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Drones at Gatwick

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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    I don't think anybody was naming them on the thread. The suggestions were what should happen to the culprits.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    McBobbin said:

    Scoham said:
    Hope those two shitrags get sued out of existence
    I hope they get hit hard. Shit thing to do to post their pictures on front page.
  • Couldn't make this up....
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Dazzler21 said:

    Defamation of character law suits anyone?

    Probably not unfortunately. Without reading the smallprint, The Mail's headline is posed as a question whilst the Express' says no more than 'suspect' which was true at the time of publishing (or at least some point immediately before). Our press can be complete aresholes at times, but they know full well what they're doing when they publish this type of stuff.

    I do wish there were curbs on reporting this sort of shit though, and I've thought for a long time that any retractions and corrections should have greater prominence that the original articles.
  • "Friends, colleagues and family of Mr Gait, who is a drone enthusiast, had insisted he could not be responsible for the incident as he had been at work throughout much of the disruption."

    Yet he was held for questioning for over 36 hours! Great police work.
  • Couldn't make this up....

    Luckily, you don't need to - the Mail and Express will do that
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021

    "Friends, colleagues and family of Mr Gait, who is a drone enthusiast, had insisted he could not be responsible for the incident as he had been at work throughout much of the disruption."

    Yet he was held for questioning for over 36 hours! Great police work.

    Being at work isn't necessarily an alibi. The drones could have been pre-programmed.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Good job they weren't exicuted
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    ....like the bloke in Iran for dealing in......bitumen
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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    IA said:
    lol ... back to the conspiracy theories.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,669
    iainment said:

    Just as well the tabloids aren't in charge of law and order.
    The innocent couple would have been hung drawn and quartered this morning.

    Have you read this thread? It's not just the papers jumping to conclusions and sentencing before any charges are even made.
    I think posters on here were suggesting what sort of punishment should be handed out to whoever done this.
    The tabloids on the other hand named and shamed two innocent people.
    That's how I see it anyway.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,144
    IA said:
    FFS!!

    and yet...

    "Tingley also said that police had recovered a damaged drone on the north perimeter of the airport."

    Plod might want to review their communication strategy here...
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035

    "Friends, colleagues and family of Mr Gait, who is a drone enthusiast, had insisted he could not be responsible for the incident as he had been at work throughout much of the disruption."

    Yet he was held for questioning for over 36 hours! Great police work.

    In the 70s and 80s they would probably have been subjected to a miscarriage of justice as the police, press, politicians and judiciary colluded to rush to "justice". We, and they, in particular are lucky that the system, although not perfect, has moved on. The press remain as unreformed reptiles.
  • "Friends, colleagues and family of Mr Gait, who is a drone enthusiast, had insisted he could not be responsible for the incident as he had been at work throughout much of the disruption."

    Yet he was held for questioning for over 36 hours! Great police work.

    In the 70s and 80s they would probably have been subjected to a miscarriage of justice as the police, press, politicians and judiciary colluded to rush to "justice". We, and they, in particular are lucky that the system, although not perfect, has moved on. The press remain as unreformed reptiles.
    I hope they sue the papers and use a good lawyer. Lucky they weren't Irish or Muslim.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    edited December 2018

    ....like the bloke in Iran for dealing in......bitumen

    Bitumen dealers deserve all they get.

    Posted with irony.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    #tarmacmatters
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948

    ....like the bloke in Iran for dealing in......bitumen

    Bitumen dealers deserve all they get.
    Should locked in the same room as Bitumen's brother, Red Tarmac, coz he's a cyclepath
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Ouch
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  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    Police in shock "we haven't got a clue what's going on" statement.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    we'll soon see cctv footage of two Russians walking around Crawley with a drone tucked under their arm and a remote sticking out their back pocket.
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Police don't have a clue. Security at the airport must've been terrible camera-wise.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    Haha bloody hell
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    edited December 2018
    stonemuse said:
    Did the police release their names? I hope the Mail is sued. They might have framed the headline as a question but they say that the pair are accused whereaa they were questioned which is very different.
  • "Friends, colleagues and family of Mr Gait, who is a drone enthusiast, had insisted he could not be responsible for the incident as he had been at work throughout much of the disruption."

    Yet he was held for questioning for over 36 hours! Great police work.

    In the 70s and 80s they would probably have been subjected to a miscarriage of justice as the police, press, politicians and judiciary colluded to rush to "justice". We, and they, in particular are lucky that the system, although not perfect, has moved on. The press remain as unreformed reptiles.
    I hope they sue the papers and use a good lawyer. Lucky they weren't Irish or Muslim.
    If they were Irish or Muslim, the press would have treaded more carefully.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,669
    There wasn't any drones.
    I hate conspiracy theories but this has fcuc all to do with some cock flying a drone
  • Suggestion in the police press statement that there is no certainty that there were ever any drones in the first place now: to me the whole thing sounds like it may have been a cover for a bigger security operation.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,669

    Suggestion in the police press statement that there is no certainty that there were ever any drones in the first place now: to me the whole thing sounds like it may have been a cover for a bigger security operation.

    This