So much hot air…
No wonder there aren’t enough police to arrest everyone who says nasty things on Twitter, and as for expecting them to turn up when your neighbour calls you a slag over the fence…well, now we know why they are stretched so thin these days.
One miserable anti-smoking zealot reports a ‘man smoking’ on the London bound coach from Preston, and several hundred Police, Fire crews, Army officers from the Royal Logistic Bomb Disposal Corps, Hazardous material specialists, anti-Terrorist officers, Ambulances and 750 PCSOs called in from their day off, turn up and interrogate all 48 passengers until the poor blighter owns up that he was gently puffing on a harmless e-cigarette to while away the long hours down to London.
After several hours of being put through mobile decontamination units (I am not making this up, truly) the passengers finally arrive in London 13 hours later – to be interviewed by a Sky news crew.
“We heard that armed marksmen were pointing guns at you, did you see anything suspicious amongst your fellow passengers?”
‘Nah, they were just eating crisps an’ that, like’.
“You must have been very scared, has it disrupted your travel plans, have you missed a connection?”
‘Nah, a bit tired, left at 5am to come down for the Marilyn Manson concert at the O2 arena’.
It’s modern Britain in a nutshell isn’t it? The printing presses are rolling again in the Bank of England devaluing everyone’s savings, the lawyer’s are sitting in judgement on media ethics after the media sat in judgement on politicians ethics, now the politicians will be sitting in judgement on the bankers ethics, meanwhile Britain rolls on; overweight Preston bird gets up at 5am to munch crisps all the way down to London to sit watching brain dead moron in make-up warbling in New Labour’s iconic docklands symbol, a vast plastic tent that we neither wanted nor could afford, smoker gets reported by zealot, anti-terrorist police trigger happy and risk averse…
Guess which item made the headlines on the 6pm news…?
Thank God you’re not in the Eurozone, I mean heaven only knows how bad things would be if you were…..
July 7, 2012 at 19:32
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Nothing wrong with a bit of Marilyn Manson, he dares to be different, but
listen to his music, loud and through a proper hi fi and you hear how much he
really put into it and how well crafted it really was . Ipods etc dont do it
justice, its a bit like watching a car racing game on the computer and then
getting behind the wheel of a fast car ( or bike or boat), and feeling what
life is really like.
Tainted Love is superb! a top cover of Soft Cell, who
themselves were a great band
“Dont touch me please I cant stand the way you
tease”
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July 6, 2012 at 10:56
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This is why I will not be attending ANY olympic event or even passing
through London during the period. I have no desire to be fondled by the sort
of cretins who will be running what passes for security nowadays, nor will I
under any circumstance submit to any foreign officer or lackey, any jumped up
traffic warden or any of the fat sweaty scum from G4S. Remember people, these
police and the dicks who command them are the ELITE, not the dregs.
God
help us all.
- July 6, 2012 at 11:41
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I’m going to report that there is a loony running through crowds with a
giant Camberwell Carrot.
- July 7, 2012 at 16:24
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They’d probably think it was a table leg and shoot the loony – Ho
hum!
- July 6, 2012 at 09:37
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This was undoubtedly a pre-Olympic show of force, staged for the benefit of
the MSM.
These teams could not manage such a co-ordinated response without
planning. And conveniently it provided another opportunity to have a go at
smokers.
Now where did I store that box of Chinese firecrackers?
- July 6, 2012 at 10:40
- July 6, 2012 at 08:17
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Agreed. Madness at it’s most screaming… However, no need to have a go at
Marilyn Manson. I’m no fan, but his autobiography (“The Long Hard Road Out Of
Hell”) was really entertaining with some wry observations and some real laugh
out loud bits, so I wouldn’t call him brain dead. I wouldn’t, however, want to
wake up next to him.
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July 6, 2012 at 07:51
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It was a set up. NO bloody chance this co-ordination could have happened
“at the drop of a hat”. Any one that sais so has never tried to get three
police cars,two fire appliances and an ambulance to arrive at a small road
crash in a co-ordinated and usefull manner.
