- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,499
The ones I've just seen on Sky News are carrying G36c carbines by the way. But as about five different forces are involved, they might not all have them.
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Policeman shot, unprovoked in Gateshead.
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The ones I've just seen on Sky News are carrying G36c carbines by the way. But as about five different forces are involved, they might not all have them.
Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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Think he is a steroid user and has a serious malfunction, has major issues with the Police....or something but Police with guns alll over the place!
Dover
Home at Last.
I heard he was a previously known steroid abuser when he was body building, on Five Live earlier. But my point is he has managed to lay low for a long time now, hence I wondered if he was ex forces.
- Jul 7, 2003
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I'm not sure, I don't think he will. He's got it into his head the police are responsible for him committing the assault he was locked up for. He's deluding himself that it's not his own fault the missus left him.
He's got nothing to lose now: I think he wants a firefight with police and to go down all guns blazing. "Suicide by cop" is a surprisingly common phenomenon.
Have you seen the hardward them police are carrying
Looks like a bit of mahogany to me.
Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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I'm still confused by this hostage thing. Police chief said they've had a hostage situation since this all began but had to put a media blackout to ensure their safety. Police found the men walking along the road this morning and were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder ?!
Its not that hard is it?
The armed bloke was seen with two men, and the Police had no way of knowing if they were with him by choice or under duress, so had to play safe and treat them as hostages.
Turns out they were accomplices.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Hmmm...the fact he's got nothing to lose now is what has me thinking he'll be sucking that shotgun by sundown.
"Ye'll never take me alive leek, coppa"
The Peanut Roaster
Banned
Good accent.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Thanks. I was quite pleased with how it came out.
Dover
Home at Last.
Kay Burley is pretty hopeless.
"Do you think the police are doing enough?"
"Do you think it is fair of the police to have locked down the area as much as they have?"
"Has it caused you any inconvieniance?"
Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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She was crap on GMTV when she was on that
The Peanut Roaster
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If there's an air exclusion zone, how are they getting these pics with the chopper then?
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
good zoom??
- Jul 7, 2003
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So on the one hand, they're not doing enough....on the other they didn't need to do so much
Nothing newsworthy has happened for a few minutes so Sky News have to look for another angle to fill the airtime.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Think I'll just watch the highlights on News at Ten.
- Jul 7, 2003
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You could be right. I just have a hunch he's not the Derrick Bird, loner-gone-over-the-edge type. From what's been said about him so far- some known to be fact, others possibly newspaper speculation- he's a fitness freak, a well known local hardman, a steroid user, who has done time for assaulting a child and whom anecdotally at least has been pretty brutal to his ex-girlfriend and her family long before he got anywhere near shooting her.
I reckon he fancies himself as a bit of a nutter and is more likely to emerge from some hidey hole, guns out and aiming at every and any copper he sees once he realises the net has closed in on him. I don't think he'll quietly go off into a forest and blow his own brains out, one because he hasn't got the guts and two because he wants the attention, he wants the police to do it and make a martyr of him because he rather pathetically sees himself as the victim in all this.
But you never know...its a sad situation all round, whichever way you look at it
