"Richard J." wrote in message
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Paul Weaver wrote:
Mr R wrote:
How stupid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6213559.stm

I'm all for banging up the asbo generation, however
"The attack came after pre-emptive arrests were made by British
Transport Police in an attempt to prevent major vandalism attacks."

Either they were arrested because they might commit a crime, which
is awful, or they were arrested because they had committed a crime
-- in which case why wait until christmas?

I took that report to mean that the police had discovered plans for a
major graffiti attack over Christmas (i.e. a criminal conspiracy), but
didn't manage to detain all the conspirators. The lack of effective
surveillance perhaps suggests that they thought they had in fact got the
whole gang.

I wish the BBC hadn't published the photo, which is giving these vandals
the publicity they were seeking.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

They should have left the current switched on.