Wtf uk?

**Panzerfaust** · 11-01-2008, 12:35 PM

Aren't you people 20yrs overdue for a revo lution? I mean wtf people?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...st/7702856.stm

"Pub-goers in Aberdeen are facing a drugs test before entering bars as part of a crackdown by Grampian Police.

Officers in the force will be the first in Scotland to use an Itemiser - a device which can detect traces of drugs from hand swabs in a matter of seconds.

The test is voluntary, but customers will be refused entry if they do not take part. They could be searched and even arrested if traces are found.

The device was trialled by the police force in the area earlier this year.

The Itemiser allows police officers or door staff to swab customers hands as they enter a pub or club. It can tell almost instantly if drugs are present - including cocaine, cannabis, heroin and ecstasy.

The device can show three possible results: green, amber or red.

Customers who get a green reading are allowed entry to the pub, those who get amber are given a drug information pack and those who get red could be searched by police.

If drugs are found on that person they could be arrested and a report could be sent to the procurator fiscal.

Police said the device deters unwanted drug dealers.

Det Supt Willie MacColl, national drugs co-ordinator for the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA), said: "This project offers an opportunity for collaborative working to implement an alternative intervention that will help change attitudes and reduce demand for controlled drugs.

"We hope that over time the model can be developed and used by community partnerships in other towns and cities across Scotland to reduce the harm caused by drugs."

Ch Insp Innes Walker, of Grampian Police, said that as a result of the trial period in October "people had a greater confidence that they could enjoy a night out without fear of encountering drugs".

The Itemiser is already being used in pubs in England where concerns have been raised about the possibility of customers getting a positive reading simply by touching a surface where there are traces of drugs.

But a spokeswoman for the SCDEA said the device was able to tell the difference between this type of contamination and drug use."

**goose** · 11-01-2008, 12:40 PM

Fucing sick!!! Freedom taken away again.

**Mulciber** · 11-01-2008, 01:58 PM

concerns have been raised about the possibility of customers getting a positive reading simply by touching a surface where there are traces of drugs.

But a spokeswoman for the SCDEA said the device was able to tell the difference between this type of contamination and drug use."

wtf are they talking about.. its testing your hands for trace amounts.. now it can tell the difference if you just handled the drugs or used.

**Flagg** · 11-01-2008, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by muriloninja

Aren't you people 20yrs overdue for a revo lution? I mean wtf people?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...st/7702856.stm

In all fairness Murilo, if and when this happens in the States, is everyone going to take up arms and use force to stop this kind of stuff? Of course not, everyone will bitch and moan but not really do anything, because the Governments of the West dont mind a people that whine, but they LOVE a people that are lazy! Hmm, looking like the people COULD rebel, just throw a new Reality TV Show or the latest IPod at them, that will keep the easily distracted morons happy!

**Panzerfaust** · 11-01-2008, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Flagg

In all fairness Murilo, if and when this happens in the States, is everyone going to take up arms and use force to stop this kind of stuff? Of course not, everyone will bitch and moan but not really do anything, because the Governments of the West dont mind a people that whine, but they LOVE a people that are lazy! Hmm, looking like the people COULD rebel, just throw a new Reality TV Show or the latest IPod at them, that will keep the easily distracted morons happy!

Damnit! So the English know the majority of Americans are dumb as shit? Damn!

**Flagg** · 11-02-2008, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by muriloninja

Damnit! So the English know the majority of Americans are dumb as shit? Damn!

LOL, you know what it's like...we're a generation that's becoming slaves to what I call "the idiot box" (TV or a Monitor). The world is getting smaller, and the internet has made it smaller. Globalisation and Consumerism has reached ridiculous heights now, and that suits the leaders of the West just fine. That's why all these laws are sneaking under the radar, because there is no way that a story like this would be splashed on the front page of every newspaper, when you can sell MORE papers by telling the world what that **** up, Britney Spears, is upto.

**Kale** · 11-02-2008, 04:50 AM

Easily fixed, just wear rubber gloves before you use

**Ernst** · 11-02-2008, 08:22 AM

There's so much * residue on American dollars we'd all test positive anyway.

**korsow** · 11-02-2008, 01:20 PM

its illegal to own samurai swords in the UK because people where using em as weapons.. yeah.. next up to ban,,, steak knives.. UK is a big "nanny state" when it comes to passing laws like that

**Mulciber** · 11-03-2008, 02:54 AM

everyone has to use plastic sporks..

**Charger527** · 11-03-2008, 06:45 AM

lol whats next,

So the people that test positive wont be let in? or just searched and if nothing is found let in?

**Kratos** · 11-03-2008, 12:50 PM

horrible, and yes it is your freedom going away
who's to say the red light is connected to anything you handeled, it could just be random. Cause to search a person for no reason, what rights do you have?

**Odpierdol_sie!** · 11-03-2008, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by korsow

its illegal to own samurai swords in the UK because people where using em as weapons.. yeah.. next up to ban,,, steak knives.. UK is a big "nanny state" when it comes to passing laws like that

No it is illegal to own imitation swords etc. A genuine antique Katana will be totally legal. but i dont think many smack heads have the 10000 quid to couch up for one of them so up untill now the good old sunday suplemment fo the news of the world has been selling a three piece set of the shittest katana copies ever.

I got an old machete i got off a great uncle when he was out in India during WWII, its got 1939 stamped on the sheath so that is perfectly legal but you ge the smae knife from teh company in Sheffield who still makes them and you will be looking at time away.

If you wanna go carving in the street go get your hands on a genuine Kukri Knife (that is my next one) not one of those shite cold steel ones, a propper genuine one that has blood on it, the older the better!

p.s. drugs r bad m kay

**MuscleScience** · 11-03-2008, 07:12 PM

No way can any society accept this. No way that any rational person could support something like this. And No way any politician who truly loves there country could support this.

I figured the brits were a little more liberal than that on drug usage anyway.

**DeputyLoneWolf** · 11-03-2008, 09:53 PM

Yeah, thats really messed up and a horrible example of trusting technology way too much!

**Flagg** · 11-04-2008, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by MuscleScience

No way can any society accept this. No way that any rational person could support something like this. And No way any politician who truly loves there country could support this.

I figured the brits were a little more liberal than that on drug usage anyway.

Stuff like this is happening all over the West, look at Australia and this bullshit censoring of the internet. I mean wasn't there some law recently that stated you had to submit your laptop for investigation if you were crossing over to the Canadian border from America?

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!