Mr Stobbart said: "Raoul, son, please this has to stop. We don't want anyone else hurt, nee more son."
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
... rather than face Kay Burley
― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Would guess this is why the helicopters fitted with heat-sensing cameras aren't finding him.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Sky have helicopters fitted with heat-sensing cameras?
― Oracle Crackers (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe he got eaten by urban foxes
― Cooper Temple Paws (NickB), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah this thought suddenly occurred to me last night.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
xps - ha! heat seeking helicoptors and they still didn't see the fire?
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 8 July 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.midfielddynamo.com/images/people/england/viz_bacondad_100x120.png
― Psychic... Octopus... Another Mertesac (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
meanwhile..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10552410.stm
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 8 July 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 9 July 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Friday, 9 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
which bbc radio station is the best for listening to local coverage?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 9 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Seems like BBC Cumbria is covering it now.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
theyve found him, he is holding a gun to his head, police are negotiating with him.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"PLEASE...GO AHEAD...AND...SHOOT"
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Sky really need a copy of drudgesiren.gif to put up on screen at times like these.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
for people not in the UK, this link is live bbc news coverage
http://atdhe.net/watch-bbc-news.php
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
unbelievable. 24 rolling news cycles have hit their lowest ebb.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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!"
― stet, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Awes. I need two tellies for this.
― ailsa, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the most retarded shit ever
― D, dilly, dillies, dill, d-bombs (history mayne), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
You just have to Raoul w/it
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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..."
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― D, dilly, dillies, dill, d-bombs (history mayne), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Surely he knows where the police are because they're ALL AROUND HIM POINTING GUNS AT HIM.
― ailsa, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't he holding a gun to his own head? what's the point of aiming a gun at someone doing such a thing?!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
In case they point the gun at someone else?
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
They're ready to kill him if he doesn't surrender, Thermo. They're trying to negotiate his surrender.
― Grand amiral de la marine des licornes (Michael White), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the hacks are getting bused 10 miles out
― D, dilly, dillies, dill, d-bombs (history mayne), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
all media is to be moved 10 miles away from the incident as "their presence is interfering with the situation"
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure they're jotting down some phone numbers to keep up to date via the medium of the local neighbourhood watch.
― ailsa, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Sky anchor said they would 'do their best to work around' it, they're obviously still really hoping to capture a violent bloodbath, bastards.
― alananana (Mr Raif), Friday, 9 July 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
"Tell Jon what she said"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10582465.stm
Bizaare behaviour from the surrounding hacks.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 9 July 2010 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/frasereC4
Go here, shit just got SECTIONABLE.
― THIS BOOK EQUAL CONJOB (suzy), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i think gazza is coming on sky news now
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone's set up a Paula's Mum facebook page. People be odd.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paulas-Mum/122444821133955
― ailsa, Friday, 9 July 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
btw "Moaty I'm Here" is one of my favorite Nitzer Ebb songs
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
no, hes just turned up with food, lol
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Gazza: "I drove from Newcastle to Rothbury. I brought him a dressing gown, can of lager. I think I can help him through this"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 July 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, OK, this Gazza shit is bonkers.
― ailsa, Friday, 9 July 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Not a game of hide and sek as we know it.
http://www.channel4.com/news/media/2010/07/day09/09_raoul_moat_g_540.jpg
― THIS BOOK EQUAL CONJOB (suzy), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
you're not fucking kidding about gazza? you're not kidding?
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Friday, 9 July 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Well of course I might get shot but at least I'll get a bit of cash from getty images...http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/102754482.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF87892102A727B1636DE2E668C4FD4A5910FB19DA930809E350EFCFDFC14B2A66FD77A4
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 9 July 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link