[Closed] Raoul Moat/John Rambo

In regard to the media coverage, The Daily Mash nails it again:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/any-chance-you-could-do-kay-burley?-rothbury-asks-armed-police-201007072887/

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That sign in the bakers window says "All our sandwiches are freshly made to order", yet the picture shows a roll, not a sandwich. ❓

I'm braking cover just for Singletrackworld Ginger from the North East and with the same French spelling and her's me thinking I was the only one in the North East.

I guess the years of school yard names of towel, trowel etc may have made him snap, although my all time favourite was at secondary schoo, the legendary Raoul, Raoul sanitary towel.....

LOL - the 'other' R appears. You making an appearance oop north any time soon?

Apparently police have been stationed at schools to reassure parents. Isn't that a bit silly considering he has known grieviences with the police?

The red tops report that police left machine-gun ammo in a child's bedroom.

The Graun claims that he was spotted last night in Rothbury, but disappeared without trace.

The Sun excitedly reports an RAF tornado being scrambled in the hunt (apparently for its thermal imaging capability).

The Daily Star's headline is "No-one Is Safe From Gun Nut".

I wouldn't be so sure about that

You seem to be forgetting this little incident..

And this one..

Anyhow, if the SAS don't do the shooting 'the local fire arms boys' (aka CO19) need the SAS there to point out what to shoot at:

I'm not sure what your point is, Stockwell was a terrorist incident and I am not surprised that special forces may have been involved. Also just because someone dons a black balaclava it doesn't make them a member of the SAS. Something some of you bedroom cowboys would do well to remember.

Some "Gun Nuts" and other assorted components, earlier today

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20. hammer spring strut nut

No. 20 does look as if it has quite sharp edges...

I reckon he's round at his mam's, having a nice sausage stottie and a bottle of dog.

yeah, and no. 35 could have your eye out if you weren't careful

I had no idea guns were so dangerous

just because someone dons a black balaclava it doesn't make them a member of the SAS.

*digs out the receipt for the army/navy store*

round at his mam's, having a nice sausage stottie

uh-oh, NOW the daily sport'll be interested - incest you say ?

What is a [i]bedroom cowboy[/i] in this context BTW? For my general education? 🙂

LOL at davidrussell.

It's like a [i]keyboard warrior[/i] but wearing a hat and chaps. HTH

But not a balaclava?

Wearing a balaclava would make you a bedroom bank robber 🙂

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those SAS boys do like their prank calls though.

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wow, the SAS hiring policy looks good.

warning, probably NSFW 🙂

i finally put a padlock on the shed last night 'just incase' he makes his way down to s.wales for an overnight stop

can't be too careful

loving that daily mash article
im surprised that skynews have called in some real dead hard experts to advise on the situation
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Can you imagine me going up to Rothbury at the moment and someone shouting see you in the pub Raoul ;0)

The Sun's "security adviser", Andy McNab, has added some words of wisdom to the effect that Moat cannot hide indefinitely, just for quite a long time.

I think I prefer the version of policing in which they try to arrest the mentally ill man without hurting him.

No shoot the ****t it's cheaper than 30 years in the nick and the country is skint

How do you know he is mentally ill ?

How do you know he is mentally ill ?

Please point out any officially sane person that shoots three people then goes on the run taunting the cops?

Plenty people in jail who have murdered more people than that and been declared 'sane'.

Please point out any officially sane person that shoots three people then goes on the run taunting the cops?

...with THAT haircut

There was fairly wide agreement (I do not know how well informed) that he took enough steroids to be fairly barking. Also, I tend to agree with Mat's reasoning that going on a shooting and camping rampage while writing absurdly long letters about how you're starting a war with Northumbria Police is probably not indicative of a very even keel. 🙂

That does not mean either that he isn't sane enough to be conviced of murder - you have to lack an idea of what you're doing for that, rather than be doing it for eye-poppingly deranged reasons.

you have to lack an idea of what you're doing for that, rather than be doing it for eye-poppingly deranged reasons.

Can I get some clarification on this? Ideally how crazy would I need to be to get away with it?

You don't get away with murder even if you are crazy - you go to a secure hospital which is not nearly as nice as it sounds.

Does anyone remember Barry Prudom?

His was the biggest armed man hunt in England - some 19 days worth I think in 1982.

He eventaully hid out 'round the corner from my Gran!

i heard he was shacked up with your gran actually

TandemJeremy - Member

You don't get away with murder even if you are crazy - you go to a secure hospital which is not nearly as nice as it sounds.

