Suspicious purchases - what would you do?
28-07-2005, 12:57 AM
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Suspicious purchases - what would you do?
Doing a bit of midnight shopping last night (well, 11.30pm), I was stood behind two chaps in the queue to pay at Tesco's in North End.
I hate thinking along these lines, as it's such a cliché and almost always wrong, but...
They bought these items:
* 2 2-litre bottles of plain, thin bleach
* An N64(?) TV games console - you know, a handheld games console thingy that just plugs into your TV
* An inkjet printer cartridge - an Epson one?
* Something else small and electrical... Another inkjet cartidge maybe?
* 4 pints of milk and a loaf of bread
This leads me to think that...
a) they've got a lot of cleaning to do, and they're going to take it in shifts while the other plays Nintendo and makes toast and hot milk.
b) the combination of electrical goods, inkjet ink (doesn't it contain a high volume of solvent to dry the ink?) and bleach (isn't it hydrogen peroxide, a basic component of the London bombs?), along with the relatively meagre food budget and the fact they weren't talking much - they maybe spoke a fluent sentence or two in a language which sounded middle eastern - makes me a bit suspicious. Their clothes were also very neutral - no recognisable labels and very "normal", almost like they'd made a conscious effort.
I think they clocked me watching them pack the food into a separate bag to all the other stuff as they stopped talking and the younger one started eyeballing me; I didn't fancy making a new best mate or two so I stared blankly at the ceiling, grinning occasionally like the village idiot...
If you're the Firm, MI5 or another Gov't security agency reading this, feel free to add me to your spam lists - alex@DJstalker.com - and tell me what you folks reckon these guys were up to...!
That said, if they *were* buying ingredients to bake a cake from their Anarchists' Cookbook, they were stupid to choose the middle of the night when there's such a low volume of people that they would stand out. Also, picking them out on security cameras won't be hard to do, although by the time a suicide bomber comes to the attention of the police, etc, it's usually too late to undo the done.
I'd completely forgotten about this until I heard the news mentioning the bombs were largely composed of Hydrogen Peroxide.
So I guess what I'm asking is, is it worth making an anonymous 'phone call about? Or will I be looking at a bollocking for wasting police time?
/al
I hate thinking along these lines, as it's such a cliché and almost always wrong, but...
They bought these items:
* 2 2-litre bottles of plain, thin bleach
* An N64(?) TV games console - you know, a handheld games console thingy that just plugs into your TV
* An inkjet printer cartridge - an Epson one?
* Something else small and electrical... Another inkjet cartidge maybe?
* 4 pints of milk and a loaf of bread
This leads me to think that...
a) they've got a lot of cleaning to do, and they're going to take it in shifts while the other plays Nintendo and makes toast and hot milk.
b) the combination of electrical goods, inkjet ink (doesn't it contain a high volume of solvent to dry the ink?) and bleach (isn't it hydrogen peroxide, a basic component of the London bombs?), along with the relatively meagre food budget and the fact they weren't talking much - they maybe spoke a fluent sentence or two in a language which sounded middle eastern - makes me a bit suspicious. Their clothes were also very neutral - no recognisable labels and very "normal", almost like they'd made a conscious effort.
I think they clocked me watching them pack the food into a separate bag to all the other stuff as they stopped talking and the younger one started eyeballing me; I didn't fancy making a new best mate or two so I stared blankly at the ceiling, grinning occasionally like the village idiot...
If you're the Firm, MI5 or another Gov't security agency reading this, feel free to add me to your spam lists - alex@DJstalker.com - and tell me what you folks reckon these guys were up to...!
That said, if they *were* buying ingredients to bake a cake from their Anarchists' Cookbook, they were stupid to choose the middle of the night when there's such a low volume of people that they would stand out. Also, picking them out on security cameras won't be hard to do, although by the time a suicide bomber comes to the attention of the police, etc, it's usually too late to undo the done.
I'd completely forgotten about this until I heard the news mentioning the bombs were largely composed of Hydrogen Peroxide.
So I guess what I'm asking is, is it worth making an anonymous 'phone call about? Or will I be looking at a bollocking for wasting police time?
/al
28-07-2005, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Brookesy
their going to get off their tits and play on the N64 and have the munchies 
Try using bigger text next time mate i struggled to read all that
Try using bigger text next time mate i struggled to read all that
Yeah, I know, I'm just bein' a tit
Still, brightened up my night
28-07-2005, 01:24 AM
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if ur that suspect about it theres a number u can call about this sort of thing, they set it up just after the bombings for people to report any info they may have.
better to be safe then sorry.
better to be safe then sorry.
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