It was war as far as I was concerned. I was lucky not murder some of them.
One of them drove alongside my vehicle on a motorbike, and it looked like he had a sawn-off shotgun tucked under his long coat, so a swerved toward him making him dodge me.
Aw, that must have been terrifying,
In 2010, driving north on the M5 we were shot at from a passing car. We were about a mile or so short of the Bromsgrove junction.
It was darkish dusk, the motorway was extremely quiet and this strange car raced past us, swerving sharply in front of us. I noticed something odd that appeared to be sticking out of the nearside window. It could have been a hand with a gun or it could have been an oversized mirror, like lorries and car pulling wide caravans have. initially I thought it might be a big mirror but too dark to tell at that distance and with brake lights on as he slowed down and straightened up.
Suddenly we knew that we had been hit and knew that it wasn't a stone, Maybe there was a flash as the gun discharged but I cant remember now. But we knew that we had been shot at. I immediately scanned the motorway banks, but there was nowhere to hide, The bullet came from the car. The car zoomed off again.
The car was painted a very odd brown paper colour: had the colour been made by mixing oddments of left over car paint, I wonder ? It had a masive home made boot fitted too. This was easily big enough to hold a man with gun
The black bullet hit the bumper just above the front nearside wheel. From its position it seems that it was aimed at the tyre. its purpose, it seems, was to turn us over as the tyre burst at 70mph. Probably hopefully to kill us.
It has not escaped me, that in their rush to get traffic moving again, a little black piece of distorted black bullet would not be noticed amongst the shredded black front tyre.
Tis a dangerous thing to cross these criminals. Take care Rob
The Police came out to examine the bullet entrance hole and confirmed that it was bullet. A police report was filed.
