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[poliphilo]

Raoul Moat died- and not in the end with any great dignity. They tasered him- and the gun went off. Whether those two events are sequentially linked will be for an enquiry to find out. There was a very long stand-off, with cameras present, during which one of the tazer guys was pictured pulling comically fierce faces and the footballer Paul Gascoigne- another sad sack hard man- turned up drunk with an offer of chicken sandwiches.

If they make that movie- and I'm sure they will- it won't exactly be the ass-kicking action fantasy Moat seems to have thought he was starring in.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's scary to think that there are all those people out there who see Moat as a hero.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Indeed but as you have been writing people love a renegade.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We all do. Actually that's what makes it especially scary. I could have been seduced into cheering for Moat- if only his crimes had been a little less cowardly and his style a little less lumpen...