Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3787873.ece

Perhaps soldiers or policemen or doctors or can think of here> should protest about any film which shows them in a
bad light or shows something distressing related to what they do.

B2003

On 21 Apr, 12:03, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Indeed, I don't recall any Police Federation protests about Hot
Fuzz...

Anyone knows when we should expect a Tube strike about the film? :-)

alex_t wrote:

Will there be a long enough free slot on Bob Crow's annual strike planning
wallchart?

Yet another potential strike called off without much hue and cry last week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7356004.stm

Paul

In message
<892e1d55-e5dd-4ca1-b1d8-46e55edb2dc6@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> of
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:03:17 in uk.transport.london, Boltar
yahoo.co.uk> writes

That article has "Keith Norman, general secretary of Aslef (sic) [I
believe it ought to be ASLEF standing for Associated Society of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen]" saying " ... Last year 249 bodies
ended up under trains. ..."

Can someone provide a reference to where he said so?
What is the origin of the figure?

Boltar wrote:

As a driver who helps victims of train suicide I think it's very poor of
the company to take the 40 pieces of silver for this film to be made on
TFL premises, there is no rule about wiping our 3 members of the public
in a month and getting 10 years salary tax free, for some they never
make it back onto the front.

On 21 Apr, 15:20, Walter Briscoe nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

On 21 Apr, 16:27, "www.waspies.net" wrote:

You mean this *fictional* *comedy* film isn't really a Panorama
program in desguise and some of it actually might have been *made up*?
Well, I never... Next you'll be telling me the US government doesn't
really have Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones on the payroll fighting
aliens!

Perhaps no films involving car accidents should ever be made in case
it offends someone who's ever been in a bad one then?

B2003

In message newsfe1-win.ntli.net>, at 15:27:47 on Mon,
21 Apr 2008, www.waspies.net remarked:

I have every sympathy with what you do in your job, but this is
just-another-case of "New Scientist" (or Which? Magazine) syndrome,
which is that any subject you don't know about seems to be depicted
pretty much OK, but anything you *do* know about is a complete travesty.

eg: Cop-shows on TV are staggeringly unrealistic when it comes to police
procedure; it's just not funny (if you worry about such things). On the
other hand, if you think scene-of-crimes officers double as a swat team,
or can read a cctv image of a car numberplate a mile away - keep
watching CSI-NewYork without complaining.

In message
<68cbddcc-0bec-4857-9b28-f68963c26b27@h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, at
10:17:59 on Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Boltar yahoo.co.uk> remarked:

Having been there and got the t-shirt, one of the most upsetting things
in the aftermath is any kind of funeral depicted on TV.