Exactly, being defined bonkers just determines which building they lock you up in..

Ideally how crazy would I need to be to get away with it?

As long as he puts his underpants on the head and sticks two pencils up his nose, that should be enough.

As long as he puts his underpants on the head and sticks two pencils up his nose, that should be enough.

Did you see his written note to the police?

Makes me think that he went to the same skool of illllittteerates as Kimbers.

I hope they catch him soon. BBC news is my home page and I'm sick of seeing his stupid narrow eyed mr potato head mug on the front page.

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kum on son you know we got your backs top legeng

the rozzers....they bummed ya missus. they drew first blood!!

this guy is a legend he said da only way police are gonna get him if they kill him.. hes go 2 straps.. da guy is campin out livin of da land da guy is ****d! i fink police are scared of him 🙂

This *ing goverment sends troops out to kill the 'enemy' even though the 'enemy' has done nothing to them and that's fine! murder women, murder children! Yet Raoul endured constant abuse from pigs and shot one, rightly so but he is being branded a psycho, a bad man and they are ...doing everything to catch him. UNBELIEVABLE!

i pledge £50.00 to his defence or funeral whichever comes first.

Raoul Moat - A LIVING LEGEND! IF U SEE HIM, HELP HIM, DON'T GRASS HIM UP! REMEMBER HE'S GIVEN HIS LIFE NOT JUST FOR HIMSELF BUT FOR EVERYONE THE FILTH HAVE EVER BULLIED AND EVER WILL BULLY.

Facebook is home to some very very special people....

I wonder where one finds them in real life. Sitting in my office, while there's some amused bafflement at the police's travails, and hilarity at the media circus, even a bit of grudging admiration for the bloke's toughness there is absolutely no-one who has lost sight of the central point - that he is a murderous lunatic.

Where would I have to go to find people who reckoned he was a Robin Hood for our times?

Texas or Yates Wine Lodge during happy hour

The cynic in me wonders if the police's statement that Moat has theatened the wider public (but won't say what he said) Is simply spin/a big lie designed to instill fear & counter empathy among people who see him as some sort of flawed establish-bashing hero.

Why would he do a 180 on his "the public need not fear me" line? I mean he's in enough trouble 🙄

I fink he's grate

I'm leaving scraps of food out in case he comes our way and, you know what ? - yeh, every morning they're gone

haven't found a phone or owt yet, but he's been doing funny little poos on the patio

I love the "knowing" comments from all the "ex SAS/SBS" members of STW...

I'm not ex SAS, but I do know a few blokes who are still serving there and in Poole for that matter. However, I have soldiered at a pretty well respected level.
See Matt, some of us actually haven't always lived comfortable, priviliged lives with the luck of being put into business and bought nice cars by our parents.

Lol at Yates Wine Lodge...

I mean, this exchange is bonkers (to me). It can only possibly come from people whose idea of what goes on in the world is totally different to mine, either because they do radically different things or have completely different lives. I find "the police" as a mass slightly baffling, but individual officers perfectly pleasant. What must your life/mind be like that given the choice you plump for the explanation of events provided by the man who just got out of prison, got hold of a gun and shot three people before disappearing into the hills sporting a mohican?

All u pigs monitoring this and other pages, GO * YOURSELVES U SCUM BASTARDS! Ur all scum of the earth and deserve to die. U abuse ur power and bully people and live to destroy their lives but when the person has enough and fights back, u don't like it! Raoul wanted to get on with his life but u wouldn't let him, u triggered this, for every action comes a reaction! u *ing bullied him, he shot ane of the bullies! GOOD!

You hit the nail on the head their mate, i cant believe the amount of people just takin the pure piss!

Yeah i know mate, mad aint it, yet when a little kid gets abused they do **** all! Y cant they understand that if u bully someone u get what u deserve? they think just cos their pigs they can take the piss, scum!

Chuckling at scaredypants. 🙂

I'm afraid I'm a bit sceptical about the "wider public" thing too. I can't help thinking the flank they're covering though is the criticism that they wouldn't put this much effort into hunting someone who was only interested in killing people who weren't policemen. I hope we're being very uncharitable and they aren't just winding up the good people of Rothbury. 🙂

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Jesus that Facebook group is a bit scary!

I wonder at what point publicly cheering on a murderer becomes "Incitement to violence"?

i hope they dont find him for another 11weeks...better than Big Brother this ! working title 'manhunt' an new show for C4 2011

in some of the later pictures he has the same looks as soap mc tavish from mw2 :O

I have a wee bit experience doing tactical exercise with army, who ever said the sas are only for war and homeland security surely this falls under the later?

