Moat Still On The Run

[Neast19]

So Raoul Moat's still on the run after six days.

Fugitive gunman Raoul Moat has made threats to the wider public, police have revealed.

He has been on the run since his ex-girlfriend, her new partner - who was killed - and a police officer were shot on Tyneside at the weekend.

It had been thought that his main grievance was directed towards the police, but it has now emerged that members of the public could be at risk.

He's a Geordie, just leave a fish and chips out in the woods and stake it out. Job done. They could tell him the NUFC has gone into administration and he'd probably hand himself in.

 

[bronzeage]

I guess there is someplace where this post makes sense.

Welcome to Lit.

 

[driphoney]

I guess there is someplace where this post makes sense.

Welcome to Lit.

Think UK-style OJ media extravaganza. This appears to be all over the UK press at the moment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7874649/Raoul-Moat-police-on-trail-of-gunman.html

 

[bronzeage]

Think UK-style OJ media extravaganza. This appears to be all over the UK press at the moment.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7874649/Raoul-Moat-police-on-trail-of-gunman.html

I see now. A deluded violent asshole on the loose, blaming everyone else for his problems.

Over here, we call this suicide by cop.

 

[Scotsman69]

Obscure?

It's no more obscure than any internal US current affairs reference is to non-US citizens.

NUFC is Newcastle United Football Club. That's soccer to US citizens. When I lived in Newcastle as a student, a very long time ago, the Magpies (their strip is black and white) were a religion there.

Yes, the man is a nutter and he won't last long. I'm afraid nutters crop up in every culture. It's just a pity that the very bonny wee market town of Rothbury will be remembered for this in future.

I guess there is someplace where this post makes sense.

Welcome to Lit.

 

[driphoney]

It's no more obscure than any internal US current affairs reference is to non-US citizens.

Which is why I'm always amazed when non-Americans seem to not just be curious, but have fully formed opinions of internal American affairs.

I see nothing wrong with posting a local major event such as this, but this one hasn't gained much traction other than outside (Yank) curiosity.

By the way, how are you doing, Scotsman?

 

[TxRad]

My Moat's on the run but after all the rain we've had....

 

[Handley_Page]

Which is why I'm always amazed when non-Americans seem to not just be curious, but have fully formed opinions of internal American affairs.

There's always a lot of huffing & puffing when a firearms offence is involved and the media play it for all it's worth (probably encouraged by government ??).
Hungerford, Dunblaine and now Rothbury. These will long be remembered for the wrong reasons (the firt two caused the handgun permits to be withdrawn; not that that stopped any criminal - just the target sport).

Occasionally, a "fully-formed" opinion may be assumed after reading the Web, reading other Lit members comments and maybe the BBC. Of course, this may not include politics (we tend not to take it quite as seriously as you Yanks *)

* In the best sense of the word, you understand

 

[oggbashan]

Calling them "Yanks" can be as offensive as me calling you "Irish".

Some of them might be willing to admit to being Yankees. Many of them won't be.

Og

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Only for the terminally sensitive.

 

[Handley_Page]

Calling them "Yanks" can be as offensive as me calling you "Irish".

Some of them might be willing to admit to being Yankees. Many of them won't be.

Og

I was, perhaps, influenced by JBJ's calling us 'Limeys'.
If any reader is of a sensitive nature, I apologise for my use of the word.

 

[oggbashan]

Only for the terminally sensitive.

And how many of them appear here? I know there are trigger-happy sensitive violets in the General Board.

Og

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Eh, shoot first and apologize later, whiny b*$t*rd$

 

[oggbashan]

Royal Navy sailors were only called Limeys because they drank the only anti-scorbutic then known.

"Limeys" because the US sailors were jealous of the Royal Navy's rum ration but didn't want to offend their masters by complaining.

The rum and grog ration has long gone, but HM Ships still carry and use alcohol. Visiting US personnel are always welcomed with alcohol, poor deprived souls.

What makes the difference even more painful, is that the alcohol on HM Ships is genuinely duty free and cheaper than almost anywhere ashore or afloat.

Hic!

Og

 

[bronzeage]

It's no more obscure than any internal US current affairs reference is to non-US citizens.

NUFC is Newcastle United Football Club. That's soccer to US citizens. When I lived in Newcastle as a student, a very long time ago, the Magpies (their strip is black and white) were a religion there.

Yes, the man is a nutter and he won't last long. I'm afraid nutters crop up in every culture. It's just a pity that the very bonny wee market town of Rothbury will be remembered for this in future.

An actual link would have solved the mystery. If I made a reference to the SWAC, few would know it was the South West Athletic League.

