Mind you plod are not exactly covering themselves in glory here because despite flooding Northumbria with any copper who can be more or less trusted to hold a gun and not point it the wrong way, flying about in helicopters and apparently getting the RAF to
Of course this is leading to a few wags gently taking the piss at the competence of the Northumberland Constabulary: http://twitpic.com/23rywn
Actually in more than a few cases not that gently. In fact you don't have to dig too deep on Teh Interwebs to see a rather weird phenomenon developing - that of a psycho nutcase who has shot his ex-girlfriend and her new bloke rapidly becoming something of a folk hero.
Actually on reflection it's not that strange. Moaty-boy's stroke of genius, albeit one more by luck and paranoid delusion rather than careful thought, was to say "I'm only going after coppers" and then taking a pot shot at some unfortunate plod in a panda car to prove his point.
Now there's a considerable number of people out there who don't really like the police, nothing serious, they're not going to have ACAB1 tattooed on their knuckles any time soon but years of state nannying, stupid laws unthinkingly enforced, random "terror" searches where you know you're being searched just so they can tick the "we don't target mussies" box, people illegally stopped by plod from taking photos and sundry other minor injustices has got quite a few people's backs up. As Raoul says we're not a target and as plod start to look more and more incompetent I can see how your average bod can sit back and almost enjoy the spectacle of the police being made to look like bungling incompetents by the most unlikely of folk heroes.
The police really haven't helped themselves by saying "Ah, we have information that he's now a threat to the general public" and then when asked what kind of threat the Police Chiefette who looks like Margaret Beckett's love child with Shergar pops onto the TV to day "Er... we're not going to tell you." You could hear the cries of "Oh yeah? Chinny rec-on" all up and down the nation.
So where is he. My guess is he's in a bar in Ireland watching the news and laughing. Or he's crawled into a hole and killed himself.
I think we should ask that octopus who can predict footy matches.
1 Stands for "All Coppers Are Bastards"
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Oh, 7 days to catch an armed man, Police Officers even sent up North from London. Will you be putting a complaint into the Independent Police Complaints Commission? The general public are not that bothered over Ginger Nut and I doubt if the police would have devoted all this manpower if Raoul had not fired at a police officer. They will move heaven and earth when one of their own is shot but I am sure they would not have mobilised without Raoul shooting the sitting duck on the roundabout.
Well exactly... If he had not shot the cop plod would not have given a fuck.
Looks like they have him now. If I was Raoul, facing a good kicking in the cells and almost certain life in the nick I would be pulling the trigger.
^^^ And it appears that he did.
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