re: Growing In The Pond & Keeping My Head Above Water
i remember getting arrested for having a spud gun, i was about 11 and was messing around in the street with this little back spud gun with 2 of my mates, in my moms road its like a dead end but at the one end their is an island thats covered in grass where we used to play football, well i was messing around with my mates with this spud gun and next thing we hear is police sirens and wondered what was going on, then they pulled in to my moms road and stopped at the end of the island, we sat their looking at them, the police sat in their car and we could see them looking at us,
we got up to walk away and they opened the doors and hid behind their cars, we thought someone in the road was getting raided so we started to walk away, next thing i hear is a police loud speaker saying slowly put the weapon down and take a few steps backwards, i was thinking who the hell is mad enough to walk the streets with a weapon, so looked behind me and their was no none behind us, again they said a bit louder put the weapon down and take a few steps backwards, i looked at my mates and pretty much crapped myself, im standing on this island with 2 mates holding what looks like a little black hand gun, it suddenly hit me they was on about me so i threw the spud gun on the floor and walked back a few steps,
we was then all ordered to lie flat on the floor face down so we wasnt looking at them, i then shouted its a spud gun, they wasnt interested in what i had to say, so the 3 of us lay on the floor pissing ourselves laughing, we thought it was highly funny when we realised what they thought was a weapon, anyways they confiscated the spud gun and gave me a slap on the wrist for having an imitation firearm,
the police here are not used to guns so if it looks like a gun and shoots any sort of projectile then its a gun, even air guns are banned here, you can only have an air rifle if you are an adult and got somewhere safe to use it, luckily they never went to my house else they would of found my g10 repeater gas gun, so i lost my spud gun and ended up getting handcuffed while they carefully picked this spud gun up, asking me why im out on the streets waving a gun around, i told them its a spud gud and we was shooting plastic action figures we was playing with.
after all the grief i got in with that i wondered if its possible to go and rob the local corner shop with a spud gun, but im pretty sure any normal person would know its a spud gun, but the police did not find it funny and told me i shouldnt be using it outdoors where people can see what im doing,