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[alf git]

There's some next level stupidity going on here.

https://www.iflscience.com/technology/n ... copyright/

A fool and his money, etc.

[Shabu]

3 years who a 19 year old walks into a synagogue and opens fire with an AR15.

Happened just a few miles from where I live. A woman was killed and the rabbi lost a finger.

It didn't get anywhere near the news coverage that this latest event got, in which no one was killed or even physically hurt.

[delbert]

3 years who a 19 year old walks into a synagogue and opens fire with an AR15.

Happened just a few miles from where I live. A woman was killed and the rabbi lost a finger.

It didn't get anywhere near the news coverage that this latest event got, in which no one was killed or even physically hurt.

No one worthwhile was killed you mean, just the shitwit. I imagine it's making the news because the security services over here made a boo boo, as did the immigration people on your side........

[Big George]

Horrific, there's some evil basatrds out there

[Shabu]

No one worthwhile was killed you mean, just the shitwit. I imagine it's making the news because the security services over here made a boo boo, as did the immigration people on your side........

Yeah, no one was killed by the terrorist this time.

A wife and mother was murdered in the Poway synagogue. The killer posted a manifesto bragging about it. And it barely registered over here.

Possibly because it came only a few months after another synagogue shooting in which 11 were killed. THAT event got about the same coverage as this latest one.

[EvilC]

Horrific, there's some evil basatrds out there

I was told that it is not as uncommon as you might think for travellers to do this kind of thing.

[alf git]

No one worthwhile was killed you mean, just the shitwit. I imagine it's making the news because the security services over here made a boo boo, as did the immigration people on your side........

To be fair, the spooks said he wasn't a threat to national security. Well not ours anyway

[westham,eggyandchips]

I've Seen it all now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60092299

[Shabu]

How unlucky was this bloke?

A British doctor, Matthew Willson, 31, was visiting friends in Atlanta, where he went to college, and was shot & killed while laying in bed.

Apparently some eejits in a different apartment complex, 250+ metres away, were f*cking about with guns and a fired bullet travelled through some woods, smashed through the wall of his bedroom & shot him in the head.

Just like that. Bit mental.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.c ... s-12521833

[taust68]

Just like everything else in the usa at the moment, a bit mental

[Samba]

I've Seen it all now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60092299

Give the poor dears their £2.94 back, for god's sake..
Do you realise just how traumatised they've been? Do you?

[Samba]

How unlucky was this bloke?
A British doctor, Matthew Willson, 31, was visiting friends in Atlanta, where he went to college, and was shot & killed while laying in bed.
Apparently some eejits in a different apartment complex, 250+ metres away, were f*cking about with guns and a fired bullet travelled through some woods, smashed through the wall of his bedroom & shot him in the head.

VERY..

[vietnammer]

Dead man walking?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ns-pension

[Danny's Dyer Acting]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... y-language

9 years to get the met to admit what CCTV showed. That's disgusting.

In 2018 Howard appeared before a disciplinary panel, which cleared him of gross misconduct. He argued the search was necessary to assess any risk Duff might pose to herself, and its chair concluded his actions were those of a responsible officer. The CCTV footage now obtained by Duff of the police station custody area on the day she was searched shows Howard telling officers to show her “resistance is futile” and to search her “by any means necessary”.

“Treat her like a terrorist,” he says. “I don’t care.”

"Treat her like a terrorist" for the disgusting act of handing someone a card that explained their rights when being stopped and searched.

[ironsonthebrain]

Dead man walking?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... ns-pension

No, he wasn't walking.
Just a dead man.

[kenthammer]

ITV evening news to extend to an hour,half hours far too long as it is

[Samba]

9 years to get the met to admit what CCTV showed. That's disgusting.

I'm a bit amazed that the cctv hadn't been wiped &/or was still available.
At least the truth came out in the end, but how many other people in the whole of this country have been treated similarly, or even worse by police?

[Tenbury]

Round here, not that many...they don't turn up.

[delbert]

https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-lon ... a-22864087

RiP to the poor woman. If it happened as being reported then hopefully the driver will be out soon with a commendation (and a new motor).....

[Big George]

MAN JAILED FOR ACCOSTING SIR CHRIS WHITTY
A man has been jailed after accosting Professor Sir Chris Whitty in a central London park.
Jonathan Chew, 24, approached England's chief medical officer as he walked through St James's Park in Westminster on June 27 last year.
Footage of the incident, lasting around 20 seconds and showing Chew alongside former estate agent Lewis Hughes, was widely shared on social media.
Appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Chew, of Chelmsford, Essex, admitted a charge of intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress to Sir Chris.
He also admitted obstructing Pc Steven Ozden.
District judge Paul Goldspring jailed Chew for eight weeks and ordered him to pay £1,058 in costs and compensation.
He said: "You chose at that point to make a very conscious decision, I have no doubt in an effort to avoid being prosecuted for your offending.
"Unfortunately that wasn't something you put right immediately."
Mr Goldspring added that Sir Chris has responded to "an unprecedented crisis over the last few years" with "great dignity" and "great professionalism".
"He didn't choose be in the public eye. He is entitled to go about his work. He is entitled to go about his daily life," Mr Goldspring added.
"You targeted him, in the sense that you recognised him from the TV," he said.
"Although you did not upload the video, you were complicit in sharing it."
"You had a significant, I go as far as to say, an appalling criminal record," he added.
Mr Goldspring said he also wanted to create a "deterrent" to stop people accosting those who do not choose to be in the public eye.
The district justice said he gave Chew "full credit" for pleading guilty at the first opportunity to the charge of intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
He also said he accepted Chew did not initially intend to be hostile and suffered from learning difficulties, mental health issues and autism.
As he was sentencing Chew, Mr Goldspring interrupted proceedings to ask him to stop vaping.
Chew also responded to the costs announcement by saying: "That's peanuts."
"Your contempt for these proceedings and this court have been breathtaking throughout the process," Mr Goldspring said.
But as Chew was lead out of the dock, he began to sing "West Ham 'til I die" loudly.
During the hearing, prosecutor Iestyn Morgan said that Chew started filming Sir Chris on his phone while Hughes grabbed him in a headlock.
In the footage, shown to the court, the pair can be seen jeering as Sir Chris attempted to break free.
The court then heard how Chew gave the name and old address of his brother Aaron Chew to the police officer.
Mr Morgan said: "This did cause a waste of police resources."
He said police attended the address on July 1 to discover a man called Harry now lived at the address.
Officers were then able to identify that Jonathan Chew was the suspect after he provided comments about the incident to The Sun newspaper.
The prosecutor added that Sir Chris suffered "the added humiliation of the recording being forwarded and uploaded".
Rabah Kherbane, defending, argued that Chew had learning difficulties, "intellectual difficulties" and "delayed maturity" and often becomes "frustrated" when trying to communicate with others.
Hughes, 24, of Romford in Essex, earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of assault by beating and was sentenced last July.
He was handed an eight-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, and was ordered to pay a total of £307 in fines and compensation.
He was labelled "yobbish" by the Mr Goldspring and was criticised for leaving Sir Chris "humiliated" after putting him in a headlock.
Chew was handed an eight week custodial sentence for intent to cause harassment, alarm and distress and two weeks for wilful obstruction of a police office for two weeks to run co-currently.
He was also ordered to pay £1,058 in costs and compensation.