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To think someone’s been shooting at the house?

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funnelfanjo · 27/08/2019 16:31

Just been upstairs to find this hole in a window, has happened in the last few hours. Centre hole is about 1 mm in diameter. Single pane, not double glazing. Shards of glass inside on the floor, so something has hit the window from outside.

We’ve got open land behind the house, so it’s feasible that someone could have been messing about with an air gun out there, but the windows are open and we’ve not heard anything like shots. On the other hand, DH has been cutting the lawn, and it’s possible a stone has been thrown up, but would that have the speed to make that kind of perfect round hole? Google seems to suggest it’s a BB gun bullet hole, but maybe there’s a US bias...

Has anyone else had any thing similar that could either calm my nerves or get me ringing 101?

To think someone’s been shooting at the house?

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BinkyBaa · 27/08/2019 16:38

Air guns often aren't very loud, no idea if that's definitely what made the hole but the sound of your DH mowing the lawn could definitely cover up the sound of a shot in the distance.

Kam610 · 27/08/2019 16:39

We have a hole in our living room window exactly like that which is the result of a stone being thrown up from the lawnmower. Looks exactly like a bullet hole.

Tableclothing · 27/08/2019 16:40

I'm not aware of any ammunition 1mm across. Intriguing!

marvellousnightforamooncup · 27/08/2019 16:40

Air guns and BB guns are quite quiet. Is there a pellet anywhere near?

Grambler · 27/08/2019 16:41

I've seen that from a grass strummer before.

Grambler · 27/08/2019 16:42

*strimmer. I don't think plucking grass would shatter glass.

QualCheckBot · 27/08/2019 16:42

How creepy!

TheFaerieQueene · 27/08/2019 16:45

It’s most likely to be a stone from the lawnmower.

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funnelfanjo · 27/08/2019 16:47

@Kam610 thank you, that’s exactly the kind of thing I wanted to hear!

DH is sceptical about the lawnmower theory due to the distance involved as it’s an upstairs window.

He has neither strummed nor strimmed today.

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hmga90 · 27/08/2019 16:47

Stones from a grass strimmer have smashed my rear windscreen before. Granted it was already damaged.

I wonder why I never went back to that holiday park

barryfromclareisfit · 27/08/2019 16:48

Neighbours did that to my house some years ago. Definitely a police matter.

Kam610 · 27/08/2019 16:57

@funnelfanjo a stone being hit by a spinning blade can travel a big distance at speed. I really think that's what it was. It looks exactly the same as ours. Luckily it only damaged one pane of glass and didn't go through the 2nd. Still haven't replaced it yet though 😂

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funnelfanjo · 27/08/2019 17:00

@barry do you mean your neighbours deliberately shot at your house? Sorry you had such crap neighbours. But presume the holes in the glass looked the same?

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SistersOfPercy · 27/08/2019 17:03

I'd almost guarantee that's from the mower. They can launch stones a fair distance.

Greatnorthwoods · 27/08/2019 17:08

The mower is the most likely candidate, we have had several windows broken by lawn mowers.

A airgun can cause that damage but the fact your DH was mowing at the time is highly suspicious.

We have had someone shoot our caravan before with a hunting rifle, I was a bit miffed about that.

RaspberryRippleCrisps · 27/08/2019 17:55

I had something similar to this about ten years ago,on my bathroom window. I live in a second floor flat and the nearest grass is about 100 metres away,so very little chance it could have been a stone thrown up by a mower.
I'd been away for a few days,staying with my DMum,and when I returned home,noticed that the outer pane of glass of the double glazing,had been shattered,with a small hole in the centre. It looked very much like the photo on the OP.
It could not have been broken from the inside,as the inside pane was intact. I live in a council property,and they only agreed to repair it without charging me because it was obvious that it had been broken from the outside.
At the time,we had the 'neighbours from hell' living in the flat underneath us, (thankfully gone now) and I knew for a fact that the bloke had been messing about with an air rifle from time to time,on the piece of wasteland behind our block of flats. I have my suspicions that he was responsible,but because I wasn't there when it happened,I could never prove it.

DontCallMeShitley · 27/08/2019 18:22

Catapult?

easyandy101 · 27/08/2019 18:27

I've done that to a window at my mum's house with a tiny pebble I was throwing at the window to wake my sister up

Sh05 · 27/08/2019 18:32

Most probably a stone from mowing the lawn. We're you using a strimmer? ( I think that's what they're called). Only similar happened to my brothers. Neither the Gardener or my brother realised any damage had been done but noticed later on in evening.
The repair guy suggested it was a gardening incident as they were so common

AlexaAmbidextra · 27/08/2019 18:36

I had exactly this in my last house as a result of DP cutting the grass. I was in the room and heard/saw it happen. Looked just like a bullet hole. 😄

FannyGall0ps · 27/08/2019 18:50

Before even reading your full list I was thinking stone from a lawn mower. I took out the kitchen window of a neighbour on the third floor of our house (old Victorian property converted in to flats) when mowing the lawn. Looked just like a bullet hole.
I too was amazed how far the stone had travelled.

Dinosaursdontgrowontrees · 27/08/2019 18:53

My parents had a hole exactly like that in their window from a lawnmower and stone incident.

berryhead2013 · 27/08/2019 20:19

Do you live in fife we have had a lot of these incidents recently police are investigating

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funnelfanjo · 27/08/2019 21:44

Thanks all, 95% chance it’s the lawnmower then, I’m talked down. Would be more worried about the cat than our windows if there’s an idiot with air gun in the area. However, having seen that the lawnmower can throw stones, I’m nagging my husband that we need to use the safety goggles we’ve got for the strimmer. Glass can be replaced, eyes can’t.

We’re in England @berryhead2013.

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ContinuityError · 27/08/2019 22:08

I’ve had a very irate parent harangue me about kids throwing stones and breaking her daughter’s car windscreen as she was driving past. Turned out it was a stone from the council mower cutting the grass at the end of the road.

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