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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Who cares? I can't believe the police are getting this much stick from the media just because that thuggish pillock chose to shoot himself.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:29 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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Well if it was the Taser that caused Moat to shoot himself then not only is that involuntary manslaughter for the Officer involved, but a force could be facing a large payout too.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:45 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I thought the autopsy found that they missed, ie no Taser puncture wounds.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:57 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:24 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Move along, nothing to see here.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:07 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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Not necessarily. It will depend on the history of the device, and whether the outcome could have been predicted.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:11 pm |
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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Exactly. Why is this guy being treated as if he was a folk hero? There's even people leaving flowers and tributes where he died. Christ! I bet they'll all be on the Jeremy Kyle Show saying what a wonderful man he was and how they're traumatised by the police executing a good man. To whom? Hopefully not the weasel brother who condemned the police and later admitted he hadn't been in touch with Raoul Moat anyway. Maybe to Paul Gascoigne whose drunken attempts to speak to Moat show that he definitely needs to buy a brain transplant. 
_________________ "I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet." - Stanislaw Lem
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:17 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Yes - well done, Gazza, for shocking your agent.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:54 pm |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Did he use an unapproved taser? 
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:29 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Not unless he thought it was a widget in a can of beer.
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Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:34 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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So they were allowed to use them then. Problem solved.
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Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:17 am |
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Blue_Nowhere
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:57 pm Posts: 2220 Location: Here for now...
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Thank the lord! I was begginning to think you'd all gone mad. He killed people, the police went out to find him, they tried to stop him shooting himself, but oh well, he didn't. How much would you care whether the tasers were approved if he'd shot your parents, or spouse?
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Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:50 am |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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It was an incredibly odd sequence of events, consisting of:
1 - Three shootings by Moat resulting in one death and two seriously injured by a mentally unstable ex con who can't accept that his ex girlfriend us seeing someone else
2 - Declaring war on the police
3 - Writing a letter which ran to over 40 pages which could be summarised thus: "you'll never take me alive"
4 - A whole town practically closed and patrolled by armed police
5 - RAF fighter jets scrambled to help in the man hunt
6 - The unexpected appearance if a jaded old sportsman
7 - A final stand off ending in a suicide where Moat shot himself in the neck, missing his head by mere inches
The whole thing would make a cracking film.
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Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:11 am |
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Amnesia10
Legend
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Can I suggest Mel Gibson for the role? He is current going method for the role. 
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