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Just wondering.

...a loaded pellet gun. does that count? but safety was on.

yeah, so?

[color=blue]yeah, so?[color]

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Loaded AK-47.

No. :o

yeah, so?

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ahh, i've pointed a loaded air gun at someone. I've been at knife point, but it wasn't serious. And an air gun has been pointed at me. But no real guns.

No. I have the feeling I've been missing something in my life, though.

Loaded AK-47.

In what circumstances?


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I grew up (and still live) in Belfast and used to think nothing of the fact that the soldiers on patrol here would be pointing their rifles right at you while they were checking you out through their telescopic sights as you went about your daily business. Thinking back on it, however, I find it all quite disturbing.

Yes but it was on accident. I was gone hunting and my friend had his gun over his shoulder and I looked up and the barrel as pointed at me.

A cop once did... at a party I was at

Loaded AK-47.

In what circumstances?


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I grew up (and still live) in Belfast and used to think nothing of the fact that the soldiers on patrol here would be pointing their rifles right at you while they were checking you out through their telescopic sights as you went about your daily business. Thinking back on it, however, I find it all quite disturbing.The border of Macedonia in 1994, trying to monitor illegal smuggling for the U.N. (U.S. Army). I was in a vehicle, and since I was not in a position to really win any confrontation, I took off. They fired a couple of rounds my way, Luckily, I had a empty bladder.

A cop at a party once...[color]

You need to put a / in front of the "color" at the end of the sentance for it to work. It should look like this:

Not a gun, but a guy once held a knife to my throat...scared the crap out of me.

They fired a couple of rounds my way, Luckily, I had a empty bladder.

In that case, it is good to still have you with us.

Yes. My rival, ex-gf's dad (scary SOB too), and a few other people. Out of those few times, I've been shot 2 times.

Yes. My rival, ex-gf's dad (scary SOB too), and a few other people. Out of those few times, I've been shot 2 times.

eh! crazy, lang!

Out of those few times, I've been shot 2 times.

Shot, or shot at?

yeah, but it was empty. what an idiot!!! :D

Out of those few times, I've been shot 2 times.

Shot, or shot at?Shot.

unless you're counting paintball guns and airsoft guns, no.

yeah, but it was empty. what an idiot!!! :D

that's why the title specifies loaded. crazy kids.

yeah, but it was empty. what an idiot!!! :D

You basically just said: "Yes, someone pointed a loaded gun at me, but it wasn't loaded"...

Shot.

Ouch.

Police, me and some friends were shooting fireworks off and I shot one at my one friend and she screamed. Cops got called thinking a woman got shot.

I was holding one pistol style thinking it was just old people yelling at us, then I saw the badge. I stuck it in the ground and ran like a fuck.

And then turned around because I decided I could better talk my way out then run.

No charges, no search. All I had to do was turn over the fireworks in my plastic bag(they never noticed the ones in my pockets or in my knapsack.)

They didn't seach the two other guys, meaning we got to keep our weed and most of our fireworks. :twisted:

A cop at a party once...[color]

You need to put a / in front of the "color" at the end of the sentance for it to work. It should look like this: Thank you

i don't know, i kind of hope sometime in my future someone does with a real kind of gun. with the safety lock on, of course.

I have, it was a suicidal lady that wanted attention pretty much, but she said that she was going to show me that it worked, (meaning that she was going to shoot me), that was scary.

yeah, but it was empty. what an idiot!!! :D

You basically just said: "Yes, someone pointed a loaded gun at me, but it wasn't loaded"...

oh my bad. i didnt read the thread name,so....
no, i nnever had a loaded gun pointed at me.

Twice, once in while in high school and again in college.

The high school incident happened while my best friend and I were driving home after visiting his GF. It was Saturday night, around 1am on a highway that has a reputation for lots of drunks. I was asleep on the bed in the back of the van. We had not been drinking, but my friend got pulled over by a cop. He forgot to mention I was in the back when the cop searched the car. I woke up with a start when the cop opened the door and sat up quickly. The cop drew on me.

