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Interesting interpretation of "reasonable force".

Reminds me of the outrage four years ago when Chinese security men did the same thing. Awful thing when those undemocratic thugs do things. Quite a different thing when our chaps do it to protect us all from nasty foreign terrorists.

I'm not so worried about the nasty foreign ones. It's the homegrown chaps (and chapesses) who worry me most.

At least you know where you stand with the foreigners.

At least you know where you stand with the foreigners.

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Google Maps has turned on route finding/directions for cyclists for the UK, data provided by Sutrans.

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/google-maps-bicycling-route-finding-arrives-in-uk/013336

Google Maps has turned on route finding/directions for cyclists for the UK, data provided by Sutrans.

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/google-maps-bicycling-route-finding-arrives-in-uk/013336

Just after i spent the weekend using google maps to fine tune a jogle route! Bugger.

It's only a kid on his bmx.Makes you wonder what his reaction would be if someone walked up to him,opened their coat and showed their torso strapped with semtex.

I am sure it would have looked something like this;

Oh for pity's sake: there's a security cordon all around which people are told not to cross.

What if I decide there is a security cordon around me that no one can cross. I can make a clear sign around my neck and write a letter to the council in advance. Then run along major roads and popular pedestrian areas wholloping anyone that comes close.

What if I decide there is a security cordon around me that no one can cross.

It would confirm many people's suspicions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172120/From-McDonalds-big-yellow-M-large-firm-featuring-Isaac-Newton-iconic-brands-changed-years.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172120/From-McDonalds-big-yellow-M-large-firm-featuring-Isaac-Newton-iconic-brands-changed-years.html

mozilla firefox had a duck as the logo? wtf lool!

phoenix

Crispy Duck ?

Oh for pity's sake: there's a security cordon all around which people are told not to cross. The kid decides to do so, gets pulled off his bike and is then let go. What did he expect? It's the Olympics, guess what, none of the security staff are going to have a sense of humour about anything.

Yeah. The relay was invented by Hermann Goring's 1936 Olympics, so the security are keeping a wonderful tradition alive.

True, it's important to keep a sense of perspective.

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"Although there was no disruption to the relay, we'd like to remind people not to enter the security bubble, this is for their own safety"

Obviously.

To be fair they are there to deal with anything that could happen, and their rationale would be something along the lines of: zero tolerance is the only effective means of managing the risk. In their heads their jogging through no man's land with an enemy round every corner, while everyone else is just bored and going "yay!".

To be fair they are there to deal with anything that could happen, and their rationale would be something along the lines of: zero tolerance is the only effective means of managing the risk. In their heads their jogging through no man's land with an enemy round every corner, while everyone else is just bored and going "yay!".

Great we have a psychotic police force.

It's like a story I heard Bill Burr, a comedian, tell at one of his shows about his dog. He gets a pitbull from a dog's home. After a while he has to take it to a dog psychologist because it keeps tryign to attack strangers. The Psychologist asks him to describe his whole routine with the dog and Bill explains how he races her to the house and wrestles her before he takes her out. The doc says the dog thinks he's challenging it for territory, amping her up and preparing her for battle. Then he's nervous while walking her which she senses and attacks anyone she sees. He's just strolling, but in her head she feels like she's walking out to the final of the superbowl screaming "THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR" in her head.

Those security people are like the pitbull. They spend all day watching videos of terrorist attacks on the internet, bashing their heads against the wall and shadow boxing, then when they see a 9 year old who can't ride a bike properly they clothes line him and swing him round by his neck.

Only the bad ones that is.

Obviously if any of them are on here I'd like to commend them on their good work

Good work?

When I watched the video I could not help but think how ridiculous the whole thing is, not just the security personal's panic response, but the procession itself, and the crowd that watched it.

The whole concept of the torch relay is such bollocks.

It's like a story I heard Bill Burr, a comedian, tell at one of his shows about his dog. He gets a pitbull from a dog's home. After a while he has to take it to a dog psychologist because it keeps tryign to attack strangers. The Psychologist asks him to describe his whole routine with the dog and Bill explains how he races her to the house and wrestles her before he takes her out. The doc says the dog thinks he's challenging it for territory, amping her up and preparing her for battle. Then he's nervous while walking her which she senses and attacks anyone she sees. He's just strolling, but in her head she feels like she's walking out to the final of the superbowl screaming "THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR" in her head.

Those security people are like the pitbull. They spend all day watching videos of terrorist attacks on the internet, bashing their heads against the wall and shadow boxing, then when they see a 9 year old who can't ride a bike properly they clothes line him and swing him round by his neck.
That goes for the security services in general.

And there's going to be an additional 3,500 security staff shipped in that are trained professional soldiers? What could possibly go wrong with that.

That goes for the security services in general.

And there's going to be an additional 3,500 security staff shipped in that are trained professional soldiers? What could possibly go wrong with that.

Nothing at all especially when you consider many will be returning from a war zone and almost certainly won't be suffering any psychological damage or anything...

Ha! Funny you should say that. Jake Brown had some interesting conversations with them at the rehersals on Wednesday night. Apparently the living conditions are better in Iraq than what they've been given here.

That goes for the security services in general.

And there's going to be an additional 3,500 security staff shipped in that are trained professional soldiers? What could possibly go wrong with that.

But they are for the alien invasion, aren't they?

But they are for the alien invasion, aren't they?
That would certainly explain the urban surface to air missile batteries being installed - I can't think of any other logical / rational (/ ethical) reason for them.