A delivery driver aged 20, shot 8 people on Sydney Streets with an air rifle (no major injuries).
Says he did it "just for fun".
Turned in by co-accused fellow employee.
Happy 21st birthday Thursday behind bars.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8389170%255E2,00.html
We are nice guys in Australia;
Even our terrorists don’t much harm anyone!!!
posted on January 14, 2004 06:50:23 PM new
Made me remember a funny time from my youth.
I lived in an old apartment building when I was in high school. We were on the third floor but i had to take the garbage down every night to a can. There was a regular single family house next door and the devilish brothers that lived there would wait in the shadows of the garage and shot me in the legs and butt with a pellet gun. They simply didn't like me and thought it great sport.
If they had known I owned a regular revolver they probably would not have done it but I was trained never to threaten anyone with it. My dear mother always insisted if you pulled it out you must have already decided to shoot to kill.
The solution came when I stole about a pound of potassium clorate from the lab at school and mixed it with starch and confectioner's sugar at home.
I went out one night carrying that rolled in a double lunch bag instead of the garbage.
When I was smacked in the britches with a couple pellets I lit off the fuse and tossed the thing over the rail right in the mouth of the garage. It hit and bounced twice coming to a stop right at heir feet.
Now I admit the younger brother was smart enough he had already taken two steps to get away before it went off. But the older brother was still staring at it open mouthed with the gun in his hads when it went off.
Detonated is not a good word - it did not crack - it just made a giant cough and a ball of fire. But it was enough to roll this fellow all the way to the back of the garage and take his eyebrows and eyelashes off nicely.
The most interesting thing was the old garage had the old fashioned paned glass windows and it blew all of them right out of the putty without breaking them. The only ones that busted were the ones that landed on each other instead of the grass.
It did put a definite end to their sniping and nobody ever said a word about it to us.
