Motorcycle shop boss shot with crossbow after feud in Leeds

[Defender]

Did anyone hear about this?

A MOTORCYCLE shop boss who clashed with a Leeds biker gang was shot on his doorstep with a crossbow, a court heard.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Motorcycle-shop-boss-shot-with.3671864.jp

[dizzyblonde]

I can't say I've heard the story, but, as I have many friends from various biker groups, i can say you never cross a blue angel, they're very scary

[missyburd]

No, but that's shocking :( poor bloke.

[ASM-Forever]

Typical northerners...... :)

[dizzyblonde]

Typical northerners...... :)
ere what ya tryin ta say like??? we're all flannel check shirt, dungaree wearing types??:smt019:D

[missyburd]

Typical northerners...... :)

Watch it!!! :lol:

Funny almost the same thing going on in the megathread at the mo lol.

[Lissa]

ere what ya tryin ta say like??? we're all flannel check shirt, dungaree wearing types??:smt019:D


With flat caps, and run around shouting 'Ecky-thump' and hitting people with black puddings:D

[Biker Biggles]

Yeah talk about northerners being backward.Crossbows?
Down here we use proper guns.:D

[Defender]

Yeah talk about northerners being backward.Crossbows?
Down here we use proper guns.:D

Proper guns is that in preference to artificial guns ;)

[Biker Biggles]

Would a crossbow be the medieval equivalent of a sawn off longbow?
Oh and is it acceptable to refere to the angels as northern monkeys?:rolleyes::-#

[Frank]

southern softies
Real men do it with crossbows

[yorkie_chris]

The jury was told police discovered instructions and a crossbow ..... Police also found an A to Z with markings on both Mr Malham's and his business partner Paul Moody's addresses.

To quote Eroll from snatch;
I know a lot of tits, Guv'nor. But I don't know any quite as fcking stupid as these two.

The insanity of these cruiser riding muppets is quite scary, but come on, not the brightest bunch are they?

[Razor]

southern softies
Real men do it with crossbows

To each other?

[Bluepete]

To each other?

No, Lissa had it on page one.

With black puddings! ;)

[timwilky]

A few years ago, I was going out with the shotgun, a mate decided to take his crossbow. As we walked past Brinscall police station, the village bobby collared us.

He had no problems I was carrying the shotgun. But what was Mick doing with that toy.

To prove it was not a toy, we went to the police station back yard and he placed a piece of wood against the door. First bolt, went straight through the plywood, back door, kitchen cupboard door and embedded itself amongst smashed crockery into the kitchen wall.

Sod it says copper, I am being shifted in a couple of week it can stay like that. So personal opinion is that crossbows are a serious lethal weapon, quiet, huge stopping power etc. After all they are designed to take out the posh gits in tin suites sat on their horses

[Biker Biggles]

Quite correct of course.A couple of workmates had a crossbow fired at them as they legged it out of a block of flats and it missed them but did some serious damage to the brickwork.
I have an anti ballistic jacket,and I very much doubt it would stop a crossbow bolt,which is more akin to a small missile than a bullet.

[Dicky Ticker]

Posh gits in suites sat on tin horses--------------possible better more up-to-date use

[Daimo]

To prove it was not a toy, we went to the police station back yard and he placed a piece of wood against the door. First bolt, went straight through the plywood, back door, kitchen cupboard door and embedded itself amongst smashed crockery into the kitchen wall.

Sod it says copper, I am being shifted in a couple of week it can stay like that. So personal opinion is that crossbows are a serious lethal weapon, quiet, huge stopping power etc. After all they are designed to take out the posh gits in tin suites sat on their horses

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Ashy]

Quite correct of course.A couple of workmates had a crossbow fired at them as they legged it out of a block of flats and it missed them but did some serious damage to the brickwork.
I have an anti ballistic jacket,and I very much doubt it would stop a crossbow bolt,which is more akin to a small missile than a bullet.

Quite right... Ballistic jacket would be useless against a crossbow. FAR more energy transfered through a bow shaft than a bullet... It just so happens that bullets fly faster and so allow people to be more lazy with compensating for motion and other trajectory-altering factors.

