SpartanGamer wrote:Yup! He shot himself IN THE HEAD with a SAWN OFF SHOTGUN! That must of been a messy job to clean up...
What I don't understand is when he shot the cop in the face, point blank range, that the shot didn't kill the officer!
SpartanGamer, the point you made on the 10th probably escaped the notice of many who read it and therefore it's significance was overlooked.
Yesterday the police officer involved was interviewed on television, his facial wounds were quite obvious and the chap certainly deserves sympathy for having been subjected to the receipt of them.
However, what IS abundantly clear from the sight and nature of the wounds, is that they WERE the result of the discharge of small shot (as one would use for small game) and were therefore not seriously life threatening.
The Officer indicated that he did not harbour any ill feelings towards Raoul Moat and that he was intent upon returning to the service of the public (in any capacity his probable blindness would allow) as soon as possible.
NOW, if that is not a glaring example of how the media manage to ensure that the general public are maintained in a 'Soporific ' state, I am at a loss as to know just what is.
What a beautifully concocted piece of 'Bull' to convince the general public that the police are such 'Angelic Characters' that they would NEVER countenance a situation where a member of the puiblic could claim to have been 'Hounded' by them (which is exactly what Raoul Moat implied) even to the extent that they would 'Forgive' anyone who should injure them.
If you swallow THAT, you will swallow anything. IMHO.