The college insident involved showing off for a cute girl by trespassing on a ranch. The rancher had been having problems with tresspassers, and was lying in wait with a shotgun.

Twice, once in while in high school and again in college.

The high school incident happened while my best friend and I were driving home after visiting his GF. It was Saturday night, around 1am on a highway that has a reputation for lots of drunks. I was asleep on the bed in the back of the van. We had not been drinking, but my friend got pulled over by a cop. He forgot to mention I was in the back when the cop searched the car. I woke up with a start when the cop opened the door and sat up quickly. The cop drew on me.

The college insident involved showing off for a cute girl by trespassing on a ranch. The rancher had been having problems with tresspassers, and was lying in wait with a shotgun.

i imagine both were awkward.

No, never. I don't think anyone wants to kill me... or even joke with it... I hope...

12 gauage military shotgun - loaded
I had faith he wouldnt pull the trigger...
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12 gauage military shotgun - loaded
I had faith he wouldnt pull the trigger...

i'd actually quite enjoy that, i think.

Twice, once in while in high school and again in college.

The high school incident happened while my best friend and I were driving home after visiting his GF. It was Saturday night, around 1am on a highway that has a reputation for lots of drunks. I was asleep on the bed in the back of the van. We had not been drinking, but my friend got pulled over by a cop. He forgot to mention I was in the back when the cop searched the car. I woke up with a start when the cop opened the door and sat up quickly. The cop drew on me.

The college insident involved showing off for a cute girl by trespassing on a ranch. The rancher had been having problems with tresspassers, and was lying in wait with a shotgun.

i imagine both were awkward.

Yep. But I got out of both. "Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Absolutely whatever you say, sir." goes along way...

Twice, once in while in high school and again in college.

The high school incident happened while my best friend and I were driving home after visiting his GF. It was Saturday night, around 1am on a highway that has a reputation for lots of drunks. I was asleep on the bed in the back of the van. We had not been drinking, but my friend got pulled over by a cop. He forgot to mention I was in the back when the cop searched the car. I woke up with a start when the cop opened the door and sat up quickly. The cop drew on me.

The college insident involved showing off for a cute girl by trespassing on a ranch. The rancher had been having problems with tresspassers, and was lying in wait with a shotgun.

i imagine both were awkward.

Yep. But I got out of both. "Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Absolutely whatever you say, sir." goes along way...

lucky.

12 gauage military shotgun - loaded
I had faith he wouldnt pull the trigger...

i'd actually quite enjoy that, i think.

Why so?
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12 gauage military shotgun - loaded
I had faith he wouldnt pull the trigger...

i'd actually quite enjoy that, i think.

Why so?


that fits in nicely with bdsm and i'm kinky that way.

austrian guard at the airport pointed an assault rifle at me by accident when checking me in a random check.

another time an american guard at reagan international in DC pointed his m-16 at my stomach for about 5 seconds before realizing it, while checking me once more...

lucky.

Yes indeed.

I was questioned briefly by Korean MPs armed with SMGs at Kimpo airport in Seoul, but they weren't pointed at me. Never did find out what they wanted - I don't speak Korean and they didn't speak English.

Alas, I have seen the business end of a fire arm more than once. Many years ago I was in New York during an international conference that also happened to have another, special attendee ... President Ronald Reagan. I was walking down the street in the financial district and turned the corner, and was face to face with a pair of young marines with M-16's - but that wasn't as scary as the two accros the street who had their guns aimed at me (as a tourist, I was wearing a back-pack, and looked "out of place" ... bag searched ... turned around - left).

Several years later, while travelling in Austria, I was coming home days after the Lokerby air disaster (when it was still thought to be a terrorist attack). When I arrived at the Vienna airport I found out what an H&K MP5 looks like, up close. Submachine guns are not really what you want to see in the hands of people, but I suppose the level of anxiety was understandable.

Fast forward ... I was in St. Elmo, Illonois (really) - on a business trip - and during some time off the son of the person I was staying with decided to show me how to shoot ... he had a really amazing gun collection, including a .22, 9mm, .357 magnum, .44, and several varieties of rifles - including one that had been converted into an automatic with some spring device (about $5 worth of hardware). Anyway, as I was "playing" with the .22, trying to "kill" a target (actually got fairly decent at it), he was showing me the .357 and .44. At one point he was saying something about gun safety, about what not to do, and had the .44 up to my head .... "this is what you should never do ... unless you mean it ..."

