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Police Given Access to Congestion-Charge Cameras
The BBC is reporting that anti-terror Police officers in London have been given live access to the "congestion charge cameras", allowing them to view and track vehicles in real time. This is a change from the original procedure that required them to apply for access on a case-by-case basis. "Under the new rules, anti-terror officers will be able to view pictures in "real time" from Transport for London's (Tfl) 1,500 cameras, which use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology to link cars with owners' details. But they will only be able to use the data for national security purposes and not to fight ordinary crime, the Home Office stressed."
Your flagrant disregard for paying of the £8-a-day toll has been noted. Your days are numbered, Sir.
I guess I'll be returning that "terrorist" vanity plate now...
Yeah, but they promised. It's cool man, relax.
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Hey, dumbass - it's not Blair any more.
Do try to keep up. A little search-and-replace could keep your batshit insane rantings looking nice and fresh.
firstly, this will be used to enforce the 'No Repetitive Beats' law.
and no, i'm not taking the piss.
...vividly encapsulates that post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of all yourself.
[Deep in the top secret control room]
Officer #1: Sir! Murder in progress!
Supervisor: Ignore that, we are not allowed to act on that information.
Officer #1: But sir! The victim is alive and crawling away... slowly... unseen for now...
Supervisor: Nope, terror only boy, terror only.
Meanwhile...
Officer #2: Sir! A turban-wearing terrorist is driving a car within 20km of the airport!
Supervisor: How do you know it is a terrorist?
Officer #2: Why else would a single man drive a car to the airport?
Supervisor: Good point...
Supervisor: CODE RED CODE RED! TERROR ATTACK IN PROGRESS. SCRAMBLE CHOPPERS, NUKE THE CAR!
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Yeah, this is going to work well.
It'll help the police catch those serial-suicide-bombers that keep getting away...
When I am Supreme Ruler, my first act will be to make "Being Rupert Murdoch" a crime punishable by death.
My second act will be to round up every single BNP voter and Daily Star reader and imprison them for the good of humanity.
My third act will be to fire all ex-hippies from the Social Services.
Cue the old saw about the best way to cook a frog.
"Give a man an inch and he thinks he's a ruler. Give him 12 inches and he is a ruler."
-- Marx, Groucho
Inch by inch....
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
>This is why you don't give a mouse a cookie...
Or in this case, why you don't give a pig a camera...
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