Another Mentally Ill Individual ?

[webbo3]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36998449


A mentally ill person or an act of terrorism





Dave.

[douglas9401]

Yup, nothing to see here, move along now folks.

[wolf63]

I am Bipolar and have a Ghurka type machete in the house. Where does that leave me?

[sandyRoe]

This could be a combination of both. Time will tell.

[ummmm]

A bit of both.

[Gromit]

Act of Terror.

Or so it appears at this early stage.

[ToraToraTora]

well you have to be mentally ill to believe all that old pony anyway so I'd say yes on both counts.

[webbo3]

Just said on Sky News hes been shot dead.


Dave.

[Baldric]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/697295/Belgium-police-officer-attack-Charleroi-machete
///A man approached the male and female officer outside a police station in the city of Charleroi, south of Brussels, and set upon them with the blade.
He was then shot and wounded by a third officer nearby and taken into custody alive, but according to Belgian French TV station RTBF he has since died of his injuries.///

Oh Dear!

[douglas9401]

Tragic, that peace officers have to be injured before justice is administered.

[stuey]

If that had happened in the UK, it's quite possible that those two officers would be dead. Time to arm the British police?

[jackthehat]

///Time to arm the British police? ///

No.

[ummmm]

Some police are armed.

[Peter Pedant]

// If that had happened in the UK, it's quite possible that those two officers would be dead. Time to arm the British police?//

god I hope not,
I think I would rather have them run the other way screaming - he's got a knife !

[British Transport Police did exactly that on the 6 July bombings Russell Sq., just outside their head office]

and the knife man who chopped up the woman outside the Russell Hotel the other day ( Russell Sq., it all happens there it seems ) - he was disarmed by the other four wasnt he ?

[stuey]

I meant all of them, ummmm. What's the point in having a few armed police at point A when an attack like this is occurring miles away at point B, and seconds really count?

[ummmm]

My answer would no then.

[fiction-factory]

Clearly terror related but we may also find out they have discovered he had a history of mental illness.

[Baldric]

Don't think he's gonna Fess up tbh FF.

[ladybirder]

Definitely terror for the people who get attacked. Whatever the motive.

[Mamyalynne]

We'll only find out if he has been diagnosed with any mental illness after they identify him and check his records Dave - a case of waiting.

Truly horrific attack whatever drove him.

[Peter Pedant]

// If that had happened in the UK, it's quite possible that those two officers would be dead. Time to arm the British police?//

oh stoo - honestly - it is your Canadian attitude of " we are really the 51st state" coming out there .....