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  1. Re:It happened before by grvsmth · · Score: 1 · on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive
    If you read the This Is Local London article linked from the Wikipedia article, it clearly says that the buyers knew they were not buying the Tower Bridge.

    As a press conference at the British-American Chamber of Commerce in New York with 50 correspondents, the question he had been waiting for came almost at once: "The bridge was only built in 1832. It is not the bridge with houses on it, not the bridge of the nursery rhyme. What's so special about it?"

    Mr Luckin told them: "London Bridge is not just a bridge. It is the heir to 2,000 years of history going back to the First Century AD, to the time of the Roman Londinium ..."

    Admittedly, that's the story from the guy who sold the bridge, but I don't see any of the buyers claiming they got ripped off.
  2. No Threat Today by www.bnp.org.uk · · Score: 1 · on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled

    There is no threat today and there never was going to be one today. The significance of today is the police decided to swoop on the terrorists and round them up - http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories /display.var.871220.0.21_held_in_liquid_bomb_plot_ to_blow_up_planes.php You see yesterday, Communist John Reid our Home Secretary said there should be some more curbing of freedoms to deal with 'terror'. So today we have the 'incident' that will enable him to introduce those new curbs.

  3. Re:That's the way it is... by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Informative · on China Bans Running Your Own Email Server

    And a London mayor that knowingly trivializes it.

    No, I didn't vote for him.

  4. Re:Now by Kohath · · Score: 2, Funny · on Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe

    I like their creative choices of monsters too. I think the next one is going to be about people who are attacked by giant squirrels.

    Here is some inspiration from the news:
    Truce called in war on squirrels
    Squirrels Gone Wild
    Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

    That's going to be a good movie.

  5. Munchausen's syndrome by proxy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2

    This sounds similar to an incident that happened a few years ago on the M1. Turned out to be a lorry driver with an attention seeking disorder:

    http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/misc/print.php? artid=65604 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/363407.stm

  6. Re:It's a nice bit of CG, it might be from MINI by sydsavage · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Build a Robot out of a Car?

    And a quick search on Google for Colin Mayhew reveals that's an alias for prison escapee Allan Johnson. Looks like he's continuing his string of frauds.

  7. Re:Try checking your facts. by Gigs · · Score: 2 · on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control?

    Hmm lets see:

    Man threatened in own home with gun

    HELP POLICE CAPTURE GUNMAN

    Tower block gun terror

    England has worst crime rate in world

    These are all UK stories. Would you like me to going I have over fifty of them just for the past month(you can find them here by searching for UK), or have I ruined you little puppies and snowflakes view of the world enough for one day?

  8. Motorists Against Detection by aunitt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Law Enforcement by Machines

    In the UK there are several organised groups going around destroying speed cameras, such as MAD (Motorists Against Detection). (You can take a look at http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm ).

    It is a general feeling that speed cameras are not being used to improve safety, but as a means of raising extra revenue (i.e. tax) for the government. Indeed a lot of people feel that speed cameras cause accidents as everyone slams on the brakes to avoid getting caught by the cameras (often "hidden" behind trees or road signs) and immediately speeds up again afterwards. I know I do!

    What's the goverment's response to this? Well it's to have a huge increase in the number of speed cameras. (Sorry I don't have the figures to hand, but it's a lot).

    MAD are not an isolated group, there are several groups around the country, they are probably just the best known.

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