Its been so tempting to phone the fuzz and say

'fly me up there, give me a unit of sas, a police spotter helicopter and 26 packets of wine gums and he'll be yours in 48 hours, dead or alive'

fourcrossjohn - leisure attendant and student?? what experience will you bring into the situation? set up a badminton net to catch him?

you should make the phone call, I'm sure they're crying out for people with your level of ability

>Interests
> MTB, Windsurfing, Drinking, Ps3

Na, he's done the whole scenario on PS3 so it's easy.

that comment was obviously a joke when i mentioned the wine gums...

I have done tactical ex with the princes of wales royal regiment whilst doing my army proficiency certificate 3* on Salisbury plain westdown camp and castle martin training ground in Pembroke.

I have my 100 2nd class shot on the sa80 and the same on a clay pigeon range. How ever like every one else who is not specifically trained in search and tracking I would not have the foggiest of where he is going or gone.

But a chinooke filled to the brim with sas landing and doing patrols with door gunners and a few police spotter planes and choppers would move things on nicley.

tactical ex with the princes of wales royal regiment whilst doing my army proficiency certificate 3*

This guy is one step ahead, i see they have found his phones, he knows they are homing beacons to people who have the right kit so he may have left them sometime ago. I figure this will end messy but you can be sure the net is closing in, he cannot wander far he will stand out like bull dogs gonads when he comes out of the woods so his options are limited.

I suspect the Military are involved 😉

yes back hander it was a cadet 'thing'

how ever it consisted of 3 day tac ex and various ambush and re org scenarios

But a chinooke filled to the brim with sas landing and doing patrols with door gunners and a few police spotter planes and choppers would move things on nicley.

genius, why have they not done this!

probably as this isnt a sane persons answer to the situation....

Ah. I wondered what the **** an army proficiency certificate was.
I've never worked with PWRR but did once partake in a mass brawl with them in weymouth once. Happy days.
And, as said earlier this does not require SF. Any regular army unit with a wagtail team could find this bloke I reckon.

fourcrossjohn - Member
But a chinooke filled to the brim with sas landing and doing patrols with door gunners and a few police spotter planes and choppers would move things on nicley.

It's one Geordie charver, not the South Armagh Brigade.

yeah its calledthe apc

recruit - basic skills

pass out whee you get the berret and associated cap badge

1* improve and increase on recruit stuff

2* get first rank and more skills and lessons

3* cpl

4* sgt

master cadet staff sergeant/ colour sgt, wo1, wo2, under officer

as each level goes up the lessons become more in depth and responsibility greater. by the time you get to 3* you will have fired

l98a1/ sa80
.22 rifle
(lsw before the ta took theirs back from our company)
12 gauge shot gun
target rifle ( if selected for shooting comps)

i dave

various coppers and sharp shooters havnt cut it yet to catch him, so they should start thinking abit more, at least call in some ta units to do some standard recci patrols

What tyres for Rothbury?

Ah, this thread is golden. Excellent pre repast reading.

He will be found hiding inside a bed at his uncles house in Dewsbury, his mum's in on it... They got the idea from shameless, there after the £10k reward 😯

how ever it consisted of 3 day tac ex and various ambush and re org scenarios

Get yourself up there man - they are crying out for experienced personnel like you. You can give them a quick rub down with a damp flannel when they come back all sweaty from the search. You're used to living under bridges by streams, aren't you, so you are the ideal man for the job?

So they are now look ing at Cragside House and Gardens for him. On the National Trust website is says attractions at Cragside include

.. in the formal garden, is the Orchard House, which still produces fresh fruit. The lakeside walks, adventure play area and labyrinth are all good..

Bloody perfect hiding place. Fresh food, adventure playground and a labyrinth to hide in. He will be there for years!!!

😆

theres some great cheeky trails in Cragside I've heard. never ridden them though.
Raoul sounds like hes getting in his final rides. thrunton, cragside, not for from alwinton...

Cheeky trails, [i]and[/i] the chance of cashing in on the reward if you catch Raoul in your lights! (How fast would you pedal if you did see him!)

its all kicking off now by the looks of it.

it looks like hes been holed up 2 minutes walk from the town centre, good work from the police!

hes got a gun to his head, he IS Big Vern!

stay inside and lock your doors

Forget the SAS you need DOG.
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DOG would not only catch him, he'd introduce him to god too

and get him off the crtstal meth!

its literally 100 yards across river from where his car was found.

Hope nobody is hurt other than him.

bbc news now , its all kicking off