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Originally Posted by paul0510
...have to be careful in crowds. Someone got shot by the cops as they thought he was a sniper. Read that years ago but it still sticks when I look at those things!
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I was about to post a similar comment. A year or two ago a man in the UK was shot dead for carrying a 'shotgun' that turned out to be a chair/table leg in a plastic bag. And of course there is the Brazilian electrician who was shot dead by armed police who took him for a terrorist. All it takes is for a member of the public to mistake the item for a rifle, or a rocket launcher, report it to the police, and you are potentially in trouble.
In case you think armed police are rare, I left my house one morning to find 5 police cars, a large black van, uniformed police, and several armed police outside a house less than 100m away. Mind you, this is Luton.
