Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

have sky news just been running this story all day? everytime i switch on i see first the night vision pic, then that tazer holding sausage faced copper photo.

Not seen sky all day, so no idea.

as a direct result of all of this, i have now read a full page of what barbara ellen thinks about various topics. another reason to harbour ill feelings towards the recently-departed mr moat

Not from Moat...

sorry lots of Bberry tweets in dark running thru peoples, gardens evading cops - some spelling may have gone astray

http://twitter.com/alextomo/status/18152084130

The Gazza intervention is one of the funniest and saddest things ever.

Here we go again:

Six Dead, 10 Hurt In Albuquerque Shooting

This after my coworker was just fired this morning...

Host: “Hello Paul!”
Paul Gascoigne: “Hello!”
Host: “Good evening – you are live on Real Radio. I just wonder… Tell us about Raoul Moat. The Raoul Moat that you know.”
PG: “Raoul Moat, er Raoul, I knew him years ago. He used to be a bouncer in Newcastle. I knew him a lot of years since I was a young kid, when I played for Newcastle [United]. He was like a gentleman – someone must have wound him up or done summat, right. And all of a sudden I just listened to the radio right, I mean on TV news. Obviously he’s killed someone and he’s shot two. Right?”
Host: “Well…”
PG: “…Doesn’t matter. He’s killed someone. Which is not nice, really. Obviously he must have been on drugs, um, and he’s shot two people, right. Now I’ve heard on the news that obviously the drugs must have worn off. Now he’s willing to give in. Right?”
Host: “I think we have to point out that…”
PG: “…No, please, get a hold of me, no, hear me out… He’s a lovely bloke – I know that – so at the end of the day I think he’s frightened in case, um, he’s put his gun down. I know for a fact he will he put his gun down but I think he’s scared in case the police shoot him and kill him. The drugs have worn off. All he wants to do is surrender. And at the end of the day when you shoot someone, I think, and er, shoot, kill someone and shoot two others… You may get, what? Twelve days, twelve years, twelve…”
Host: “Paul, Paul, Paul… Well we don’t know about that exactly. But just tell us, what would you say…”
PG: “Twelve years, could be about six and you’re out. He’s a good lad.”
Host: “If he could hear a message from you, Gazza, what would you say to him tonight?”
PG: “Well I think the police get hold… Listen, I drove from Newcastle in a taxi to Rothbury. Cost a lot of money. I brought a dressing gown for him, I brought a big jacket, I brought some chicken, some bread… I know you’re going to love this one: I brought him a can of lager, I brought him a fishing rod cause I heard he’s by the river. And I brought a fishing rod too – we’ll fish together, I’ll have a chat with him, just talk and… ’cause I think I’m the only man… I can help him through this cause I’ve…”
Host: “So Gazza, are you going to go to the police and say, let me, let me, let me help you here? I know Raoul Moat. I can help you negotiate. I can help you sort the situation out.
PG: “I’ve just spoke to the police.”
Host: “What did they say Gazza?”
PG: “That he, well er, er, well… Terry was next to us taking photos and the copper went, police, and I said ‘Listen, I know the guy, he’s a nice guy,’ I said er… ‘I want to go through, where you have everything all cordoned off, I want to get through there,’ but the police wouldn’t let us so that was a waste of time saying, ‘Oh, I knew him’ because they were being frightened he might shoot me, you know? But I told them, ‘He will not shoot me.’”
Host: “Well, it’s a dangerous situation though, Gazza, isn’t it?”
PG: “Hey I’m not scared – I’ve just been in a car crash, I’ve just hit the wall at 90 miles per hour. I survived that, I’m sure I can survive a bullet. Knowing my luck he’d probably miss.”
Host: “So what you’re saying is that you want to go in there, you want to help negotiate?”
PG: “… The police know I want to go in there. I’ve got a jacket, I’ve got a dressing gown, I’ve got some chicken, I’ve got some bread, I’ve got a can of lager, I’ve got a fishing rod, um, I’ve got my fishing rod, I’m willing to sit down, to shout, ‘Moaty, it’s Gazza!’ All I want to shout is ‘Moaty, it’s Gazza, where are you?’ and I guarantee he will shout his name out, ‘I’m here!’ and me and him could sit and chat, have a little bit of fishing and all I’ll tell him, ‘Moaty, listen…’”
Host: “And you think you could sort it out?”
Host 2: “So if you like a man to man chat, with him, two pals on a riverbank?”
PG: “Yeah, yeah, two friends on a riverbank from Newcastle and all those years we’ll say is ‘Why don’t you just, you know, put the gun down, throw it in the river’ and say ‘Look Moaty, the worst is… the worst you might get a 12-year stretch, the police aren’t going to kill you,’ because I know he’s willing to give in now. Whatever he was on has worn off. I mean the police are not going to kill you, he might do a 12-year stretch, obviously for killing someone, which is not very nice, obviously. He did it cause he was high on drugs, probably, right?”

