Idiots break into van... full of SAS. Fail!

j.col · 25 Apr 2011 at 14:19

frosty03 said:
Open the van door, hear the cocking of 4 machine guns and 4 blokes in balaclavas..... I bet they would have needed a change of underwer

lmao
serves them right

dannycivic02 · 25 Apr 2011 at 14:31

There lucky they never got slotted.

meghatronic · 25 Apr 2011 at 14:33

dmpoole said:
"They were trying their luck on every van in the estate, looking for tools they could pinch"

So basically the SAS... would have let them get away with theft from the other vans if they had missed theirs?
Hmm, anybody checked Snopes?

I wasn't aware the SAS were sworn in as constables....

Rroff · 25 Apr 2011 at 14:40

dmpoole said:
"They were trying their luck on every van in the estate, looking for tools they could pinch"

So basically the SAS scrotes would have let them get away with theft from the other vans if they had missed theirs?
Hmm, anybody checked Snopes?

As far as I'm aware even on a training op they aren't allowed to break cover without permission from up the chain unless there is an immediate danger to life - tho I'd be very suprised if it wasn't bounced up the chain and reported to local law enforcement.

I'm suspicious of the story tho as I've heard something very very similiar about an MI5 stakeout a few years ago (and that ones probably not true either as MI5 tend to use more every day unarmed "part timers" for general stakeout rather than armed field trained agents).

Phreaky · 25 Apr 2011 at 15:52

Sounds pretty unlikely, even if I do like to see ***** teen scum get a good rollocking every so often.

scorza · 25 Apr 2011 at 16:59

I thought assaulting thieves was generally frowned upon here.

toon_mad · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:05

Reminds me of worlds dumbest criminals, some guy tries to throw a petrol bomb through a shop window and it bounced of the window and he set fire to himself.

quality

snowdog · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:07

scorza said:
I thought assaulting thieves was generally frowned upon here.

Not by me anyhow, I'd be glad they'd get shot in the leg or so by the SAS for doing that.

franco_22 · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:13

It's those kind of incidents that makes me wish I'd join the army sometimes, if only I wasn't in a serious relationship

Combat squirrel · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:20

LOL great stuff.

Energize · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:37

Don't believe the SAS would just sit there while the teenagers tried to take off with a vehicle, probably a made up story.

Combat squirrel · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:41

Energize said:
Don't believe the SAS would just sit there while the teenagers tried to take off with a vehicle, probably a made up story.

They didnt, they were nicking tools, multi thousand/million £££ SAS wargame or a few tools that insurance would cover ? Its only when the security of the game and themselves was breached they gave them a slap

Energize · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:43

Since when was justice about value for money? £1 million or £1 it's still theft, not to mention what else they could have been getting up to that night. The story says they didn't even report it to the police.

No1newts · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:47

Thorpy said:
My god the sun is really ****

With the stupid gun posing picture and guy staring through the window :rolleyes:

I really don't know how people can read that garbage.

Good story though

Bar · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:52

The whole purpose of these exercises is not to react to anything unless its part of the brief.

Say this was a real exercise and they were monitoring some terrorists. What do you think is going to happen if the police turn up with sirens and lights? The terrorists would immediately pack up and abandon plans for quite some time - intelligence would be lost and a potential cell alerted - for the sake of a couple of quids worth of tools? Even if the cost ran into the tens of thousands it is still not worth blowing cover for.

Common sense should tell you as much.

Rainmaker · 25 Apr 2011 at 17:59

Energize said:
Since when was justice about value for money? £1 million or £1 it's still theft, not to mention what else they could have been getting up to that night. The story says they didn't even report it to the police.

Well to be fair, the story actually says they didn't report it to the police using 'official channels' because SAS identities would need to be compromised by giving evidence. That suggests that reports were passed on, but 'unofficially'...

I agree the Sun is a daft rag, and the pictures are lol-worthy. I just found the story itself amusing, and had it been reported in the Telegraph or similar I'd have much preferred to source them instead; alas it wasn't.

Energize · 25 Apr 2011 at 18:10

Bar said:
The whole purpose of these exercises is not to react to anything unless its part of the brief.

Say this was a real exercise and they were monitoring some terrorists. What do you think is going to happen if the police turn up with sirens and lights? The terrorists would immediately pack up and abandon plans for quite some time - intelligence would be lost and a potential cell alerted - for the sake of a couple of quids worth of tools? Even if the cost ran into the tens of thousands it is still not worth blowing cover for.

Common sense should tell you as much.

But there are no terrorists, it's an exercise so all that is irrelevant. What kind of fools do a training exercise in crime central at midnight anyway? God knows how many thousands of pounds worth of equipment was stolen by them.

Rainmaker · 25 Apr 2011 at 18:15

Energize said:
But there are no terrorists, it's an exercise so all that is irrelevant. What kind of fools do a training exercise in crime central at midnight anyway? God knows how many thousands of pounds worth of equipment was stolen by them.

Best ring Hereford and tell them they're doing it wrong.

Provided the story is as recounted, I'm sure they had their reasons - and the likes of thee n me are unlikely to understand them tbh.

Tefal · 25 Apr 2011 at 18:16

Energize said:
Since when was justice about value for money?

since when were the military the civilian police?

Tefal · 25 Apr 2011 at 18:17

Energize said:
But there are no terrorists, it's an exercise so all that is irrelevant. What kind of fools do a training exercise in crime central at midnight anyway? God knows how many thousands of pounds worth of equipment was stolen by them.

the kind of crazy fools who have to do this kind of real operation in crime central at midnight?