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UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones

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Re: UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones

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Post by PavlovsCat »

imron wrote: post #2

And yet, from the article: "investigators do have more to work with after they recovered a fallen and damaged drone from the north side of the airport."

Which technically can mean a lot of things, that drone could have been there for a while, and just been found when they combed everything for a drone.

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> The suggestion there may not have been any drones at Gatwick Airport was a "miscommunication by police", a government source has told the BBC.

> During a conference call between ministers, chaired by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, it was agreed the 67 drone sightings were legitimate.

(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714)

As much as "it was all a false alarm" would make a killer headline (and clearly has, even in speculation), it doesn't seem that anyone actually believes that. Just a poor choice of works.

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Post by wrinkl3 »

Edd314159 wrote: post #5

> The suggestion there may not have been any drones at Gatwick Airport was a "miscommunication by police", a government source has told the BBC. > During a conference call between ministers, chaired by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, it was agreed the 67 drone sightings were legitimate. ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714 ) As much as "it was all a false alarm" would make a killer headline (and clear…

Yes, whoever provided that particular soundbite really shouldn't be in charge of public communication.

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Post by tezza »

This country ( UK ) is highly prone to mass psychosis. Not really ascribing anything negative there, just an observation.

A few winters ago there was minute by minute updates on Bird Flu.

The press was covering swans and ducks found dead on the ground. Each individual fowl corpse was covered in breathless detail amongst infographics and timelines

The government was manoeuvred into buying close to a billion pounds of Tamiflu treatment. Some of that was returned, but £500m wasn’t (thanks to commentators below )

Tamiflu killed more people that the H5N1

So may more examples beyond this

Re: UK police release airport drone suspects, admit there may not have been drones

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Post by chrisseaton »

Edd314159 wrote: post #5

> The suggestion there may not have been any drones at Gatwick Airport was a "miscommunication by police", a government source has told the BBC. > During a conference call between ministers, chaired by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, it was agreed the 67 drone sightings were legitimate. ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46670714 ) As much as "it was all a false alarm" would make a killer headline (and clear…

The Police in the UK often say the most ludicrous things in statements, and the basic public speaking skills of the people they choose to put out is often very limited. They always look like they're caught in the headlights while trying to sweatily stumble through reading some words off a page.

I'm not sure what institutionally causes this, but it must be something causing it as it's always the same.

Remember when recently a senior Police officer in a statement just decided to call some extremely serious allegations they were looking into 'true' as if they had already had the trial and preempting the whole judicial process? I can't understand how you can accidentally 'misspeak' like that.

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