Could have used the fishing rod to stealthily take his shotgun off him while you diverted his attention with the can of lager. Fucking n00bs.

"Killing someone, which is not very nice, obviously."!!!!
"Killing someone, which is not very nice, obviously."!!!!
"Killing someone, which is not very nice, obviously."!!!!
"Killing someone, which is not very nice, obviously."!!!!

Gazza telling it like it is!

note to self: never hire Gazza as a defence lawyer

But, he's got a dressing gown

“Hey I’m not scared – I’ve just been in a car crash, I’ve just hit the wall at 90 miles per hour. I survived that, I’m sure I can survive a bullet. "

not a great advert for his expensive taxi

I feel sorry for the wall...

gazza kills five footballers lining up to defend a set piece

and then the question would have been asked 'do gazza and moaty both have fishing licences?'

yeah cops would just have unloaded on them there and then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhPjY3X6rs&feature=player_embedded

This woman omfg

oh god, why am i listening to this?

"that were harsh, like"

DM managed to shoehorn in a Queen of Hearts ref

This inverted outlook has been reflected in the growing shrine of floral tributes at the spot where Moat killed himself last week near the Northumbrian village of Rothbury, in its own way a nauseating parody of the sea of cellophane that swamped Central London in the aftermath of Princess Diana's death in 1997.

ok lol

It's definitely cut from the same cloth

lol
"It's not just me thinking that is it?"
"No, there are other stupid people around as well..."

can't find a pic of that diana nutjob dude to post with the caption author of above piece

"like a taser in the wind"

Don't think darraghmac meant Elton John?

will do, really

Siobhan O'Dowd should be blasted in the face with a shotgun.
Type: Public figure
7 people like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kf5tkEME0c&feature=player_embedded

^ am off to join

xp

Name: RIP Siobhan O'Dowd's RIP Raoul Moat facebook group. It was legend.
Type: Common Interest
Members: 20 members

hmm can't find that , can anyone help?

I'm rubbish at hide and seek lol jk I'm Raoul Moat

Can't help but think the only reason there's this weird pro-Raoul Moat thing going round is because from the moment he hit the public eye he didn't actually kill anyone, so all we had was this endless footage of him evading police and then being cornered by them.

not the only reason, but probably some of it.

anti-police sentiment is prob a bigger part of it tho

And to the reactionary mind, who thinks that EVERY crime should be punished by nothing less than the death penalty, he did the right thing! He killed his cheating wife and her lover! (not like those medieval muslims who would have stoned her to death, oh no, we're civilised over here.)

She wasn't his wife and he didn't kill her

Villains on the run from the law have always been folk heroes amirite?

xpost: It's the thought (or absence thereof) that counts! We're not letting truth get in our way!

just a light shooting iirc

And to the reactionary mind, who thinks that EVERY crime should be punished by nothing less than the death penalty

eh i happen to own one of these minds, but don't let's get carried away

ok! I'm not very good at acting like a DM Have Your Say participant anyway.

i'll show you how it's done sometime

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/ian-odoherty/ian-odoherty-a-tribute-as-disgusting-as-the-society-were-in-2260917.html

The Quietus weighs in on this debate with typical restraint.

eh that article's a bit strong

(xp)

(say the guy that actually did sign up to the group about yerwan being shotgunned to the face but i mean)

The whole thing became a complete bloody farce when what we were really looking at was a tragedy.

Not a tragedy for Moat, you understand; but a tragedy for the family of Chris Brown, of Samantha Stobbart and, of course, PC Rathband.

But that's a distinction beyond the ken of those morons who think that Moat is a 'legend', for they are the product of a broken section of society which is over-breeding itself into ever increasing degrees of stupidity.

I'm just posting that so's NV can blow a gasket old skool tbh