You could be right and apologise for the obscenity. I guess over here we KNOW or knew what the RUC were like & capable of so we knew not to move a muscle innocent or not, they'd shot if you did anything else. I remember walking past a British Army checkpoint & I had a Cassette Tape, I was about 18, and a soldier asked who it was on the tape & I ignored them, didn't run or anything, just ignored him thinking WTF business is it of yours, so helped me change my decision with his SA-80 Butt.

I suppose I don't know what peoples reactions would be if they are strangers to this kind of scenario and it was unfair to judge people on what I know, which when I look at it, was an under-current front line for 30+ years. Freedom & Peace can bring naievity, complacency & misunderstandings once it is questioned in a country un-used to it being threatened.

People keep mentioning 'but London had IRA' yea right. London had 0.00001% of the troubles here & when the IRA planted bombs they gave warnings as people weren't the target, the economy was (with one exception, outside London, in Brighton when they tried to kill Maggie Thatcher for revenge of her letting the Hunger Strikers die). This is new to most Londoners, WWII survivors are getting scarce, and with this war, your enemies aren't in uniform, or aren't 'the bloody Irish' or fighting spears against gunpowder or have one language, or even one skin tone, or care about civilian lives....this enemy, as long as this extreme Religious Ideology doesn't die, will always be able to replace it's 'martyr' with another willing hopeful to paradise.