Well, I got the message - (and I could have changed my shorts after as well).

QM

Actually, my friend's dad is head of the SWAT team at a big city nearby and we were playing hostages for one of their training exercises. Yea...I had a whole SWAT team pointing loaded (with blanks) MP5s at me.

I was robbed at night by three kids--held a gun to the back of my head while I was laying face down in the street. They got my bike, and a wallet with three bucks and two maxed out credit cards in it.

Ooh.....dangerous world... :?

Several years later, while travelling in Austria, I was coming home days after the Lokerby air disaster (when it was still thought to be a terrorist attack).

Urrr..., Lockerby was a terrorist attack. As to whether it was really the Libyans behind it is a different matter, but I don't think there is any dispute about the fact it was a bomb that caused the disaster.

Ooh.....dangerous world... :?

Yep. And here in the good old "safety country" that is Japan, I know 2 people who have witnessed murders on the street.

Ooh.....dangerous world... :?

Yep. And here in the good old "safety country" that is Japan, I know 2 people who have witnessed murders on the street.

Hmmm. Well, if Japan has a much higher population density than, for example, the US, then surely one is going to be statistically more likely to witness such events, even if the murder rate is the same, no?

(Fluffing the statistics slightly for te sake of debate, but you know what I mean...)

yeah...it happened while negotiating a roundabout in Morocco...out in the countryside.

There was a lot of shouting and when i looked in the mirror there were two police/soldiers (never did find out who they were) with their machine guns aimed at the car and it seemed like a good idea to stop.

They came running up and i had a gun pointing at my chest, my partner had the other gun pointing at his. Strangely there wasn't time to be scared.

I don't speak arabic but everyone speaks french in Morocco...the situation focused my mind beautifully on my long-forgotten french from school days.

We showed our passports and as soon as they reaslised we were tourists they turned friendly and waved us away.

To this day i haven't a clue what it was all about and i don't know how close we really came to being shot at. Hmmmmm...

Ooh.....dangerous world... :?

Yep. And here in the good old "safety country" that is Japan, I know 2 people who have witnessed murders on the street.

Maybe I'm too pampered, or maybe Hong Kong's really safe - I haven't seen as much as a loaded gun except those that cops carry. :lol:

No.

No, thankfully, no one has ever pointed a loaded gun at me.

this how you do it?

While I never confirmed that they were indeed loaded, I have had handguns pointed at me twice.



Both times the men behind the guns wore badges. Both times I was detained and released. Both times 'I fit the description'.

Hmmm. Well, if Japan has a much higher population density than, for example, the US, then surely one is going to be statistically more likely to witness such events, even if the murder rate is the same, no?

(Fluffing the statistics slightly for te sake of debate, but you know what I mean...)

Well, Japan has a very significantly lower murder rate, for one thing (although it's rising quickly).

And Dragons, Japan also has very strict gun control - at least compared to back home in Houston.

Hmmm. Well, if Japan has a much higher population density than, for example, the US, then surely one is going to be statistically more likely to witness such events, even if the murder rate is the same, no?

(Fluffing the statistics slightly for te sake of debate, but you know what I mean...)

Well, Japan has a very significantly lower murder rate, for one thing (although it's rising quickly).

And Dragons, Japan also has very strict gun control - at least compared to back home in Houston.

I never noticed any gun control in Houston other than the strict requirement that you pay for the weapon you acquire. Unless you shoot someone for it.

I've had loaded guns pointed at me several times. Mostly (by family members) with the safety on. The one time I remember quite clearly is the time (in Houston) I was going out for my nightly two-mile run and about 3/4 of the way home, an SUV started pacing me, following just a few feet behind me (I was on the sidewalk and it was on the street). It was a Cadillac Escalade. Now I know there was nobody in that neighborhood who owned a freakin Lac, so I was a little suspicious just based on that. After a few hundred feet it started to pull even with me and I saw a man in the passenger seat holding a gun pointed straight out of his window at me. I was ready to run or fight, but nothing happened. They just suddenly sped up and drove on past. I don't know why I didn't die that night.

