Shenannigans in the park
Debate over defining the past perfect tense turned nasty after the second bottle of whiskey.About three nights a week my buddy Yutaka and and I knock off from work about the same time. Normally around 9.30pm we cut through a nest of bicycles and swarm of people to a supermarket, buy some booze and then cut back to a tiny park in the middle of the city.
There's our work building at our back and a 25 storey mother to our front, the subway station is right next to this paved square with a giant beech tree. We try to find a bit of real estate in the square that is not so reeking of salaryman piss, and sit and drink and talk for an hour or so before getting on the train home. It's mental health time.
The other night we invited a student of ours to come, and he brought his guns wrapped in towels. Hiroyuki is a very shy but very cool guy. His hobbies include drifting, in the Tokyo Drift sense ie fast cars and motorbikes, and, aparently, air guns.
It's okay! I'm a limo driver! With a laser sight. These are legal, lethal toys.So there we were. at about 10pm, with two metal revolvers, accurate to the last detail. One fired pellets ... and I am serious, from a range of 10 metres the pellet punches a hole clean through a beer can... and the other, the .45, fires a blank bullet with a loud crack, shell casing flying out. Awesome.
So we got drunk on whiskey and beer and spent about an hour shooting stuff. The best part was the reaction. The bar two floors above, Yutaka tells me, had their faces pinned to the glass at the antics of the gun-waving freaks below. At one point, Hiroyuki and Yutaka went to the convenience store, leaving me with the gun. I was just sitting on the edge of the garden, holding a perfect Glock imitation, flicking the magazine in and out, when a salaryman steered his suited way over to take a piss in the bushes. He glanced at me and did a picture-perfect U-turn. Wonderful.
The guns cost about $400 to buy and are such amazing fun I am considering quitting drinking to save to buy one. But if I did quit, you wouldn't be reading such delightful posts as this.
Presumably if you can fire a blank round out of the .45 then you can fire a live round. Or maybe I shouldn't have told you that.
It's an air gun. A replica. But it does have a very small bore barrel and a magazine full of shells minus the bullet part. When you fire, the brass casing flies out.
I don't know if you could modify it to shoot a real bullet, but I think the actual calibre would be much smaller than .45.
The other gun Hiroyuki had fucked with to make it more powerful. You could shoot a can at 20 or 30 metres no worries.
You can also freely buy all kinds of machine gun air guns here too. MP5s, M16s and so on. They are just stacked on the shelves in the electrical stores.
No wonder there are no bank robberies in Japang. Everyone just figures the gun is a fake.
I love the pics. You have the 1000 yard stare and the dude holding the can in the other pic is flashing a peace sign.
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