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watching sky news right now, apparantly they have him cornered with a shotgun to his head and thankfully gazza has brought him some lager and some chicken.

nice
 
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I went to school with the cop he shot :(
 
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Apparently can't taser him as he's lying down? :shrug:

.... what's wrong with bullets, or do they not work if you're lying down either?
 
Man City have offered £45 million for him they say that they dont know who he is but since everybody else wants him they do
Bob
 
look, is he gonna eat this chicken or not? because i have a hankering
 
how ironic that moat is surrounded by water.................
 
love this contradiction
Sky News
Mountain biker Ben Storey had been out cycling when he stumbled across the police operation.
"There was about 10 armed officers and they all had their guns pointed at one man,' the 19-year-old builder said.
"I couldn't see the guy but all the cops had their guns pointed at him. And you could tell he was right down at the river.
"We got the news he had been caught so we came rushing down to see if we could see him."
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That acting chief constable in the getty images has an unusual hairstyle
 
I was rather disgusted by Jon Sopel on the BBC, the arrogant ****. He rudely beckoned the distressed daughter of one of the residents that was separated due to being told to keep indoors to come over and be interviewed. He's the correspondent, you'd think he would respect her emotions, or if anything go over to the daughter and wait. Then had the cheek to take the daughter's mobile phone and talk to her mother in the house at her daughter's mobile expense!
I would have told him where to go! Luckily I don't have a BBC account to leave my comment!!
 
Gazza showing up has taken this to the next level, just surreal.
 
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Sorry for the dull question but why is gazza there ? I haven't watched the telly so haven't a clue.
 
He sounds very drunk and apparently "knew him on the doors in Newcastle"!

Decided to rock up and see if he could help!

The radio clip is a classic - he rang up and told them he was on his way. Apparently 75% of the recording was incomprehendable!
 
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He turned up with a chicken, a dressing gown, bread, a can of lager, a jacket and two fishing rods :D
 
Apparently they have armed officers from the Met there, they should just tell them he's a Brazilian electrician.......
 
Pleased it is all over as it has all been a bit too close for comfort !!.

There will be questions asked if it is firmly established that he has been right under their noses for most of the time.
 
He shot himself. So..... Does that mean that chicken is still up for grabs?
 
Gazza, although a star on the pitch at one time, is now an embarrassment to the geordie nation!!
 
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I was rather disgusted by Jon Sopel on the BBC, the arrogant ****. He rudely beckoned the distressed daughter of one of the residents that was separated due to being told to keep indoors to come over and be interviewed. He's the correspondent, you'd think he would respect her emotions, or if anything go over to the daughter and wait. Then had the cheek to take the daughter's mobile phone and talk to her mother in the house at her daughter's mobile expense!
I would have told him where to go! Luckily I don't have a BBC account to leave my comment!!
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Actually thought it was a very good piece of 'on the spot/as it happens' reporting.
The distressed daughter cant have been that distressed because she went over to the Sky reporter a short while later and told her story to them, as well.
Dont forget, reporters want the story - showing the emotion only adds to the impact of what is happening.
 
Is anyone else now embarrassed at the state of the British Police? It is no more than the Uniformed Wing of the Social Services, full of policy makers, jobs-worths, overly-cautious decision makers and politically correct buffoons.

At the time of previous armed stand-offs, I've been dismayed at members of the public moaning about Police marksmen shooting someone instead of 'disarming' the perp with a shot to the arm or whatever. But in this case, because they had so many officers, so close to Moat, they could have done just this. Yesterday evening, during daylight, they should have shot him in the arm holding the gun and tasered him at the same time to give them time to approach over that very short distance. That was the only way he was going to come away from this alive.

Risk Analysis is crippling a once great Police Force. If this carries on, the Police soon won't leave the security of the Police Stations.

My 2 cents.
 
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Is anyone else now embarrassed at the state of the British Police? It is no more than the Uniformed Wing of the Social Services, full of policy makers, jobs-worths, overly-cautious decision makers and politically correct buffoons.

At the time of previous armed stand-offs, I've been dismayed at members of the public moaning about Police marksmen shooting someone instead of 'disarming' the perp with a shot to the arm or whatever. But in this case, because they had so many officers, so close to Moat, they could have done just this. Yesterday evening, during daylight, they should have shot him in the arm holding the gun and tasered him at the same time to give them time to approach over that very short distance. That was the only way he was going to come away from this alive.

Risk Analysis is crippling a once great Police Force. If this carries on, the Police soon won't leave the security of the Police Stations.

My 2 cents.
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Unfortunately i think you are right, the close proximity of the press hasnt helped either. Having all those cameras pointed at them, will obviously have some policy maker or media/press relations officer at Police HQ have kittens and be telling them to not mess up on TV, the massively unfortunate cock up in London with the brazilian electrician never fails to rear its ugly head as soon as guns are involved with the police anyway, so they just cant win !

The guy with the tazer must have been REALLY close, the range of those things isnt great, 20 ish feet at most !
 
90% of the country see the situation as something that could have been remedied much quicker with a well placed lead sleeping pill and saved a lot of money and resorces. The 90% would have said nothing and accepted that the plod done the best thing

!0% of the country are bleeding heart liberals and extremely vocal.
 
I would always expect the police to follow the law.
just as I do when it comes to stopping and searching photographers.
It is not the Job of police to take the law in to their own hands in some situations, and not others, they follow the regulations.

I would say they handled the job well. This country has very strict firearms regulations for everyone In america it is different.

In the past when we have got it wrong, it is when we have made things up as we went along.
 
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