Nothing on Raoul Moat?

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Gunman on the loose in England. Just seen on Sky News, the police are apologising for referring to him as a nutter. :erm:
 
Been following the stories on Sky too. Maybe the cops are apologising to avoid pissing him off while he's still on the loose.
 
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Been following the stories on Sky too. Maybe the cops are apologising to avoid pissing him off while he's still on the loose.
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Yeah I know that, you would think they would have more common sense than to call him a nutter.
 
Mum lives in Oxford, she told me about this an hour ago. He's extremely suicidal and planning to get taken down by the cops. Today he further antagonised the johnnies by threatening civvies. This will not end well I'm afraid, someone in his capacity when pushed into a corner will most likely take his own life. The word there is he's been pushed over the edge.
 
Nothxkbi said:
Mum lives in Oxford, she told me about this an hour ago. He's extremely suicidal and planning to get taken down by the cops. Today he further antagonised the johnnies by threatening civvies. This will not end well I'm afraid, someone in his capacity when pushed into a corner will most likely take his own life. The word there is he's been pushed over the edge.
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Well he's already shot and killed his ex-gf and her boyfriend, he's pretty far gone afaic
 
I've been watching this on Sky too. Amazing the sort of coverage this stuff gets over there! It's literally like a reality manhunt show and I can't help but get the feeling that this dude is watching some this stuff on TV along with the rest of us.

A day ago they were saying that there's no ways he'd evade capture longer than 48 hours as they were going to nail him with IR when making a campfire in the woods but now it seems they realise they underestimated this guy.
 
They'll get him soon, I mean they caught the worlds worst scumbag Ian Huntley within a matter of days and that was a national manhunt too. Different between here and UK is like a million cameras in every town between Isle of Wight and Isle of Skye, you cannot run for long.
 
According to Twitter;

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Sky's Martin Brunt: Man fitting description of Raoul Moat located near river, police are negotiating with him.
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Witness tells Sky News that Raoul Moat is sitting close to river with gun to his head, surrounded by police.
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Northumbria Police: there has not yet been any arrest as a result of confrontation with Raoul Moat.
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Sky's James Matthews: police negotiator talking to Raoul Moat and addressing him as "Raoul".
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http://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak

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Can someone tell me WTF the cup with the tazer is doing here? He looks likes he needs to be shot with it :D http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7882705/Raoul-Moat-holds-gun-to-his-head-in-stand-off-with-police.html Oh and here's the story (from the same link):

Moat surfaced in Rothbury, Northumberland, at about 7.30pm following a series of reported sightings of him in the immediate area.
Eyewitnesses said the 37 year-old was sitting on the ground "shouting and sounding agitated" as a police negotiator, surrounded by armed police and one officer holding a Taser stun gun, spoke to him from a distance of as little as 20ft.

The stand-off was taking place in an area between a school tennis court and the River Coquet.
Paula Mason, whose mother was trapped in her home nearby, said: "She told me he is sitting with a gun to his head. The police are surrounding him.
"I just spoke to her on the phone. She’s absolutely terrified, she’s on her own.
"She said a marksman with a gun told her to get inside."
Chris Robertson said he saw Moat standing by the riverbank pointing a sawn-off shotgun at his neck.
Mr Robertson, who was visiting his mother when armed officers told them to lock themselves in the house, said: "I saw the guy standing by the river with a sawn-off shotgun pointed as his neck. He was about 150 yards away.
"There are police snipers everywhere – the whole place is under siege. The police came down and encircled him, pointing their rifles at him. He must have been threatening to shoot someone. They’re trying to negotiate with him."
Shouting could be heard coming from the area, just yards from allotments where a man matching Moat’s description had been spotted on Thursday night.
Dave Murray, 67, a retired taxi driver, said Moat appeared to have been chased through the village before being cornered at the primary school tennis courts and bowling green.
"There is nowhere for him to go, the river is on one side and this road and all the police on the other," said Mr Murray.
Northumbria Police issued a statement saying: "A man who fits the description of Raoul Thomas Moat has been located in the riverbank area in the vicinity of Rothbury. Police are currently negotiating."
Bob Herdman, 75, who lives opposite the riverbank, said on Friday night: "There is a man lying on the ground with a gun pointed to his head. There are about 12 or 15 police with their guns trained on him and they are trying to negotiate with him. He has been lying there a long time, maybe two hours. We have been told to stay in the house, to keep away from the windows. He is on the grass on the riverside.
"I was in my greenhouse when I first knew about it. I heard a lot of shouting going on at about 5.30 or 6 o’clock out on the riverside.
"It was him shouting at the police to start with. I couldn’t make out what he was saying but I think they just told him to lie on the ground and he has been lying there ever since with all those guns trained on him."
Police were understood to have received a tip-off from a member of the public that Moat was by the river.
Mr Herdman said: "The police came in quietly. They had their sirens off but were very fast." The spot is a stone’s throw from the police’s temporary headquarters in Rothbury, suggesting he could have been intending to carry out his threat to kill police officers.
The first indication that Moat might have been found came at 7.37pm when Ch Supt Mark Dennett, the area commander, issued an urgent warning for residents to stay indoors for their own safety.
Moat had managed to evade police for seven days after shooting his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, 22, and killing her new boyfriend Chris Brown, 29, in the early hours of last Saturday. He shot and wounded an unarmed police officer 24 hours later.
It now appears that Moat could have been living under the noses of police in Rothbury for several days.
Two people reported seeing a man they were convinced was Moat striding down the high street of the village, where almost 200 armed police were searching for him, at about 11pm on Thursday.
There was also evidence that Moat had been stealing food from local allotments during his week on the run, and could have been sleeping in an empty house while a family were away.
A woman in her 30s saw a man she was convinced was Moat striding past her as she stood outside the village chip shop on Thursday night. Moments later a man further down the street also saw the distinctive stranger and alerted two police officers, one of whom was understood to have seen the man in the distance before he walked over a bridge and disappeared from view.
About two hours later, Mr Herdman looked out of his window and saw a man running to hide in a friend’s greenhouse in the allotments opposite. "I saw him running along that wall and open the greenhouse door. I was looking out of the landing window and saw him distinctly," he said. "He was wearing dark clothing, he was crouching down behind the wall trying to hide himself."
When Mr Herdman’s friend returned to inspect the greenhouse he noticed that the only ripe tomato in his crop had disappeared.
It also emerged that a family just outside Rothbury returned from a day out on Tuesday to find that their house had been raided for food, and signs that someone had been sleeping in one of the beds. The young mother, who did not wish to be identified, heard rustling behind a closed door as she arrived, and fled. She believed she may have come within inches of a face-to-face confrontation with Moat.
Police disclosed yesterday that they had been examining three mobile phones used by Moat during his week on the run. One was found on Thursday by a walker, discarded on open ground near Rothbury.
It had been used by Moat as recently as Tuesday and was expected to provide vital evidence about his movements and contacts.
A man and a woman were arrested yesterday in Blyth, where Moat robbed a fish and chip shop on Monday night, and were being held on suspicion of assisting an offender.
Their arrest brought the total number of suspected accomplices to six.
An RAF Tornado equipped with a heat-sensitive infra-red camera flew a sortie over the search area at dusk on Thursday in the hope of finding Moat.
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