I've seen motorized vehicles parked for years start just fine after a bit of cheap technical cleaning.
Couldn't these things just have stood stored somewhere in the corner of an unused government parking lot?
Mr Khan said: "For too long, London taxpayers have had to bear the brunt of Boris Johnson's appalling botched water cannon deal. This has been another waste of taxpayers' money by Boris Johnson."
Not a fan of Boris Johnson, but this seems like wasting even more money. Especially since water cannons work fine for riots and could potentially be used in the future.
It does seem to me that the police were woefully under-equipped in 2011, and if riots erupt on that scale again I dunno how they're gonna cope considering the cuts that have happened since then
Luckily as a politician you don't have to worry about that, because the main goal of your policies has already been achieved: you've made a career for yourself and are likely working high up at a bank or other big corporation.
Bought from Germany in 2014
Banned in 2015
Ridiculed for buying them
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More to the point though, why on earth did they ban water cannons? What do they expect the police to do in a riot situation?
Comrade Thatcher on the Rye is weakening them from the inside. You do not know the sacrifices she makes
The reason they were banned is that they blind people by gouging their eyes out with high pressure water.
So, first we banned guns, with a judge recently suggesting filing down knives. Crossbows might be being banned, and we banned water cannons in 2015?
Mr Speaker, the decision on whether to authorise water cannon is a serious one. Water cannon, without safeguards, have the capacity to cause harm.
I swear in 2030, we're gonna ban water.
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'AV YA GOT A LOICENCE FOR DEM TEARS, M8? TEN YEARS IN THE SLAMMER
Yeah it's just a bit of water isn't it. Just a bit wet.
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thank goodness britain has no chance of having some catastrophic event in their future that would trigger widespread riots
Maybe the police will join in this time.
Costs included £32,004 for low emission zone compliance
Sir, I understand there is a riot going on, but your vehicle is still missing the required exhaust filter, therefore it would be in violation of the Greater London Low Emission
Zone Charging Order of 2006. I cannot allow you to proceed at this time.
But...
Please turn around.
Holy shit - I thought you were joking.
They were banned, they can't be used. The only options are to either make museum pieces out of them, scrap them, or sell them to someone who can use them.
Afraid not. It's basically a high powered fire engine hose. They sweep people off their feet too, which can result in head injuries from being blasted into the road.
Some countries use lower powered ones that basically just hose foul smelling chemical water onto people, but Boris Johnson bought turbo faceripper 9000 riot annihilating water jets.
Some countries also use these mounted on coastal patrol boats to drown refugees, they're strong enough to sweep people off a deck.
The water cannons are far, far too dangerous to use. I'm glad they were banned, May was right.
One lesson to be learnt from 2011 however was that riots need to be far more aggressively responded too, the police's tactic of hanging back and just retreating when all they were facing was retards in coats and jackets was extremely annoying.
love to have a pint with this bastard
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FYI these aren't banned in the UK, they are used often enough in Northern Ireland. They should be though, they barely work as all they do is rile people up even more to attack the police using them.
I'm not sure why people are taking the piss of us regulating these things of out of existence? They pointless and inhumane, good for causing a few compact fractures and the odd case of blindness. Ngl, a government doing that to theri people sounds like something worth rioting over. As for "costs included £32,004 for low emission zone compliance" I mean are we seriously against government service vehicles being regulated to be low emission?
There aren't a whole lot of options when it comes to riot control.
Rubber and plastic bullets are way more likely to cause blindness or even death. (which are actually allowed in the UK...)
Tear gas itself is not all that effective (especially with more prepared protesters with masks etc.), and its not uncommon for certain police forces to just shoot the metal canister at a person (accidentally or deliberately), which can also be fatal.
That pretty much leaves close range options like pepper spray, batons, etc., and I think we can agree that close contact between protesters and police is way more dangerous for both sides.
There is a reason why water cannons are used in every Western European country (save for maybe in Scandinavia due to cold weather), and its because they are the safest option.
I feel sorry for that German person who got blinded by the water spray, but Germany has more than a hundred water cannons that are used regularly, and have been for a long time. Meanwhile for example in 2006, when there were protests against the previous govt here, 16 people were seriously injured by rubber bullets (including two who had their eyes shot out) in a single afternoon.
It's not like its a patrol car thats out on the streets most of the time. For something that may be used a couple times a year, it sure seems pointless to me.
What the fuck, who?
And either way these were a waste of taxpayers' money given the funding for them could have been better spent elsewhere in policing rather than giving people a target in riot situations.
They were bought as a kneejerk reaction to keep people happy because public opinion was basically "why dont the army just shoot the protesters" at the time.
Somehow both the US and Cuba. Cuban coast guard used them in 94 to sink a refugee boat fleeing the country, and the US coast guard used them in 99 to prevent a refugee boat from landing in Florida.
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