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2011-10-06 Britain

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Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 When ALICE Packs filled heavy Rocks, Wood, or your Family's Rice-Bag-Supply-for-the Month just won't suffice.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-10-06 00:19|| 2011-10-06 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Profiled or not, better 1 inconvienenced than 100 dead.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-10-06 01:11|| 2011-10-06 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Test runs to acclimate the local Cop Contingent?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-10-06 02:21|| 2011-10-06 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah. Just a guy jogging with a weight vest.

Honestly, when they realized it was a guy jogging with a weight vest, they should have said "have a nice day" and left, not offered him advice about where he should and shouldn't go.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-10-06 02:43|| 2011-10-06 02:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Surely he was innocent but he shouldn't be playing up the victim role either. He was jogging around with what looked like a suicide vest and the bronze has a responsibility to check up on that sort of thing when they are called the same way they would be if anyone was running around in a way that scared people.

Yes the people should be better informed, should have gotten a better view of the vest before calling, but its not as if folks aren't blowing up buses and other things. The fear is legitimate and a decent citizen should accept that and move on.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-06 08:51|| 2011-10-06 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Police are entirely justified.

6-Jun 2009, Bristol: Doctor's son 'kept suicide vest and turned his bedroom into bomb factory'

24-Apr 2007, West London: Raids on the homes of three men found material "useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism", a court has been told. It included instructions on making a suicide vest, explosives and poisons.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-06 09:18|| 2011-10-06 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 He shouldn't be annoyed at the cops. He should be annoyed at his co-religionists who put on suicide vests--looking a great deal like weight vests--and kill people. If it weren't for them, the cops would have no interest in him.
BTW, as an aging jock, I wonder if the cumulative trauma of running in a weight vest is going to have him sounding like a bowl of Rice Krispies before his time.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2011-10-06 09:40|| 2011-10-06 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 If he's so intelligent (an Oxford University PhD student), then he should have and no doubt did figure out what the consequences of his actions would be. This is just another in a long list of contrived grievences from the usual suspects.

Posted by Pollyandrew 2011-10-06 14:24|| 2011-10-06 14:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Won't do his knees any good.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-10-06 14:45|| 2011-10-06 14:45|| Front Page Top

#10 To put it into proper perspective, imagine it weren't Muslims, but Jews, who adopted a tactic of suicide booming.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-06 17:04|| 2011-10-06 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 In my experience the Shia don't explode all that often. The Sunni seem to be more volatile at room temperature.

Posted by Secret Master 2011-10-06 18:03|| 2011-10-06 18:03|| Front Page Top

#12 In my experience the Shia don't explode all that often.

Only because the Shia are sitting back and enjoying the fight between Sunnis and civilized people. Ask that question in the 1980's.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-06 20:26|| 2011-10-06 20:26|| Front Page Top

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