Raoul Moat

And this is where this strange set of events will focus next. There was
a slight hint in something a BBC reporter said yesterday which rather
suggests that the media spotlight will now fall on Northumbria Police.

The stand in Chief Constable will have to do something about her hair
style or else that will be ridiculed along with what her force did or
did not do.

 

The bastard. I stayed up 'til 1am hoping to hear the bang but went to
bed bored with the constant repetition. If he had any decency he would
have demonstrated some respect for his audience.

 

**** did it about 10 minutes after I gave up and went to bed.

Bah!

 

He became something of a folk hero, for want of a better term, over the
last week. Then last night when the police finally pinned him down, both
rolling news channels (BBC and Sky) were firmly planted in Rothbury
interviewing anyone and everyone who might have some input.

Most of last night's coverage was borderline grotesque. Notwithstanding
a drunken ex-footballer turning up with chicken and lager for a wanted
killer, the BJs on the scene were so desperate for information that they
were holding mics up to mobile phones listening to wailing grannies
relaying what they could see through their curtains.

If we don't get a Newswipe special out of this, there's no justice.

 

I gave up when a reporter was speaking to one eyewitness on the phone,
& when asked what he could see out of his window, he said 'my garden'.
Took me a while to get to sleep, mainly because I couldn't stop
chuckling.

 

I swear there was one bloke who couldn't give a straight answer to
whether or not his curtains were open.

Or maybe I dreamed that bit. By 1am it was hard to tell what was real
and what wasn't.

 

The on site audience didn't seem to want to get involved very much.
The least we should have been able to expect was football style
chants, burger vans and maybe a live band if it'd gone into today.

This bloke knew how to keep an audience interested for a decent period
of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Collins

Pay particular attention to the section about his burial and how he
didn't exactly have a final resting place.

 

Honestly, it gets better and better. Police now say a "tazer was
discharged". I wonder if that caused Moat to pull the trigger?

 

Argh!

 

Don't go skinnydipping, Bonwick, I'll flap around and nibble your
bollocks.

 

This is something I mentioned to Elly a couple of weeks ago, when we
were watching the news. That all the female CCs look ... weird.
Brutish or hatchet-faced, cropped or ridiculously coiffed, they all
have some really strange characterisitc that marks them out from
society in general. OK, some of the male CCs we see on telly look a
bit iffy, or are mentally quirked like Brunstrom - but you could easily
mistake any of them for the middle-aged successful businessmen or
council leaders that they resemble.

When that stand-in woman, who seemed so out of touch with the situation
when she was wheeled in to that press conference, appeared on the
screen I pointed her out to Elly. That produced squeals of derision
and confirmation of my original assertion.

 

Paul - xxx wrote:
snip

I'm halfway through a book called "Hostage at the Table" by George
Kohlrieser [1], one of the tag lines is "Learn to bond, even with your
'enemy'". Hence my laughing out loud when the news said that he was
heard to say he didn't even have a father, That's exactly the
negotiation with a mad man he describes on page one.

[1] http://www.find-book.co.uk/0787983845.htm

 

You must have seen the picture of the copper with the Tazer. He's
kneeling with a couple of SWAT types armed with rifles - and the
expression on his face will live on every locker room wall in every
station he works in for the rest of his time. He looks just the type
to get bored and loose the barbs so he can get on and get down the pub.

 

from Sky News website two quotes from the same page:

"Temporary Chief Constable Sue Sim told a news conference: "Right up
until that time police officers were striving to get Mr Moat to give
himself up. During this time police officers discharged a taser,
however that did not prevent his death.""

"Firearms experts said it is possible that the high voltage shock may
have caused him to flinch and pull the trigger as he held the shotgun
to his neck in the pouring rain."

MYOMU.

 

So, accidental discharge at a random moment, and the copper gets a
slapped wrist publicly, or, ill-advised tactic to end stand-off
resulting in Moat's death...

Hmm, lets ask the independent observer...
Oh, wait a mo...

 

does this:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48313000/jpg/_48313103_009775526-2.jpg

look like someone who'd accidentally discharge at a random moment?

(image from the slideshow on news.bbc.co.uk concerning the Raoul
story)

heh.

 

Yeah, Alistair (drive safely and NEVER drink and drive) fucking Stewart.

I don't generally care if someone drinks and drives, but I can't do with a
**** like him who's been done twice for it telling the rest of the world
just how naughty it is.

Two faced arsehole.

 

When they make the film I reckon Nick Frost is a given for that part.

 

hah - that'd be about right.

Who'd play Moat himself?

Nige?

 

I posted the link a little later.