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Gunman on the run in Tyneside

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StealthPolarBear · 05/07/2010 11:04

here

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 16:27

well exactly. I wonder why that long, and think he was getting up his nerve to pull the trigger...what a horrible thought!

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DuelingFanjo · 10/07/2010 16:42

Seems the police will hve to prove now that there was a good reason to Tazer him. Not sure either how he could have puled the trigger after being tazered and so hope that the gun didn't just go off as a result of the Tazer - very sad if that turns out to be the case.

FairyMum · 10/07/2010 16:45

I don't understand why that is sad? Surely good riddance?

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 16:45

is it physically possible to hold a gun to your head for hours on end? wouldn't your arm get really tired?

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DuelingFanjo · 10/07/2010 16:47

because if he shot himself only because the gun went off after the tazer then some poor policeman is responsible for the death of Moat. I this country we have trial by Jury rather than execution or the death penalty.

It's all very well saying good riddance but it's a bit medieval of you and personally I think a trial and some sense of justice through the courts is much better for the victims.

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 16:47

sad for the police officer who effectively killed him
sad for the families who won't get to see justice being done

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GypsyMoth · 10/07/2010 16:53

how can anyone judge without knowing the full facts tho. he may have been telling them he was going to shoot at them,so they tazered to prevent that...or he may have made a sudden move,so they tazered. none of us know....and probably wont for months,if not years

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 16:54

Oh yes sorry my "effectively killed him comment" was NOT meant as a judgement, I have confidence that they did what needed to be done. What I meant was if that was what happened, the officer was involved in his death, and even 100% justified, that must be hard to live with

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DuelingFanjo · 10/07/2010 16:59

very sad if that turns out to be the case.

note the use of the word 'IF'

ilovemydogandMrObama · 10/07/2010 17:07

But doesn't a Tazer incapacitate someone? Don't understand if someone was Tazer'ed (is that a verb?) that they would be able to do much of anything subsequently.

DuelingFanjo · 10/07/2010 17:25

how a tazer works

SwansEatQuince · 10/07/2010 17:29

The tazered volunteer clenches his fist when hit, in that video.

DrNortherner · 10/07/2010 18:10

I know it was all really serious, but that woman Paula who was crying and trying to phone her Mum.....why didn't she call er from her own home?! Why come outside crying and screaming and talking to her Mam on her mobile in front of the cameras? Her Mam sounded quite calm actually. Good old Auntie Doris hey.

Then Gazz turned up with a fucking Fishing Rod?! Classic!!

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 18:13

and some chicken
was he genuine or did he honestly think he was helping the police catch the fugitive?

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SwansEatQuince · 10/07/2010 18:19

I think he was completely bladdered off his face too...

SwansEatQuince · 10/07/2010 18:21

And he had a dressing gown.

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 18:30

yes apparently the footage of him was the "more coherent" of the stuff they'd got

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DrNortherner · 10/07/2010 18:41

Is it wrong to snigger at the thought of Moat and Gazza wearing dressing gowns, eating chicken and fishng in the river suroounded by armed police.....?

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 19:02

not to mention talking about how the other is a lovely blerk no you're a lovelier blerk etc etc

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SwansEatQuince · 10/07/2010 19:06

I think there was a collective 'WTF' from every household in the country who were watching the entire unbelievable scene unfold.

Gazza probably thought that he could do something to help and rustled up all you would need in that situation.

Sorry for gallows humour but jeez...dressing gowns, chicken, lager and a spot of fishing to defuse stress in a tricky situation. I bet Sue Sim wanted to tazer Gazza kick his arse.

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StealthPolarBear · 10/07/2010 19:10

a tazered PG lying unconscious, would anyone notice the difference?

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aimee0211 · 10/07/2010 19:14

there is now a Sue Sim Hair appreciation group on facebook...she is getting slaughtered on it :\

People are now kicking off about the media exploiting Gazza, saying they know he is mentally unwell and that they basically took the piss...Have to admit I did laugh a little

HerBeatitude · 10/07/2010 19:32

Dweezle I heard that guy on the Today programme and actually cheered that someone intelligent was telling it like it is.

It is so deeply shocking that so many people think men's entitlement is so great, that they are simply not responsible for their own behaviour and are in fact entitled to behave the way this lunatic did. And that they are so quick to blame the woman victim for the perpetrator's behaviour.

Jesus we need some mysogyny education in this country.

geordieminx · 10/07/2010 19:35

You know what I'm glad he's dead.

I would love to know the true cost of the last week to the UK, not only in police time/resources, but people that have not been able to get a police officer because they were deployed else where.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds I would guess, I mean christ they had an RAF harrier Wednesday/Thursday.

The country is in a shit enough state of affairs as it is without this - I'm pleased that the uk tax payer/government/whoever doesnt have to pay another £x million to keep him in prison for another 40 years.

5inthebed · 10/07/2010 19:35

I thought the footage of RM being stretchered into A&E was totally unnecessary. We didn't need to see that. The press didn't need to be there either, could only imagine what the other people there thought with all the police and press. All those drunk injured people waiting to be seen amidst armed guards. The childrens A&E is right by where he would have been as well, must have been scary for any children there at that time.