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[webofevil]

There are certain elements of this story that appear at first glance to conflict slightly. I look forward to seeing how they are resolved.

A man shot dead by police officers was trying to buy an illegal firearm from a supplier, Scotland Yard has said.

The 52-year-old victim was fatally wounded outside Paolo’s restaurant in Ealing, west London on Tuesday night. A loaded weapon was found with the dead man, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating the incident. […]

Witness Andrew Wood told BBC London 94.9 the dead man was naked. “There was a guy lying on the floor, a naked man, and they were trying to revive him.”

Comments

[i-jobot.livejournal.com]

You have to take someone's top off to do CPR. Maybe they took the rest of his clothes off to try to find the wound. Or maybe he was just wearing a loose flowing robe.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Outlandish suggestions like these are all very well, but I for one always buy my illegal firearms in the nip.

[lifesizemonkey.livejournal.com]

What, you mean you don't go out naked of an evening when you want to have a nice relaxed dinner and buy a gun?

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Not for dinner, no.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Except for at Dans Le Noir?, of course, where it becomes less relevant.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone minded, did they?

[rainsinger.livejournal.com]

Perchance he felt that a loaded weapon was all the adornment he needed.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

It goes with everything.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I er ... since when did it become OK to shoot someone in the act of committing any crime? I mean - one could make a logical argument for shooting someone engaged in an act of murder. But not for shooting someone engaged in an act of purchase, however criminal.

Ok, maybe anything in a Burberry check.

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Hrm... regarding this bit from your quote:

A man shot dead by police officers was trying to buy an illegal firearm from a supplier, Scotland Yard has said.

That text is no longer in the article. Looks like they changed it to this:

Police who shot dead a man were investigating alleged illegal firearm transactions, Scotland Yard has said.

Reading the article, it sounded to me like the supplier was the one who was shot, not a buyer. If it was the seller that was shot, and if this happened near his home, that could kind of explain the nakedness.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

> That text is no longer in the article

I love when they do that and go all sodding Twilight Zone. "No sir, there's never been anyone of that name here..."