(06-13-2025, 04:19 PM)gortex Wrote: Well well , seems all the bad news about illegals crossing the cannel recently and the revelation over 15,000 have crossed this year seems like starmer may have had words with Macron , today French police were seen using batons , tear gas and pepper spray to stop migrants setting sail for Blighty , they even went into the water !
Given the money we've already given France to stop the crossings it's about bloody time , more of this Jean Claud.
French police need to be issued bayonets for shore duty. It would be a lot cheaper to just wade out into the water with a bayonet and slash the flotation bladders of those Zodiac boats. Ain't nobody going across the channel in a boat they know is about to sink.
If they're afraid of the water, then archery tackle from the dry land will serve the same purpose. Punching holes in the boats is the way to go, in my opinion. It's a more cost effective, and faster way to get those miscreants to run back for the shore. Slashing the bladders is more ruinous and harder to patch, but just poking a lot of holes in them will do in the moment, in a pinch.
Some times, I just fail to understand why people insist on doing things the hard way.
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― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake