Tuesday, July 26, 2005

"Feel Good" of the day

Sorry I didn't catch his name, but I was watching a British official on TV yesterday express regret at the shooting death of a suspected suicide bomber last Friday. Twenty-seven year old Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was chased down by police, pinned to the floor of an underground train station and shot five times in the head. It was later learned, Menezes was not a suicide bomber.

But the British official then went on to say had Jean Charles de Menezes in fact been a suicide bomber, he would have been successfully stopped!

3 comments:

Harrod Family History said...

Update: The latest I heard is that he was shot 8 times in the head, point-blank.

Dada said...

Nona: Yes, I read 8 also, then 5, then 8. Not bothering to check which of these claims was the more recent, I opted for the conservative number of 5 shots to the head. Of course, if only 5 would have revived him, I'da seen the error of my ways and revised it to 8. Thanks for updating me. One can never be too dead.

Anonymous said...

Oooops!