Raoul Moat/John Rambo

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. 🙂

lol

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*

Sorry to ask, but was this ^^ a cadet thing?

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, and 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.

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