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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 tantalor »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #17
chrisseaton wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 re…

They don't hire the brightest - recently I heard a former senior ex met natsec policeman who presented as very very stupid individual I would not trust to investigate a missing kitten. There was also the scandal where a v senior copper on the Cyber side was found cheating.

Cheating? At what?

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

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Post by tezza »

DanBC wrote: post #15
tezza wrote: post #7

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…

> The government was manoeuvred into buying £9 billion pounds of Tamiflu vaccine. £9bn was about the total prescription medication budget at the time, so I think you've gone wrong somewhere.

corrected above.

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Post by starbeast »

DanBC wrote: post #15
tezza wrote: post #7

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…

> The government was manoeuvred into buying £9 billion pounds of Tamiflu vaccine. £9bn was about the total prescription medication budget at the time, so I think you've gone wrong somewhere.

The seasonal mass psychosis must be spreading.

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Post by easytiger »

DanBC wrote: post #15
tezza wrote: post #7

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…

> The government was manoeuvred into buying £9 billion pounds of Tamiflu vaccine. £9bn was about the total prescription medication budget at the time, so I think you've gone wrong somewhere.

Vaguely recall this and it was around £500m spent

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

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Post by bigwheeler »

I just still can’t wrap my head around the fact that in 2018, with a camera attached to every waking persons hand (and some sleeping people too), how is it that there is not a single public photo or video published of this specific drone. Kind of reminds me of when I found out that tipping cows wasn’t a real thing...

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Post by benj111 »

tezza wrote: post #7

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…

I think it maybe that you're watching certain TV and reading certain newspapers?

I remember coverage. And no doubt the Sun had one of their helpful infographics, and the Mail blamed immigrant birds etc etc. Meanwhile most of us got on with our lives.

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Post by benj111 »

beerlord wrote: post #14

The suggestion is that the airports were under major terrorism threat, which is why the army was involved. They didn't say this to avoid spooking the public, and having a whole lot of people cancel their flights and holidays (plus it would have been major fuel for the Yellow Vests).

The yellow vests, as in the protests in France? What's that got to do with drones in the UK???

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Post by dazc »

jackweirdy wrote: post #11
barry0079 wrote: post #10

Not before plastering the faces of an innocent couple nationwide. I think they deserve reparation for this.

As far as we know it wasn't the police who reported their names and addresses. Police typically don't release names until someone is charged. Newspapers reported their names, usually that happens off the back of neighbours tipping off the papers for cash about the police knocking on doors.

'Police typically don't release names until someone is charged.'

Various celebrities could argue otherwise.

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

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Post by huffmsa »

bigwheeler wrote: post #25

I just still can’t wrap my head around the fact that in 2018, with a camera attached to every waking persons hand (and some sleeping people too), how is it that there is not a single public photo or video published of this specific drone. Kind of reminds me of when I found out that tipping cows wasn’t a real thing...

Funny how UFO reports have generally decreased in the last decade.

Pics or it didn't happen

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

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Post by teh_klev »

dazc wrote: post #28
jackweirdy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as we know it wasn't the police who reported their names and addresses. Police typically don't release names until someone is charged. Newspapers reported their names, usually that happens off the back of neighbours tipping off the papers for cash about the police knocking on doors.

'Police typically don't release names until someone is charged.' Various celebrities could argue otherwise.

Yep, the Cliff Richard raid is a prime example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard#2014:_Property_s...

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