Decontamination team and tent/decon unit???? BOLLOX! They are like bloody
scrambled egger (Police “bosses”) They only ever get taken out of the box when
the worlds press is there to see it being done. Other than that, if you talk
nice to the fireman, he may let you borrow his hose for a few minutes wash
down.
And how come so many press photographers were so well placed, JUST at the
right time????
- July 6, 2012 at 09:39
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Finally, the penny drops.
- July 6, 2012 at 10:08
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Not forgetting of course that it was the M6 toll road. (the white
elephant that hardly anyone ever uses) so minimum disruption.
- July 6, 2012 at
11:39
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I suppose this explains why the Mail can’t find the e-cig man or the
person who made the complaint, and why – if the police were supposed to
think there was a chance of a bomb or other lethal agent – they left
passengers on the bus for two hours.
- July 6, 2012 at 05:59
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Just sit quietly in a corner and consider. Amongst the ‘Terms &
Conditions’ of being permitted to go that big, new, sports-ground in East
London this August, are “Search and Destroy” requirements in the sacred name
of SECURITY at least as strict as any Airport. Including the contents of your
pockets & bottles of water.
“Resistance IS useless”
- July 5, 2012
at 23:34
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Will 48 people be phoning contingency fee lawyers 4U to enquire how much
compo they could trouser for three or four hours of false imprisonment? If
anyone had thought, “sod this I’m off”, I have little doubt the charge of
“wilful trespass on a motorway” would have soon appeared some way down the
charge sheet below “aggravated awkward behaviour” and the very serious offence
of “making the police look daft in front of members of the public”.
- July 5, 2012 at 22:30
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I had no trouble using an e cig in Guys Hospital nor in my local hospital ,
so what on earth is all the fuss about. A local cafe, the owner is a smoker,
said he had to ask people not to use e cigs as passing fanatics reported that
people were ‘smoking’ in his cafe and the onus was on him to prove they had
not. What is wrong with these people? do they think they are immortal if they
don’t smoke? I am sick to death of all this.
- July 5, 2012 at 22:04
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It certainly was an over-reaction, but half-a-mo’ suppose it was for real,
after all the liquids scheme, and the underpants are weird in themselves,
bordering on the unbelievable.
Suppose it was for real and the powers that
be had arrived too late, after clear distress messages from the bus?
The
MSM would be all over them wouldn’t they?
Think of that poor cop on trial
now in London over the death of that poor man.
Put yourself in the place of
that cop at the time of the riots, of all of those poor cops. All just like
us, with families etc.
To decide whether to act or not to act, and with
what force, are difficult situations to be in.
Perhaps they need some
sympathy from us.
- July 5, 2012 at 22:11
- July 5, 2012 at 22:36
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No sympathy here. They helped to start this mess in the first place.
They grossly exaggerated the terrorist threat. At the same time they
encouraged civilians to inform on friends, neighbours and strangers alike
“just in case”.
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July 6, 2012 at 06:01
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A fave locals’ story in Gloucs, involves one of those nice people who
for some inexplicable reason decided to up sticks and move there.
Nice
lady calls plod one january evening and reports ‘a woman screaming on the
hill behind her house.’ Plod despatches the local swat team, all tooled
up, in the forces pride and joy, a new helicopter.
The last thing they
saw in the spotlight as the chopper gently subsided into the old quarry on
landing,, was a confused looking pair of mating foxes !
- July 6,
2012 at 05:33
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“Think of that poor cop on trial now in London over the death of that
poor man.”
His actions aren’t remotely comparable.
- July 6, 2012 at 05:57
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The man was not killed during the riots if it’s Mr Tomlinson you refer to
so attempts to conflate the two are dubious at best.
- July 6, 2012 at 22:02
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“Think of that poor cop on trial now in London over the death of that
poor man.”
Will you stop giving the police a free pass. The “poor cop” caused the
death of a harmless drunk by beating him for no good reason with a weighty
baton. He is not a “poor cop”, he is a thug. Other “poor cops” have gunned
down and killed innocent men going home with a table leg in a bag, or even
just going to work on the tube – “poor cops” my wrinkly arse!!
