Queens guard points gun at gangsta

[Tricky1982]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2598044/Security-fears-Buckingham-Palace-Queens-Guard-pulls-rifle-intruder-ranted-police-marching-gates.html

Seems an argument with a bobby got a bit heated.

 

[Zarathustra]

Personally I'd have left it up to the Police to deal with, however if the bloke had some how made it past them and on to the forecourt then it would be a different story.

 

[Hexitele]

Storm in a teapot.

 

[Zarathustra]

Exactly there was no requirement for the guy to leave his post, and I'll bet the Police didn't appreciate him coming over waving his gat about and potentially making the situation worse.

 

[Hexitele]

I wonder why we still put toy soldiers outside the palace where they can find themselves in these positions.

"Allegedly" brandishing a bayonet to someone who is being a bit animated... Risky in this day and age.

 

[johnboyzzz]

What do you expect from a Coldcreamer

 

[Hexitele]

Good drills from the bobby in the back ground.

"Your honour I was looking away and listening to my radio at the time..."

 

[LordVonHarley]

It's London, its cultural. People greet each other by point guns at each other. If you really like them and want to be their friend then a gentle stabbing is used.

 

[Zarathustra]

I wonder why we still put toy soldiers outside the palace where they can find themselves in these positions.

"Allegedly" brandishing a bayonet to someone who is being a bit animated... Risky in this day and age.

To be fair he wasn't outside the Palace, he was on the forecourt, he probably flapped and took his briefing a bit to literal.

 

[seaweed]

Given the way things work these days, I'm surprised the police didn't arrest the guardsman.

 

[Strangely Gray]

This is an answer to the question, " How do I apply for a career as Dixie basher in the sergeants mess?"


Seeking Enlightenment by looking up my ARRSE

 

[Hexitele]

To be fair he wasn't outside the Palace, he was on the forecourt, he probably flapped and took his briefing a bit to literal.

Apologies I probably could have been more clear.

Basically I was musing as to why soldiers are put in positions where this can happen.

As the photo shows you now have a British soldier pointing a bladed article at someone's neck as he stands there arms folded (relaxed) in the presence of a police officer.

May have been justifiable (I wasn't there) but it looks awful.

Had it been the cop behind him pointing a taser or brandishing his baton at the same "apparently" relaxed man....

 

[Hexitele]

Given the way things work these days, I'm surprised the police didn't arrest the guardsman... Yet.

Amended that one for you.

 

[Awol]

Made my day, seeing that.

 

[Zarathustra]

This is an answer to the question, " How do I apply for a career as Dixie basher in the sergeants mess?"


Seeking Enlightenment by looking up my ARRSE

I doubt it, maybe getting told "Don't do it again, that's why the Police are there".

I know someone who was on stag at Jimmies back when they still had the sentry positions on Cleveland Row who chased some American tourists down St Jame's St because they called the Queen a whore or something similar.

I believe all he got was an extra 30 minutes on stag and getting told not to do it again.

I also remember around the same sort of time some Farthers 4 Justice belters managing to get onto the front of Buck Palace. I've no idea how they got up there but it's safe to say they didn't do it in an area where they could have been seen by one of the sentries. The entire company got a bollocking off of the CSM for it.

 

[Flash Back]

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Basically I was musing as to why soldiers are put in positions where this can happen.

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I'd ask the same question of Bloody Sunday.

Police police, Soldiers soldier.

 

[Taffnp]

Hope the word Pleb was not mentioned

 

[Hexitele]

I quite like it, behave like a knob, get a gun in your face, I know quite a few who'd benefit from such diplomacy.

Yes because that works so well in our culturally rich inner city urban estates.

 

[Zarathustra]

I'd ask the same question of Bloody Sunday.

Police police, Soldiers soldier.

But, the guys on guard at the Palaces, Windsor Castle and the Tower of London do have a security role

 

[Hexitele]

But, the guys on guard at the Palaces, Windsor Castle and the Tower of London do have a security role

If you are wearing a tunic and carrying a fully working weapon with no ammunition in it your security role is not that important.