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2020-10-21 -Lurid Crime Tales-
'Chemical attack' leaves 15 people battling for breath after masked man walks into Pizza Hut, McDonald's then Tesco and sprays unknown gas into air sparking hazmat emergency response
  • Police believe chemical used in Upper Gornal, West Midlands attack last night was pepper spray

  • A 20-year-old man is being questioned after handing himself in to police today

  • Pizza Hut, Tesco and McDonald's were all targeted by a masked man last night
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-10-21 10:20|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1802 views ]  Top

1 Unpossible; did they not have a mask on?

Follow up would be to ask if it made the food taste better?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-21 12:05||   2020-10-21 12:05|| Front Page Top

2 in England
Posted by Lord Garth 2020-10-21 12:24||   2020-10-21 12:24|| Front Page Top

3 Isn't diversity wonderful?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-10-21 12:25||   2020-10-21 12:25|| Front Page Top

4 In Gornal a thing, with its wife,
Was mildly enjoying its life
Under mask and surveillance
When unknown assailants
Attacked with a bloody great... pointy slicey whatsit the likes of which nobody in that lockdown sector had ever seen.
Posted by Betty Crimble7900 2020-10-21 14:09||   2020-10-21 14:09|| Front Page Top

5 It’s very queer... I googled the event, and out of all the articles, not one has any description of the sprayer, beyond apparent age and sex. You’d think someone would have at least mentioned his clothes or hair colour, especially after he turned himself in.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-21 14:40||   2020-10-21 14:40|| Front Page Top

6 ^ The dog that didn't bark. Embarrassing details must be suppressed, don'tcha know...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-21 14:52||   2020-10-21 14:52|| Front Page Top

7 The description is PC.
We're lucky they even used the gender term "Man"
instead of Person.

My local Newspaper, taken over by the owners of USA-Today, has gone as far photo-shopping the Criminals photo image to a silhouette. When I
UN-PC'd it it turn out to be a Black Teen that did the crime. I send it back to the editor corrected and they never updated the photo.

Same paper that has "Temporally' turned off commenting 10 months ago for any article.
In order to control the narrative and "accidental omissions and facts.
Posted by NoBody 2020-10-21 16:17||   2020-10-21 16:17|| Front Page Top

8  When I
UN-PC'd it it turn out to be a Black Teen that did the crime


I had no idea that reversing the silhouette was possible, NoBody.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-21 16:28||   2020-10-21 16:28|| Front Page Top

9 "More Pavilions at FolkFest"
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-10-21 18:18||   2020-10-21 18:18|| Front Page Top

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