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#1 Jul 09 2008 at 11:23 AM Rating: Excellent
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This is the transcript from the new "If you suspect it, report it" radio ad in London (you can listen to it on the page I've linked at the end...it's near the bottom of that page):

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Female Voice over:

How d’you tell the difference between someone just video-ing crowded place and someone who’s checking it out for a terrorist attack?

How can you tell if someone’s buying unusual quantities of stuff for a good reason or if they’re planning to make a bomb?

What’s the difference between someone just hanging around and someone behaving suspiciously?

How can you tell if they’re a normal everyday person, or a terrorist?

Male voice over:

The answer is, you don’t have to.

If you call the confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321, the specialist officers you speak to will analyse the information. They’ll decide if and how to follow it up.

You don’t have to be sure. If you suspect it, report it.

Call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321 in confidence.



http://cms.met.police.uk/met/news/publicity_campaigns/terrorism/trust_your_instincts_it_could_disrupt_terrorist_planning_and_save_lives

How long before we get the U.S. copy, do you think? Or is there already such a program in New York or something?

Nexa

Edited, Jul 9th 2008 3:23pm by Nexa
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#2 Jul 09 2008 at 11:36 AM Rating: Good
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How d’you tell the difference between someone just video-ing crowded place and someone who’s checking it out for a terrorist attack?

How can you tell if someone’s buying unusual quantities of stuff for a good reason or if they’re planning to make a bomb?

What’s the difference between someone just hanging around and someone behaving suspiciously?

How can you tell if they’re a normal everyday person, or a terrorist?
If they are call Mohammed they're a terrorist obviously Smiley: rolleyes

Don't they teach you 'Mericun's anything?
#3 Jul 09 2008 at 11:38 AM Rating: Good
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Haha, I'm totally going to report the next person who pisses me off.
#4 Jul 09 2008 at 11:46 AM Rating: Excellent
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Baron von tarv wrote:
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How d’you tell the difference between someone just video-ing crowded place and someone who’s checking it out for a terrorist attack?

How can you tell if someone’s buying unusual quantities of stuff for a good reason or if they’re planning to make a bomb?

What’s the difference between someone just hanging around and someone behaving suspiciously?

How can you tell if they’re a normal everyday person, or a terrorist?
If they are call Mohammed they're a terrorist obviously Smiley: rolleyes

Don't they teach you 'Mericun's anything?


Well, the article is from the UK, rhetorical questions and all.

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#5 Jul 09 2008 at 11:49 AM Rating: Excellent
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Funny, they said they'd had numerous reports already about some guy codenamed Nobby but they said they would add mine to the stack.


There's a sort of similar thing in New York. There are signs up all over the subway saying things like "If you see something, report it" and "1,944 New Yorkers saw something last year and reported it".
#6 Jul 09 2008 at 11:52 AM Rating: Excellent
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Terrorist post-it note: If a person has their thumb on a red button and they are wearing a coat you should probably run.
#7 Jul 09 2008 at 12:31 PM Rating: Good
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Well, the article is from the UK, rhetorical questions and all.
Come on Sammy, you're usually better than that... IRONY with a large dollop of SARCASM.
#8 Jul 09 2008 at 12:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm calling anyone with a white lap cat.

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#9 Jul 09 2008 at 1:17 PM Rating: Good
Nexa wrote:
This is the transcript from the new "If you suspect it, report it" radio ad in London (you can listen to it on the page I've linked at the end...it's near the bottom of that page):

Quote:
Female Voice over:

How d’you tell the difference between someone just video-ing crowded place and someone who’s checking it out for a terrorist attack?

How can you tell if someone’s buying unusual quantities of stuff for a good reason or if they’re planning to make a bomb?

What’s the difference between someone just hanging around and someone behaving suspiciously?

How can you tell if they’re a normal everyday person, or a terrorist?

Male voice over:

The answer is, you don’t have to.

If you call the confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321, the specialist officers you speak to will analyse the information. They’ll decide if and how to follow it up.

You don’t have to be sure. If you suspect it, report it.

Call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321 in confidence.



http://cms.met.police.uk/met/news/publicity_campaigns/terrorism/trust_your_instincts_it_could_disrupt_terrorist_planning_and_save_lives

How long before we get the U.S. copy, do you think? Or is there already such a program in New York or something?

Nexa

Edited, Jul 9th 2008 3:23pm by Nexa


And how did you hear about all this? Highly suspicious, in my opinion...

Now where's my phone...


Edited, Jul 9th 2008 9:21pm by RedPhoenixxx
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#10 Jul 09 2008 at 4:00 PM Rating: Good
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Celcio wrote:
There's a sort of similar thing in New York. There are signs up all over the subway saying things like "If you see something, report it" and "1,944 New Yorkers saw something last year and reported it".

It's "If You See Something, Say Something".

I use it when I see someone belittling other people in a language they don't understand.
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#11 Jul 09 2008 at 4:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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Debalic wrote:
Celcio wrote:
There's a sort of similar thing in New York. There are signs up all over the subway saying things like "If you see something, report it" and "1,944 New Yorkers saw something last year and reported it".

It's "If You See Something, Say Something".

I use it when I see someone belittling other people in a language they don't understand.


Yeah you're right. It's been a while since I paid attention to that. These days I'm reading about how New York is 3 cities: The Commuters, the Natives and the Transplants.

I really have to go to a bookstore or something, pick up a paper. Anything.
#12 Jul 10 2008 at 12:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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Soon after the 9/11 event in America, everyone in Australia got a fridge magnet, with the new suspicious activity hotline.


As far as I know, the hotline barely got used, until one day it got flooded with calls:

Caller: "Hello? I'm ringing up to report a suspicious person"

Operator (slight edge of tedium and amusement) "Yes Madam, we have already been informed a person called Donald Rumsfeld has entered the country."
#13 Jul 18 2008 at 6:19 AM Rating: Good
LOL
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