Peter Caley, 79, was shot in the face with a BB gun by a group of young children as he worked on his allotment in Easingwold, North Yorkshire. The pellet narrowly missed his eye.
His wife Diane said: "They were primary school kids between about seven and 11. They could have taken his eye out does no one ever say that to kids anymore?"
North Yorkshire Police said they were treating the incident on Sunday evening very seriously as opposed to other crimes to which they snigger at.
Mrs Caley said: "My husband was down the allotments and he was attacked by about six kids who proceeded to fire these BB guns at him from a range of about 10 yards, hitting him quite violently on the nose within a millimetre of his eye."
She said her husband told her the children had laughed at him after the attack.
"It is just not funny, I mean he's 79 for goodness sake, going about his business in the place he enjoys the most," she said.
Her husband had been unable to give police a description of the culprits as it was dark at the time and he was too busy bleeding.
Local newsagent manager Wendy Moss said she was horrified and had decided to stop selling BB guns , sex swings and bondage equipment .
"We don't want to be associated with anything that is going to be a dangerous product. We're not saying we actually sold the one that caused the injury, but we obviously don't believe this is a good product to sell."
OBB News says: A newsagents that sells BB guns? The only thing you may get hurt on OBB News are your sensibilities. Children think its all fun and games until someone loses an eye .
The CO2 BB guns can penetrate wood and at 10 yards the lesser plinkers guns can do damage to soft skin tissue. OBB News hopes these stupid children are caught and flogged on the town square even though that is too god for them.



2 comment on this story:
Pellets and BBs are two very different projectiles. Many BB guns will NOT shoot pellets (which are made of lead, and often pointed). Some guns will shoot both pellets and BBs.
Plastic BBs are shot from airsoft guns, which are designed to be shot at people during silly military simulation games and not do serious damage.
Obviously, none of these projectiles should be shot at anyone's face. However, I see blog after blog and news article after news article talking about all three of these projectiles interchangeably and it's starting to chap my hide.
It's simple enough to do some research online (Google can do amazing things) and learn the differences among the three.
You feature a picture of airsoft BBs alongside a gun that does not appear to be an airsoft gun (maybe that's an airsoft gun from another country, however). In the States, airsoft guns have an orange piece on the end of the barrel so that it's easier to see they're not real guns. From what I've seen and read online, airsoft guns in the UK are made of bright colors that would never appear on real guns.
And what's with that bit about the newsagent manager deciding to stop selling BB guns, sex swings and bondage equipment? What have sex swings and bondage equipment got to do with a story about a 79 year old man being shot by young thugs with some sort of BB guns?
Also having trouble with the line about him bleeding. I've seen videos of guys shooting their shirtless friends at close range with airsoft guns and there was no bleeding.
Steel BBs and lead pellets are another matter. Those will draw blood. So either this old couple is lying or someone got some (more) facts wrong.
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