What an IDIOT!!!!

[zara 4]

The guy on the roof who had the kentucky delivered to him,UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!Human rights?HUH!He is a tw*t who is working everyone and just basically taking the p*ss,why oh why do we have to be so damn 'pure' and concerned for every idiot out there,they should have just let him jump when he threatened to!!!

[CT]

Is there a link to go with this story please?

[Dom Tuk]

And guess where he came from??. Illegal i bet

[zara 4]

I bet the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ct,just been on the news. if theres a link cant do it cos dont know how,bit illiterate when it comes to these things sorry!!!!!!!!

[smudge]

Here's a link to The Dail Mail - Man on roof!

[smudge]

P.S. I'd have starved him down, thrown him in the London Dungeons, then thrown away the key!

[VINNY100_2]

I suppose it could have been worse..at least he didnt ask for a mcdonalds....but seriously...why didnt they immobilize him with a dart gun..then put him in the Big Brother house for 10 weeks..!!!!! (:-)

[CT]

Cheers for the link. If the idiot had been on my roof I have a bunch of old tennis balls hanging round my flat. Anyone would be welcome to join me in some reverse target practice as I have a spare racquet. ;-)

[Bluebell]

It gets better though. Apparently the same guy did the same things last year when he was suspected of having stolen a police vehicle. He demanded food then, and it was delivered by a police officer on a fire hydraulic platform. All in the name of Human Rights. It really does beggar belief!

Will anyone be concerned about the Human Rights of any injuries people may have had as a result of this idiot throwing down tiles from the roof, and the damage done to parked cars?

I'm afraid the police have been made to look extremely foolish.

[sandbach99]

Had he not been fed the first thing his lawyer would have done, once he came down, would have been to lodge a compensation claim stating that the police had abused him by not giving him a drink and allowing him to become dehydrated in the hot weather. No doubt the lawyer would have thought something up for the food, the police would have then either have to settle out-of-court or let some judge feel sorry for him, either way it would have cost more than the KFC.
The police were in a no win situation and took the cheapist way out even if it did make them look foolish.

Don't blame the police, blame the compensation lawyers and the human rights legislation.

[sp1814]

Dom where did he come from?

[sp1814]

...oops. Sorry pressed 'Submit' too quickly.

Where did he come from, and what relevance does it have?

[Dom Tuk]

dont know sp1814 where exactly he came from. Its my opinion that under the current climate of illegal immigrants and lax supervision and sentencing of criminals (illegal or not) and given the run of luck that the home secretary is having at the moment, the chances are that i may well be right. Furthermore given the general area where this trouble arose i may venture to add that if at all he was illegal then he may well have come from Jamaica. However sp1814 dont feel the need to rush to the defence of Jamaicans or attack me for even suggesting it. Not all jamaicans are criminals or illegals. i do not wish to sterotype neither am i afraid to state problems when i see one. On the question of whether he should have been fed a KFC I am on the side of the police here. It kept the situation calm and maybe a life was saved. No harm was done by feeding him.

[Bluebell]

Doesn't 'Free Will' come into the argument? He went up there of his own free will, no one forced him. The police gave him a can of Pepsi. That wasn't good enough, he wanted a 2 litre bottle. He wanted his favourite brand of cigarettes. I agree with Zara 4. He threatened to jump. He should have been allowed to exercise his own Human Right to have done so and saved the tax payer a considerable amount of money.

I'll stop being grumpy now!

[sp1814]

My heart sank when I saw the picture in the paper, because I knew, I just knew that it would be another nail in the coffin for every decent black family in the country.

If he were white, he would be thought of as scum. But I'm afraid, because he's black, he's thought of as black first, then scum second.

The strange thing is...I totally agree with the thrust of opinion here. If he were on my roof, I'd want to squirt washing up liquid all over the tiles, until he stacked it onto the pavement...

...but it's that "bet he shouldn't be here" thing that bothers me.

Not having a go, just curious on that point.

[jenstar]

Some people really have a Pavlovian response to the words "human rights", don't they? The police dealt with the matter calmly, spent �9.99 on a bucket of chicken and the whole incident ended without anything getting damaged or anyone getting hurt. Money well spent if you ask me.

[lightoftruth]

surely they could have charged him on resisting arrest. situations like this are simple. Point a gun at him and tell him to come down. If he doesnt shoot him in the leg and go and get him.

[flashpig]

I agree with jen, �9.99 is probably cheaper than cleaning bits of splatted immigrant off the floor.

[kempie]

Quote from the article:

"He caused thousands of pounds of damage to parked cars after clambering up the drainpipe of the building..."


Not quite as you describe the incident jenstar.

[Dom Tuk]

Extracts of the drama were shown on local news. The man in question had ripped apart a large chimney stack and was chucking the bricks on police and cars. The street below was littered with about 50 shattered bricks. The bricks were on top of cars. A lot of damage was done and remember he was up there for 20 yes twenty hours. A bucket of KFC was definetly n order, all that effort of chucking bricks is hunger inducing you know. And given the heat, a can of coke was a tad unkind.

[Dizzieblonde]

Why can't I help but think that in any other country they'd have left him there to starve or just shot him down instead.

Surely he has no respect for the human rights of those he was lobbing bits of tile at, so why should we show any respect for his? :o\