The UK's new Counter terrorism campaign
 

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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 → More by this author
Published Thursday 6th March 2008 13:19 GMT


The Metropolitan Police have launched an intensive media onslaught 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/i...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 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...orist_hotline/

Also known as the "Type I error" campaign..

For my take on The War on Terror read: Kingmaker!!

Find out the real scoop and fhelp finance a few beers for a fellow Subsimer :cool:

Argh its like a virus! It's everywhere! ;):rotfl:

It's even in the top 45 list of books at Amazon !!!! AAAAAAAA !!!!:D

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How can you tell the difference between someone who keeps reccomending that you buy the book "Kingmaker" and a terrorist who's secretly selling bombs that look like the book "Kingmaker" ? The answer is.. you don't have to. Call the hotline now !
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He's got to be inflating the figures somehow!:damn:

Back to topic! I'm sure that the comedians of England are thinking up new ways to send up this lastest campain!:D

"Hello, is that the Anti-Terrorist Hotline?"

"Yes."

"I would like to report a dodgy neighbor near me."

Bah, bah, bah and so on.

Six months latter a knock at the door.

"Hello sir, we are the police here to look in to your phone call you made."

"That was six months ago."

"We came fast as we could once we got though the red tape and a mountain of paper work."

:huh: :damn: :nope: