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Is this how it's done in the UK?
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Yep.
Armed police raid home after mistaking Lara Croft dummy for gunman | the Daily Mail
When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front room, their response was swift.
Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon.
But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the "gunman" turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.
Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay.
As the source of the confusion dawned on all concerned, it might have been the moment for an apology from the police.
Instead, however, Mr Williams was taken to the cells and held for more than 13 hours before being released.
He is now on bail for a suspected firearms offence, and Lara Croft remains impounded as evidence.
That looks like an edited story. In the full length version, they pushed him to the ground, hence the pics of his bruised/cut arms.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Doesn't say anything about sleeping through a 5 hour gun battle.
She slept through 5 hours of some guy on a bull horn.
Glad you're not a reporter. 
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Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 
Doesn't say anything about sleeping through a 5 hour gun battle.
She slept through 5 hours of some guy on a bull horn.
Glad you're not a reporter.
You realise that that's the headline off the web page which he linked to and that it was inserted automatically, right?
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
You realise that that's the headline off the web page which he linked to and that it was inserted automatically, right?
Yeah, my bad.
As for the Laura Croft story, why didn't they notice the perp wasn't moving?
Anyway strange stuffs happen here too, but more deadly, like the old lady shot to death in bed by a swat team.
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Only in Amer...
Oh.
Instead, however, Mr Williams was taken to the cells and held for more than 13 hours before being released.
He is now on bail for a suspected firearms offence, and Lara Croft remains impounded as evidence.
Only in Amer...
Not again...
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