Anecdotes from a different time

Much has been said recently about how loaded knives in the hands of
disturbed youths require a lethal response by a heavily armed and
overwhelming force. Such is modern policing.

I remember a time when coppers were six feet tall, built like brick
shithouses, and if you waved a knife at them they'd just smile at you
benignly as they gently removed the knife from your broken arm.

I also remember being on parade at Nui Dat in January (?) 1969. The
company Sar Major (B Coy, 9RAR, George) vowed to keep us there in the
hot tropical sun until we gave up the guys who had allegedly killed a
Yank MP whilst we were on R & C Leave in Vung Tau.

The allegation was that a bunch of our dudes were on a balcony getting
shitfaced (unarmed and in civilian clothes) when a Yank MP approached
them on the balcony and, enforcing the curfew, ordered them off the
premises (or some such thing). Apparently he made the mistake of
drawing his Colt .45 and waving it around meaningfully.

Unfortunatley for him, he somehow got separated from his Colt .45 and
then he apparently committed suicide by leaping off the bacony. The
boys apparently wiped the gun clean, chucked it over the balcony, and
resumed the serious task of getting shitfaced.

After two hours in the hot tropical sun, the Sar Major gave up and we
were dismissed. The case remained unsolved I believe, there being
more serious mass murdering to focus on...

Make of that what you will, but this modern bunch of cops are PARANOID
PUSSIES. And they should DEFINITELY NOT be given guns to play with...

(IK, go kill yourself. You're a bully and a wanker. Leave George
alone. Fucus on me. I'm about to bury you unless you learn to be
nice real soon. That's my New Year's Resolution. What's yours?)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Diogenes wrote:

....snip

Seriously George, don't go there, you won't win, you won't score any
points with anyone and I doubt you'll even be able to delude yourself
that you "won an argument"

JL

 

Freudian slip pehaps, sorry Gerry, I meant you

JL
(although I guess the same advice goes for George too, but I personally
wouldn't bother)

 

That might have been more effective if you hadn't called him 'George'.
Talk about fanning the flames!

 

Ooop, sorry, posted first then saw your mea culpa. Think I'll go for a
ride ..

 

Oh how unkind... Your posts, of course, are quality over quantity?
Right? OK, I'll start reading your posts to try to osmote some of
this "quality" thingie of which you speak. Wish me luck...

You speak with such QUALITY !!!

So much QUALITY !!!

And you point is?

I am SO LUCKY !!!

Oh, I get it, "enough wrongs make a right", right"

Oh the poor widdle diddums... They must be SO exhausted...

I'm not sure I can keep up with your "logic" here. To much "quality"
perhaps. If the cops get tasers (which you say is worse than being
filled full of lead, I presume), it's because of this 15yo, and me.
He an I are responsible, right? I think I'm getting the hang of this
"quality" thingie...

Was that the one with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman being nice to the
idigenous people?

But being used for target practice by three or four Glocks is OK, huh?

So, you're a nice obedient little pleb who... Good for YOU !!!

Why? I don't do non-sequiturs... (At least I try not to...)

Wanna know what the difference (in power) is between a volley from a
bunch of Glocks and a bunch of my words, is, Peter?

Clue: Google this string: sticks+stones +bones +idioms

Speaking of "quality", Peter... Have you read Zen abd the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance ?


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Given the number of people who have been killed by a single taser hit,
imagine the outcome if they got hit with four? Don't kid yourself that
tasers are non-lethal. Given that guns are a last resort, but tasers are
being promoted as a first resort, that makes tasers the far more
dangerous weapon IMHO, since it will be used more readily and more
often. Doesn't that concern you?

-- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to --

 

Yes, I agree with where both you and Peter are trying to take the
discussion, but that is a non-sequitur to the one we've been having,
and if I so much as answer your question, the Prime Idiot of Ozmoto,
IK, will be in here like a flash, accusing me of having wandered off
topic. He's got a PHD in Logic, you know...

Now if you want to start a new thread on that topic, I'd be only too
happy to try to contribute my usual, positive, polite, well reasoned
repartee...

Don't you think I've livened up an otherwise dead newsgroup? And do i
get any thanks for this? NO FUCKING WAY, YERRONNER !!!

Pearls and swine come to mind...

Do you know anything about "quality", BS ? I might need a bit of a
hand with that...


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Gee, thanks, Big. Wanna go back through the archives, for, say six
months, and get some facts about...

[1] What percentage of all off-topic threads were initiated by me.

[2] What percentage all off-topic omments in on-topic threads were
made by me.

[3] THEN get back to me, armed with these facts and an explanation
for why you chose to single me out about this, ya fucken humourless
git.

And I see you've still got your nose out of joint about *that other*
matter and you continue to smear me with your distorted "perception".

To pararphrase IK, go kill yourself.

Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Now you're just trying to trick me into making more OT comments to
help Iain's scurrilous tactics.

Shandy, thanks...

Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Thank you Dr Freud...

That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger (they say).

I see you still don't get it.

I was paraphrasing what you said. If there's anything thick about it,
then that's your problem.

And that has nothing to do with the topic of the debate about the
justice or otherwise of gunning down of the kid.


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

An all-in orgy

 

Pale Ale's close enough...

 

Oh... OK then...


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Hey, dickfor,that I livened up this newsgroup is evidenced by the
increased traffic. If others shared your distaste for off topic
content, then these threads would be stillborn. However, that's
where the traffic has been this last week, and therefore that's where
the interest was.

Your whinging about it is just a control-freak tantrum. Wannabe
moderator...

Wanna offset this heinous imbalace of off-topicness? D'oh... post
some on-topic stuff...

Oooer...So much love in the room! Sadly, I avoid Synny like the
plague.


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

Ta very muchly...

 

Credit where credt's due...

Well, whenever you're up this way... The pub on the left just after
the Leura roundabout (when going up-and-over)?

I like getting bashed there... It's the closest pub to Katoomba
hospital emergency. We could even have the ambo on standby...
(Hi IK... go kill yourself ya fuckwit)


Onya bike...

Gerry

 

<brightly> Hey BigI - I 've livened up an otherwise <trails off> Err
actually no I didn't <slinks away>

JL
As you were

 

<happy dance> Success !! Woohoo !

JL
(We should actually have an ausmoto ride and lunch or some such
sometime soon - it's been years since the last one)

 

Will you be on a bike? Murwillumbah-> Numinbah Valley->Advancetown ->
Nerang (and perhaps Beechmont or Mt Tamborine) is a nice lttle ride
and I'm looking to resume the sadly-interrupted honeymoon with my
Triumph.