We used to get the Concorde double boom in Cornwall 9pm every evening. On ‘quiet’ evenings we would sit outside to listen to it.

Baz

I remember that. Seem to remember that if the boom was from the South it was a French one hooning down the English Channel & if the boom was from the North it was a BA one heading down the Bristol Channel.

I was in my garage on Saturday & there was a double boom from over towards Edwards AFB followed a few seconds later by another pair. Guess the 2nd one was the chase plane. Those booms will really rattle metal garage doors… 🙂

These three could make a killing at Legends… 🙂

We had a B2 go blasting out of Plant 42 a couple of weeks back at 5.30am on a Saturday.

Woke up the entire valley, population 300,000

Number of complaints: 0

Florida has the right idea:

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-09-17/news/fl-pompano-road-rage-20100916_1_road-rage-florida-law-mike-dutko

And in that very eloquent couple of sentences you have defined reasonable force. You used enough force to defend yourself and subdue your assailant. You didn’t go on to beat him to death which is what a number of posters to this thread are advocating.

Regards,

kev35

Depends on what it takes to subdue the perp, what if beating the guy to death is the only option because he’s wacked out on PCP or some other drug.. or he’s mentally unbalanced?

For instance, let’s just say a man armed with a knife attacks a Police Officer. In the US isn’t it relatively simple in that the Officer draws his personal weapon and shoots the assailant.
Regards,

kev35

That happened here in town a few years back, some scrote ran off, cop gave chase, scrote picks up & starts throwing rocks at cop. Bang, thud. End of problem.

& then there was the bomb scare while I was at college one night. Campus cops approach 3 of us & tell us there’s been a bomb threat called in & do we know anything about it.. (FFS!) This was a little after 7pm. I asked the campus cops if they were going to evacuate the college.. No, they were going to look for the bomb after 9pm when all the evening classes were over….

At which point I asked what their plan was if the bomb only had a 30 minute timer….

The look on their faces was priceless….

So not all US cops are on the ball…

I like the part where they say the people of Essex have signed a petition to support the Spitfire flying over Suffolk….

Jim.

As an ex Police Officer surely you are in a position to explain exactly what constitutes reasonable force?

Regards,

kev35

In the US the cops don’t decide that, the DA’s office does… so in the UK I’d guess it’s down to the Crown prosecution Service (or whatever it’s called). I find that the last person you’d ask, in the US, for an explanation of the finer points of law is a cop.