Man tried to pay for fish 'n' chips with a gun

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This really is one of whose "WTF?! !! !! !" stories:

Christ. Can you imagine the staff at those shops being presented a bloody gun!
Good job this maniac is behind bars, hopefully the police have acquired the information on where he got that firearm and are fully going after them...

Gloucester, Christ, that's about seventy miles from my house.

I'm glad that bastard is in jail. That was a very stupid thing of him to do. He should also be banned from the restaurant for life.

So possession of an imitation gun is illegal?
The article said he did not try to use it in a threatening manner but only offered it for trade.

"Omar Ali did not threaten the staff at the Podsmead fish and chip shop in Gloucester with the imitation firearm - but instead offered it as payment for the meal."

If anything he was stupid.

The assault issue with his GF is another matter, though...

It was an imitation gun but, nevertheless, it's still bloody serious.



No, possession of an Imitation Firearm or a Realistic Imitation Firearm isn't illegal in itself, but carrying anything that looks like a gun in public isn't a good idea. Unless you're shooting out in the countryside, it's likely to get an armed response vehicle sent out to you!

It's an offence to possess an Imitation Firearm (Realistic or not) in public, and realistic replicas are banned altogether apart from people who are airsoft people playing on an insured site (and can prove it!), a reenactor, filmmaker or museum. It's also created an offence to manufacture, bring into or cause to be brought into Great Britain, or sell Realistic Imitation Firearms apart from the above exceptions.

Surprised they didn't charge him with salt 'n battering.

I thought this was a clever way of saying that he tried to get a free meal. I'm going to have to recycle this quote. "Boss pays employee with a gun" "Judas was paid 30 pieces of silver bullets" "Military pays for damage with long range bombers"

Surprised they didn't charge him with salt 'n battering.
this made me laugh.

That should only be good for imitation food.

I accept payment in firearms (must be a real one though. No point in a gun that doesn't sling lead at high velocity).

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Yeah, if someone came in and offered me any serviceable handgun in trade for fish-n-chips I'd definitely be willing make him a good deal and keep the cops out of it.

why did that make me smile.

5 months for having a fake gun.

2 months for beating and biting your girlfriend because she wants to visit a friend.

I'm not sure who's the insane person here, this idiot or the judge.

They often say the crazy don't actually know they're crazy.

when i was driving a taxi there was this minimun security prison without walls type of program for women in town.no one there was allowed to drive so they went to there jobs with taxi vouchers paid for by the dept. of corrections.
there was this on chick who was there for robbing a pharmacy with a toy gun