Pistol-packin' mamas: Fatima Rupp and Holly Spedding
Posted on 05/19/2007 8:06:30 AM PDT by Stoat
As gunfights go, it was something of an unequal contest.
On one side were dozens of armed police officers assisted by dogs, with helicopters hovering over head.
On the other were two teenage girls in cowboy outfits, with one toy gun between them.
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Pistol-packin' mamas: Fatima Rupp and Holly Spedding
Not surprisingly, 19-year-olds Fatima Rupp and Holly Spedding surrendered without a fight in the stand-off outside a Tesco supermarket.
But they faced several hours in police cells before Miss Rupp was cautioned for possession of an imitation firearm and the pair were released.
"We were petrified when we stopped and they came screeching up and surrounded us," said Miss Stepping, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
"There were four jeeps, two vans full of dogs, armed police, helicopters and they were screaming, "Where's the gun?" Our gun was obviously a toy, but the guns the police pointed at us certainly weren't imitations. They were scary. I've never seen a real gun before, it was terrifying."
Miss Rupp added: "I completely froze and was too scared to move an inch in case they shot me. I had a gun pointing in my face."
The incident happened as the pair drove along the M62 after a Cowboys and Indians party at Chester University. Miss Rupp said: "Lorry drivers were pretending to shoot me with their fingers. So I pointed the toy gun back at them. Everyone was smiling and laughing. Some were even pretending to die and shouting 'Bang, bang!'."
An off-duty police officer failed to see the joke, reporting the girls for threatening motorists. Miss Rupp, who was in the passenger seat, said she realised something was wrong when she noticed six police cars on their tail.
The girls pulled off the motorway and into a supermarket car park in Brighouse
"We chose Tesco's car park to stop because there were lots of people around and we thought if they were armed they might be a bit more careful with all the public there," added Miss Rupp, a mother of two.
A police spokesman said: "When we receive reports of guns being pointed at people, we have a duty to take firm action and that means responding with armed officers.
"Imitation weapons are difficult to distinguish from the real thing, especially at distance."
The lights are down in Germany
and Germany is closed to me
different somehow this time.
The airport’s still, cold corridors
ring empty beats through hollow feet
that I find to be mine.
Different Germany.
History repeats somehow.
Different Germany.
Afraid to know you now.
And past my eyes with leathered gaze
stare clean-cut boys all dressed as men
in sharpened uniform.
Who turned the clock? (Moved on or back)
and what dark chill is gathering still
before the storm.
Out in the street a tableau double-glazed
with laughing girls whose fastened smiles
are clearly not meant for me.
Label it as "hate speech" and it's a done deal.
Thirty years ago such a concept would have been funny because it would have been thought of as a ludicrous fantasy by most.
Only those who don't keep up on current events would be laughing now.
That is the height of insanity! Your grandson needs to be homeschooled IMO.
The main difference now appears to be that the Cowboys are unarmed and are forced to cower in their tents as they are trampled by the dark hordes of Socialism.
I apologize for my inability to respond because of the sure ban from Free Republic that I would be subjected to :-)
During WWII Americans loaned personal weapons to the English for the purpose of giving the Nazis a really warm welcome if they had invaded.
Fascinating...I hadn't heard that before. See what a 'public school education' can omit? A wonderful sentiment, however and a testament to the strength of the people on both sides of the pond.
Can you imagine how much hate and discontent that would stir up today?
It would likely be welcomed by the older members of the civilian public but would be viewed as an act of war by their Government.
Is this happening here in the USA or in Great Britain? If it's in the USA, you MUST contact Sean Hannity's producer IMMEDIATELY, as this is absolute insanity and beyond even the ludicrous levels of limp-wristed PC that I have come to expect. This is worthy of national news exposure.
If it is in the UK, it's still silly and insane but not so far from what I've come to expect.
Some a built to have books written about them...
The sort of books that are kept behind the counter and you have to show I.D. to purchase.
“If I were to be made uneasy by, for example, an obviously hysterical and unhinged or violent driver on the freeway here in the USA, I would feel comfortable in exiting the freeway and driving to the nearest police station where I would feel safe and know that the proper protective actions would be taken.
It seems that in Great Britain, people wouldn’t necessarily feel the same trust and safety in going to the police. What a very sad and ominous commentary on society.”
You have a lot more trust in them than I do, for sure, what with their paramilitary training, lack of respect for private property and constitutional rights, and the degradation of those rights thanks to the WoD.
Perhaps you might considering limiting your erasures to those linked to prominent Socialists and those who voted for them :-)
Not Guilty!
Like American cops, they are a collection of saints and sinners. And like all humans they get very demoralized when told to say one thing and do another. Political correctness is rampant, even a way of life in the UK.
So most of them have found a middle ground, that being going out and finding some working slob who has a carpet cutter or some sharp pointy thing and arrest them.
They then get to spend the rest of the day in the station doing paperwork and avoid getting out in the rain.
Of course it gives them a chance to get a cup of tea and watch soccer on the telly. Overall, it's a miserable job, but pays relatively well, so .....
That’s quite a poignant poem, and entirely appropriate. Is it your own?
This could be an episode out of Ab Fab.
And therefore inculcating in these kids a pornographic fascination with weapons in all the wrong and unhealthy ways. Forbidden fruit is the sweetest, dontchaknow?
Meanwhile, islamic terrorists are blowing up subways. Of course, it’s a lot safer to send a few hundred cops to arrest a couple of chicks with a toy gun.
Reading of the force used to effect this arrest made me think that the British might actually have been underreacting to the threat. Then the suspects were described as harmless females in caricature cowgirl costume with pink plastic toy guns, and relief cascaded over me. You see, at first I thought that a school child might have used the word “gay” inappropriately.
The stoatmobile ? Good grief I’m buying midgrade in Chicago burbs and I top out at 70 ( but its a small tank ).
If these gas prices get much higher I’m going to have to switch to something that gets more than 10.5 mpg around town.
Maybe I’ll get a horse.
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