I'm glad I'm still here to annoy you people. :wink:

I never noticed any gun control in Houston other than the strict requirement that you pay for the weapon you acquire. Unless you shoot someone for it.

That was kinda the point. (And we're glad you're still here, too.)

I never noticed any gun control in Houston other than the strict requirement that you pay for the weapon you acquire. Unless you shoot someone for it.

That was kinda the point. (And we're glad you're still here, too.)

Thanks Daisy! I'm glad you're still here too. PO'd ranchers with shotguns aren't the most healthy of circumstances! :lol:

I never noticed any gun control in Houston other than the strict requirement that you pay for the weapon you acquire. Unless you shoot someone for it.

That was kinda the point. (And we're glad you're still here, too.)

Thanks Daisy! I'm glad you're still here too. PO'd ranchers with shotguns aren't the most healthy of circumstances! :lol:

You got that right! Japan may not be as safe as it was when I first got here, but I've never seen the wrong end of either a .357 or a 12G here.
(And if anyone wonders, yes, the sound of a someone pumping a shotgun in the dark is hellaciously scary.)

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Now that you mention it and I read these posts I guess I've had more than the average occasions;

Savanagh, GA 1974 - Police stopped my brother for speeding. I got out of the car to talk to the cops and found out why they call it 'the shotgun seat' when he pumped it while pointing it at me and ordered me back into the car. I never did figure out how I did get back in my seat, closed the door and placed my hands atop the dash in one millionth of a second.

The Bronx about the same year - A connection's wife let us in to score. When we entered the living room the dealer pulled a .small revolver from under his pillow and cocked it and pointed it at me. Apparently he was crashing off meth and we "startled" him.

112th Street between St. Nicholas Avenue and MLK - about 1980
The second time I was robbed as a cab driver. One had what felt like a rough or serrated knife to my throat while the other had what he said was a gun to my head. They got busted, I got the money back. The cops never found the gun. (The first time I was robbed a guy and gal I picked up in The Bronx used a scapel held to my adam's apple. They took the car & got away with it.)

Another time I was in a small after hours gambling joint in The Bronx when it was held up. They had us lay on the floor face down. Apparently the manager was too slow for their liking and they busted a cap just above his head. I couldn't see so I thought they shot him so we were all goners.

Another time a passenger found a loaded .357 revolver in the back of my cab. It was wrapped in a bloody towel. Apparently a fare I had in the car just before her, who said he had cut his hand, left it behind. That one took almost all night with the cops who seemed to suspect I was somehow involved. They never did find a victim that I knew of. Oh yes, that was also in The Bronx.

I think that pretty much covers the guns pointed at me part. NYC Cops don't really count since they rarely shoot. What can I say? A misspent youth - in The Bronx.

SHL

ok, umm, i got shot once (by accident) when I went hunting with a buddy. He dropped his shotgun, it went off (dumb punk forgot to put on the safety), and next thing I know some pellets ricochet back into us. Wasn't bad, just a couple hit us, but they barely even broke the skin. I slugged him in the face for it though, and he fell off the stand :).

Also, I got stopped while REALLY stoned by the cops at a driver's license check, and since my window motor had burned out and I couldn't roll it down I opened the door. Next thing I know I'm on my face on the ground with 6 guns on me. I explained, they didn't notice I was stoned, and I went home. Luckily I was too stoned to be worried at the time, or I would have pissed myself.

Also, I caught a guy trying to break into my house at night one time, I was on the stairs, and when he walked by I cracked his head open with the butt end of a loaded shotgun, and held it on him while my Dad was calling the cops. He (the thief) DID piss himself, after he woke up. From what I heard they had to take him to the hospital for stitches, and I did not feel bad for him at all. Except I was mad when I had to wipe the blood off the floor. Apparently hitting someone in the temple with a shotgun can make them bleed a good bit.

Gotta love South Carolina....