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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.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was a violent thug- but our entertainment industry glamourises violent thugs- and always has done. There was a legend in the making here. Everything depended on how the story ended. If he'd gone down shooting he'd have become Butch Cassidy (so to speak). As it is the bathos of his death ought to put an end to his burgeoning cult- and I very much hope it does.