Negating the effectiveness of water cannon.

[TopCat]

See, back in my day we watched cartoons where a box of drawing pins had the required effect of stopping traffic - except chuggaboom from wacky races who could tiptoe in between them

Roofing nails for the support vehicles?

 

[TopCat]

I'd prefer Thallium, preferably in the coppers' tea and coffee.

Jeez we are getting deep into the P table...

 

[Refused as fuck]

"Negating the effects of a water canon"? Um... a very large jug? A an enormous sponge*!


*(not you, DotCommunist)

 

[TopCat]

A big sponge sounds lovely...

 

[likesfish]

I guess its bringing back the old idea of the riot act.
ie we've brought out the water cannon disperse now or once we start spraying get dyed your guilty of riotous assembly or something.
its not the protesting its the criminal damge trying to attack the police.

 

[Refused as fuck]

What's that shit schoolkids would their impress their mates with by turning a beaker of water solid? That bollocks. Stuff it in the business end*.

*(No, not your mum, DotCommunist)

 

[butchersapron]

Bit of a leap
there
you fopping duck

 

[TopCat]

Maybe they would re design the WC to include a big pope mobile style bubble on the top for the Silver to read the riot act from before they squirt people...

 

[PeterTCA]

Fairy Washing Up Liquid is more versatile than PVA and, of course, is kinder to your hands.

 

[Bakunin]

Fairy Washing Up Liquid is more versatile than PVA and, of course, is kinder to your hands.

*Cues up new advert jingle*

'So hands that blind windscreens can feel soft as your faaace...'

 

[Refused as fuck]

Is DC's mum available for comment? I'd be interested to know her views.

 

[Bakunin]

In the manner of the esteemed Mr. Baldrick Esquire, I've come up with a cunning plan for deployment of airstrikes.

We simply inform the Americans that there's a simply massive Taliban stronghold at whichever spot we need them to devastate and that Osama is definitely in residence. Upon deploying their simply massive aerial armada to Central London and, being Americans, they'll naturally napalm the first uniformed British people they see as they're inbound to target. Result: The total devastation of the TSG and the streets are ours.

Do I win five pounds?

 

[ViolentPanda]

You can be prosecuted for 'being at a protest'? WTF? Since when?

There are provisions in the CJA (1994) for "unlawful assembly" (which may constitute a gathering of as few as ten people!!!).
There is also a whole armoury of stuff like breach of the peace and public nuisance that you can be charged with.

Bear in mind that this stuff is current, and what Stephenson has been bleating about in the media are both the use of current legislation to curb protest, plus new powers he'd like (and possibly hopes a panicking govt can be snowballed into passing).

 

[ViolentPanda]

Jeez we are getting deep into the P table...

It's been an ambition, ever since I watched "The Young Poisoner's Handbook".

 

[Refused as fuck]

What's that shit schoolkids would their impress their mates with by turning a beaker of water solid? That bollocks. Stuff it in the business end*.

*(No, not your mum, DotCommunist)

I think this is a goer*.



*

 

[ViolentPanda]

What's that shit schoolkids would their impress their mates with by turning a beaker of water solid? That bollocks.

You mean the polymer crystals that absorb water and turn into a set gel?

Stuff it in the business end*.

*(No, not your mum, DotCommunist)

You so have a secret lust for her ringpiece!

 

[ViolentPanda]

In the manner of the esteemed Mr. Baldrick Esquire, I've come up with a cunning plan for deployment of airstrikes.

We simply inform the Americans that there's a simply massive Taliban stronghold at whichever spot we need them to devastate and that Osama is definitely in residence. Upon deploying their simply massive aerial armada to Central London and, being Americans, they'll naturally napalm the first uniformed British people they see as they're inbound to target. Result: The total devastation of the TSG and the streets are ours.

Do I win five pounds?

Nope.

You're making the massive assumption that the Yanks can actually hit something they're targetting. Knowing them, an attack on the TSG in and around Parliament Square would see Croydon laid waste.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I think this is a goer*.



*

Dottie's mum?

She is!

 

[Bakunin]

Knowing them, an attack on the TSG in and around Parliament Square would see Croydon laid waste.

You say that as though it's a bad thing.

 

[TopCat]

You say that as though it's a bad thing.

When you are tired of Croydon you are tired of life...

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

*yawns*

 

[Corax]

There are provisions in the CJA (1994) for "unlawful assembly" (which may constitute a gathering of as few as ten people!!!).
There is also a whole armoury of stuff like breach of the peace and public nuisance that you can be charged with.

Bear in mind that this stuff is current, and what Stephenson has been bleating about in the media are both the use of current legislation to curb protest, plus new powers he'd like (and possibly hopes a panicking govt can be snowballed into passing).

The legislation hasn't been used (abused) in this manner yet though has it? I'm probably being naive, but when they start prosecuting people for just being in the vicinity of a protest I'd hope there'd be a bit of a public backlash to that.

Mind you, that's all Tomlinson was guilty of, and they killed him...

Plus, a joke about DotC's mum.

 

[Wilson]

 

[Wilson]

 

[Wilson]

 

[mincepie]

How does that work?

"You've got dye on you! You were at that protest!"

"Yes?"

"Erm...."

It's in the norm for cash in ATM's etc....

Strange in a water cannon tho!

http://www.smartwater.com/Media-Cen...009/G4S-cash-in-transit-attacks-down-24-.aspx

 

[Wilson]

 

[Wilson]

 

[DotCommunist]

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