He would turn, level the pellet gun, intone: Are you aware of the usage of this human implement?

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Painting the pellet gun white had been a no.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

So he came up with a plan to tie weather balloons to his chair and bring a pellet gun with him to shoot the balloons when he needed to hasten his descent.

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Officers then found a further two swans with pellet wounds, believed to have been from an air gun.

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