Double Dare-table leg challenge.

[Porty]

How about we organise a "Carry a table leg around" dare contest. Each person could nominate where they are prepared to carry the wrapped table leg and whoever carries it in the most dangerous place wins.

We could maybe have sponsors.
Vogue, Sterling etc

"if you are going to go, go in style"

[Dadaist]

As the weather is cold, I suggest wearing a balaclava also.

[mr magnolia]

Have to wait until the shootists get back off strike first though

[Porty]

As the weather is cold, I suggest wearing a balaclava also.

ROTFLMAO!!!

[wangi]

I remember this from the first time round in '99. A tragic tale of police incompetence and peoples ignorant prejudices ("he sounded Irish").

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid ... =667252002

Police ‘no doubts’ about shooting

KAREN MCVEIGH
kmcveigh@scotsman.com

TWO police officers who shot dead an innocent man after being told that the table leg he carried was a sawn-off shotgun said they would have done the same again, an inquest heard yesterday.

Inspector Neil Sharman and PC Kevin Fagan shot Harry Stanley, 46, after a drinker in an east London pub reported seeing an "Irishman" leave the premises with a shotgun in a blue plastic bag, St Pancras Coroner’s Court, London, heard.

The officers, from the Metropolitan Police’s SO19 armed response unit, told a colleague that they shot Mr Stanley, a Scots father of three, after he pointed the tightly wrapped bag containing the table leg at them.

Mr Stanley, who had difficulty walking, bending down or raising his arms after a cancer operation, died on the evening of 22 September, 1999, only 50 yards from his home in Warneford Street, Hackney.

Giving evidence yesterday, Sergeant Michael Meaney, who was the second in command of SO19 that day, told the jury that he arrived at the scene in Fremont Street after the shooting. He said Insp Sharman told him that "a big, thick-set white bloke" was carrying "a sawn-off shotgun in a blue plastic bag".

Insp Sharman had said: "We drove up here and he popped out on our right. We stopped and got out. Kev [PC Fagan] went out on to the right footway. I went wide to the left.

"He was challenged. He went right into that road [Fremont Street]. He turned and levelled the shotgun at Kev. We both fired at him. I think we both hit him."

Sgt Meaney said he looked inside the bag.

"Again, I had to stare at this piece of wood," the officer told the court. "I was expecting to see a shotgun."

When he told the officers of his find, he said: "They both appeared to be stunned and in shock by that. They said they wouldn’t have done anything differently in the circumstances."

Earlier, a witness, Peggy Carpenter, told the jury she saw Mr Stanley lift his right hand towards the officers at a 90-degree angle to his body. She then heard a "crack", followed by another seconds later.

[Porty]

Imagine what they would have done to him if he had been carrying the WHOLE table around? Rocket launcher?

[Pal of Porty]

Now it is an umbrella as well as a table leg. I am definitely not risking leaving IKEA in the rain.