| Subject: | Re: Swiss Army Knives now banned by Metropolitan Police London
| | Date: | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:39:16 +0000
| | From: | JLB <JLB@bigbad.demon.co.uk>
| | Newsgroups: | uk.rec.climbing,uk.rec.camping,uk.rec.cycling,uk.rec.youth-hostel,uk.rec.walking
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nospam wrote:
>>'We stop one in every 25 cars on a random basis, and, let me tell you, sir,
>>criminals and terrorists come in many different guises,'
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> If it's one in every 25, how on earth is that random? Doh!
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>
It's not that difficult. Instead of stopping every 25th car, which would
be regular, they stop one car taken at random out of every batch of 25;
or some similar method.
--
Joe * If I cannot be free I'll be cheap
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