Last weekend, the radio was on in Spar while I was getting a roll.
The newswoman was reading out that a man had been murdered in a pub the previous night. A gunman entered the bar, shot him and fled the scene. At the end of report, she finished saying that the man was known to the police. Let me tell you, that took a load of my mind, all that sympathy and sadness for the loss of a life- [poof] gone.
Since the police knew of him he must have deserved it...
It was a service really...
Lightening the load on the police in these turbulent times...
Yeah I like the way the media have established subtle little euphamisms like that, though I would prefer them to say: "it's o.k. guys, there's no deranged psycho out there poppin random punters in pubs, it was most likely your typical drug related capping ... here's Tom with the weather"
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Anonymous Tony (thinking of setting up his own blog having read your now!).