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Police confiscate walking stick from retired teacher, 78, because it is an 'offensive weapon'
The Daily Mail ^
| 29 September, 2008
| Daniel Bates
Posted on 10/01/2008 4:47:58 AM PDT by marktwain
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At least they admitted that they made a mistake.
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posted on
10/01/2008 4:47:58 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Yeah, at least. They did not offer, however; that 'it would never happen again'.
Bigger truth evident here: Political Correctness changes brain formation and development. . .
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posted on
10/01/2008 4:51:41 AM PDT
by
cricket
(America's Freedom Rings! Thank You ~ U..S.A. Military~)
To: cricket
In the States, they’d have tasered him first.
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posted on
10/01/2008 4:56:10 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: cricket
They don’t seem to be able to spot terrorists those eagle eyed police - do they?
I guess if you can’t ‘see’ a weapon such as a hidden gun or bomb - that would ok ?
To: Wolfie
In the States, theyd have tasered him first.
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You forgot the part where they would have cuffed him, kick him in the ribs and THEN taser.
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posted on
10/01/2008 5:06:04 AM PDT
by
Radl
(rtr)
To: marktwain
I’m thinking there was some cop who needed a nice birthday present for his elderly father.
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posted on
10/01/2008 5:32:31 AM PDT
by
seowulf
(Discipline knows no emotion and frequently runs counter to the whims of panic or elation.)
To: marktwain
I guess that makes my walker a weapon of mass destruction.
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posted on
10/01/2008 5:32:57 AM PDT
by
Excellence
(Why do scoundrels like Ayers gravitate to public education when Plan A fails?)
To: marktwain
This is a lie!! This could not possibly be true, so it must be Scrappleface picked up by a news outlet.
I realize it is true though and still want to pretend that the world has not gone this crazy and there really isn’t some “stoopid” virus that destroys the common sense section of our brain.
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posted on
10/01/2008 5:49:23 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(McCain/Palin 08)
To: Radl
No, first they’d have to run him over because he was being menacing with a knife. And we know you have to be standing on top of someone to taser them and wouldn’t want to get too close to that knife. Or cane.
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posted on
10/01/2008 5:51:52 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(McCain/Palin 08)
To: autumnraine
I saw the headline and KNEW it was the UK.
It “could not possibly be true” - IN AMERICA....YET.
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posted on
10/01/2008 5:53:26 AM PDT
by
MrB
(0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
To: marktwain
At least they didn’t shoot him. That would be a definite danger with some US police departments...
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posted on
10/01/2008 6:02:55 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
To: marktwain
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posted on
10/01/2008 6:04:05 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Vote McWhatshisname and PALIN)
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To: Excellence
“I guess that makes my walker a weapon of mass destruction”
Dadgum right. It has four times the destructive power as a mere walking stick. They should be licensed.
To: marktwain
When I read the headline I knew immediately that this was in the UK, a country that has lost its collective mind.
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posted on
10/01/2008 7:10:44 AM PDT
by
BooksForTheRight.com
(Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
To: Radl; Wolfie
And shot his dog. You have to shoot the dog.
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posted on
10/01/2008 9:04:57 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: marktwain
Mr Webb should have told the officer that it was the weapon under his jacket, his new MAC-10 that made him a threat not his antique walking stick.
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posted on
10/01/2008 10:30:21 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(I'd rather have a VP that can gut a Moose, than a President that wants to gut our Second Amendment!)
To: Wolfie
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posted on
10/01/2008 3:33:16 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: marktwain
London is burning from the inside, and there’s nobody to put out the fire.
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posted on
10/01/2008 10:14:11 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Now sadly living in the DPRNYC [Brooklyn])
To: Clintonfatigued
You’re obviously right about the UK.
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posted on
10/02/2008 2:47:10 AM PDT
by
Impy
(Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
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