Comments on: Irony

By: TomO

TomO — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:37:26 +0000

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By: Runcie Balspune

Runcie Balspune — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:47:06 +0000

Why is this country importing anti-tank ammunition anyway? Don’t we make it ourselves?

By: Mark Brentano

Mark Brentano — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:40:19 +0000

Take a deep breath and think for a moment. In the current climate of [probably false] hysteria about the Islamic boogie man, all threats should be taken seriously by our assiduous public sector police-people. Now that the rubber-hat-wearing imbecile has been made an example of, it may stop other lollipop merchants wasting police time [for what that is actually worth]. Why should the tax-payer indulge poor-quality humour anyway? Plus, and as I saw written by a young man on a comment site recently, Twitter is, lahk, sooooo gay. Twitter is to blogging what Etch-a-Sketch is to Rembrandt.

By: the other rob

the other rob — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:48:07 +0000

llamas wrote:

Drunk with power. And, to paraphrase Dean Wormer, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

It’s the miasma, I tells ya’!

By: Natalie Solent (Essex)

Natalie Solent (Essex) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:02:03 +0000

Maybe they thought they were hiding illegal high explosives in amongst their legal high explosives.

You know, that could be quite clever. A good plot for a novel, at least. I did once read a thriller in which hemp-drugs was being smuggled inside hemp-rope.

By: Jaded Voluntaryist

Jaded Voluntaryist — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:37:44 +0000

I wasn’t being serious llamas

By: llamas

llamas — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:30:52 +0000

But this was not some smuggling activity – this ammunition was being legally transported, with all the right paperwork.

Even if you allow for the possibility of this actually being some weird movie-plot threat where they were actually shipping something illegal disguised as artillery ammunition (I can’t believe I just typed that, it’s so absurd), how in the world could it possibly make sense to start unpacking the stuff?

Let’s say you suspect that they are actually trying to run in cocaine hidden inside artillery shells – you’d better be close to 100% certain that what you’re going to start unpacking is not artillery shells. What if you’re wrong? Would you stake your life on it?

I strongly suspect that what actually happened here was that they just couldn’t help themselves. Anti-tank shells? This, I gotta see! And they’re too dumb to figure out that messing with anti-tank shells can get a lot of people awfully dead if you don’t know what they’re doing.

Drunk with power. And, to paraphrase Dean Wormer, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

llater,

llamas

By: A cowardly citizen

A cowardly citizen — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:18:21 +0000

“To the instant case – amazing as it sounds that these ‘security’ cretins actually took it upon themselves to start unpacking artillery ammunition, there is a deeper question, which is – Why? What did they expect to find, or learn, by doing this? I could understand them putting the cargo in a safer place, or holding it while further inquiries were made, but what earthly reason could there be for actually unpacking it?”

Because they were looking for explosives which would be confiscated. Duh!

By: Jaded Voluntaryist

Jaded Voluntaryist — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:00:46 +0000

I could understand them putting the cargo in a safer place, or holding it while further inquiries were made, but what earthly reason could there be for actually unpacking it?

Maybe they thought they were hiding illegal high explosives in amongst their legal high explosives.

Smugglers can be tricky like that…..

By: Alisa

Alisa — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:56:57 +0000

what earthly reason could there be for actually unpacking it?

Looking for explosives?

By: Paul Marks

Paul Marks — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:38:07 +0000

No freedom of speech (although even the authorities think the present situation is insane and are promising some reform), crooked laws on negligence, and (today) the government borrowing figures are (YET AGAIN) “unexpectedly” high.

This country is in for very bad times.

By: Natalie Solent (Essex)

Natalie Solent (Essex) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:06:11 +0000

what earthly reason could there be for actually unpacking it?

Wow! Anti-tank ammo, never seen one of these before. Let’s have a play!

I’m told that people who have cool cars are continually stopped by the police even if they are driving very sedately for the same reason.