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Stockwell Incident

(July 2005)

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CH
chromakey123
All New Johnnyboy posted:
Mmm...this is all scary ****.

I just hope for everyone's sake that it can be proven he was a suicide bomber, else there'll be a whole load of trouble.




PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can you get rid of your signature.
I've never seen so much clutter on my screen - well not since I last switched on Bloomberg TV anyway
IS
Inspector Sands
noggin posted:

Yep - though there doesn't need to be a sat truck deployed if the receive point is near an inject point. The BBC can downlink the helicopter they use at TV Centre I believe (the East Tower is pretty high up so may be quite good for this) - it would depend on the range of the digital link in use and the location of the helicopter.


Yes when the BBC uses a helicopter the signal is recieved by a reciver on top of the East Tower, although I belivev that there has to be someone on duty pointing the dish/aerial in the direction of the copter.

No iea what sort of copter Sky have, but there are restrictions on where certain types of helicopter can fly over London. For example; the BBC quite often use G-PIXX: http://www.flyingtv.co.uk/ which can only fly along the river as it's only got 1 engine. If you saw the helicopter coverage the BBC showed on 7/7, they were only flying along the Thames corridor. Not much good for the story, but then having a helicopter isn't great for a story that occured mostly underground!
DB
dbl
Breaking News, man shot dead at Stockwell had no links to terror:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1190065,00.html
MO
Moz
News report from Darren Jordon tonight on BBC One after Casualty about the wrong man being shot and also the Egypt bombings. Wasn't introduced at all, just BBC News sting straight to Darren after credits.
PC
Paul Clark
Now this has happened, I'm not surprised if some people object to/are frightened of the whole shoot-to-kill approach.

This will probably only make things worse; terrorist attacks causing enough panic to make police shoot an innocent bloke who is in fact not a bomber, but a Brazilian electrician.
NG
noggin Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
noggin posted:

Yep - though there doesn't need to be a sat truck deployed if the receive point is near an inject point. The BBC can downlink the helicopter they use at TV Centre I believe (the East Tower is pretty high up so may be quite good for this) - it would depend on the range of the digital link in use and the location of the helicopter.


Yes when the BBC uses a helicopter the signal is recieved by a reciver on top of the East Tower, although I belivev that there has to be someone on duty pointing the dish/aerial in the direction of the copter.

No iea what sort of copter Sky have, but there are restrictions on where certain types of helicopter can fly over London. For example; the BBC quite often use G-PIXX: http://www.flyingtv.co.uk/ which can only fly along the river as it's only got 1 engine. If you saw the helicopter coverage the BBC showed on 7/7, they were only flying along the Thames corridor. Not much good for the story, but then having a helicopter isn't great for a story that occured mostly underground!


Yep - single engined helicopters (like Robinsons - which I believe G-PIXX is) can only fly along the Thames corridor. Twin engined helicopters (as traditionally used for BBC OBs Helitele - like a twin Squirrel) are more flexible and can fly more freely, but they are more expensive to run.
EY
the eye
Sorry for the way im guna say this, but shot the Fu*ker that shot the man, I had a feeling at the beginning he would most likely have nothing to do with it, so the police that shot him deserve to die.
JA
jay Founding member
bbcworld2005 posted:
Sorry for the way im guna say this, but shot the Fu*ker that shot the man, I had a feeling at the beginning he would most likely have nothing to do with it, so the police that shot him deserve to die.


I've never heard so much bloody tripe in all my life.

The man was asked to stop by Police on numerous occasions. He failed to stop, and decided to run into an Underground Station, before jumping over a ticket barrier, and then tried to board a train full of people.

Even if he didn't know any English - if you were being chased by armed Police you would stop. The bloke could have had a bomb in his bag or explosives wrapped around him ready to kill or injure hundreds of innocent people.

Police had no choice but to shoot him dead - if he was shot in the leg he could have still set off any device that he had on him.

The tosser deserved to die for not stopping. End of.
EY
the eye
jay posted:
bbcworld2005 posted:
Sorry for the way im guna say this, but shot the Fu*ker that shot the man, I had a feeling at the beginning he would most likely have nothing to do with it, so the police that shot him deserve to die.


I've never heard so much bloody tripe in all my life.

The man was asked to stop by Police on numerous occasions. He failed to stop, and decided to run into an Underground Station, before jumping over a ticket barrier, and then tried to board a train full of people.

Even if he didn't know any English - if you were being chased by armed Police you would stop. The bloke could have had a bomb in his bag or explosives wrapped around him ready to kill or injure hundreds of innocent people.

Police had no choice but to shoot him dead - if he was shot in the leg he could have still set off any device that he had on him.

The **** deserved to die for not stopping. End of.


Plain clothed police dumb arse

he probably ran because he didnt know who they were and didnt know why they were after him. dumb c*nts should have been in uniform.
MA
marksi
bbcworld2005 posted:
Sorry for the way im guna say this, but shot the Fu*ker that shot the man, I had a feeling at the beginning he would most likely have nothing to do with it, so the police that shot him deserve to die.


I find it amazing that you're apologising for the way you're saying that, but not for what you're saying, which is possibly the most worrying statement I have ever read on this Forum because I think that perhaps you really believe what you've written. I am very glad you're a long way away from this country. Please stay there.

And now a reminder that this forum is about news presentation, not a discussion on the news issues of the day.
EY
the eye
marksi posted:
bbcworld2005 posted:
Sorry for the way im guna say this, but shot the Fu*ker that shot the man, I had a feeling at the beginning he would most likely have nothing to do with it, so the police that shot him deserve to die.


I find it amazing that you're apologising for the way you're saying that, but not for what you're saying, which is possibly the most worrying statement I have ever read on this Forum because I think that perhaps you really believe what you've written. I am very glad you're a long way away from this country. Please stay there.

And now a reminder that this forum is about news presentation, not a discussion on the news issues of the day.


I'll see you in two years marksi, oh no wait! im going there in september for a month! so ill see you all then Smile
MA
marksi
bbcworld2005 posted:
marksi posted:
bbcworld2005 posted:
Sorry for the way im guna say this, but shot the Fu*ker that shot the man, I had a feeling at the beginning he would most likely have nothing to do with it, so the police that shot him deserve to die.


I find it amazing that you're apologising for the way you're saying that, but not for what you're saying, which is possibly the most worrying statement I have ever read on this Forum because I think that perhaps you really believe what you've written. I am very glad you're a long way away from this country. Please stay there.

And now a reminder that this forum is about news presentation, not a discussion on the news issues of the day.


I'll see you in two years marksi, oh no wait! im going there in september for a month! so ill see you all then Smile


Don't forget to tell the policeman at the airport about your views on this incident on your arrival into the UK, using the language you have here - they'll be more relevant and useful at that point than they are here.

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