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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Happy Anniversary...

A day late. Yesterday was 100 years from the Tottenham Outrage:

"During the incident, average people going about their daily lives joined in the pursuit of the robbers. A party out bird shooting at nearby Lockwood reservoir reportedly exchanged fire with them. The Tottenham police, in the tradition of British police to this day, did not go armed. Officers, unable to find the key to the locked firearm cabinet in the station house actually had to smash the doors off to get to their weapons, but brother officers already in pursuit instead borrowed firearms from people on the street - something literally unimaginable there today, and literally unremarkable back then.
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Posted by mc at 11:16 AM

1 comment:

alfred said...

back when the Brits had balls.Nothing but a bunch of Sallys now.

January 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM

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