UPDATED: Trick or treating teenagers threatened by alleged gunman (From Gazette)
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UPDATED: Trick or treating teenagers threatened by alleged gunman
11:56am Thursday 1st November 2012 in News
ARMED police were called to Colchester after reports trick or treating teenagers were threatened with a gun.
One sustained head injuries after being attacked, possibly with the butt of the gun, just before 8.45pm on Wednesday/
A firearms team and the police helicopter carried out a detailed search around Tesco, Chinook and the surrounds in Highwoods but without success.
The incident has shocked the community and is being taken extremely seriously by detectives.
See interviews with police, residents and councillors in Friday's Gazette.
Comments(7)
Dmalone
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10:58am Fri 2 Nov 12
TheCaptain
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11:39am Fri 2 Nov 12
Dmalone wrote:How very rude you are.
Harry438 you small minded immature fuking ****!! **** off you disrespectful ****!!
Whilst a wouldn't condone what happened. Most of us don't want trick or treaters, it's about time that people realised this.
SOMETHING2SAY
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11:47am Fri 2 Nov 12
HARRY438
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11:59am Fri 2 Nov 12
Dmalone
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1:50pm Fri 2 Nov 12
TheCaptain wrote:What so that makes it acceptable to stick a gun in two young boys faces!? No i dont think it does!! Just dont answer your door...i dont think you'l mind just sitting on your backside!?
Dmalone wrote: Harry438 you small minded immature fuking ****!! **** off you disrespectful ****!!How very rude you are. Whilst a wouldn't condone what happened. Most of us don't want trick or treaters, it's about time that people realised this.
rhetoric
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6:32am Sat 3 Nov 12
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However those who don't want trick or treaters also have a valid point, but even they don't want the teenagers to be assaulted in any way, or at least the sane ones don't.
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It's not a tradition in this country to do Trick or Treat, just a recent addition to the scrounging/spending culture. To those who say "don't spoil the fun" I reply "Fun for whom? Elderly folk who have someone thumping on their door after dark? Housewives who have been at work all day then returned to make the evening meal?"
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If you must let your offspring take part, then stop them if you can at about 10 years of age. After that, it's intimidation and begging, both illegal so far as I am aware.
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Oh, and I nearly forgot to say that we really need sweets and treats in this increasingly obese country, don't we?
HARRY438 says...
6:56am Fri 2 Nov 12