Police marksman inserted song lyrics into fatal shooting evidence
Police marksman inserted song lyrics into fatal shooting evidence
Apparently a copper has been suspended for inserting lyrics of songs into his evidence reports!
Oh for Christ’s sake! This is standard stuff for those who have to deal with some of the grottier aspects of society, especially those of us who tote guns!
It used to be standard fare at 2 star briefings in Southern Iraq for the briefer to be given challenges by his mates on seeing if he could get certain Song lyrics or song titles into a brief, often about what we had been doing to the Jaish al-Madhi, or even them to us! If the general spotted it you failed!
Your author St C can reliably report on a certain set of radio traffic that occurred over a battle-group radio net (time & location never to be repeated).
Call-signs have been changed to protect the innocent!
M21A this is 0E what is the visibility at your location
M21A I can see clearly ……. now the rain has gone
0E Roger! Can you see all obstacles in your way!?!
and so it went on!
This has been going on forever, and is a light-hearted way of getting pressure out of the system. The bloke was just doing what we’ve all been doing for years, and the PC brigade (literally!) seem about to hang him out to dry.
You’re right, St Crispin, it’s standard OP in many areas.
At the last conference I gave a speech at I collected on a bundle of bets from people wagering that I couldn’t slip, unnoticed and unremarked, chosen Rocky Horror Picture Show lines into my talk.
It was titled “RFC1918 Caching Security Issues” so it wasn’t a natural bundle of laughs. I earned my beer money that day. Other speakers were doing the same thing and I played the game of trying to spot their inserts too. Usually the giggling from their colleagues was the giveaway.
Okay, maybe not the time and the place by this chappie, but I wasn’t surprised in the least to hear about it.
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“RFC1918 Caching Security Issues” Wow that is a tough gig!
You noticed that I’ve not commented on our military marriage with the Cheese eating surrender monkeys.
I am still in shock. Is cameron really a tory? I thought they were the ones who were proud of our military history.
Tough? Certainly couldn’t play it for laughs.
I’ve made a decision to leave the French thing alone until after this live-bloggy thing tonight. I will wail tears of despair and disbelief tomorrow.
Glad someone else saw it like me, ASE. I’m not even sure, judging from the titles used, that it’s as described. I mean, the titles chosen are just the type of thing a firearms officer would say to a court.
Yes, you’ve got Enough’s Enough (Alice Cooper), Point Of No Return (Duran Duran), Line of Fire (Journey), Point of No Return (Phantom of the Opera), Lethal Weapon (Ice-T) and Finger on the Trigger (Donna Summer).
All perfectly reasonable phrases given the context.
And it turns out that he was told off for swearing too much in the witness box and retaliated with the line “and I stuck some song names in there too”. Sounds more like a one-liner in an argument used to wrong-foot the opponent…I use that technique myself all the time. And it’s just got out of hand.
Joining in late as usual – regret I don’t follow this blog with all the attention it deserves – but the central point is surely (as ASE says above) the time and place. I have (with johnny foreigner at international meetings) also joined in the game with book rather than song titles and great fun it is (I recommend ‘le rouge et le noir’ as one that can be got in almost anywhere). BUT in evidence at an inquest? Not a hanging offence or, arguably, a disciplinary matter at all but appallingly bad taste and – worse – very bad manners.
Just had a quick look at Martin Luther kings “I had a dream”speech and picked out 3 song titles with no oroblem. This is looking for crap where there is none!