Jersey police claimed he had used blank bullets.
"We thought, somebody's going to end up doing it with blank bullets, and think, 'Ah, well, it must be all right then', but people have killed themselves doing it with blank bullets.
1992 Acid house collective the KLF performed a thrash metal version of their song 3am Eternal, which culminated in frontman Bill Drummond pulling out a fake submachine gun and pretending to spray the crowd with (blank) bullets, having been prevented, so legend has it, from pouring sheep's blood over the crowd.
"What is very amazing to me and my colleagues is unless you knew what happened on Jan . 8 it's impossible to tell she is a woman who suffered a point-blank bullet wound to the brain less than six months ago".
Pastoral imagery began to give way to images of "armored cars" and "machine-gun posts" and "a point-blank teatime bullet".
The internet being our weapon of choice tends to fire off more blanks than bullets.
Ali said the army responded by firing tear gas, blanks, rubber bullets and finally "we used live ammunition in non-deadly parts of the body".
For them the players in "Carmen," from the soldiers and the women of the cigarette factory to Carmen, Don Jose and Escamillo, inhabit a grim, hopeless world defined by three high concrete walls, blank but for bullet holes.
Waiting outside Start's apartment, Taxman fired point-blank, but the bullet clanged harmlessly off the Beatle's earring and passed through his beard.
I say, line up six to eight sharp shooters, employ the old practice of giving one of them a blank instead of a bullet and instruct them to aim for the prisoner's heart.
The officer, Anthony Hopper, was shot at point- blank range, but his bullet-resistant vest saved his life, Capt.
