Hatch Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 'Hide' say the police. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10214661.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizona Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Just been watching that on the news. Doesn't appear to be any pattern or motive, just a complete whack job. Hope they catch him soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleonothing Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Bloody Northeners. Hope they catch him sharpish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Very scary - if you're there. I wonder how long it will be until one of our USandA friends comes along bemoaning the fact that the people who got shot weren't "packing heat". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.comsaint Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 (edited) He was driving a Citroen Picasso - so he's obviously one of life's losers... Edited 2 June, 2010 by .comsaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 "A force spokesman said officers are working to establish the identities of those killed and wounded" Can you not just find the f*cking mental case who shot them first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 They are looking in the wrong place http://yfrog.com/3zh1ij Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um Bongo Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Unconfirmed reports that up to 10 people have been killed. At least 4 confirmed. Mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 llatest report suggest they have found his body I hope so............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bungle Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Yes, police confirm they've found his body in the woods with a gun nearby. People allowed back outside now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 (edited) Sky News saying at least four victims, plus the suspect. Edited 2 June, 2010 by gaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Why do the reporters always interview a neighbour that says "he was a nice guy, kep himself to himself" in these circumstances? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 He was a nice guy, a taxi driver. Poor chap has shot himself too now. Probably read this thread about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Why do the reporters always interview a neighbour that says "he was a nice guy, kept himself to himself" in these circumstances? yeah, that does come up often, to be fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 2 June, 2010 Author Share Posted 2 June, 2010 I was following him on twitter. He tweeted just before he died. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Saw this on the news earlier, not the kind of thing that happens often in the UK. Anyone know what kind of gun he was using, because a local pub owner on Sky News earlier said that she'd been told that his gun had a 2 mile radius or something? Sniper Rifle or something of the sort would be pretty f*cking hard to come by in Cumbria! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Well he may have been mad, but he did the right thing by shooting his mother too. That is not a act of a lunatic, he obviously couldn't put his mother through it all so he shot her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landford.saint Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 When I was in Plymouth You could get a shot gun for £20 and an AK47 for £150 if you knew who to ask. The stuff that you could get fr service personnel was scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 13 dead altogether including the killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redondo Saint Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Very scary - if you're there. I wonder how long it will be until one of our USandA friends comes along bemoaning the fact that the people who got shot weren't "packing heat". You've been watching too many movies!! Personally I would ban the lot of them. My Mrs is a cop in LA and I have no interest at all in playing with her guns (ooh err!) but I am glad she have them when working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadeem Hardison Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 I was following him on twitter. He tweeted just before he died. :cool: http://twitter.com/Derrick_Bird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 13 dead altogether including the killer. Tis shocking, my godparents live up there now. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is terrible. If I die, I want to KNOW I deserved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redondo Saint Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 If I die, I want to KNOW I deserved it. Trust me, you will eventually die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Why do the reporters always interview a neighbour that says "he was a nice guy, kep himself to himself" in these circumstances? One day, just once, I want the neighbour to say, "He was a right ****. A proper wrong'un". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Saw this on the news earlier, not the kind of thing that happens often in the UK. Anyone know what kind of gun he was using, because a local pub owner on Sky News earlier said that she'd been told that his gun had a 2 mile radius or something? Sniper Rifle or something of the sort would be pretty f*cking hard to come by in Cumbria! Eye witness said it was a 'long' gun with a big scope. I'm bloody glad I decided against going for a walk up there today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 You've been watching too many movies!! Personally I would ban the lot of them. My Mrs is a cop in LA and I have no interest at all in playing with her guns (ooh err!) but I am glad she have them when working! Fair play to your missus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 I'm still waiting for my taxi in Seascale. I called a firm in Whitehaven. Bloke said he didn't know where I was, so I told him just shoot all the way down the A595 & he couldn't miss me... seems like he did though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 My big brother is cycling up that way right now, doing the jogle. true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Very scary - if you're there. I wonder how long it will be until one of our USandA friends comes along bemoaning the fact that the people who got shot weren't "packing heat". yep, they seem to have an inbuilt mechanism. When some armed nutjob goes on a killing spree, the amurrican answer is always "more guns" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Is this why Corrie was replaced with Harry Hill? I assume that the current storyline was deemed insensitive, anyone familiar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Is this why Corrie was replaced with Harry Hill? I assume that the current storyline was deemed insensitive, anyone familiar? If so how laughable ridiculous. On a separate note, the news said he was known locally as Derek Bird. I wondered what he was known as nationally? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 2 June, 2010 Author Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Is this why Corrie was replaced with Harry Hill? I assume that the current storyline was deemed insensitive, anyone familiar? The wife tells me that some escaped prisoner was going to shoot some northerners in tonights episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Can I remind people that this is the Lounge. If you want to joke about a serious act, I'll happily move this to TMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 Can I remind people that this is the Lounge. If you want to joke about a serious act, I'll happily move this to TMS. Not jokimg StL, honest. I really am interested as to why ITV replaced the programme with a comedy show. I'd have thought something more sombre would ahve been more appropriate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxfordshire_saint Posted 2 June, 2010 Share Posted 2 June, 2010 I've had fish & chips in Seascale, true story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 I've had fish & chips in Seascale, true story You are crazy. :smt105 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 Reports on BBC said he was found in the Boot area. Typical police inefficiency that they couldn't even look round the back of his taxi for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 Eye witness said it was a 'long' gun with a big scope. I'm bloody glad I decided against going for a walk up there today. Reading the eyewitness reports in the Independent today, one man saw him with the sniper rifle and it certainly sounded like the real deal, none of your cheapo knock-off Chinese imports. Full length, massive barrell, fully kitted out with scopes and sights and everything...chilling to think that anybody could go out and buy a gun like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesaint sfc Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 Reports on BBC said he was found in the Boot area. Typical police inefficiency that they couldn't even look round the back of his taxi for him. I read it like that. I thought that's not very well written....oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 3 June, 2010 Author Share Posted 3 June, 2010 Reports on BBC said he was found in the Boot area. Typical police inefficiency that they couldn't even look round the back of his taxi for him. It's Cumbria, so isn't their whole Police force, just Nick Berry on a bicycle?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 How sad that this thread had to be moved to the Muppet Show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 Trust me, you will eventually die. Naturally though - I deserve it if I get lung cancer at 54, I deserve it if I am morbidly obese at 70. I don't deserve it if I'm walking down the road and some nutter blasts my backbone all over the walls of Argos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponty Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 Reading the eyewitness reports in the Independent today, one man saw him with the sniper rifle and it certainly sounded like the real deal, none of your cheapo knock-off Chinese imports. Full length, massive barrell, fully kitted out with scopes and sights and everything...chilling to think that anybody could go out and buy a gun like that. I wouldn't trust an eyewitness report. One described it as a single-barrelled shotgun with a telescopic sight. Like anyone would have a 'scope on a shotgun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 3 June, 2010 Share Posted 3 June, 2010 I wouldn't trust an eyewitness report. One described it as a single-barrelled shotgun with a telescopic sight. Like anyone would have a 'scope on a shotgun. Cumbria Police say he had 2 guns, a shotgun and a sniper rifle. ( Courtesy of the local news up here ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 6 June, 2010 Share Posted 6 June, 2010 SKY News - 'The sons of Derrick Bird have said they are "utterly devastated" by the death of their father and described him as "the nicest man you could ever meet". In other news, Fred West is now prime minister and Hitler has been Knighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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