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Overkill UK Police?!

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  • #152
    Shzm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭Shzm


    Those pesky gunmen, always the last place you look.


  • #153
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm almost scared to go to the toilet incase I miss something...I'll be raging if this drags on all night :D

    There's only one way this can end, captivating stuff!

    Quite funny though watching these reporters struglling for new things to say!


  • #154
    therokerroar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭therokerroar


    ''Here did anyone think to look in that disused Butchers? Down the road, aye well check it out friday''

    :rolleyes:


  • #155
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    Ha, the kids smiling and waving to the camera... and the guy who wandered by having a beer!!!

    If that woman says 'she's absolutely terrified' one more time... she'll be cashing in on Sunday's paper


  • #156
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,982 ✭✭✭Degag


    Degag wrote: »
    Yeah, same woman then says that she is so worried about her mother and is going to ring her straight away. Camera cuts to the reporter and you can see the same woman telling her story to some other news agency.... Very worried indeed.:rolleyes:

    Lol, here we go again:rolleyes:


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  • #157
    therokerroar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭therokerroar


    ''Moat sat on the river bank with his head in his hands looking forlorn depressed and suicidal and carrying what looks like a Newcastle United season ticket in his hand''

    :eek:


  • #158
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    watching skynews here live, reportedly he's got a sawn off shotgun to his neck...


  • #159
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    The media is being KICKED OUT of the area - to 10 miles away..........


  • #160
    batman2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭batman2000


    They still havent been moved yet.....


  • #161
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    He's standing up now :o


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  • #162
    batman2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭batman2000


    Things moving on fast here in 3 hours he has gone from lying down to sitting up


  • #163
    az2wp0sye65487
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭az2wp0sye65487


    Sky News are LOVING this....

    Apparantly last night Raol Moat "Stole a tomato from a greenhouse"..!!!!


    That's the last straw! Shoot Him!!!! :rolleyes:


  • #164
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,457 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Well, he's dead now...
    Delicate_Dlite wrote: »
    Police confirm they're negotiating with him.. That must be an interesting conversation.

    "I'm going to kill myself!"
    "Really?...We were kind of planning to kill you.."

    I am reminded of Sheriff Judd and the manhunt in 2006...
    Every available unit and canine team descended on the area. Freeland briefly appeared at the perimeter of the woods to fire at the officers but then took cover again. He dug in under another fallen oak tree and hid there. Later that afternoon the body of 39-year-old Deputy Williams, a father of three, was found and carried from the wooded area. Officers noted that the slain man's gun and ammo were missing.

    Freeland remained under the oak tree overnight, where a 10-member SWAT team found him the next morning. When they saw Freeland raise his right hand clutching a gun (one they would later learn belonged to the slain deputy), nine of the ten officers fired, hitting him with 68 of 110 shots. Freeland was dead at the scene.

    Afterwards, when called upon by the media to make a statement about the manhunt and its outcome, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told various reporters, "That's all the bullets we had or we would have shot him more. Quite frankly, we weren't taking any chances."

    NTM


  • #165
    vodafoneproblem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭vodafoneproblem


    Manic Moran, can you see the hourly footage Sky are running on this story? There sure seems to be a lot of 'bangs' going off in the background. Do you think they're gunshots?


  • #166
    vodafoneproblem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭vodafoneproblem


    Could be a Chinese firecracker party next door, I suppose. It's a bit bizarre that Sky keep saying he killed himself over this footage that sounds like a crazy amount of gunshots going off in the background!


  • #167
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    God I hate Sky News. Tabloid TV.

    I reckon the UK Police were trying to make an example out of this fella seeing as they never got near that Cumbrian buck. They were only too happy to show the media all the force they were putting into bringing him down.


  • #168
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    God I hate Sky News. Tabloid TV.

    Have to admit its the most entertaining out of all the news channels.
    I reckon the UK Police were trying to make an example out of this fella seeing as they never got near that Cumbrian buck. They were only too happy to show the media all the force they were putting into bringing him down.

    Yeah that are they didnt want any more coppers being killed. In Cumbria the whole thing happened over a number of hours so there wasnt much the police could do as Bird was so far ahead. In Rothbury Moat could have been anywhere.

    I think what we have learned from the whole thing is Gunwielding Englishmen have the most random surnames.


  • #169
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Hogzy wrote: »
    Have to admit its the most entertaining out of all the news channels.



    Yeah that are they didnt want any more coppers being killed. In Cumbria the whole thing happened over a number of hours so there wasnt much the police could do as Bird was so far ahead. In Rothbury Moat could have been anywhere.

    I think what we have learned from the whole thing is Gunwielding Englishmen have the most random surnames.

    Entertaining yes, but so their so full of shyte and up their own holes. Particularly Kay Burley. She reminds me of April O'Neill for some reason.

    This Moat fella didn't kill the cop though did he, only his girlfriends new fella or something?

    Suppose its only a matter of time before some loon does something like this here. At the risk of sounding like my granny, you're not safe in your own house anymore.


  • #170
    monkeypants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭monkeypants


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    This Moat fella didn't kill the cop though did he, only his girlfriends new fella or something?
    I think he's blind in both eyes now.

    What Moat said:
    “At 2.30pm, they came out. I shot him in the chest and he ran off. Sam screamed and tried to stop me as I gave chase. I fired the second and he went down. I pointed at Sam to chase her and she ran off. —— phoned the police from the front door screaming.


    “I reloaded two customised rounds. One for Sam, one for him. Sam’s was half the powder, with small gauge pellets. With a superficial injury she would get massive compensation payout for her and Chanel’s future (their daughter). Inadvertently providing when I’m gone. And there would be scarring, reminding her not to ever do this to anyone again. How could she have done this to me?


    “I put the third round into his head and went to the window and fired at Sam. It it but she seemed OK but I paused to be sure. She crawled to the kitchen quickly and hid behind the door. I looked around for anyone else to shoot, there was no one, looked back at Sam, went to shoot myself, then changed my mind.”


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