Our Boys Behaving Badly
You notice I did not specify any limitations on who was included....it was a generic description of a recipe for disaster where ever it is encountered and who ever is involved.
Be it Glasgow or Atlanta the mixture is the same in results.
Be it Glasgow or Atlanta the mixture is the same in results.
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Not sure if it is the same now but when I was still in the biggest sanction you could apply to Fijians was to send them back to Fiji, discharged as "services no longer required". Fines and prison won't bother these guys, as soon as they are sober they will be model prisoners.
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You notice I did not specify any limitations on who was included....it was a
generic description of a recipe for disaster where ever it is encountered and
who ever is involved.
Be it Glasgow or Atlanta the mixture is the same in results.
generic description of a recipe for disaster where ever it is encountered and
who ever is involved.
Be it Glasgow or Atlanta the mixture is the same in results.
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Originally Posted by Outlaw Pete
What worries me most is that allegedly, the cop was carrying a knife. NYPD are not without controversy though.
Originally Posted by perthsaint
It's utterly perverse that a knife-carrying racist can be treated as a victim.
Originally Posted by New York Post
“At this point the victim pulled out a folding pocket knife”
is automatic proof that the person carrying it is a homicidal maniac, but I've carried one just like that since I was about 10 years old (as have millions of Americans)... and have never once even threatened anyone with it (including all 8 years in the USMC), much less tried to cut someone.
However, I feel confident that, if I were being advanced on by 6 angry men who were threatening bodily harm, and I tried (foolishly) to scare them off with it, that Outlaw Pete and perthsaint would consider me a vicious criminal that deserved whatever happened to me.
Last edited by GreenKnight121; 4th Sep 2013 at 03:40.
Shack.....so you were and still are wrong....that happens when one "assumes".
UK vernacular in Spam Land? - I spent some time working in NY a couple of years back and frequented an Italian restaurant. The chap working the tables used to identify the 'checks' by a written description the diners. In our case it was 'Limey B@stards' I won't tell you what he wrote to describe the Indian table.
As for this instance, don't know, wasn't there!
As for this instance, don't know, wasn't there!
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Doesn't matter... the entire premise you and certain others are operating under states that the mere presence of the knife by itself automatically makes the possessor in the wrong and justifies whatever anyone wants to do to him.
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Originally Posted by GreenKnight121:8029171
However, I feel confident that, if I were being advanced on by 6 angry men who were threatening bodily harm, and I tried (foolishly) to scare them off with it, that Outlaw Pete and perthsaint would consider me a vicious criminal that deserved whatever happened to me.
For the record, I'm glad the UK is 'weapon paranoid' as you put it. Its far preferable that the other extreme where the right keep assault rifles in your kitchen cupboard is the norm.
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"I struggle to see where any situation is improved by carrying a weapon"
How about 6 blokes after you and you use it to defend yourself,
possibly taking out a few of them in the process to even up the
odds ?
How about 6 blokes after you and you use it to defend yourself,
possibly taking out a few of them in the process to even up the
odds ?
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Originally Posted by 500N:8031345
"I struggle to see where any situation is improved by carrying a weapon"
How about 6 blokes after you and you use it to defend yourself,
possibly taking out a few of them in the process to even up the
odds ?
How about 6 blokes after you and you use it to defend yourself,
possibly taking out a few of them in the process to even up the
odds ?
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That is always the danger.
I was going to put another line in about not letting them
know you have it and using it as well as can be.
Hey, I'd prefer to go down fighting than on my knees praying !!!
I was going to put another line in about not letting them
know you have it and using it as well as can be.
Hey, I'd prefer to go down fighting than on my knees praying !!!
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It could have been worse, they may have been Samoan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naWQ6GWKLw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naWQ6GWKLw8
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One wee pocket knife isn't about to scare off Six Drunks intent upon mayhem. It would certainly put an easily observed identifying mark or two on a few of them.
They would look a bit odd in a Show Up Parade with part of a Nose or an Ear missing wouldn't they?
They would look a bit odd in a Show Up Parade with part of a Nose or an Ear missing wouldn't they?
