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« on: December 12, 2007, 13:53:18 »
Bristol Temple Meads station was shut for 40 minutes as firearms police boarded a train and arrested a teenager thought to be armed with a gun (link below.)
http://thisisbristol.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145365&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145191&contentPK=19235461&folderPk=83726&pNodeId=144922

Officers from Avon and Somerset Police and British Transport Police stopped passengers leaving a service from London Paddington yesterday afternoon as they tried to isolate the 18-year-old.
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« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2011, 11:07:27 »
i bet it was nothing more than a BB Gun which the little scrote was carrying on him and probably occasionally wielding/pointing at people to try and scary them or stir up a massive discrupton to the service.
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 14:40:02 »
~4 years old!
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