"Doziest comment ever", for about two days
Blognor Regis takes me to task for the 'Doziest comment ever':Matthew Turner, keyboard know-it-all par excellence...what a total prick..it's no wonder he never leaves a link to his own sorry blog when he comments, it'd only encourage people to visit and take the piss.
This was in response to my suggestion that the Police should have apprehended Jean Charles de Menezes, rather than shooting him (made at the time we thought there was a suspicion he could be a suicide bomber). The logic for this was based upon the Israeli forces, who don't, despite what you might read, always shoot to kill in these situations.
Nevertheless like almost everyone else I was jumping to conclusions too early and without enough facts. Clearly there will be times when the Police need to shoot to kill, and I wasn't aware it wasn't one of those times. Must try harder.
Luckily "Blognor Regis", who is obviously an expert in these matters, shows us how bloggers should cover such stories in these situations. Here is his post on the shooting (made a few days later).
World one moron lighter
Callous bastard alert.
Little sympathy for Jean Charles de Menenez here I'm afraid. If you're going to run from TWENTY armed police shouting their warnings then what do you expect?
The worst that can happen is your man boobs will be exposed on 24 hour rolling news like that hapless bloke outside Downing Street endured on Thursday; the worst, well, your brain and skull is going to end up oozing all over an underground train carriage's floor.
So I lose the "Doziest comment ever" title after just a few days! Well I'm not going to give up the know-it-all one without a fight, and at least clearly there's not a lot of competition from "Blognor" for that title.
posted by Matthew @ 8/25/2005 11:58:00 AM
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