Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
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Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
09:1491920Wow - well done to that lady....
Brian Dixon
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8 February 2011
09:2091921good on her,she deserves a medal.
Guest 687- Registered: 2 Jun 2009
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8 February 2011
10:3991931No words can adequately describe this ladies actions, she is a credit to her generation and an embarrassment to those male pedestrians who ignored the robbery until this lady intervened. I could watch the footage over and over again.
8 February 2011
11:0491933Wasn't she fantastic? She doesn't even seem to pause before wading in.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
13:5391953Almost unreal when I first saw it !!!
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 February 2011
14:2991962absolutely hilarious, the best bit will come when the robbers reach prison and the staff and inmates have a good laugh at their expense.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
19:4292000It's now been removed.
Roger
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 February 2011
21:3392016Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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9 February 2011
10:4192056That was brilliant! Brave and determined lady.
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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9 February 2011
15:4992066Julia George on Radio Kent did a phone-in this morning on this subject. Her question was: was she brave or just foolish. Personally I think she discharged her duty as a citizen, unlike the spineless b4st4rd who filmed it from the safety of the other side of the street. Yes, all credit to her for intervening, I hope that I would do the same if I found myself in a similar situation, but it is our civic duty not to let these ***eholes get away with their crimes. One person actually phoned in and said she was foolish because all the stuff in the shop was covered by insurance. What a spineless, immoral attitude, which Julia did nothing to counter.
Julia has never been my favourite radio hack but she sank to a new low today in my opinion.
Of course Mrs Timpson was brave. It was the cowardly onlookers who were foolish. Unfortunately criminals rely on public apathy to get away with such attacks.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,883
9 February 2011
18:4592086I have to disagree Peter. Yes she was brave but I also think she was rather foolish considering her age and the tools the robbers were using could have easily been used on her. I know I would not have intervened, I am not that daft.
The onlookers were definitely spineless, they gave the appearance of being young and healthy, the one who filmed it was possibly more interested in what he could sell the film for.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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10 February 2011
11:5792159Well done to the lady, the apathy around the shop is a sign of todays times unfortunately.
It makes you wonder if the cameraman was the gang's official photographer putting together a portfolio of their work
Guest 658- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 February 2011
22:1092235If you watch the video closely you can see a large man walking SLOWLY towards the incident wearing hi vis and on his belt were several pouches, on another website it is claimed he was a pcso, shame on him.
beer the food of the gods
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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10 February 2011
22:3592238I would not say he is walking slowly but he definitely is not running which Joe Public would expect from any official person, even if they are a traffic warden or whatever they are called now.
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