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UK: Armed police swoop on fancy dress cowgirls with toy guns(Obvious toy = helo's, hours in jail)
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | May 18, 2007 | LIZ HULL

Posted on 05/19/2007 8:06:30 AM PDT by Stoat

Armed police swoop on fancy dress cowgirls with toy guns

By LIZ HULL - More by this author » Last updated at 21:42pm on 18th May 2007

  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."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; britain; greatbritain; law; lawenforcement; police; uk; unitedkingdom
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"There were four jeeps, two vans full of dogs, armed police, helicopters and they were screaming, "Where's the gun?"

If you're going to manufacture a toy gun, I'm not sure how much MORE like a toy it could possibly be made to look....white plastic, red barrel plug......

1 posted on 05/19/2007 8:06:34 AM PDT by Stoat
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To: Stoat

Obviously not their first rodeo.


2 posted on 05/19/2007 8:08:07 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: Stoat

Correction: Actually, that’s a PINK barrel plug now that I’ve looked more closely at the pic.


3 posted on 05/19/2007 8:08:07 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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meanwhile the muggings and robberies continue unabated. I’m sure the Brits feel safer knowing their protectors are taking care of these two.


4 posted on 05/19/2007 8:12:06 AM PDT by driftdiver
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This is nothing more than the police sending a message:conform completely to our socialist will,or we will make your life a hell on earth.Bet it worked too.


5 posted on 05/19/2007 8:13:12 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Stoat
Happiness is a warm gun.
(bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
6 posted on 05/19/2007 8:13:26 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: philman_36

/Beatles


7 posted on 05/19/2007 8:13:51 AM PDT by philman_36
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“An off-duty police officer failed to see the joke, reporting the girls for threatening motorists.”

Betcha a hundred bucks it was a woman or a homo.


8 posted on 05/19/2007 8:14:47 AM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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"I've never seen a real gun before, it was terrifying."

I find that statement to be "terrifying".

Vote for Rudy and we can all enjoy the benefits of an unarmed society serfdom.

9 posted on 05/19/2007 8:15:14 AM PDT by 2111USMC
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meanwhile the muggings and robberies continue unabated. I’m sure the Brits feel safer knowing their protectors are taking care of these two.

If the Comments posted after the article on the Daily Mail's page are any indication, you are certainly correct in that the consensus is one of amazement at the ludicrous and frightening overreaction.

10 posted on 05/19/2007 8:15:20 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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Those two do look kind of dangerous, but not because of their little plastic guns.


11 posted on 05/19/2007 8:16:18 AM PDT by seowulf
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An off-duty police officer failed to see the joke, reporting the girls for threatening motorists.

Meanwhile, undisturbed around the corner...


12 posted on 05/19/2007 8:21:25 AM PDT by TADSLOS (W.T. Sherman had it right.)
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This is nothing more than the police sending a message:conform completely to our socialist will,or we will make your life a hell on earth.Bet it worked too.

It certainly looks that way, doesn't it?  It's one thing to overreact because of reports of "a person pointing a gun at motorists" but it's another thing entirely to keep them in jail for HOURS, scare them silly and never apologize or admit that they've made a mistake.  The overreaction's damage was compounded by their refusal to offer the barest suggestion that they had done anything even slightly wrong.  Quite an ominous message it sends.

13 posted on 05/19/2007 8:32:04 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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Happiness is a warm gun.

They will be banning song lyrics that mention guns next.

14 posted on 05/19/2007 8:33:33 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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“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.”

The police spokesman is an idiot and a coward. People like him do not deserve freedom and will be enslaved eventially.


15 posted on 05/19/2007 8:37:34 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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“An off-duty police officer failed to see the joke, reporting the girls for threatening motorists.”

Betcha a hundred bucks it was a woman or a homo.

I won't take that bet....I need that hundred to fill up the tank of the stoatmobile and I would surely lose.

Another article that may be of interest:

Great Britain White men may wait three years to get into the Metropolitan Police

16 posted on 05/19/2007 8:39:43 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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Law enforcement in the UK is completely broken. They send a huge task force with guns and helicopters after two girls dressed in cowboy outfits. But they completely ignore the high crime areas in the cities where Pakistani Muslims have taken over large areas, beat up the inhabitants, and enforce gang rule.

They have orders not to shoot of Muslims attack their cars and break their windshields, but you can bet they might have shot these two girls if they hadn’t had the good sense to pull into a crowded parking lot.

Basically, the police are just following orders from their socialist masters.


17 posted on 05/19/2007 8:41:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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"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.

Wise choice. No limit to what a government can, will, and wants to do - when there are no witnesses...

18 posted on 05/19/2007 8:48:55 AM PDT by null and void (The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
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They will be banning song lyrics that mention guns next.
Label it as "hate speech" and it's a done deal.
19 posted on 05/19/2007 8:49:14 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: Farmer Dean

Farenheit 451!


20 posted on 05/19/2007 8:51:47 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Self-defense works)
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