Ian Hislop and Private Eye

[maomao]

I don’t think there has ever been an unsuccessful assassination attempt which has failed to disappoint Urban.

As much as I think you all should agree with everything I say, I'm not vain enough to think I represent the majority of opinions on Urban. And all failed assassinations are disappointing to someone if only the would-be assassin.

 

[two sheds]

It was hit by a mechanical fault, not gunshot

Taxi carrying Ian Hislop hit by mechanical fault, not gunshot, says Met

Police issue statement a day after cab driver told officers he thought a bullet had shattered his vehicle’s window

www.theguardian.com

so who would fire a mechanical fault at a taxi

 

[CNT36]

It was hit by a mechanical fault, not gunshot

Taxi carrying Ian Hislop hit by mechanical fault, not gunshot, says Met

Police issue statement a day after cab driver told officers he thought a bullet had shattered his vehicle’s window

www.theguardian.com

so who would fire a mechanical fault at a taxi

HAARP?

 

[Silas Loom]

It was hit by a mechanical fault, not gunshot

Taxi carrying Ian Hislop hit by mechanical fault, not gunshot, says Met

Police issue statement a day after cab driver told officers he thought a bullet had shattered his vehicle’s window

www.theguardian.com

so who would fire a mechanical fault at a taxi

You’re jumping the gun. The Met only say that “early indications” suggest a mechanical fault. Could still turn out to be a lightning bolt from an aggrieved deity, or a catapult fired by a juvenile delinquent.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Farting in someone's general direction is the approved riposte.

Not if they're in a taxi. They wouldn't hear it with the windows closed.

 

[two sheds]

You’re jumping the gun.

Jumping the mechanical fault

 

[tim]

Licence to kill.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I know it’s conference season and we’re desperate but “gunshot not fired at car” is a real stretch at trying to find something to put on the news

 

[ouirdeaux]

I don't think I've ever heard a gunshot in real life. There were times I thought I did in NYC, but it was probably more likely a car backfiring. Cars don't seem to do that any more. I wonder why.

 

[belboid]

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[Elpenor]

It was hit by a mechanical fault, not gunshot

Taxi carrying Ian Hislop hit by mechanical fault, not gunshot, says Met

Police issue statement a day after cab driver told officers he thought a bullet had shattered his vehicle’s window

www.theguardian.com

so who would fire a mechanical fault at a taxi

The ghost of Mohammed Al Fayed, still resentful about PE and the demise of Punch magazine

 

[skyscraper101]

If you could imagine the most amateur hour British copycat of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. This would be it.

 

[rubbershoes]

If you could imagine the most amateur hour British copycat of the Charlie Hebdo shooting. This would be it.

Probably a team of local government planning officers, offended by PE's exposes of their shoddy and dubious decisions tried to take him out. But their planning was terrible