Culcheth

[ken]

im shocked to see this in the little village of culcheth, ive worked in that street more than once
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-17249069



Edited By ken on 1330858100

[lutonlagerlout]

i saw it on the news
you expect it in tips like luton but not leafy cheshire
LLL

[mickg]

yeah i saw it on the bbc website, not what you would normally expect in the village of Culcheth

[Tony McC]

It's because I wasn't here on Saturday night. I was away overnight at a gig in SW England. As soon as I leave the place alone for more than a few hours, all hell breaks loose!

As expected, the centre of the village was crawling with bobbies for the past two days - well, crawling is probably an exaggeration: they weren't moving quite that fast. In fact, they weren't moving at all, just stood around in hi-vis groups pretending they were performing a valuable service and protecting the public from...err...summat.

The young lass that sold her eyewitness account to the tabloids is being widely derided as a gobshite on the basis that she never tells the same story twice and is known to be, let's say "unreliable" at best.

My daughter's car was impounded within the "Crime Scene" and she was panicking because she'd forgot to get it taxed at the end of last month, and, naturally, the bobbies would be far more concerned about that than they would about a dead armed robber. Her car has since been released and no charges preferred, I'm sure you'll all be mightily relieved to hear.

Took my granddaughter with me to the post office opposite the scene yesterday and there was a small but very keen brood of onlookers gawping at eff knows what and repositioning themselves with a sly sideways shuffle as necessary to ensure they remained in shot for the telly cameras at all times.

The local cognoscenti, which is essentially the members of the British Legion Bar Propping-Up club, have declared that the robbers were definitely planting a car to be used as a getaway vehicle in an upcoming heist, which explains why a relatively fast and powerful car would be parked in the darkest, dimmest, most overlooked corner of a neglected car park in a quiet LANCASHIRE village (we're north of the frigging Mersey, so this is still Lankysheer as far as I'm concerened!!) and I can see there's a certain amount of logic to that.

Today, there are noticeably fewer police cars trawling the village, but the crime scene is still being fine-tooth combed. No doubt the village will be a-buzz with rumour and speculation for weeks to come, long after all the bobbies have gone back to Warrington and Manchester and left us with the more familiar zero police presence in a so-called village of just 12,000 souls, and Culcheth will return back to the snoozy, snooty domesticity which it does so well.

[lutonlagerlout]

succinct post
there seems to be a problem
the armed robbers weren't actually armed
all the men running around with gas masks and guns were policemen ???
LLL

[rab1]

You wasted that report on us Boss, the new Sun on Sunday would have payed good money for it. Even more if you had bugged transcript's form you daughters phone. ???

[ken]

the gaffer hates the sun more than spot bedding! not sure if he'd take there money!

[Tony McC]

When the bobbies shoot an allegedly unarmed man in Tottenham, it sparks nationwide riots.

When they shoot a definitely unarmed man in Culcheth, we tut quite a bit and shake our heads.

The <spit>Sun? That lying scumbag of an arsewiper? After Hillsborough, it was banned from my vehicles and premises. Possession of such filth by employees was considered to be a disciplinary matter.

[DNgroundworks]

The local cognoscenti, which is essentially the members of the British Legion Bar Propping-Up club,

Made me chuckle

[lutonlagerlout]

I looked on the "victims" facebook page
he seemed to have a penchant for 80 grand cars and salford
the guy in london was of a similar ilk,but it seems to me that police like to "shoot first, ask later" when they suspect guns are involved
and TBH if those men had robbed a place, it could be anyone of our kids/grandkids caught in the crossfire or run over by a getaway car.
the whole scenario looks trigger happy from here
LLL

[ken]

In 1998 I was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by armed police, its a frighting experience. To be driving down the road then a police range rover drive directly at you, slam its brakes on and 2 guys jump out and point heckler and koch mp5's at you, screaming for you to put your hands against the windows. After we were de-arrested they told us that “ it just wasn’t our day� as they were looking for 3 lads in the exact make and model of car we were in. cant help thinking the lad shot dead in culcheth didn’t do what the police asked of him, even so he didn’t deserve to loose his life.

[Carberry]

In 1998 I was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by armed police, its a frighting experience. To be driving down the road then a police range rover drive directly at you, slam its brakes on and 2 guys jump out and point heckler and koch mp5's at you, screaming for you to put your hands against the windows. After we were de-arrested they told us that “ it just wasn’t our day� as they were looking for 3 lads in the exact make and model of car we were in. cant help thinking the lad shot dead in culcheth didn’t do what the police asked of him, even so he didn’t deserve to loose his life.

My friend is an armed response officer, they pulled someone over the other day. When they opened the car door the guys inside couldn't move. The boy driving had actually shat himself.

[DNgroundworks]

cant help thinking the lad shot dead in culcheth didn’t do what the police asked of him, even so he didn’t deserve to loose his life.

Do we know what he had done? (im not up to speed on the story) If he was a drug dealer or just a general blight on society causing untold misery to young uns getting them hooked on god know what, then im not sure i agree with that statement.

Obviously if it was just the police having a trigger happy day and a case of mis-identity - then that's bad.

IMO.

[mickg]

a few comments relating to his back ground
culcheth shooting

culcheth shooting

culcheth shooting

not what you would call a squeeky clean back ground, play with fire and you get burnt

[London Stone Paving]

We had a little incident at Newbury on Friday night. This happened 5 doors down from me at 9.00pm on Friday night. I was watching Frankie Boyle on TV and didnt hear a thing.

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