I ride a cruiser 8-[

[Pedrosa]

To each other?

:smt044:smt044

[MrMessy]

I was talking about this today with a mate. He as a Harley for sale in their showroom and apparently the place was recently firebombed.:eek:

[Lozzo]

ere what ya tryin ta say like??? we're all flannel check shirt, dungaree wearing types??:smt019:D

That's only the lezzer ones.

[northwind]

A mate of mine got shot through the chest with a longbow, lucky for him it had a fine point on it not a broadhead so it went clean through him and left a nice neat entry and exit hole, instead of smashing his chest like a sledgehammer. He still wasn't too delighted though by all accounts.

[dizzyblonde]

That's only the lezzer ones.


haha, yeah well they be plenty o those types darn Hebden..lol

[yorkie_chris]

He still wasn't too delighted though by all accounts.

Lol sounds like it might have stung a bit.

I have one of those compound bows (just in case of plowsie's really), and it's not a particularly strong draw on it, but you still wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of it. Crossbows can be even more powerful, to the extent of being able to drop a deer with one at 40 yards.

[northwind]

This was probably an old-school yew one, he's a battlefield re-enactionist guy. Bunch of geeks, with big weapons.

[yorkie_chris]

I was clay shooting in lancashire the other day, that was much more scary, loads of mad, cousin loving farmer types, with shotguns.

[G]

I love how the conversation went from a guy who got shot by a biker gang........

......to how effective the weapon used on him is :D:D:D lol

I have a catapult that will put a small glass marble through a car door

[Filipe M.]

I have a catapult that will put a small glass marble through a car door

An open one? :smt040

[SoulKiss]

This was probably an old-school yew one, he's a battlefield re-enactionist guy. Bunch of geeks, with big weapons.

Like this but with sharps :P

http://www.chaoscrypt.com/karathan/DSC_0045.JPG

[Filipe M.]

Like this but with sharps :P

http://www.chaoscrypt.com/karathan/DSC_0045.JPG

Holy crap, the Uruk-Hai are back! :shock:

[G]

An open one? :smt040

Almost.........A french one ;) lol

Seriouslly this catapult could kill someone, it has an arms support and a 1m pull back, it can fire over 500m

[PsychoCannon]

Like this but with sharps :P

http://www.chaoscrypt.com/karathan/DSC_0045.JPG

Garrghhh stop posting these pics!! they make me want to start coming into work dressed ilke that >_<
Should stop all the (L)users asking me stupid questions...

[northwind]

LARPing's waaaaay better than recreation IMO. Especially recreation that involves getting shot right through the lungs.

[yorkie_chris]

I love how the conversation went from a guy who got shot by a biker gang........

......to how effective the weapon used on him is :D:D:D lol

I have a catapult that will put a small glass marble through a car door

Weapons are always interesting, if mankind put as much effort into anything as we put into killing each other we'd probably have mastered interstellar travel before now :-P

[missyburd]

LARPing's waaaaay better than recreation IMO. Especially recreation that involves getting shot right through the lungs.

LARP? There's a group of crazy people here at uni who run about the woods with weapons and such, I thought it was just something they made up here as a club, you're telling me there are more of them :confused: eeeek.

[Lozzo]

LARP? There's a group of crazy people here at uni who run about the woods with weapons and such, I thought it was just something they made up here as a club, you're telling me there are more of them :confused: eeeek.

There are thousands of the sad buggers.

I can't see the attraction myself.

[missyburd]

There are thousands of the sad buggers.

I can't see the attraction myself.

errm no me neither. Each to their own I s'pose. There's another thing that I thought was just here too but then heard them talking about it on the radio - "Warhammer"? Bit like a slightly more sophisticated game of toy soldiers... The only interesting about that is how they make all the little figures, they have workshops etc. Bless 'em.

[Defender]

Crossbow attempt murder accused cleared

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Crossbow-attempt-murder-accused-cleared.3689419.jp