The police want a watercannon

[MrSki]

I wonder how long it will be before Johnson invests in a pepper-spray bullet firing drone?

Details from BBC here. Or the taser version here.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I wonder how long it will be before Johnson invests in a pepper-spray bullet firing drone?

Details from BBC here. Or the taser version here.

The device known as Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone - Cupid - is capable of delivering 80,000 volts of electricity through a wired dart.

So the wires will be run from the drone to the victim on the ground right? So anyone with a pair of marigolds could just yank the thing to earth and stomp the fuck out of it?

This is a weapon of war and anyone found using one against civillians should be dealt with accordingly, ideally by being force fed their own teeth.

 

[existentialist]

So the wires will be run from the drone to the victim on the ground right? So anyone with a pair of marigolds could just yank the thing to earth and stomp the fuck out of it?

This is a weapon of war and anyone found using one against civillians should be dealt with accordingly, ideally by being force fed their own teeth.

I suspect they'll be quick-detach to prevent exactly that from happening.

What this really calls for is some kind of tiny man-portable HARM missile that can home in on, say, the drone's comms frequency, or perhaps some kind of RF radiation from all the computing gear on board. It would probably only need to be a compressed air thing, with monofilament or netting that would interfere with the propellors that keep them up.

With a bit of cunningness, I would imagine these drones are pretty soft targets...

 

[teqniq]

You are Molesworth and I claim my £5

 

[existentialist]

You are Molesworth and I claim my £5

If I was, there wud haff been moar speling mistales. Chiz chiz chiz.

 

[teqniq]

Any fule no that.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Contracts for the purchase of water cannon by the Metropolitan Police have been exchanged, London's deputy mayor for policing has confirmed.

Stephen Greenhalgh confirmed the mayor's office for policing and crime has paid £216,000 for the three machines from Germany's federal police.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[dylanredefined]

So the wires will be run from the drone to the victim on the ground right? So anyone with a pair of marigolds could just yank the thing to earth and stomp the fuck out of it?

This is a weapon of war and anyone found using one against civillians should be dealt with accordingly, ideally by being force fed their own teeth.

Problem with drones the operator is usually miles away.Pity they wont be deployed against people who really deserve it like jet skiers.

 

[MrSki]

The one in the picture shoots pepper spray bullets. CUPID is in the link with a video demo.

 

[MrSki]

 

[teqniq]

'Cupid' ffs

 

[MrSki]

'Cupid' ffs

The pepper spray one is called 'The Skunk Octocopter drone'!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

That drone is a silly POC funding-gathering device. There's a load of money in that area.

 

[Dogsauce]

Arriving in London next week:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/27/water-cannon-boris-johnson-theresa-may

Any chance they'll get a welcoming committee?

 

[ska invita]

5:04PM, THU 26 JUN 2014
Could police use ultraviolet dye in water cannon to track protesters?
- last updated Thu 26 Jun 2014
Politics Water cannon
Police Commissioners have urged the Met Police to add ultraviolet dye to their three water cannon to help them track down any one responsible for violent protests.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2014...olet-dye-in-water-cannon-to-track-protesters/

 

[ddraig]

Bone calls for solidarity stop of cannon leaving Gravesend for Nato in Newport
http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/10000-cops-for-newport-nato-summit-and-water-cannon/

10,000 COPS FOR NEWPORT NATO SUMMIT – AND WATER CANNON ?
Police forces throughout the UK are making 10,000 cops available for NATO summit at Celtic Manor Sept 4-5th. I’ve been puzzling why Boris was acting so hastily to get the water cannon arrived at Gravesend – did he have intelligence about Notting hill carnival or what? Now it could be that the government wanted them for the NATO SUMMIT but doesn’t want to advertise the fact? Make sense….in which case those wanting to show solidarity with NATO protestors SHOULD COME TO GRAVESEND WITH CLAS WAR ON AUGUST 3Oth and prevent the water cannon leaving for Newport for sept 4-5th.

 

[Pickman's model]

5:04PM, THU 26 JUN 2014
Could police use ultraviolet dye in water cannon to track protesters?
- last updated Thu 26 Jun 2014
Politics Water cannon
Police Commissioners have urged the Met Police to add ultraviolet dye to their three water cannon to help them track down any one responsible for violent protests.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/2014...olet-dye-in-water-cannon-to-track-protesters/

no problem. i'll get some 'smart water' and spray respectable members of the community.

 

[ska invita]

Martin Wright in favour of watercannon

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The police want a watercannon


Well they can't fucking well have it.




And Boris should personally have to repay the £220K of public money he's pissed up this particular wall. The cunt.

 

[Pickman's model]

The police want a watercannon


Well they can't fucking well have it.




And Boris should personally have to repay the £220K of public money he's pissed up this particular wall. The cunt.

ho ho

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33538171

 

[Pickman's model]

The police want a watercannon


Well they can't fucking well have it.




And Boris should personally have to repay the £220K of public money he's pissed up this particular wall. The cunt.

they should use the spray to scoop both his eyes out and then let's see the posh twat blubber as he tries to find his way home.

 

[Sprocket.]

Is this the let's make Boris look a bastard campaign starting?
Theresa May setting her stall as a nice person by stopping the police from hurting the citizens.
Leadership position coming up!

 

[DotCommunist]

So its OK to water-cannon and rubber bullet citizens of northern ireland but apparently not us. Theres a fault in this logic somewhere

 

[likesfish]

Germans managed to shift some old crap onto boris thing with water cannon they seriously up the stakes in england.

On craggy islan they are less lethal than plastic bullets and the riots are a regular occurance using them on petrol and stone throwers nobodys really going to complain letting the met use them on the annoying but not yet murderous protestors is going to far.

 

[Pickman's model]

So its OK to water-cannon and rubber bullet citizens of northern ireland but apparently not us. Theres a fault in this logic somewhere

presumably no one cares what happens in the six counties but water cannon on the streets of london would spell the end of civilization as we know it.

 

[JHE]

Is this the let's make Boris look a bastard campaign starting?
Theresa May setting her stall as a nice person by stopping the police from hurting the citizens.
Leadership position coming up!

It looks to me less a matter of making Boris look a bastard and more a matter of making him look a prat for spending more than 200,000 quid on some 25-year-old equipment which he's now not even allowed to use.

 

[pesh]

Maybe they just can't affort the £200 a day to use it within the London Low Emmisions Zone

 

[likesfish]

presumably no one cares what happens in the six counties but water cannon on the streets of london would spell the end of civilization as we know it.

well if you throw petrol bombs as a regular occurrence you cant complain if you get water cannoned

 

[Mr.Bishie]

well if you throw petrol bombs as a regular occurrence you cant complain if you get water cannoned

 

[pogofish]

Finally some footage of the elusive machines - Two of them are currently "resting" in Gravesend:

Unused Met Police water cannon location revealed - BBC News