Yes many times, but my Quasar days are over, man.

weiland79 · 07-10-2012 08:08PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yes.

K

Hande hoche! · 07-10-2012 08:09PM

Yes but it was during RDF training so it was grand.

jessiejam · 07-10-2012 08:10PM

Yes a double barrel shotgun to my head.
Couple of scum came into a restaurant I was working in just at closing time, I had taken all the cash out of the money drop safe and in they came. One held the gun the other had me caught by the arm and made me open the till. I don't know what else was going through my head but all I was concerned about were the tips under the counter. Tried to delay things by tuning the key in the till a few times...pretending it wouldn't open, don't know what was going through my head!

Eventually opened the till gave them the cash and off they went. It was a fairly big restaurant and down the very end there were 3 customers left. When I hit the panic button they strolled up to the till and wondered was there a fire. They had seen nothing.

Was in work again the next night not a bother. Tough as nails, back then anyway. I don't think I would feel the same if it happened now.

Wouldn't mind getting my hands on them now though. I was just pregnant at the time, things could have been very different.

aaronjumper · 07-10-2012 08:11PM

Only pellet guns and one unloaded shotgun thankfully.

Chucken · 07-10-2012 08:15PM

Yes, I had a shotgun stuck to my temple but I'm not telling the story because I did here once and some immature users thought it was hilarious.....it wasn't

Yakult · 07-10-2012 08:15PM

No, but my friends have unknowingly

While they were out in the field kicking ball I was upstairs in my uncles house, staring at them through the scope of a M21. Unloaded of course!

Spread · 07-10-2012 08:17PM

Yes. I was talking to Mae West who was sitting with her back to a mirror

Ted_YNWA · 07-10-2012 08:19PM

Does Airsoft count ?

Ella · 07-10-2012 08:20PM

Not pointed at me. But someone did push one across the table towards me so I could have a look. Scared the crap out of me and made sure I didn't touch the thing.

Remmy · 07-10-2012 08:21PM

Yeah but only from people with bad muzzle discipline .I would probably crap my pants if it happened with actual malice.

smurgen · 07-10-2012 08:22PM

Yes had a hand gun put to my eye by a boucer in a nighclub in tijuan,Mexico

Strawberry Fields · 07-10-2012 08:22PM

Yes many moons ago when I worked in a shop, two lads burst in, one with a gun pointed it at me and demanded the money, I handed them the till then rang the guards. Scary experience.

ejmaztec · 07-10-2012 08:23PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yes.

Pesky kids

KTRIC · 07-10-2012 08:24PM

A couple of times :mad:

Calibos · 07-10-2012 08:27PM

Yes, had a gun put to my head. I gave the gun to the guards when they arrived. Turns out it was a starter pistol but I wasn't to know that. Still haven't thrown a punch in my life. Adrenaline is like a superpower I tell you!!

3ndahalfof6 · 07-10-2012 08:28PM

many times, but I was on the shrooms and I was inside the TV,

rasper · 07-10-2012 08:28PM

Yup,running in rain in Chicago when patrol car nearly ran me over, and was roughly over powered by 2 gun wielding cops , one turned out to be Irish so turned a bit jovial after but scary thoughts after as the cops kill quite a few people over there

xzanti · 07-10-2012 08:29PM

A loopy ex of mine once threatened me with a 'gun'.. well, he wanted me to think it was a shotgun..

It was actually 2 pieces of copper pipe down his zipped up jacket, I heard them clanging together while he was walking towards me.. he held them both together so when I looked down all I would see was what looked like the top of a double barreled gun..

He was all kinds of crazy.

Big Nasty · 07-10-2012 08:30PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yes.

And the story behind it? Let me guess - you can't tell us.

Actually it has happened to me. Managed pubs for many years and one Monday morning get held up with a sawn off and had to hand over the weekends takings. It seemed so surreal that it didn't really register at the time. Chap was like 'give me the bag' as he prodded the gun to my belly, I just looked at him blankly then he said 'give me the fcukin' bag' and moved the gun to my neck. I gave him the bag and then he took my car keys (like I was gonna chase him) and fcuked off. People where saying for days that I would chuck a wobbler once it dawned on me how close I was to death. Was grand and went back to work.

RoundyMooney · 07-10-2012 08:31PM

xzanti wrote: »

A loopy ex of mine once threatened me with a 'gun'.. well, he wanted me to think it was a shotgun..

It was actually 2 pieces of copper pipe down his zipped up jacket, I heard them clanging together while he was walking towards me.. he held them both together so when I looked down all I would see was what looked like the top of a double barreled gun..

He was all kinds of crazy.

:eek:

Biggins · 07-10-2012 08:32PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Pesky kids

:pac:

If only!

We (ma and I) don't allow toy guns in the home.

seanaway · 07-10-2012 08:34PM

Yep. A Few times on my travels. Lived in lots ofplaces where guns were the norm. Once I ended up with an Israeli guy in our local. Taught me to take an M16 to pieces blindfolded (or in my case blind drunk) and put it back together in X seconds (probably minutes or hours given the state we were in !) Guns aren't bad - it's the untrained loopers who are.The worst thing I ever experienced was a friend of mine in Portugal who pulled out a wee mini pistol (nah! not one of them

) one night, pointed it at me and told me he needed it because of the hold ups on business people making deposits at night. Told him if he didn't put the f*&^%ing thing away I'd be making a deposit he'd have to clean up.

Enright · 07-10-2012 08:35PM

Shot at once, robbing apples _ your man fired the shot gun into the air i think (too busy running away). The pellets landed around us as we legged it out, but boy did the apples taste nice!

Senna · 07-10-2012 08:36PM

In a mates house when i was about 12yrs old. The father had a rifle (and a shotgun or two) behind the TV and one of the lads grabbed it and pointed it at my head. The son told him to put it down cause its loaded:eek:, i hope it wasn't but thankfully we didn't find out.

ejmaztec · 07-10-2012 08:38PM

Biggins wrote: »

:pac:

If only!

We (ma and I) don't allow toy guns in the home.

Yes, we only have real ones as well.

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