Police At Wimbledon Will Operate A Shoot-To-Kill Policy.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/29/wimbledon-ring-steel-security-barriers-prevent-london-bridge/

Oh our our once peaceful country is changing.

[sandyRoe]

Would a 'shoot to kill' policy be a detrrent to a would-be suicide bomber/attacker?

[EDDIE51]

It could be worse! they might have run out of strawberries or Pims !

[jno]

they used to need a ring of steel between McEnroe and the umpires.

[ToraToraTora]

seems harsh AOG the players aren't that bad.

[Peter Pedant]

// It could be worse! they might have run out of strawberries or Pimms !//

I was thinking more eddie
any shooting ? then those players will have to hang onto their barls!

ah poor peaceful wimbledon
that never saw bomb V1 or V2 seventy y ago !

or a zeppelin raid a hundred years ago

[jno]

what does this mean for the Wombles' way of life, I ask myself?

[Peter Pedant]

the wombles will be a bit wonky after they have had a few rounds whapped into them

just think- if Uncle Bulgaria took a rocket propelled grenade ( do the police have any ? probably ) we would have to address him as Uncle Cyprus or even Uncle Somewhere Further East

there are some serious issues raised by this

[agchristie]

^ I think they will be driven underground...

[Baldric]

///Armed police will operate a shoot-to-kill policy to counter the threat of suicide attacks///

Yep, I can see that working, . . . . . . oh hang on a minute!

[sp1814]

"Oh our our once peaceful country is changing."

Let's not forget the police response to IRA terrorism. I first saw armed police on the streets back in my 20s.

That was 30 years ago.

Les plus de choses changent, plus elles restent les mêmes

[douglas9401]

I think that's Roland Garros.

[Peter Pedant]

AOG has issued a cri de coeur
and all we can do is make light hearted comments

[douglas9401]

C'est vrai, je suis désolé.

[Peter Pedant]

oh heavens there were troops clomping up and down streets during the war. They must have broken the peace in Wimbledon - or was there a wimbledon by pass ?

perhaps the war time 'route arterielle' to the south went around wimbledon

[Peter Pedant]

make that a pathetic heart rending cri dr coeur

[ludwig]

// Would a 'shoot to kill' policy be a detrrent to a would-be suicide bomber/attacker? //

It's not supposed to be a deterrent. It's supposed to be a way of killing them before they can kill other people.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes it is changing AOG. But if you can't point to a 50 year period or more where we have had perfect peace then it probably isn't changing as much as your rose coloured specs would have you believe.

[whiskeryron]

//^ I think they will be driven underground...//

Will it be difficult playing tennis underground ?

[Peter Pedant]

well in 1937 Betjeman wrote

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,

which is kinda near WImbledon

but think of his other poem which I have nodified

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,
single and mingle in Wimbedon sun,......../tingle or shingle perhaps/]
bam bam and bam bam bammer bammer bammer
and then they shot my baby down

would work better as a verse in a song I think

[Baldric]

///It's not supposed to be a deterrent. It's supposed to be a way of killing them before they can kill other people///

Great, if you can identify them in time, imho.