Former RAF pilot robbed by passer-by

[LFFC]

I'm not usually one to post this type of link, but this does make me quite angry. I certainly hope the police do everything they can to find the culprit.


Former RAF pilot robbed by passer-by as he lay trapped and bleeding following motorbike crash. The Independent, Monday 16 June 2014


Former RAF pilot robbed by passer-by as he lay trapped and bleeding following motorbike crash - Crime - UK - The Independent

[Wander00]

Hope he makes a satisfactory recovery and they catch the evil b@stard

[reds & greens]

A sad and truly sick indictment of some of our society.
Hope he makes a good recovery from the incident

[TheWizard]

Not that it makes it any less of a sickening crime but in the interests of factual reporting (Daily Fail?!) he was a Corporal.
Classic lazy research: Old photo in glider + 'airman' = "former RAF pilot"

'Samaritan' robs motorbike crash victim as he lies bleeding in the street | Mail Online

[Tankertrashnav]

Quite right - it would be just as bad if he were a retired lavatory cleaner - but they ought to try and get their facts right - it's not that difficult - they only have to ask someone on PPRuNe !

[Boudreaux Bob]

I should think it would be far more newsworthy if it had been the other way around and it was the ex-RAF Pilot that did the robbing.

[Lima Juliet]

Well they got the picture of the Triumph Bonneville's tank right, so what more do you want?

[parabellum]

Those are the once in a life time occasions when, with your uninjured arm, you are just able to reach your 9mm Browning.

[Buster Hyman]

Is "Passer by" what you call the Government over there?

[Trim Stab]

Mr Stevens described his attacker as black, around 5ft 6ins tall, in his 40s and wearing a trilby hat

My money is on him being a Nigerian immigrant - it is SOPs to rob crash victims in Nigeria, and trilby hats are very fashionable there too.

[Pontius Navigator]

What always bugs me is the list of adjectives used by the press "former", "grandfather", etc etc.

What is relevant about what someone was 11 or even 22 years ago or Falklands Veteran. Maybe if a person has had a previously mentioned past, BoB Ace, Dambuster pilot, etc then it is relevant but what of the person today?

[Capetonian]

Mr Stevens described his attacker as black, around 5ft 6ins tall, in his 40s and wearing a trilby hat

Oh dear, Mr. Stevens must be racist then if he noticed the guy's colour before anything else.

[TheWizard]

Stupid comment.
In which order would you describe the perpetrator then?
The police describe people by their race and colour all the time when issuing descriptions.
If he had said "white, around 5ft 6" tall..." etc would you have mentioned it?

[Red Line Entry]

It said the thief was 'in his 40s'. Surely wearing a Trilby, they meant 'in the 1940s"

Actually, one of my primary schools had a Trilby as part of the uniform - and a very dashing bunch of 7 year olds we were too!

[OvertHawk]

Wizard - give Capetonian a break - he was being sarcastic!

[500N]

"If he had said "white, around 5ft 6" tall..." etc would you have mentioned it?"

Yes, except the general word used seems to be "Caucasian" !

[ExRAFRadar]

Wizard mate - you need to check your sarcastic detector, looks like it's U/S

[ExRAFRadar]

Unless it was a double bluff...

[FerrypilotDK]

Same sort of thing recently when a woman was killed in a car accident in Houston and her two injured children were in the car. The first to arrive.....robbed the valuables in the car instead of assisting the children. Shoot on sight, no regrets!

[TheWizard]

Originally Posted by ExRAFRadar

Wizard mate - you need to check your sarcastic detector, looks like it's U/S

Hmm, I'm not so sure.

This sort of knee jerk post really gets me angry and I felt the need to rant about it on the internet.


(Sarcasm mode functional checks complete)