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OK, your either taking the piss or you are genuine... in which case I'm happy for you. I have no faith so seems bit odd, but cool. Sometimes I feel jealous of people that have such a strong belief. Feel like I'm missing out somehow!

Your really not reading what I'm saying or truly don't understand common law powers despite being told it numerous times. Any person can use any force that is reasonable and neccesary to protect life or property. Not verbatim but along those lines, I'm going rusty. Please present me a scenario where the posession of a sword as a weapon would be useful

So if someone come into your workplace with an uzi you'd put yourself and the other people present in danger by engaging in a gun fight? This is the trouble with Joe public, John McLaine (sp?) wannabees A firearm really is a last resort, its the final resolution in conflict management. When your life or someone elses is in iminent danger you should feel justified to use it. Sometimes it would be more appropriate to just keep your head down and comply. I don't know if you receive any formal training before possessing and handling a firearm (I don't just mean how to shoot but conflict resolution also) but I am scared if you don't. I seen the stupid reckless videos of unneccesary shootouts when robberies occur (normally as an offender is trying to leave the premises with their haul) and think this is a ridiculous situation. Let them go, you put yourself and others in no danger and live to work another day and hopefully give some good evidence. And if by nightstick you mean a PR24 baton London police aren't issued those, I believe they carry ASP F21B batons. Also in London paticularly there are many specialist armed response units who believe it or not respond to armed incidents as well as diplomatic protection group etc. I believe (and so do 95% of police officers) that we are equipped adequately to deal with what we need to. This wasn't a gun thread but seems to have turned that way. Sorry guys... here we go again

Theres a few others expressed interest and said will try to come, whether they've seen this thread is another matter!

Good job your not a Scottish sword enthusiast else you'd be right to be bothered. Every month our county police force sieze enough weapons to fill a skip. These include machetes and swords and crazy stuff that people actually carry on them with intention to use as a weapon. Restricted sale of these items to people with a genuine need for them can only be a good thing although I'm sure it won't stop the use of them. At least trying to be responsible, a free for all on weapon ownership is not a good thing. Presumably you have to be licenced in your state to own a firearm? SOunds like its going to be a similar thing. No biggy. You'll really like this one too. When people say in defence that the reason they have an item is for self defence it just goes against them in court. This proves their intent to use the item in an unlawful way.

There didn't seem to be a point to this thread at all. You didn't deliver any point, view, message, query or debate other than regurgitating some shit from another source and waiting for a reaction so stop whinging. Chin up

THats cool, but I also don't really fancy spending christmas at a dropzone in another country. I'd rather be at home

HAHAHAHA

Anyone up for skydiving meet in Empuribrava January 2007. Already got a bit of interest from various people so the larger the crowd the better

Hey, You may have read in another thread I'm planning another trip to Empuria in January, long way off yet but consider this an open invite for any DZ.commer who wouldlike to have a luagh in Spain with some fun jumping and good nights out

Definately. I hear the X-mas boogie is good but maybe targetted at more experienced skydivers with big ways and stuff so thought I'd skip that and just go for some fun jumps with people in January instead

By the way, UK news wsa reporting the woman arrested was in her early 60s and has no mention of screwdrivers or al-qaeda note. Don't know if this is accurate or not, is the media ever?

I have come to the conclusion that you are a nutter!

Because someone had a pot of vaseline doesn't mean it actually was vaseline in the container. Such as the bottle bomb type devices that were going to be used didn't have an 'ACME BOMB CO' logo on them. It is also flammable and can apparantly be used in the use of IEDs (in the right conditions) Also used as an accelerant to start fires in damp conditions...

My choice of words might not be perfect. But if someone constantly insults a paticular country, that is racist. Paticularly if its without reason. Maybe a more fitting term would be ethnocentric. My society and way of life is correct, everyone elses is wrong, I know best, all people living differently are weird etc etc

Guess whos going jumping! Woo!

Good luck vibes sent in your direction You should get a favourable response, especially after you already queried the work that was being carried out as it was a repeat of what was done previously to no effect.

Sounds like you've reached the stage where you need to arrange a good friend to either steal it or set fire to it for you. I feel an insurance job is in order!

Same way as you can be racist against italians, french or germans. Racism isn't just about colour or religion its about an identity. Anyway, I don't honestly believe John is racist just always seems to want to belittle the UK in favour of his land. Maybe if he wasn't so fucking obnoxious he wouldn't need to own so much weaponary to protect himself. Best tool and line of defense is your mouth. I'd love to see him shooting his mouth off in a British bar, wouldn't last 5 minutes.

John, what the fuck do you have against Britain. Are you actually a racist or do you just have nothing better to do than trawl up random bits of shit from the internet and claim them as fact? Getting very boring

Thats the one!

Hah yeah, whats the big guys name in Harry Potter. Looks like him! -damn man thats a bad hunchback, you should see a doctor! - No, thats my tandem master!

Hahah OK. Step 1) Get credit card Step 2) Drive to garage Step 3) Pick up car and pay End of problem.

If its true that a passenger pulled out a screwdriver, matches and vaseline I think its kind of deserving that she got taken down. Screwdrivers are prohibited on an aircraft and can certainly inflict bodily injury to persons. Matches im not sure about but certainly not ideal item to have on aircraft either and arouses suspicion. As for the Vaseline, well, how would they know it was vaseline? Security briefs (as far as I'm aware) are that people were planning to detonate a liquid based IED onboard an aircraft. I think it was reasonable steps in the current climate of heightened security. The inly fact that doesn't add up to her psycho terrorist image is her age

HAHAHA, I used to love it when people, especially nice young women typically tried to descrive something to us. Especially when they were describing a noise thay heard and try to immitate it then get all embarrased. If you got a voltmeter measure across the battery to make sure its getting an adequate voltage while running to keep it charged. Other than that you need to track down the power drain, I think I reead you say it was the radio. As suggested try unplugging the fuse for the radio. Its an nice nondramatic way of testing thats what the problem is. Might be a bit of trial and error but its cheap way to have a go at fixing it yourself :)