Calling them "Yanks" can be as offensive as me calling you "Irish".

Some of them might be willing to admit to being Yankees. Many of them won't be.

Og

There was a war a while back, and it's only in the last couple decades that feelings have been soothed over the whole thing. When I was young, "Yankee" was a powerful insult and worth a school yard fight.

I always had the advantage in these conflicts, because having been born in the Canal Zone, I could claim a birthplace farther south than anyone else in the crowd.

 

[SeaCat]

Okay,

Sorry to hear about your nutcase. I honestly hope the police won't be overly sensitive and polite while trying to apprehend him.

Maybe they need to send in some of the lads from 22 Regiment into the area on a bit of a training excersize?

AS for being offended by being called a Yank, it doesn't bother me in the least. I climbed with a Scotsman for a couple of years.

The last time I was called a Yankee to my face it was by a blue hair with a Brooklyn accent and driving a Mercedes with N.Y. Tags. I didn't stop laughing all day.

Cat

 

[oggbashan]

...
There was a war a while back, and it's only in the last couple decades that feelings have been soothed over the whole thing. When I was young, "Yankee" was a powerful insult and worth a school yard fight.

I always had the advantage in these conflicts, because having been born in the Canal Zone, I could claim a birthplace farther south than anyone else in the crowd.

I know. I once owned a copy of the book of condolence for the death of President Lincoln.

It contained expressions of regret from most of the English-speaking world and a few from non-Anglophone countries too, but very few from the former Confederacy (except obvious carpet-baggers).

Og

Edited for PS. There are still vestiges in some rural areas of England of the hostility that arose during the English Civil War with families from the Parliamentary or Royalist sides unwilling to recognise each other's existence.

Edited for PPS. We still can't understand why we entered an Entente Cordiale with the French in the early 1900s. The French had been our enemies for nearly a thousand years. You don't give up such a long held tradition easily.

 

[driphoney]

Only for the terminally sensitive.

You're a Californian, right?

 

[Stella_Omega]

I was, perhaps, influenced by JBJ's calling us 'Limeys'.
If any reader is of a sensitive nature, I apologise for my use of the word.

you were influenced by Jimmyblowjob?

Dude. That's just embarrassing.

 

[driphoney]

An actual link would have solved the mystery. If I made a reference to the SWAC, few would know it was the South West Athletic League.




There was a war a while back, and it's only in the last couple decades that feelings have been soothed over the whole thing. When I was young, "Yankee" was a powerful insult and worth a school yard fight.

I always had the advantage in these conflicts, because having been born in the Canal Zone, I could claim a birthplace farther south than anyone else in the crowd.

I grew up in Ohio. My best friend was from Ge-awwwwja (Georgia) and trust me, for her mama, that War of Nawth'n Aggression had just ended last week, I think.

 

[bronzeage]

I grew up in Ohio. My best friend was from Ge-awwwwja (Georgia) and trust me, for her mama, that War of Nawth'n Aggression had just ended last week, I think.

My family is from North Carolina and we moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi when I was 5 years old. In those days, Vicksburg was home to the Corp of Engineers Experiment Station, which brought in people from all over the world. It was a very cosmopolitan small town. There were a lot of people for whom the war was a living memory. Their parents and grandparents had lived though an 8 week siege.

There was a 12 inch mortar in the back yard of the house where we lived. This is a 250 pound cannon ball. It had been found when building the house. Such things were so common place, it was left there for about 50 years, until a museum claimed it. We lived about 4 blocks from the river. This mortar was fired by a ship of the United States Navy, into a residential neighborhood. If it had exploded as intended, it would have leveled all the houses in the area and killed everyone inside.

Things like this tend to stay in the collective memory.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You're a Californian, right?

Second generation Los Angeleno, to be precise, and HM is sixth generation San Diegan. When the Big One hits, we're going to drive to San Bernardino and enjoy the unobstructed view of the Atlantic!

 

[Stella_Omega]

So has anyone noticed all the ranting about how the bitch made him shoot her, and how it's the cops fault that he's going to kill them all, etc?

Steroids really fuck with your head.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

So has anyone noticed all the ranting about how the bitch made him shoot her, and how it's the cops fault that he's going to kill them all, etc?

Steroids really fuck with your head.

Assuming that's what did it to him . . . and it's a good possibility. Personally, I think he's a beautiful example of an argument for retroactive birth control.

 

[sr71plt]

Which is why I'm always amazed when non-Americans seem to not just be curious, but have fully formed opinions of internal American affairs.

Opinions? Seems to run more to obsessions.