On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:13:37 +0100, Andy Burns
 wrote:

>On 06/09/2008 19:03, Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of 
>Divine Intervention. wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:03:12 +0100, John Williamson
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7581655.stm
>> 
>> If that's what tasers look like it was definitely not one of those.
>> 
>> It was matt black and gun shaped in a holster.
>
>Though I goove the yewkay dibbles tend to have the bright yellow 
>version, but the black ones look very gnu-like
>
>http://objurgate.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/advanced-taser.jpg
>
>The armed dibbles I usually see are the ARV, as the petrol station is 
>just round the corner from the county HQ and they tend to fill up at the 
>end of shifts, they have cuffs + mace + nightstick + pistol etc dangling 
>from their bullet proof vests, $deity knows what they have in the boot 
>of their beamer.


The one we got to look inside at the Dibblery when I took the Scouts
there had a safe thingy in the back, either on the back seat or where
it would be. Lots and lots of guns, baton rounds, flashbangs, tear gas
ect ect. In the boot were things wot puncture tyres, umm, and stuff.

Weight of the body armour plus all the things dangling off it was
nearly as much as the smallest Scout.
-- 
Tim

timhall@nospamtoday.clara.co.uk said...
> >The armed dibbles I usually see are the ARV, as the petrol station is 
> >just round the corner from the county HQ and they tend to fill up at the 
> >end of shifts, they have cuffs + mace + nightstick + pistol etc dangling 
> >from their bullet proof vests, $deity knows what they have in the boot 
> >of their beamer.
> 
> 
> The one we got to look inside at the Dibblery when I took the Scouts
> there had a safe thingy in the back, either on the back seat or where
> it would be. Lots and lots of guns, baton rounds, flashbangs, tear gas
> ect ect. In the boot were things wot puncture tyres, umm, and stuff.
> 
> Weight of the body armour plus all the things dangling off it was
> nearly as much as the smallest Scout.

Which is why a traffic cop friend of mine refused to take the new Beamer 
out that day and took the Volvo instead.  If she'd taken the Beamer 
she'd be dead, because it wouldn't have stood up to the sideswiping it 
took on the hard shoulder of the motorway by someone who "wasn't using 
his mobile phone" and "wasn't driving w/o due care and attention" and 
who "wasn't driving too fast".  Yeah, right.  One day she'll be fully 
recovered, with no remaining whiplash pains in her back and shoulders.  
One day.  But not for a long while yet.  I just thank God she wasn't in 
the driver's seat at the time.  The driver's back at jbex, but he was 
off a lot longer than H was.

ArKate may've heard about it on the local arjf a few months back, 'cos 
it were in her area.

-- 
Fran