SUBMAN1
03-06-08, 10:27 AM
Funny!
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http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/campaign_ct_2008.htm
Has your shifty foreign neighbour got 16 mobes?
Call this number, sharpish
By Lester Haines (http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2008/03/06/anti_terrorist_hotline/) → More by this author (http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Lester%20Haines)
Published Thursday 6th March 2008 13:19 GMT
The Metropolitan Police have launched an intensive media onslaught (http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/campaign_ct_2008.htm) aimed at advising Londoners just what to do if their shifty-looking Arab next door neighbour is packing mulitiple mobes, trading SIMs with the men in black turbans, taking delivery of binary liquid explosives, photographing CCTV cameras, or generally acting in a manner likely to undermine the security of the state:
http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/images/2006/postcard_a.gif
http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/03/06/terrorism_poster.jpg
The above poster forms part of a package of awareness-raising measures also including radio ads, postcards, and stickers, all pointing to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
Fair enough - up to a point. The transcript of the radio ad, which features "an individual thinking out loud about concerns she has around some suspicious behaviour", explains:
Female Voice over:
How d’you tell the difference between someone just video-ing a crowded place and someone who’s checking it out for a terrorist attack?
How can you tell if someone’s buying unusual quantities of stuff for a good reason or if they’re planning to make a bomb?
What’s the difference between someone just hanging around and someone behaving suspiciously?
How can you tell if they’re a normal everyday person, or a terrorist?
Male voice over:
The answer is, you don’t have to.
That's right, just call the number and trained operatives will assess the threat, although we hope the threat-assessment criteria are rather more rigorous than they are in Stoke-on-Trent, where a garage mechanic recently enjoyed (http://www.subsim.com/2008/02/13/mp3_gun_swoop/) a spell in the cells after a member of the public mistook his MP3 player for a pistol.
And, of course, we're obliged to conclude with: "Hello, Anti-Terrorist Hotline? I've just seen a Brazilian bloke running down the Tube escalator. Can you send a team to shoot him or something?"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/06/anti_terrorist_hotline/
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http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/campaign_ct_2008.htm
Has your shifty foreign neighbour got 16 mobes?
Call this number, sharpish
By Lester Haines (http://forms.theregister.co.uk/mail_author/?story_url=/2008/03/06/anti_terrorist_hotline/) → More by this author (http://search.theregister.co.uk/?author=Lester%20Haines)
Published Thursday 6th March 2008 13:19 GMT
The Metropolitan Police have launched an intensive media onslaught (http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/campaign_ct_2008.htm) aimed at advising Londoners just what to do if their shifty-looking Arab next door neighbour is packing mulitiple mobes, trading SIMs with the men in black turbans, taking delivery of binary liquid explosives, photographing CCTV cameras, or generally acting in a manner likely to undermine the security of the state:
http://www.met.police.uk/campaigns/images/2006/postcard_a.gif
http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/03/06/terrorism_poster.jpg
The above poster forms part of a package of awareness-raising measures also including radio ads, postcards, and stickers, all pointing to the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
Fair enough - up to a point. The transcript of the radio ad, which features "an individual thinking out loud about concerns she has around some suspicious behaviour", explains:
Female Voice over:
How d’you tell the difference between someone just video-ing a crowded place and someone who’s checking it out for a terrorist attack?
How can you tell if someone’s buying unusual quantities of stuff for a good reason or if they’re planning to make a bomb?
What’s the difference between someone just hanging around and someone behaving suspiciously?
How can you tell if they’re a normal everyday person, or a terrorist?
Male voice over:
The answer is, you don’t have to.
That's right, just call the number and trained operatives will assess the threat, although we hope the threat-assessment criteria are rather more rigorous than they are in Stoke-on-Trent, where a garage mechanic recently enjoyed (http://www.subsim.com/2008/02/13/mp3_gun_swoop/) a spell in the cells after a member of the public mistook his MP3 player for a pistol.
And, of course, we're obliged to conclude with: "Hello, Anti-Terrorist Hotline? I've just seen a Brazilian bloke running down the Tube escalator. Can you send a team to shoot him or something?"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/06/anti_terrorist_hotline/