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09-13-09, 05:51 PM #1
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Armless man led British police on a 100mph chase after jewellery raid
John Smith, 18, was the designated getaway driver for the heist, despite needing somebody to change the gears for him.
The youth led police on a high-speed car chase along the A2 from Kent to London before losing control and crashing on the approaches to the capital's Blackwall Tunnel.
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Man with no arms led police on a 100mph chase after jewellery raid - Telegraph
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09-13-09, 07:21 PM #2
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I wonder if being unarmed played a part in the light sentence.
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09-14-09, 02:43 AM #3
Damnit, I'm hungry again.
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Looks like their sentences are as bad as ours
'Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a
delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly
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holds forth the proposition that it is entirely
possible to pick up a turd by the clean end!'
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09-14-09, 08:30 AM #4
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The selection had to suck though. Couldn't justify stealing rings, watches, or bracelets.
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09-14-09, 10:29 AM #5
Reed and Malloy were my FTOs
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Luck for unarmed British colleagues that this suspect was also unarmed.
SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM-Ex-Sheriff Martin Howe to Will Kane in "High Noon"
"It's a great life. You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If your honest , your poor your whole life. And , In the end , you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."
Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ordeals , he is unfit to command.
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