Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Eyewitness Susan Ballantyne, from Riverside, who is 100 yards from the scene and watching the drama unfold from an upstairs window in her house, said: "Everyone's going on like I should be frightened but it's very exciting. It's normally boring around here. First I see the ginger lad lying around for 2 hours with a shotgun in his mouth, and then I see Gazza being sick on my garden gnome. This is absolutely immense."

Gazza's had problems with hie elf...

Where's that from? Xp

Susan Ballantyne both sad and lolworthy in the space of a sentence.

I wonder if the guy has run out of bullets.

who is this awful woman on sky news?

Kay Burley? (I have finally switched off)

It is her

"It's a standoff. It's dramatic. It's live, here on Sky News".

"it's a standoff, it's dramatic, it's live on Sky News" and it's gone to adverts for the first time in ages.
It's just on in the background though, im listening to music. I don't expect anything to happen tbh. When it does there wont be any pictures or anything. So it's anything but exciting.

haha xpost

She is pretty much the reason I hardly ever watch Sky News (except for tonight because (1) it was more batshit roffleworthy and (2) she wasn't on).

That and the fact that it's a terrible terrible channel.

ha brilliant. did you hear her ask the reporter "why are they waiting?!" like she wishes they'd just go "ah fuck it let's do him and fuck off home".

haha yeah

really ailsa? I much prefer sky news to bbc 24

Its not like its fox news or anything

"a single tomato was stolen". that shouldn't be funny, and i know this is really serious n all, but, wow!

imagine being on the run for a week, coming out of hiding in a drain, breaking into a greenhouse, and only finding 1 fucking tomato?

Im amazed that they took a day to investigate the old lady who said he saw him burgling her kitchen. They obviously thought "oh shes 89, shes making it up" and hes been in a drain a 100 yards away for a good few days since.
I wonder if they checked the drain before he hid in it, or if they didnt check it at all.

no sign of gazza in the early editions of the papers
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Newspaper-Front-Pages-For-Saturday-July-10-2010/Media-Gallery/201007215662465?lpos=UK_News_Left_Promo_Region_0&lid=GALLERY_15662465_Newspaper_Front_Pages_For_Saturday%2C_July_10%2C_2010

I managed to miss the tornado fighter plane fitted with an infra-red device that was apparently flying about up here...for some reason..or something.

something

happening

ohh a shots been fired

eek!

fucking hell this is bizarre.

wonder if he's shot himself

they seem to think its over anyway

"probably the shot from the shot gun".

Well, surely if he'd fired a shot at someone else, one of the 8 zillion armed cops would have fired back. One shot = someone's shot him, or he's shot himself, surely.

Fucking hell, Kay Burley's annoying. BBC News haven't noticed this shot yet.

Pretty sure he will have shot himself, since as you say, if he aimed his gun at the police , there would have been multiple shots

police jumped on him?

an eyewitness said they crowded around him and jumped on him

maybe the shot just fired as they jumped him and he's not dead?

why on earth would they jump him, if he had a gun. that doesn't make much good sense.

or they crowded round after he shot himself?
fuck knows

they could have jumped him if he had fallen asleep?

I'm sure we'll find out in due course. If he's been jumped on, he's presumably at least in custody, so game over anyway. I fucking hate myself for watching Sky News, btw.

I'd be surprised if they snuck up on him and killed him with a single shot unless he heard them went to fire and one shot him I suppose.

imagine it was just a police gun that fired up in the air by mistake

I think an announcement is coming.

Susan Ballantyne now ace reporter for the Beeb, who seem to have caught up. She appears not to have any idea what's going on. Everything she's said so far has started "I don't really know", so basically knows as much as the budding CSI dudes all over the internetz.

he could have just fired a shot in the air with one of his guns for all we know when he saw them sneaking up.

lol bbc report two gun shots

imagine it was just a police gun that fired up in the air by mistake

"me and the boys were celebrating on a job well done..." -chief wiggum

whatever's happened the standoff must be over

"for all we know"

ding ding ding. Ambulance on way, Beeb reporting two shots fired, appears to be over one way or the other. This speculation is doing my nut in, I'm off to my bed.

Oh, statement. He's suffered a gunshot wound. On way to hospital.

Oh, not on way to hospital. Being treated. That's the police statement, btw. has been apprehended. Good.

just been announced on sky as i read ailsa's post