On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:55:34 -0700 (PDT), theodoredice@googlemail.com
wrote:

>On 13 Oct, 17:37, Barnacle Bill  wrote:
>> theodored...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> > On 13 Oct, 15:36, MM  wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:28:08 +0100, Cynic 
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:15:44 +0100, "Ret." 
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>> There is only so much equipment that you can place in a car boot. Accident
>> >>>> signs, cones, spades, brushes, etc take up a lot of space and will be used
>> >>>> far more frequently than a loud-hailer. The chances are that if you put a
>> >>>> loud-hailer in a police car boot, by the time it was needed the batteries
>> >>>> would be flat and it would be bashed to pieces by the heavy metal road signs
>> >>>> being dumped on top of it. Most police stations have two or three loud
>> >>>> hailers available -  providing the staff are available to go and get them.
>> >>> IIUC, the devices that produce the various siren sounds made by modern
>> >>> police vehicles are powerful loudspeakers driven by a high-wattage
>> >>> amplifier.  The addition of a microphone could easily adapt them to
>> >>> double as a loudhailer.  In fact, I thought that that facility was
>> >>> already available on police cars.
>> >> Maybe it just never crossed the mind of the police officers present
>> >> that a sharp warning to the crowd to STFU might just save a man's
>> >> life.
>>
>> > Then we'd have several readers of this group claiming the police don't
>> > have such powers and are abusing their position.
>>
>> > The guy wanted to kill himself, so he did. As long as he didn't kill
>> > anyone else in the process no harm was done.
>>
>> You really are a prize cunt-
>
>Your lack of reasoned argument is noted.

Reasoned argument with a person expressing views like yours is wasted
effort.

MM