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No point going off half-cocked
It seems the British police have not been reading Backbytes: after last week’s story on Geoffrey Fryatt, who spent three hours threatening to blow up “half of Brisbane” using his TV remote control, armed police in Stoke confronted mechanic Darren Nixon outside his house – having tailed him as he rode home on the bus.
He was handcuffed, DNA tested and fingerprinted because a member of the public had seen him changing tracks on his MP3 player, and decided it was a gun.
Initially Darren did not respond to the police challenge because he had his earphones in. So be careful when carrying hi-tech devices. You have been warned.
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