Thread: Im lost for words

Originally Posted by Woody

Sensible comment Dougie.

There are two issues here it seems.
1 It was necessary to have armed police.
2 One of the police made an error while carrying out his duties.

The issue is one of human error /carelessness.

But then so are most of the fatalities in hunting, and what are the courts going to the hapless perpetrators of those tragedies.

It's number 2 where I see the biggest problem; sure accidents happen (I know this), I saw somewhere the police don't call accidents "accidents" any more as it's harder to charge them when it's an accident (please don't quote me on this until I can find the information). In my trade I'm not allowed to have an accident / human error or carelessness and if I do someone is going to come down on my like a ton of bricks!
Sure hunting accidents happen all the time (to often), but when a highly trained AOS (not forgetting the A stands for Armed) has a f#*k up it seems to just be the nature of the beast. The AOS are getting called out for all sorts of shit these days because someone heard fireworks and thought it was gun shots Now I wouldn't like to be the one letting of the fireworks when 10 or so AOS turn up with loaded firearms all with there safety on.
IMO I think there should be a lot more cops having accidental shootings, would help take some pressure of the prisons (shit did I just say that).
I have a lot of time for the police and most seem bloody good people but it's the whole system that winds me the wrong way and unfortunately its the cops that cop the shit for it, not the ones higher up the food chain.