Armed police in Accy
 

Armed copper in an unmarked cop car has just pulled a white lad driving a pimped up fiat panda (or whatever make it was!) outside jobcentre & the cars been towed away wonder what thats all about? :eek:

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He's probably threatened the jobcentre staff that he is going to find his own job :D

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Just had an armed copper at my door. He was delivering a notice to appear; but, got the wrong street.:eek: You get used to the coppers being armed. I believe that coppers in Kingston only shot twice last year. Both times to put accident victims out of their misery:eek::eek::eek: One of the victims was a deer, the other, a dog.;)

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Think you'd better lay of the muse juice Eric them colonial coppers ain't safe Mate:D

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I believe you are thinking of the LAPD;), and those big-bellied sheriffs south of the Mason-Dixon line. And if you ever watch "Cops", you know that being black is still not a good idea if you have a run in with the US law enforcement. And sometimes, I have to admit, the RCMP get a little out of hand ... I mean, tasering a guy to death for brandishing a stapler:eek:

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But it was a big stapler, with a full load of staples:D

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Once remember Danny Glover using a Stapler to kill a guy in Lethal Weapon Eric, bloody dangerous mate in the wrong hands:D

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three or four police vans were outside Accy Vic this morning.

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Probably called in for a brew:D

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But this guy was only a Polish immigrant:rolleyes: ... maybe some guys over there would accuse the Horsemen of being too gentle.:eek:

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That was a nail gun, Jaysay. Have you ever seen one of those fired? I wouldn't one pointing at me, even if I was several feet away.
So what are armed police in unmarked cars doing in Accrington? It must be a different place than that I grew up in.

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Hopefully rounding up all the deadbeats.

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They will need more than one car, a fleet of buses would be better:D

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wouldn't need armed police to do that, a flagon of cider on a string would suffice.:hehetable

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All depends on what you are used to. I live in a peaceful little city with a low crime rate. And yet, there are probably at least 10 armed cops sitting in unmarked cars around the city. And all the others in well-marked vehicles. I think the difference is that we are used to armed cops. Armed police in the UK, unless they are special units or on an assignment that may require a little more fire-power than a billy club, may still be the exception rather than the rule. It may be that I can remember watching "Dixon of Dock Green";):D