8 Responses to Dog Bites Man

  1. commenter says:
    July 13, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Police report that a person and another person were involved in an incident at a place. (Report ends)

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  2. TomFD says:
    July 13, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    Actually you’ve got the version of events the wrong way around… according to those links, it was the BNP activist who was murdered.

    Which is a shame because the difference is mind-boggling.

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  3. Helen says:
    July 13, 2007 at 6:37 pm

    Yeees, TomFD, I think that was the point of the story.

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  4. TomFD says:
    July 14, 2007 at 12:34 am

    Oh I see. Forehead, meet palm of hand.

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  5. korova says:
    July 14, 2007 at 9:24 am

    I wonder how the BBC would cover a story of a former BNP member storing a rocket launcher and chemical explosives at their house? By burying it on those nice regional pages. Meanwhile, Muslim extremists get front page coverage.

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  6. Laban Tall says:
    July 14, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    I’ve been following this story on my blog.

    The rocket launcher seems to have disappeared from the evidence, by the way.

    The two defendants were cleared (a Scots jury would have been a ‘not proven’), following an earlier guilty plea to explosive possession by one of the men. The BBC quite rightly reported the trial, and the political leanings of the men.

    Given that early after the arrests the police stated that “He’s not a terrorist and it’s not a bomb factory”, it would have been difficult to equate it with, say, the Glaswegian pyromaniacs.

    You probably didn’t see this story on the front pages either :

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6034457.stm

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  7. Andrew says:
    July 14, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    ‘Glaswegian pyromaniacs’ Laban? When I think of Glaswegians I think of the kind of people who told the terrorists to ‘get tae f***’, or something along those lines – people like latterday internet hero John Smeaton! Cometh the hour, cometh the John Smeaton – at least in good old Glasgow town 🙂

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  8. Laban Tall says:
    July 15, 2007 at 8:57 am

    You’re right Andrew – poor use of the word. Mr Smeaton certainly enforces the airport anti-smoking regulations robustly.

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