The police want a watercannon
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YeahIt does something at 4 deg though. Something to do with ice or density or whatever. It starts to form ice crystals or somesuch science.
Regardless, my point still stands - water at 5 deg is seriously fucking cold
The density of (liquid) water is greatest at 4 deg C
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
NATO summit next year.
That'll be why plod have it at might-as-well-be 4 then - so it's at it's most painful. Water at 5 deg might as well be ice cold anyway, it's fucking cold
That shit about shock from cold is balls, 5 is plenty cold enough to induce severe shock.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i see that the watercannon the cops are thinking of getting cost £35k each. all we have to do to forestall this plan is raise £115,000 and buy the watercannon before the cops do.
Is that 3 water cannon and 10k commission for you?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i'm doing this without taking a commission, for the public good. £10k is for the server fund.Is that 3 water cannon and 10k commission for you?
pesh
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i have an idea where we could get the cash...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/metropolitan-police-pays-100000-compensation-2274829
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/metropolitan-police-pays-100000-compensation-2274829
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
All part of the neoliberal wet dream. Civil unrest gets written in to the IMF/World Bank's plans for carving up countries. Now they've finished raping those countries, they're starting on us.
Struwwelpeter
Earthling
That'll be why plod have it at might-as-well-be 4 then - so it's at it's most painful. Water at 5 deg might as well be ice cold anyway, it's fucking cold
The difference in density is fuck all, it has nothing to do with hurting protestors. I suspect that the Guardian article is wrong about the reason for keeping it at 5 deg C. It is all to do with stopping it freezing in the tank. They won't be cooling it if the weather is warm - the equipment would be too bulky and too costly to run. They fill up from fire hydrants where the water will typically be about 15 deg C in all but the coldest and hottest weather. The best defence against water cannon might be to carry a water valve key, only they are not something you can slip in your pocket.
Yeah, I was just taking the piss tbh. A few degrees either way will be of no relevance whatsoever if you're on the receiving end of it, that's for sure. Fuck the police and fuck Teresa May
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Struwwelpeter
Earthling
fuck Teresa May
Noooo!
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
273 deg actually.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
A massive spurting phallic device to injure people with is top of plod's wish-list. Well Freudian if you ask me...
Johnny Canuck3
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Water freezes at 4 deg Mars bars, and that's a stone-cold FACT
It's not the 'Fucking Mars Bars' system?
4 degrees FMB.
Johnny Canuck3
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That'll be why plod have it at might-as-well-be 4 then - so it's at it's most painful. Water at 5 deg might as well be ice cold anyway, it's fucking cold
So these watercannon trucks have refrigerated tanks?
Yeah, freezing point of water is 4 degrees FMB but in polite society one should omit the 'fucking'
Fuck knows, don't care, the point is that Teresa May is a fucking monster and having water cannon on the streets of London is a dangerous and disturbing development. Before we know it they'll be shooting unarmed civilians
- an unfortunate choice of words Johnny Canuck3
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Wow: that's cheap! Our cops just bought a special truck, but it cost $350,000.
Then the police in York wanted one too, but theirs has bigger tires, so apparently, it was $10,000 more.
I saw our truck a few weeks ago. There was some incident on the East Side. As I went by, the special truck was driving away. It has red interior lights. The house, all the windows and doors were blown out, and the venetian blinds were hanging out the window holes.
Johnny Canuck3
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I couldn't agree more. Usually you see them in places like Santiago Chile.
That was sort of the point I was making about the water. It doesn't matter if it's 4 degrees or 20 - it seems like a step toward totalitarianism. It's like the citizens of a country - the alleged owners of the country, the sovereign citizens who have a right to protest, are now viewed as nothing more than a rabble to be cleared out of the way by any means necessary.
A new water cannon costs between £600,000 and £1m depending on its specification.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ry-approve-use-water-cannon-austerity-protest
FridgeMagnet
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We get this story at least once a year - watercannon, plastic bullets or both. Surely I'm not the only person who remembers.
You could build a perfectly decent water cannon for a few grand + the price of the vehicle. The British defence / procurement / arms / contract etc industry is a fucking joke
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
regular. It's normally just a senior copper urging for it and it never happens.
Not sure exactly how much strategic use a water cannon would be in the twisty turny many alcoved and backstreeted lanes of our fair cities anyway. Obviously not much fun to get caught in the opn with but loads of scope to duck and hide etc. Our towns and cities are all haphazard and not straight laned
I see what you did there.
Why is ACPO a private limited company?
free spirit
more tea vicar?
nice one, space hijackers with 3 x water cannons.
As long as they wear fancy dress, it looks like they'd be ok to bring them in to a protest as well.
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