- July 7,
2012 at 05:32
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Ah, but table-leg man and poor De Menezes were at least (however
mistakenly) identified as threats. Would YOU want to make the call that
the man swinging round on you with a long concealed object in a bag is
harmless, when you’ve been called to a report of a man with a gun? Or that
the man your command – the people with all the shiny brass buttons – has
ordered you to take down is in fact just another commuter?
Tomlinson, though… yeah. They are bang to rights on that one. I don’t
see how a guilty verdict isn’t a slam-dunk at this point.
- July 7, 2012 at 08:31
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*sigh*
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July 7, 2012 at 16:07
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If you give arms to these morons and a licence to kill then they
should follow the rules laid down. Basically they can kill with impunity
and answr to no-one after the public harumphing and a show trial.
- July 7, 2012 at 14:05
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XX with a weighty baton. XX
Weighty my fucking arse. They are about as “weighty” as a bloody broom
stick.
Any way, its about time the police started giving crims a stiff
kicking. The courts don’t appear to be interested in doing it.
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July 7, 2012 at 16:13
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Tell you what Furor, You have the broom handle and I’ll have the
lightweight ineffectual baton and we’ll see who’s bleeding or unconcious
at the end ;P
The point of the post was that all of these now dead
people were just going about their day to day business and hurting
nobody. Unfortunately they had the temerity to come close to the
cretinous thugs who then proceeded to kill them – None of them were
“crims”!
- July 7, 2012 at
16:18
- July 7, 2012 at
18:12
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XX None of them were “crims”! XX
Every one is guilty of something. Who cares?
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July 7, 2012 at 18:42
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“Neither were any of the people killed by surgeons in the NHS – so
do you think all surgeons are cretinous thugs too?”
Really Anna? That’s a hell of a segue, apples and oranges, not in
context, not logical and totally unworthy of your intelligence. Go
away and think about it for two minutes please.
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July 7, 2012 at 18:43
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“Every one is guilty of something. Who cares?”
FFS…Sigh!
- July 5, 2012 at 21:47
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*pedantry alert*
Marilyn Manson isn’t playing the O2 Arena tonight, it’s the Brixton
Academy. Leaving at 5am was slight overkill on the part of the quoted
individual, I fear (though if they think they’re going to the O2 Arena,
they’ll likely be spending a great chunk of the day trailing about on the
London public transportation system, and perhaps factored in their idiocy when
planning the trip). It’s not like Mazza’s even released a decent album in the
last 10 years. Hence he’d never even half-fill the O2 Arena…
*slinks back under a stone*
- July 5, 2012 at 21:50
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So dingbat got up at 5am and isn’t even going to the right place? *rolls
eyes*
- July 5, 2012 at 21:54
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Am guessing they mixed up the words ‘academy’ and ‘arena’, and assumed
there’s only one O2 venue in That London, it’s not as though it’s a big
place or owt…
- July 6,
2012 at 05:32
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*gasp*
You referred to the North Greenwich arena by the wrong name! Lord Coe will get on the Big Red Phone
in his office. The crack squads they just stood down for the M6 farce will
be turned around to hunt for …
- July 5, 2012 at 20:59
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Reports that al-Qaeda intends to issue e-cigarettes to all activists in an
attempt to cause economic chaos in the UK, were denied by spokesman Mustapha
Phag.
- July 5, 2012 at 21:09
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“Mustapha Phag”
Wish I’d thought of that – can I use it sometime?
- July 5, 2012 at 21:43
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Which is as good as the reason why most visitors to Fingals Cave are
Arabs – ’cause they Mustaffa look……….
- July 5,
2012 at 23:04
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There was actually an Egyptian football refereee called Mustafa Kamel
Mahmoud.
- July 6, 2012 at 12:41
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A former Turkish emissary to the Soviet Union had the name “Mustafa
Kunt.”
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