Motoring Discussion > M1 Closed in Leicestershire	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Bromptonaut	Replies: 33

New Mon 13 Jun 16 14:49   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

Southbound M1 closed since yesterday 23A to 22 due 'Police Incident'. Reports state cuase to be a man on one of the signalling gantries threatening to jump. www.leicestermercury.co.uk/8203-Man-remains-perched-motorway-stanchion-M1/story-29394104-detail/story.html All potential diverts, including the signed A42/M42>M6 jammed. The Lad is in it somewhere on his way back from Download. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 15:25   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

I think they need to get a grip and deal with that. Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 15:27   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Ian (Cape Town)

Taser him, and have done with it? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 15:35   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Armel Coussine

FESTERSHIRE! (Lunchtime O'Booze and agencies) Literally billions of sweating South-East motorists were today locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, following each other in ever-decreasing circles and threatening to go right up their own (cont'd p 94) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Jun 16 18:51   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Armel Coussine

FEICESTERSHIRE (Lunchtime O'Booze and agencies) Literally billions of sweating, red-faced, child-swatting, wife-cursing South-East motorists were today locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, following each other in ever-decreasing circles and threatening to go right up their own (cont'd p 94) This is the definitive version. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:29   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

He knew there was moving traffic below him when he went up there, now they should open the main backbone motorway of the country again and concentrate his mind on whether he actually wants to jump, or just seek attention. Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:35   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

So he jumps and causes a pile up in which several die. Would you be the Chief Constable or PCC trying to justify your actions in ensuing prosecution and for millions plus civil actions for lost livelihoods ? I'm afraid there's little choice but to either negotiate him down or starve him down. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:40   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

Put a bouncy castle type airbag under him, Tazer him off the gantry and then lock him up for obstructing the highway. Preferably within an hour of him getting up there. Or take the wishy washy, PC, lovey dovey option and leave him there until he starves. Last edited by: Old Navy on Mon 13 Jun 16 at 16:42 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 13 Jun 16 17:03   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

You don't honestly think he went up there without food, do you? Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 17:14   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

>> You don't honestly think he went up there without food, do you? We've not much idea, apart from clues in his graffiti, as to why he was there. I'm sure Fathers4Justice protesters took supplies when embarking on stunts like this to promote their cause. Don't think those my colleagues working nearby regularly witnessed on the suicide bridge at Archway necessarily did. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:39   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - zippy

Hey Pat, why don't you just nip up there and push the poor blighter off, it would speed the traffic up after all!? People tend not threaten to jump unless they have some b***** serious issues so a bit of compassion would be in order. Last edited by: zippy on Mon 13 Jun 16 at 16:43 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:44   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

>> People tend not threaten to jump unless they have some b***** serious issues so a >> compassion would be in order. >> If he had serious issues he would have gone up there and jumped. Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:46   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

>> If he had serious issues he would have gone up there and jumped. Take it you're not looking for a second career in Mental Health...... Reply to this message | Report message       2

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:46   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Armel Coussine

>> People tend not threaten to jump unless they have some b***** serious issues so a compassion would be in order. Compassion, within reason, yes. But I agree with ON, trampoline across motorway, tranqilliser dart in the geezer's leg, all over in half an hour. A main artery... precious lifeblood of the economy... freedom of movement... burble burble. I mean why should some barmy show-off ruin everyone's day? Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:48   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

The police approach worked. He's come down now. www.leicestermercury.co.uk/8203-Man-remains-perched-motorway-stanchion-M1/story-29394104-detail/story.html Be a while before road reopens though as there will presumably be some 'crime scene' stuff to be documented and all the Police, medical and Traffic Officer stuff to be moved. Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Mon 13 Jun 16 at 16:51 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:52   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - smokie

Been arrested for causing a public nuisance Reply to this message | Report message       2

New Mon 13 Jun 16 17:08   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Armel Coussine

>> Been arrested for causing a public nuisance When I was young committing (not 'causing' I admit) a public nuisance meant having a slash in some corner, or not even in a corner. Don't remember anyone being run in for it. They were after queers in the park in those days. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 13 Jun 16 16:53   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

The police approach has NOT worked, about a dozen hours blockage of several of the countries main transport routes disrupting countless people, missed deliveries, missed flights, meetings and appointments is hardly a success. Last edited by: Old Navy on Mon 13 Jun 16 at 16:55 Reply to this message | Report message       4

New Mon 13 Jun 16 17:06   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

I can do compassion....when it's deserved. I can do straight talking when it's needed....and I would have loved the chance to have talked to him within the first hour. His body language at no time says he's desperate, or in any danger of junping. Pat Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Mon 13 Jun 16 17:11   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

I see the last time he did this (2003) he got 18 months inside. There was no chance of him jumping, he is an attention seeker. Last edited by: Old Navy on Mon 13 Jun 16 at 17:11 Reply to this message | Report message       3

New Tue 14 Jun 16 20:32   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

>> I see the last time he did this (2003) he got 18 months inside. Have you got a source for that ON? Not looking for an argument (yet!) but reports I can find struggle to name him never mind list his antecedents. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Jun 16 20:51   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

>> >> Have you got a source for that ON? >> It was either the comments in the paper linked above or a Google search. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 14 Jun 16 20:59   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

Found it, in the comments. Bow1985 | Monday, June 13 2016, 2:45PM So this is the same man that did it in 2003! Back then he closed the motorway for 10 hours and was given an 18 month sentence. A quick Google of his name confirms all, and his facebook page says its all planned and he had told the police.... I assume there is local knowledge involved. Last edited by: Old Navy on Tue 14 Jun 16 at 21:00 Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 15 Jun 16 03:37   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

So that's one battle you won't have to fight on someone else's behalf Bromp:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 15 Jun 16 07:35   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

Appreciate the smiley Pat but rinse/repeat of obsessive or self destructive behaviour would support rather than refute probability of a mental health issue. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 15 Jun 16 10:27   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

leics.police.uk/news-appeals/news/2016/06/14/man-charged-after-enforced-closure-of-m1 Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 15 Jun 16 10:39   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

He will probably plead insanity. The threat of life in a secure hospital will cause a miraculous recovery. Last edited by: Old Navy on Wed 15 Jun 16 at 10:40 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Jun 16 03:37   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36537798 Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Jun 16 07:21   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Old Navy

At least I can't be accused of exaggerating in my post on Monday at 16:53. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Jun 16 07:39   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

That's why I posted it:) Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 16 Jun 16 07:55   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Bromptonaut

If the £29m figure came from the remain camp it's be labelled scaremongering fiction ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 29 Jul 16 15:21   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Pat

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36921728 No more than he deserved. Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 29 Jul 16 16:30   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - Armel Coussine

Goddam monkey... mentally ill, but not very. His incarceration will cost us a bomb. They have a short way with these types in much of the third world. So much cheaper and more expeditious... and some if not quite all these people are a genuine waste of space. I sometimes think a bit guiltily that we Europeans are too humane by half, soppy and sentimental indeed. Awareness that brisk, forceful justice is a possibility must concentrate minds and make the more intelligent idiots lie low. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 29 Jul 16 16:37   M1 Closed in Leicestershire - No FM2R

>>His incarceration will cost us a bomb. Absolutely. He should have had two years of community service cleaning up stuff or similar at least that would have been useful. Reply to this message | Report message