Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...

[GOATever]

The Mad Monk said:

What do these WM types do? Do they buy a cap badge and a beret online and then a bit of army/service uniform and wear it to a gathering, hoping they won't be challenged?

Pretty much. Except it gets really brazen sometimes. They march in remembrance parades, with fake eBay medals, lay wreaths, and try and blag it at reunions, and places like the RBL

[GOATever]

This is where the line gets blurred between bit of a tw@, and downright dangerous levels of Walty idiocy.

https://ibasouthpacific.com/#team



https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/The_Baron_of_Castlesh...

This clown is well known, but still he tries this stuff on.

[Scabutz]

GOATever said:

This is where the line gets blurred between bit of a tw@, and downright dangerous levels of Walty idiocy.

https://ibasouthpacific.com/#team



https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/The_Baron_of_Castlesh...

This clown is well known, but still he tries this stuff on.

Hes a weapons grade lunatic.

I know its fiction, but his website offers a counter sniper course. Who in all honesty needs protection to that level (I mean who needs it all) and would take someone who has been on a course. Sire, we have two candidates for your protection detail. One a formal Royal Marine sniper, 18 years service, including 8 in the SBS, 2 tours of Irag, 2 in Afghanistan. Or we have Graham who went on a 2 day course and got a made up diploma. Worth about as much as his Guns and Ammo subscription.

[Mothersruin]

I tell you one thing chaps - I did the first day of my Blue Lights Response Driving Course today - it's really interesting, a bit stressful and a bit nervy but also cracking fun when the traffic just parts in front of you. I've sat in the passenger seat on plenty of call-outs boggling at some of the decisions people make when an emergency vehicle pops up behind them, different dimension when you're in control.

[BossHogg]

98elise said:

I've never met an ex-serviceman that couldn't remember their number. I left 30 years ago and I can recall it without hesitation.

Exactly, I've had my number since 1984 and can still rattle it off without thinking. Spluttering it out during training in the gas chamber made sure I never forgot it!

[Mothersruin]

BossHogg said:

98elise said:

I've never met an ex-serviceman that couldn't remember their number. I left 30 years ago and I can recall it without hesitation.

Exactly, I've had my number since 1984 and can still rattle it off without thinking. Spluttering it out during training in the gas chamber made sure I never forgot it!

Same here - any serviceperson who says they can't remember it without a significant medical excuse is a liar.

[Dont like rolls]

BossHogg said:

98elise said:

I've never met an ex-serviceman that couldn't remember their number. I left 30 years ago and I can recall it without hesitation.

Exactly, I've had my number since 1984 and can still rattle it off without thinking. Spluttering it out during training in the gas chamber made sure I never forgot it!

Agggg yes: The added question of "How many Mars Bars in a Box" was unhelpful and not wildly funny at the time if I recall !

[BossHogg]

Or getting asked what the training centre COs dog is called or your room number, I just made it up!

[bluezedd]

I always got a strong Walt impression from the "blood bikers" when they would drop samples off at work. Then again, I also questioned whether or not they realised the majority of samples they were bringing weren't really urgent and seemed to be just getting used as a free courier service.

I didn't dare mention bikes to them or they might have tried to recruit me.

[yellowjack]

Dont like rolls said:

BossHogg said:

98elise said:

I've never met an ex-serviceman that couldn't remember their number. I left 30 years ago and I can recall it without hesitation.

Exactly, I've had my number since 1984 and can still rattle it off without thinking. Spluttering it out during training in the gas chamber made sure I never forgot it!

Agggg yes: The added question of "How many Mars Bars in a Box" was unhelpful and not wildly funny at the time if I recall !

A small percentage of the population are (largely) immune to the effects of CS Gas. We had one in our intake, 'Badger' (he had a natural white streak in his hair like he'd been painting a ceiling). Upon demasking at the door to the chamber he was asked the routine stuff, name, rank, number, home address, and the instructor was beginning to expect the effects to take hold. But they didn't. He was kept there, answering question after question, and although his eyes started watering and he found it slightly more difficult to answer clearly, he didn't succumb to the CS like the rest of us.In the end the instructor let him out because he'd run out of questions to ask...

[Zoobeef]

yellowjack said:

Dont like rolls said:

BossHogg said:

98elise said:

I've never met an ex-serviceman that couldn't remember their number. I left 30 years ago and I can recall it without hesitation.

Exactly, I've had my number since 1984 and can still rattle it off without thinking. Spluttering it out during training in the gas chamber made sure I never forgot it!

Agggg yes: The added question of "How many Mars Bars in a Box" was unhelpful and not wildly funny at the time if I recall !

A small percentage of the population are (largely) immune to the effects of CS Gas. We had one in our intake, 'Badger' (he had a natural white streak in his hair like he'd been painting a ceiling). Upon demasking at the door to the chamber he was asked the routine stuff, name, rank, number, home address, and the instructor was beginning to expect the effects to take hold. But they didn't. He was kept there, answering question after question, and although his eyes started watering and he found it slightly more difficult to answer clearly, he didn't succumb to the CS like the rest of us.In the end the instructor let him out because he'd run out of questions to ask...

