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ledfut
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Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player
#8020776 - 02/14/08 01:03 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=98741&in_page_id=34
A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus.
Darren Nixon was surrounded by armed police after his music player was mistaken for a gun.
When a passer-by saw the 28-year-old get out his black Philips machine to change tracks, she panicked and dialled 999.
Police tracked Mr Nixon using CCTV. As he got off the bus home from work he was surrounded by a firearms unit, who bundled him into a van.
He was then put in a cell and his fingerprints, DNA and mugshot were taken before he was released.
Although police realised it was a false alarm, Mr Nixon, from Stoke-on-Trent, now has to live with his DNA stored on a national database.
The force will also keep on record that he was arrested on suspicion of a firearms offence.
Mr Nixon said: 'It was unreal – I had a completely clean record before this and have always been a law-abiding citizen.' The mechanic said that, as he got off the bus, he saw a policeman gesture but could not hear what he said.
Mr Nixon added: 'As I got closer, I could see that two of the cops had guns. My heart was racing a mile a minute. One of them was hiding behind a car door, looking down his sight at me, and the other was shouting orders and pointing a gun at me.
'I turned the music off and they were telling me to put my hands up in the air.'
DNA records are kept for life so that they can be matched to future samples.
Even suspects who are wrongfully arrested normally stay on the database. Staffordshire Police said a member of the public reported seeing a man pull a gun from his pocket, grip it with both hands and aim.
A spokesman added: 'An operation was put in place and a man matching the description was detained.'
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: ledfut]
#8021116 - 02/14/08 05:55 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Those whacky Brits.
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: Phred]
#8021122 - 02/14/08 06:01 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Its amazing they put up with being monitored to that extent. Is Britian the wave of the future in the world of spying on the public, or just some whacko island gone wrong?
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: ledfut]
#8021257 - 02/14/08 07:28 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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When a passer-by saw the 28-year-old get out his black Philips machine to change tracks, she panicked and dialled 999.
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Staffordshire Police said a member of the public reported seeing a man pull a gun from his pocket, grip it with both hands and aim.
Clearcut case of too-much-tv.
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Visionary Tools



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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: elbisivni]
#8021447 - 02/14/08 08:49 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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there's government adverts all over the place that (in bold letters) proclaim: REPORT SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR. OCEANIA, MY HEART BELONGS TO THEE*
So at what point did these police see he didn't have a gun, and it was instead a cuboid shaped mp3 player, but instead of letting him go, treated him guilty until proven innocent?
*half true. But you can tell they are champing at the bit to use Eric Blair's propaganda. He writes better than they ever could.
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: Visionary Tools]
#8021496 - 02/14/08 09:03 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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So at what point did these police see he didn't have a gun, and it was instead a cuboid shaped mp3 player, but instead of letting him go, treated him guilty until proven innocent?
They had to leave all the witnesses with a sense that the police had just apprehended a threat to their well-being..
Think of the big sight it must have been! Police, guns drawn - unsuspecting dangerous loner - the heroes taking him into custody..
And the thought of the government implementing adverts taken straight from a book where-in the government in power uses them to maintain a stranglehold on the people..
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: elbisivni]
#8022481 - 02/14/08 01:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'd be laughing, except just think how much easier it would be to frame someone for a crime, when the government (the same government that keeps loosing database records of millions of people in this country) keeps a DNA database of everyone.
"Hey, I object to.."
"HOW DARE YOU OBJECT TO OUR BELOVED GOVERNMENT, YOU PEDOTERRORIST"
Lo and behold, your DNA ends up in Bradford, all over a dead body, when you were in the pub on the other side of the country. Don't fuck with a government that can frame you, and proclaims guilty until proven innocent!
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: ledfut]
#8022670 - 02/14/08 02:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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They should arrest that woman for being completely retarded
http://images.google.com/images?q=Philips+mp3&ndsp=21&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Zhl&start=0&sa=N
which one looks like a gun?
and who IS this woman? the possibility for abuse, if this is how it works over there, is outrageous.. no accountability whatsoever
O BUT AMERICA'S THE POLICE STATE LOL
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: fireworks_god]
#8022860 - 02/14/08 03:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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fireworks_god said: Its amazing they put up with being monitored to that extent.
are you blind? take a look around at the various intersections in most large cities, look along the interstates, there's cameras everywhere
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wilshire
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: ledfut]
#8023444 - 02/14/08 05:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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aren't handguns illegal in britain?
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: wilshire]
#8023451 - 02/14/08 05:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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not for the criminals
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Re: Arrested, caged, and DNA tested - for using an MP3 player [Re: Prisoner#1]
#8023851 - 02/14/08 06:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Anything you outlaw, the outlaws will have.
It seems freedom is next up on the things to make illegal list.
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