From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
 > On 04/09/2025 11:45, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >> On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
 >>> One can see that if you are police officer it's a much more exciting way 
 >>> to spend your day dashing onto the runway at Heathrow in a car with blue 
 >>> lights flashing along with four colleagues all brandishing guns than 
 >>> trying to investigating a real crime, which might, for example, involve 
 >>> watching a lot of boring CCTV footage.  So one can see their point of 
 >>> view, it's just not something that most of the public would support. 
 >> 
 >> Did any of that actually happen, or did you make it up? 
 > 
 > News reports said he was arrested by five armed police.  Perhaps that's 
 > explainable if all police at Heathrow are armed, but even so to waste 
 > the time of five of them seems to me a bit over the top. 
  
 Five of them does seem unnecessary, but they didn't "dash" onto 
 any runways, there were no "blue lights flashing", and there was 
 no "brandishing" of guns. So in reality it doesn't seem all that 
 exciting at all and hence your entire premise was false. 
  
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