Some one parked in front of my drive way

Iceweasel

Kim_kim wrote: »

Someone parked partially over my drive years ago.

When my ex husband got up at 4am to get ready for work he discovered it.

He had to ring the police as we had no idea what house & it was far too early to go knocking. The police came & they made the driver move his car, all before 5am.

He didn't do it again.

Presumably NOT in Slough.

facade

George_Michael wrote: »

What does someone getting shot whilst sitting in a car in a case of mistaken identity have to do with a comment about someone getting shot by the police whilst walking to a car?

They are two entirely different scenarios.

I think it is a bit of a dig at the competence of the people allowed to run around with guns and shoot us in the street.
However, you could end up being mistaken for a terrorist by someone who calls it in and over-eggs the pudding, then being ordered by armed Police to drop your weapons, and when you turn round to see who it is that they are shouting at, getting shot, which I think is what happened to the chairleg man.

George_Michael

facade wrote: »

I think it is a bit of a dig at the competence of the people allowed to run around with guns and shoot us in the street.

You are making it sound as if getting shot or killed by the police in the UK is a common everyday occurrence.
2014. 1 person killed.
2013. 0 persons killed.
2012. 1 person killed.
2011. 2 person killed.
2010. 1 person killed.

If you were to check on the number of unlawful shooting cases involving the police in the UK over the past 10 years you would be able to count these on the fingers of one hand, and although I agree that one innocent person getting killed is one too many, as long as there are humans involved, there will always be mistakes and accidents.

tight_scotsman

That esculated quickly from an inconsiderate parking matter to terrorism pmsl

dannyrst

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Plenty.

There are lots of "entirely different scenarios" in which innocent people have been shot by the Police.

If carrying a chair leg in a bag, running for a tube train or just sitting in a car can result in the Police shooting, then it is not unreasonable to foresee a situation where walking towards a car displaying an IS flag might also end badly.

You're making no sense.

I could get shot by the police for any number of reasons by accident. Displaying an ISIS flag is not a reason to be arrested, let alone shot.

facade

George_Michael wrote: »

If you were to check on the number of unlawful shooting cases involving the police in the UK over the past 10 years you would be able to count these on the fingers of one hand, and although I agree that one innocent person getting killed is one too many, as long as there are humans involved, there will always be mistakes and accidents.

True, there have only been 16 people fatally shot by the Police in the last 10 years (more get trampled to death by cows) http://www.inquest.org.uk/statistics/fatal-police-shootings (SW won't count as he didn't die) and as you say, very very few end up as unlawful. 1 according to the above link.

It wouldn't be unlawful though if information received led them to believe that there was an armed terrorist and they were acting to preserve lives.


However, rare though it is, I wouldn't walk the streets waving an ISIS flag with the country currently on SEVERE terrorist threat level (i.e. an attack is highly likely to happen)

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/the-threats/terrorism/threat-levels.html

Still, to get back on topic, I bet the offending car has gone now anyway

PCMcGarry

dannyrst wrote: »

You're making no sense.

I could get shot by the police for any number of reasons by accident. Displaying an ISIS flag is not a reason to be arrested, let alone shot.

Nor was being a Brazilian tourist.

Head_The_Ball

dannyrst wrote: »

You're making no sense.

I could get shot by the police for any number of reasons by accident. Displaying an ISIS flag is not a reason to be arrested, let alone shot.

You seem to be looking for an argument rather than a discussion so I will leave you to it.

Head_The_Ball

facade wrote: »

I think it is a bit of a dig at the competence of the people allowed to run around with guns and shoot us in the street.
However, you could end up being mistaken for a terrorist by someone who calls it in and over-eggs the pudding, then being ordered by armed Police to drop your weapons, and when you turn round to see who it is that they are shouting at, getting shot, which I think is what happened to the chairleg man.

It wasn't a dig at the Police who generally do a good job in difficult circumstances.

But, like all of us, they sometimes make mistakes and I was merely pointing out that you don't have to be committing a crime to risk getting shot by the Police.

gilbert_and_sullivan

friend with real 4 x 4, strap or tow rope, problem solved, amazing how quickly the indiscriminate parker appears when they hear the sound of their tyres scraping along the road...but they couldn't hear the sound of a horn ten minutes earlier.