Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

ha ha ha.
if they already have your money, good luck.

Beeb now talking to man in shop in village. They are so determined to get some action on this after missing out on the Cumbrian one.

Oh man, just watched about an hour of Skynews on this - or rather it was playing in the background - and it's beyond parody. They are not reporting on any other news in anything other than passing comments, and there are more Sky staff up there than Northumbrian police, and you know they are all desperate for this Moat character to go out, all guns blazing, in a spectacular bloodbath. But there's actually next to no news to report, so Kay Burley is walking around looking for locals to put the willies up - at one point she actually said, with her usual tact and understatement, "We're here to see how the locals are coping with having a madman on the loose". Various other reporters meanwhile, are wandering aimlessly around various disused farm buildings and outhouses and there are so many helicopters in the air it's like 'Nam. Ideal scenario is for Moat to turn up 500 miles away from any Sky News reporter and hand himself meekly in - perhaps to the commissionaires at BBC Television Centre.

Yep, media coverage has been amazing. "Dog there, not sure if it's a police dog or one of the locals, probably one of the park managers' in fact.'

'We can see two anglers there - walking along almost as if nothing was happening. Maybe they'll help the police with their enquiries"

Tom D correct - more Sky news staff up there than in the studio. Fuck it, this is their X-Factor.

Handy cut out and keep guide to "pyscho commando".
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01081/SNN0804GX3-280_1081387a.jpg

Nice bit of photoshop there, though.

Scary fucker as a baby, too:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/07/article-1292867-0A5AFE94000005DC-277_233x423.jpg

All he really needs to do to evade the police is sit about, watch Sky News, and go wherever they aren't.

haaa

Can't help feeling that growing up in the North East with a name like Raoul and having ginger hair at the same time must be contributory factors

Mr Stobbart said: "Raoul, son, please this has to stop. We don't want anyone else hurt, nee more son."

Given that he hasn't actually shot anyone for several days despite threatening to, or indeed been seen anywhere, I suspect he will be found somewhere remote having killed himself.

... rather than face Kay Burley

xp Would guess this is why the helicopters fitted with heat-sensing cameras aren't finding him.

Sky have helicopters fitted with heat-sensing cameras?

Maybe he got eaten by urban foxes

Given that he hasn't actually shot anyone for several days despite threatening to, or indeed been seen anywhere, I suspect he will be found somewhere remote having killed himself.

Yeah this thought suddenly occurred to me last night.

He's gone to a lot of effort just to kill himself. I guess it depends on what happens when the 'roids wear off (if and when they do, I have no idea how these things work). More likely drink some dodgy water and get sick. This talk of him being a survival expert seems like macho bs. He's already had a larg-ish fire (luckily for him not spotted by the police but still seen by a farmer "billowing" smoke) and lost his tent. I am confident this will all be over by the end of the w/end one way or another (and I'm not just sayin that because I've paid a not inconsiderable amount for a holiday in the area obviously).

xps - ha! heat seeking helicoptors and they still didn't see the fire?

http://www.midfielddynamo.com/images/people/england/viz_bacondad_100x120.png

Mr Stobbart said: "Raoul, son, please this has to stop. We don't want anyone else hurt, nee more son."

on the bbc site now, stating that police say that Moat is now a danger to the public. i can't decide whether this statement is a good or bad idea.

meanwhile..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10552410.stm

xp

The best thing about that police statement was the way they refused to elaborate. Just left it at that.

"...and on that bombshell."

They've closed Cragside now, shit just got real.

I was looking at an article about Mr Moat just now where it said he was suspected of scrumping for tomatoes. As an American, the verb was unknown to me so I went to dictionary.com to look it up.

Slang Dictionary

scrump definition
(skrəmp)

tv. & in.
to copulate (with) someone. (Usually objectionable.) : The movie showed a scene of some woman scrumping her lover.

I thought, I've heard of bobbing for apples but scrumping for tomatoes?! I love tomatoes as much as the next guy but those had better be some really amazing tomatoes. Also, 'usually objectionable'??!!

Then I googled it...

which bbc radio station is the best for listening to local coverage?

Seems like BBC Cumbria is covering it now.

theyve found him, he is holding a gun to his head, police are negotiating with him.

"PLEASE...GO AHEAD...AND...SHOOT"

Sky really need a copy of drudgesiren.gif to put up on screen at times like these.

for people not in the UK, this link is live bbc news coverage

http://atdhe.net/watch-bbc-news.php

unbelievable. 24 rolling news cycles have hit their lowest ebb.

Sky News current source for this info: some lassie talking on the phone to her mum who's watching it happen. Presumably mum would rather be using her phone to film it to whack up on YouTube.

BBC not quite so OMG DRAMA. Yet.

BBC stomping all over Sky; Sopel swiped our Paula's phone and started quizzing her mam, live from Auntie Dot's.

Paula live on sky: "Those guys have got my mobile!"

Awes. I need two tellies for this.

this is the most retarded shit ever

You just have to Raoul w/it

I loved the BBC reporter just now:
(excitedly) "Oh there's a police van coming through!!!"
<van passes, it has "DOG SECTION" on the back>
(disappointedly) "Oh..."

holy fuck. twittards have been asking where the sky copter is at.

so the news anchor says, well, there's an air exclusion zone: if he had a tv [OR A PHONE] he would be able to work out where the police were.

but they've been showing umpteen shots of the police's positions and giving all kinds of potentially information out.

anchor, more like wanker.

Surely he knows where the police are because they're ALL AROUND HIM POINTING GUNS AT HIM.

isn't he holding a gun to his own head? what's the point of aiming a gun at someone doing such a thing?!

In case they point the gun at someone else?

They're ready to kill him if he doesn't surrender, Thermo. They're trying to negotiate his surrender.

I mean, ready to kill him if he makes a move on the police.

lol a witness says he had jeans on with "96" on them.

the hacks are getting bused 10 miles out

all media is to be moved 10 miles away from the incident as "their presence is interfering with the situation"

I'm sure they're jotting down some phone numbers to keep up to date via the medium of the local neighbourhood watch.

Sky anchor said they would 'do their best to work around' it, they're obviously still really hoping to capture a violent bloodbath, bastards.

"Tell Jon what she said"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10582465.stm

Bizaare behaviour from the surrounding hacks.

http://twitter.com/frasereC4

Go here, shit just got SECTIONABLE.

wtf