
It's somewhat ironic that at about the time I was handling lead-firing projectile weapons for the first time, getting a feel for their responsible use and causing a great deal of distress to leftover food packaging somewhere in the woods in Virginia, a new rampage was flaring up in sleepy old Britain and bringing the debate about owning guns (which we don't really have) up once again. To quickly summarize the situation, Raoul Moat, who apparently had 200% more head than face, was released from prison and shot three people (then may or may not have robbed a fish and chip shop). After a week-long search involving what would seem to be the majority of the British police force, he finally did himself in during a standoff after hearing that Paul Gascoigne was on his way to the scene. Despite the fairly obvious conclusion that this person was fairly undesirable, a Facebook page was set up after his death under the title "RIP Raoul Moat You Legend!", and a man from the radio got in contact with its creator to find out... why. Witness the stupidity here If you can stand to get through more than a couple of minutes of that, then I think you'll agree that even if you're normally perfectly liberal, it's enough to get you to instantly want to drop all government benefit and make it illegal to be from Burnsley. 2010-07-23 22:56:00 21 comments |