Shot through kitchen window

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Heard it too - I'd put it at 3.48 and 30 seconds! Either an extremely loud backfire or small explosion/v. loud gun report.

[Steph]

Yeah just talking to my husband about it and he said it was at that time too..

Didn't sound like a backfire but you never know!

[Steph]

Yeah just talking to my husband about it and he said it was at that time too..

Didn't sound like a backfire but you never know!

[????]

woke me up too

[????]

woke me up too

[TimmyBaggins]

i had a walk around this morning but nothing to be seen, at least it wasn't just us...

[TimmyBaggins]

i had a walk around this morning but nothing to be seen, at least it wasn't just us...

[philiphenslowe]

My cat was shot Monday lunchtime (about 1.30pm) somewhere around Henslowe/Barry Road. He's currently being operated on as the pellet is lodged in his liver. It was reported to the police who were very helpful.

I'm absolutely furious that there are idiots shooting air guns at all and sundry! :o(

[DonGee]

OMG, philiphenslowe, sorry to hear that, I hope your cat makes a speedy recovery... lets hope the bastards responsible for all this random shooting at people and pets this are caught v.soon.

[crs]

poor cat, sorry philiphenslowe. Have you spoken to the police?

[thexwinglessxbird]

How is shooting into peoples windows the slightest bit amusing? They're obviously old enough to handle a gun, so they must be seriously fucked up.

Hope these bastards get the chance to taste their own medicine before they get caught.

Poor cat... I had a cat that got seriously shot (as yours has been, philiphenslowe). It turned out to be our next door neighbour. Our cat did make a full recovery =)

[huncamunca]

thexwinglessxbird Wrote:

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> How is shooting into peoples windows the slightest

> bit amusing? They're obviously old enough to

> handle a gun, so they must be seriously @#$%& up.

>

>

> Hope these bastards get the chance to taste their

> own medicine before they get caught.

>

> Poor cat... I had a cat that got seriously shot

> (as yours has been, philiphenslowe). It turned out

> to be our next door neighbour. Our cat did make a

> full recovery =)

Can I ask what prompted your Neighbour to decide to shoot the cat?

[*Bob*]

huncamunca Wrote:

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> Can I ask what prompted your Neighbour to decide

> to shoot the cat?

Tut Tut.. Naughty Snorky

[huncamunca]

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[thexwinglessxbird]

If huncamunca was trying to be insulting (wouldn't be suprised - always the same people on this forum) then I don't see the motive behind this.

[Alex K]

Amazing what we sort through and understand, because we know what was MEANT.

"Poor cat... I had a cat that got seriously shot (as yours has been, philiphenslowe). It turned out to be our next door neighbour" writes A, B enquires "Can I ask what prompted your neighbour to decide to shoot the cat?"

And yet syntactically it is the CAT which turned out to be the next door neighbour.

--

Working as a translator makes you ask all the time -- Could the author REALLY have meant THAT? And then, shaking your head, saying -- No, impossible. This MUST be what was intended...

Gin and tonic: Wellspring of all psycholinguistic analysis.

[huncamunca]

I wasnt , but unless it was a spotty teen with an air rifle, then I would like to hear more - its a pretty serious act shooting someones pet

this however would open up the cats : good or bad, endless discussion, and that is maybe a pointless exercise

[Dulwichmudlark]

sounds like it would of been an air pellet or bb thay tend to reflect the other way when hitting glass