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    #512
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    I think her eyebrows date it to the fairly recent fashion phenomenon of making them look like runways! :)

    Francie i'll bow to your superior judgement in these matters.


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    #513
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,899 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    Yeah there's simply no way that woman is 54. I'd struggle to put him at 47 either.

    Must take up that drone business myself so.

    Better than Oil of Ulay.


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    #514
    dhaughton99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »
    apparently they have alibis, and his mum has said @he is a very nice boy not an Eco-warrior.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gatwick-drone-suspect-paul-gaits-13771091

    Released without charge according to sky news


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    #515
    Homer
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    If they own drones (which they apparently do) then all they need to do is inspect the flight logs which is incredibly easy to do and it will show dates/times/locations of any flights. Should be easy enough to rule them in/out.
    From what I’ve read I would have serious doubts over whether it’s them. His boss is providing an alibi and his neighbours are dying they would be shocked if it was them. He works from 7am to 7pm etc


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    #516
    Under His Eye
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    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46665615
    Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'


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    #517
    What Username Guidelines
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    So nice of the rags to publish their photos everywhere before they’ve been charged, probably have a case for suing the papers now given they’ve been ruled out.


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    #518
    Beechwoodspark
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    So these two are no longer suspects

    Stitch up job not carried through?


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    #519
    dhaughton99
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    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    So nice of the rags to publish their photos everywhere before they’ve been charged, probably have a case for suing the papers now given they’ve been ruled out.

    Yeah I was very surprised that they were all over the papers this morning. BBC vs Cliff Richards comes to mind.


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    #520
    zell12
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    bHEtyAT.jpg


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    #521
    mickmackey1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭mickmackey1


    Hope they get millions.

    Clearly the whole 'drones' nonsense is a cover-up for what actually went on. If there was a possibility of a major attack then that's maybe understandable, but the duplicity of the official media is laughable.


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    #522
    yerwanthere123
    Registered Users, Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    Hope they get millions.

    Clearly the whole 'drones' nonsense is a cover-up for what actually went on. If there was a possibility of a major attack then that's maybe understandable, but the duplicity of the official media is laughable.

    Haven't you already been told to stop with these type of posts?


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    #523
    plodder
    Registered Users Posts: 7,147 ✭✭✭plodder


    Uh oh. The drone is back (on this thread). Cant someone take it out with a bazooka or something?


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    #524
    fishermantolka
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    All you smart people who think that shooting it down is a good idea. Where will it fall ? Where will the rounds that miss go ? Think guys think... Finding a bullet on the runway ? Bullets travel for miles Mate...


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    #525
    Wheres Me Jumper?
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    they are beginning to look their age now. so long as some vigilante fool doesn't decide to exact "justice". i would have thought they will need some form of interim police protection after this.


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    #526
    dhaughton99
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    Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »
    they are beginning to look their age now. so long as some vigilante fool doesn't decide to exact "justice". i would have thought they will need some form of interim police protection after this.

    I’m sure that dog poo is already in their letterbox.


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    #527
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    No ethics from UK tabloids as expected, plastering their faces all over the news before they're even charged. Police shouldn't be releasing names either if that's how they got them.


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    #528
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Amirani wrote: »
    No ethics from UK tabloids as expected, plastering their faces all over the news before they're even charged. Police shouldn't be releasing names either if that's how they got them.

    mind you if they play their cards right, employ the services of a good publicity/media agent, give the mandatory exclusive interview "How our lives were destroyed by Drone maniacs".

    then there's the issue of psychological distress, depression, and of course possible Home Office compensation...

    all in all it might yet turn out to be a bumper Christmas for them.


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    #529
    mickmackey1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,288 ✭✭✭mickmackey1


    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    Haven't you already been told to stop with these type of posts?
    Sorry darling, we're not in the 1950s any more. Censorship no longer permitted.


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    #530
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,892 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    Sorry darling, we're not in the 1950s any more. Censorship no longer permitted.

    24 hour ban for repeatedly breaching moderation instructions. This will go to 72 hours then a week if you continue.


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    #531
    Wheres Me Jumper?
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    SkyNews has reported that a damaged drone was found close to Gatwick airport.
    Could be connected to the recent "attack".

    I agree with those calling for some type of mandatory chipping process, similar to what we have on Dogs, which would enable the owners of these things to be located more easily. Cant imagine it would add much more than a tenner per unit to the pp.
    As it stands these idiots are in danger of effectively criminalising all drone hobbyists, which is not fair.


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    #532
    yerwanthere123
    Registered Users, Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    mickmackey1 wrote: »
    Sorry darling, we're not in the 1950s any more. Censorship no longer permitted.
    L1011 wrote: »
    24 hour ban for repeatedly breaching moderation instructions.

    :pac:


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    #533
    dhaughton99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    yerwanthere123 wrote: »
    :pac:

    LOL don't question the Mod Gods.


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    #534
    zapitastas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭zapitastas


    The press really is populated by unscrupulous odious individuals. I hope the couple get suitably compensated for this carry on. Questions will need to be asked of the police and their interaction with the media in releasing the names of suspects as well


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    #535
    Collie D
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    zell12 wrote: »
    bHEtyAT.jpg

    I'm guessing from the layout that's the Daily Mail. What a ****ing rag. "Drone couple" in large font even in the story saying they're not suspects.


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    #536
    STB.
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    Well that couple are in for a nice windfall.

    The Daily Mail doing what they do best, printing front page headline "Are these the Morons who ruined Christmas ?" before someone is even charged.

    They have certainly ruined Geordie Greig's Christmas now that they have been released without charge. What a moron for printing such a headline.


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    #537
    [Deleted User]
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    Who was it that said the authorities obviously know what they're doing and we should bow to their superior knowledge? :P


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    #538
    iamwhoiam
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    zapitastas wrote: »
    The press really is populated by unscrupulous odious individuals. I hope the couple get suitably compensated for this carry on. Questions will need to be asked of the police and their interaction with the media in releasing the names of suspects as well

    Police statement on BBC just now said they had not released the names to the media


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    #539
    STB.
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    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Police statement on BBC just now said they had not released the names to the media

    Well clearly their names were given to the rag meejia, who doxxed the innocent couple.

    Piers Morgan getting a right going over on Twitter. He posted pictures on his twitter feed. He has 6.5milliion followers.

    https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1076817405547081729

    https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1076801859300528128


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    #540
    faoiarvok
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭faoiarvok


    STB. wrote: »
    The Daily Mail doing what they do best, printing front page headline "Are these the Morons who ruined Christmas ?" before someone is even charged.

    Most newspaper headlines that end with question marks can be safely answered ‘no’.


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    #541
    STB.
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    faoiarvok wrote: »
    Most newspaper headlines that end with question marks can be safely answered ‘no’.


    Yes I know. Most newspaper headlines that have the word morons can safely be disregarded. Or Indeed Daily Mail above them.

    Some of the responses to Piers Morgan are hilarious.

    I particularly like the one that says "You should hack their phones just to make sure."

    It will be a shít Christmas for this couple, but next year they'll be in the Bahamas.


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