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"Years ago, kids used to go out with pellet guns and shoot wild animals," Mr. Veccharelli said.
The incident was only one of a number of recent attacks across the nation with pellet guns, which are increasingly high-powered and dangerous.
But the men in the photos, lifted from a Facebook page, debunked the claim by explaining that they practiced "airsoft," a game in which participants fire at one another with pellet guns.
Police officers armed with pellet guns shot 20 youths outside the Intabazwe township of Harrismith while breaking up a crowd of about 4,500 young people who blocked one of the country's major freeways to protest living conditions in the township.
Fans along the course can affect the race — in Stage 15 of the 2003 Tour, Lance Armstrong crashed when his handlebars became entangled with a spectator's bag; in 2009, two riders were shot at with pellet guns on a stage in the Alsace region.
Thermal stress is found to increase with pellet radius.
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In the last bit of the track, you fantasise about shooting an annoying vegetarian with pellets of pulled pork.
Instead of gauging their responses with pellets of food, he probed them with recording electrodes.
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