"A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt," reports the Daily Mail of London. Sounds like the American presidential election is causing fairly heated exchanges even in Europe. Let's read on. The man "was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in [a local shop] when the gunman confronted him and glared at [his shirt], which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'." The perturbed man left the store, but the encounter soon took a horrifying twist. When the Obama supporter emerged from the store, "the attacker was waiting for him in broad daylight with a threatening-looking dog and holding a gun behind his back. Realising what had sparked the increasingly violent assault, the terrified [man] zipped
up his jacket to cover the image of Mr Obama and walked to his car." But the angry white man followed him. "The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder." Wait a minute. "Gas-powered ball-bearing pistol"? Here in America, we're not so pretentious---it's a BB gun. The story was accompanied by a photo of the wounded man with a Band-Aid on his hand. What's worse,
the Mail didn't stop, alleging, "The potentially lethal weapons are often converted by criminals to fire real bullets." Real bullets powered by a four-inch CO2 canister? Now that's British ingenuity---and probably more than a President Obama would allow.
What about poin-ted sticks? 
