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reflex said:Exactly the point i was trying to make, well done.
? i was asking a question what do terrorists look like.
reflex said:Exactly the point i was trying to make, well done.
seek said:nonetheless they are pushing the "omg!! replica guns on public transport" thing, whereas that is explicitly against the rules of the game.
well whoever breaks the rules should get what they deserve. a resposible and fun water pistol game shouldn't be banned because of a few idiots.AcidHell2 said:I wouldn't say pushing it, there just telling people what will happen if relistic ones are reported.
If you get 100's of strangers taking part. Not all of them will follow the rules, everyone knows that. Simple stats..
Efour2 said:? i was asking a question what do terrorists look like.
seek said:well whoever breaks the rules should get what they deserve. a resposible and fun water pistol game shouldn't be banned because of a few idiots.
it's a very sad state of affairs indeed when people can't play with water pistols without fear of being shot by armed police.
well as far as the police are concerened then i'd like to think that was true, but i get the distinct impression that the article in the OP is media hype, particularly regarding public transport.AcidHell2 said:Think of it more like a saftey campaign
seek said:i honestly doubt anyone who is prepared to pay £40 to play is just going to ignore the rules.
obvious i would have thought...Zefan said:Why?
Visage said:What would peoples attitudes be if a suicide bomber wasnt apprehended because armed police were too busy dealing with a call from someone saying they'd see someone with what appears to be a handgun in the centre of London?
Would it still be a harmless game?
Visage said:What would peoples attitudes be if a suicide bomber wasnt apprehended because armed police were too busy dealing with a call from someone saying they'd see someone with what appears to be a handgun in the centre of London?
Would it still be a harmless game?
iCraig said:
Yeah, looks just like a lethal firearm. Christ almighty..
Spud21 said:I would like to hope that London has more than 1 policeman, so unsurprisingly i think they may just be able to be in more than one place at one time , so perhaps they would be able to deal with a terrorist suspect AND a reported firearm in central london. Oh and there is the small thing that i highly doubt special branch would be wasting their time on simple firearms offences when there are terrorist alerts about.
Aside from that your point is complete rubbish, but i suppose someone had to say it, just didn't think it would be you, i thought better of you.
stoofa said:What are you on about?
Every single report of a gun is taken extremely seriously.
They don't have somebody at the end of the phone grilling somebody, asking them what the gun looks like, could it be a fake etc.
This is why armed response units do turn up to kids playing in the street.
The minute you receive a call from the public where they "think" or have actually seen a gun and the police don't turn up and it turns out there was a real gun then heads will roll.
Special Branch not wasting their time on a simple firearms offence - what do you call a simple firearms offence?
Nobody knows what they are dealing with until somebody arrives on the scene and for that they need an armed response team.
sure the name "street wars" makes it sound inappropriate, but if you look into it you'd realise the game really has nothing to do with war games as such. it's just a misleading name.Lil old me said:i cannot help but think how innapropriate holding a street war competition is given the situation in lebanon.