Yeah we had one too. Although he wasnt effected he then had to do a mini phys session in the chamber so I was glad I was. I fked up the first time though, I removed the mask and then took a deep breath to speak. That wasnt pleasant.

[Shakermaker]

Something that seems well intentioned but destined to be overrun by a certain type, perhaps?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50708637?fbclid=IwAR...

[Gameface]

Catnip...

[pavarotti1980]

Shakermaker said:

Something that seems well intentioned but destined to be overrun by a certain type, perhaps?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50708637?fbclid=IwAR...

This on the face of it seems a good idea. Increase awareness but in reality the walts will be ringing 999 with a terror incident the moment they find a dog turd bag in the woods at the same time as setting up a 100m cordon with their hi-viz vest on that they bought for such incidents

[Shakermaker]

Maybe now is a good time to invest in a vinyl cutter so I can make some additional stickers for their 27 year old Frontera which proclaims them to be Counter-Terrorism Trained?

[Scabutz]

Have we covered the First Amendment Auditors yet?

https://firstamendmentwatch.org/deep-dive/controve...

I fell down a YouTube black hole the other day and was watching some of these. Basically some losers start filming police stations, prisons, etc and then when the police turn up to ask what they are doing they start quote their barroom-barrister legal expertise on why they are allowed to do it. It often ends in them screaming "Am I being detained" when the police ask for ID. Quite often the cops are being complete wkers also.

But one I watched was pathetic. Someone was filming the entrance to an FAA building. Cops arrive and ask her who she and what she is doing. She starts going off on one. I thought the cops had a fair point that she was filming people coming and going from a federal building and they needed to investigate .

Clearly these people have nothing better to do with their lives.

[DonkeyApple]

Gameface said:

Catnip...

Or a trap! What better way to generate a list of Gestapo in waiting so that in the event of a crisis they can be rounded up and put on trains to special camps before they get a chance to put all of us on trains to special camps.

[yellowjack]

There was a big gathering of these Response types last night on St Catherine's Hill, near Christchurch/Bournemouth.

I was heading up there on my mountain bike, and spotted several Wessex 4x4 Response vehicles, plus a police Transit van, with several people milling around in hi-vis. Then, driving away, was a Lowland Rescue Land Rover. No one seemed interested in me, so I made my way up onto the Hill and started riding around. Down on the north slope of the Hill I could see a three-man team searching with powerful torches, and on a nearby old rail bed/bridleway were a couple of vehicles with amber flashing lights.

As I came to realise that they might actually be engaged in the useful exercise of searching for a missing person, I decided to make my way off the Hill. I didn't want to be getting under anyone's feet, making a nuisance of myself, or blinding searchers with my front light. As I came off the Hill I saw that the number of vehicles had increased, and that a large bus-like "Search Control" vehicle was parked up, with an area around the back doors coned off and large urns dispensing hot drinks from trestle tables set up alongside the bus. I asked what was going on but no info was forthcoming other than "we've got it all under control, thanks" so I went home. I wouldn't have been much use to them anyway, dressed in my "silly cycling shoes" and with less than an hour's burn time left in my bike light. Besides which I'm new to the area, and could just as easily have become a casualty myself biking around an unfamiliar area in the dark.

If it was a real search & rescue job, or even a training exercise, then I applaud them, as it was an unpleasant night to be out there. But a couple of pretty "Walty" things stood out for me. There was a Mercedes Benz 4x4 (but not a G-Wagen) parked up when I first spotted their gathering. All amber pulsing LEDs left going while it was parked, unattended. Great stuff if the vehicle is presenting some kind of hazard to other road users, but not so necessary if it is parked in a residential street between the heating engineer's Transit van and Cliff and Irene's Kia Picanto. Just turn the bloody things off. The other one was a Frontera (I think) with dayglo stickers on the side windows that appeared to be a 'callsign' - #WE515, or something similar.

Anyway, it left me a little torn between mocking this 4x4 Response mob, and applauding them for their voluntary acts of service to the the community. Mostly, though, if there genuinely was someone lost out in the rapidly descending darkness on a cold wet evening, in difficult terrain, then I hope the volunteers doing the searching found them swiftly and recovered them to safety.

I would have taken photos for the thread, but it didn't seem the right thing to do in the (potential) circumstances, and anyway, the camera on my phone is very poor at taking low light pictures. And at least none of those present tried to marshal me or control my movements.

[Mothersruin]

We, MR, often have lots of volunteers ask to help on searches - we tend to stick them with a PC in an unlikely area to keep them out of mischief.

Searching is all about maths and behavioural science. Probability and expected behaviours - there's also then the issue of how to treat any items discovered as they may become evidence in a crime.

It's morbidly fascinating and interesting.

Some info if you're remotely interested - http://www.searchresearch.org.uk/www/ukmpbs/other_...

[Big_Dan]

Article on our local BBC news yesterday explaining that our unsung heroes (4x4 response, pictured driving down a greenlane) are standing by to collect ballot boxes in the event of bad weather

Thank goodness.