.22 bullet found in Fossgate, York

8:57am Friday 21st January 2011 in News

A picture of the bullet A picture of the bullet

A STARTLED man has told how he found a bullet lying in a York city-centre street.

Tim Stark said he was unloading items into the MOR Music store where he works in Fossgate yesterday morning when he spotted what he believed to be a live .22 bullet gleaming in a puddle.

He said he immediately called police, who came and took it away.

“I have no idea what it was doing there,” he said.

A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said the bullet had been put into safe storage, and CID had confirmed it was not thought to be connected with any incident currently under investigation.

He asked anyone with any information about the bullet and how it came to be in Fossgate to phone the force on 0845 60 60 47.

Comments(10)

Yorkenstein says...
10:35am Fri 21 Jan 11

Oh mein Gott! Good job, dass junge Mann hat sich entschlossen, es zu säubern. Ist er dem Vermieter?

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Alucard says...
10:53am Fri 21 Jan 11

Yorkenstein wrote:
Oh mein Gott! Good job, dass junge Mann hat sich entschlossen, es zu säubern. Ist er dem Vermieter?
Easier ways of getting rid of it if it was

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Terry3 says...
4:38pm Fri 21 Jan 11

The police were called for this?? what on earth is England coming to?.. Go through seldom used drawers, button boxes and whatever, you will probably find old 22 bullets and 12bore shells in many houses.. There are many thousands of 22 rifles around York I have no doubt, and someone dropped a bullet when getting their hankie out or some such.

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Yorkborneinbse says...
5:54pm Fri 21 Jan 11

Hadnt a clue what the story was about until I saw the picture....Thanks YEP, thats a bulllet is it ?

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EltonTrowler says...
6:40pm Fri 21 Jan 11

Well done that man from the music shop! Where else would one responsibly dispose of a 'live round'?? The bin? I think the right action was taken, if I had any live ammunition in my drawers I would jolly well ask the police to dispose of it!

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sheps lad says...
9:25pm Fri 21 Jan 11

EltonTrowler wrote:
Well done that man from the music shop! Where else would one responsibly dispose of a 'live round'?? The bin? I think the right action was taken, if I had any live ammunition in my drawers I would jolly well ask the police to dispose of it!
Years since I had any live ammo in my drawers!!

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greyscorpion says...
10:10pm Fri 21 Jan 11

I've got a dangerous live weapon in my drawers. I't good that he called Police... (I'm being sarcastic of course!). I'm surprised the whole street wasn't cordoned off as a 'terrorist incident'. Total over-reation by a do-gooder and a busybody. Plus, as previously mentioned: If it wasn't for the photo, I'd have never known what a bullet looked like...

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Biggles Breaks his Silence says...
10:12pm Fri 21 Jan 11

Is Tim Stark the wannabe news-hound at The Press?? one minute he's finding bullets, next he's taking pictures of an apparent cycling protest in front of a bus round the corner....I hope the cycling incident wasn't an organised event!!

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lalalalalala says...
9:36am Sat 22 Jan 11

i ve recently read an article about some one sneezing a bullet out of his nose, perhaps its catching and we are on the verge of a new bullet sneezing pandemic?

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mumsyof3 says...
6:07pm Sat 22 Jan 11

Is this really newsworthy?

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