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Follow that up with a SAMAS ARAN model and Bill Gates would be trumped as the world's richest man.]]>May 16th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 16th 2007 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
Well, that's your tax dollars at work for ya.

Cop 1: hmm, we messed it up, and broke his door, what should we do?
Cop 2: Just arrest him and charge him with something.
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They are known for their aggressive policing tactics.]]>May 16th 2007 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 16th 2007 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 16th 2007 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 17th 2007 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/]]>May 16th 2007 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 16th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 16th 2007 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 17th 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
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The coppers that broke his door down should be the ones that get their wrists slapped. The "dangers" of police work in the UK are significantly lower than the dangers for coppers in the US. What was wrong with simply calling the guys house phone or ringing the doorbell first? The fact that the owner of the mannequin was arrested speaks volumes about where this country is heading. Fascism.]]>May 17th 2007 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
You are an idiot... assuming someone saw lara through an open window and called it in, surely it would be safer for the cops to do a little surveillance first, ie. look in through said window? Oh dear...]]>May 17th 2007 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
They see a silhouette of a person with a gun in hand and the cops are going to stick their head in the window to see whats up. Yeah, that's a real safe thing to do. I suppose cops should now look the other way when they see a figure with a gun in a window.

Everything up to the point of the cops entering and securing the area and apartment was according to procedure. I will agree that for the life of me I can't figure out why he was arrested though. ]]>May 17th 2007 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/May 18th 2007 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
You watch too many movies. ]]>May 17th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
You engadget writers are sexist pigs. GunMAN? Cause women never shoot anyone and don't know what guns are or how to use them - and of course, Lara herself certainly is not a female character. I'm going to pull a reverse feminist here - feminists insist on political correct speak that includes women in everything positive about humanity, I'm going to suggest that we also include women in everything bad about humanity as well. So let's start using 'gunperson' to be inclusive of women in the spirit of feminism.

Any way, the UK is already some nightmare out of the famous novel 1984. They are a fascist state already.

This is a tragic - though has many potentially comic aspects.

Police should require intensive psychological testing as well as IQ testing. There are people who shouldn't have positions of power over the general public and I think these police officers might fall into that category.

Assuming in the UK the police need probable cause to enter, they themselves would have to have actually seen the gunperson in the window - police don't enter your home because some one told them to - they only enter if they have - or think they have evidence. I guess they didn't observe for longer then a split second because they failed to realize the person holding the gun was inhumanly still.]]>May 17th 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/armed-cops-burst-into-home-to-neutralize-lara-croft-mannequin/
Thankfully I was out at the time and a neighbour informed the Police that it was a cardboard Bond and posed no threat.

They didn't smash the door down or arrest me. I guess I got lucky, but it happened around 1996 a time of less paranoia.]]>May 17th 2007 6:02PM