Chasing the Cumbrian killer C4 now

[Pferdestarke]

This should be interesting.

Lunatic!

[thatone1967]

I bet the copper who stopped to tend to the wounded while chasing him rather than calling for backup and continuing the chase will regret that decision for a long long time....

[Steve126]

If he hadn't stopped, perhaps he would have been shot and the programme would have had one more death to tell us about. Like the policeman, we will never know.

[Pearcyy]

thatone1967 said:

I bet the copper who stopped to tend to the wounded while chasing him rather than calling for backup and continuing the chase will regret that decision for a long long time....

Yeah with no firearm, a lunatic with 2 guns shooting people and your going to walk up to him and do what exactly? He might be a policeman but even an idiot isn't going to confront and armed gunman with no protection himself, he probably has a family to think about too so instead he helps the people possibly dieing, sounds pretty sensible to me. He has nothing to regret or feel ashamed about, i'd like to see what you would do in the same position? The only way the Police are to blame is that they didn't get armed officers in the right places at the right time.

[thatone1967]

Pearcyy said:

thatone1967 said:

I bet the copper who stopped to tend to the wounded while chasing him rather than calling for backup and continuing the chase will regret that decision for a long long time....

Yeah with no firearm, a lunatic with 2 guns shooting people and your going to walk up to him and do what exactly? He might be a policeman but even an idiot isn't going to confront and armed gunman with no protection himself, he probably has a family to think about too so instead he helps the people possibly dieing, sounds pretty sensible to me. He has nothing to regret or feel ashamed about, i'd like to see what you would do in the same position? The only way the Police are to blame is that they didn't get armed officers in the right places at the right time.

I think you mis-understand, I am not saying that the police did anything wrong, my point was, they could have possibly followed at a safe distance, and then advised armed support of his location when they arrived... IIRC, at the point he was lost, 5 people were dead, and the other 7 were killed after this event as the police tried to locate him. Once again, I am not saying the police did anything wrong, and I am damned sure I would not have done.

[Pearcyy]

Yeah fair enough, i looked at your post again afterwards and i realised i went a bit OTT. No-one can really judge anyones decisions, we don't know the extent of the peoples injuries, the guy could have had his arm blown off, i know i couldn't drive away chasing some lunatic when someones screaming for help with a missing arm. I'd assume he called for backup though and told them where he was last seen?