Gunman in Southend restaurant (From Southend Standard)
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Gunman in Southend restaurant
4:10pm Thursday 18th October 2012 in News
ARMED police were called to a Southend restaurant following reports of a man with a gun.
Officers were called at about 8.50pm yesterday after a member of staff was threatened in the kitchen area of Salsa, in London Road.
A 38-year-old man was arrested and remains in police custody.
No weapon was recovered.
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firedog
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4:01pm Thu 18 Oct 12
muffindamule
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4:04pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Basildon.lad.21
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4:20pm Thu 18 Oct 12
firedog wrote:So was the member of staff also doped up then? No gun was recovered.
If you read it again you will see a member of staff was threatened,that might be a clue.
Olivia2847
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4:30pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Basildon.lad.21 wrote:Steady on tiger! What proof do you have?
firedog wrote:So was the member of staff also doped up then? No gun was recovered.
If you read it again you will see a member of staff was threatened,that might be a clue.
Olivia2847
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4:30pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Basildon.lad.21 wrote:Steady on tiger! What proof do you have?
firedog wrote:So was the member of staff also doped up then? No gun was recovered.
If you read it again you will see a member of staff was threatened,that might be a clue.
Eric Whim
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4:41pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Shiwar
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5:07pm Thu 18 Oct 12
We were in the restaurant opposite and felt the police handled it very well.
MitchLive
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6:00pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Eric Whim wrote:Dave Hedgehog.
maybe it was a spud gun
v.randy
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6:21pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Lastlaugh..
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8:00pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Some vegetables have a remarkable ability to look like what they are not!
Olivia2847
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9:11pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Lastlaugh.. wrote:Rhubarb!
Was it a vegetarian restaurant?
Some vegetables have a remarkable ability to look like what they are not!
bumper
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9:22pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Lastlaugh..
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10:51pm Thu 18 Oct 12
bumper wrote:What if you have a load vegetable?
guy was lucky the police norm shoot when you have not got a gun proven fact
loonychoon
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2:59am Fri 19 Oct 12
snowbarney
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8:22am Fri 19 Oct 12
Samantha 1987
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2:12pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Basildon.lad.21 wrote:Hello Bas lad.... (BASILDON) Well just says it all doesn't it really...... Yes it was a gun, no it wasn't a phone... Crackheads! HA HA HA some people need to think before they write.
So who made this call then seeing a man with a gun. Probably one of the Southend crackheads so high, then he thought a mans mobile phone was a gun.
Rochford Rob
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2:41pm Fri 19 Oct 12
Samantha 1987 wrote:So Miss Marple, you know where the gun is then, cos Plod doesn't .......
Basildon.lad.21 wrote: So who made this call then seeing a man with a gun. Probably one of the Southend crackheads so high, then he thought a mans mobile phone was a gun.Hello Bas lad.... (BASILDON) Well just says it all doesn't it really...... Yes it was a gun, no it wasn't a phone... Crackheads! HA HA HA some people need to think before they write.
"No weapon was recovered."
And people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Basildon.lad.21 says...
3:48pm Thu 18 Oct 12