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#2149420 22-Dec-2018 19:53

They will likely get a nicer Xmas dinner than what is dished up in some USA jails. Bail would be out of the question you'd think.

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#2149529 23-Dec-2018 09:08

Some average hardworking bloke and his wife arrested:

Neighbors and aquaintances feel it's the wrong people.

The town where they live is known for airport objections. There is no indication yet that the couple have any views of that nature so far.

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#2149603 23-Dec-2018 13:17

gzt: Some average hardworking bloke and his wife arrested:

Neighbors and aquaintances feel it's the wrong people.

The town where they live is known for airport objections. There is no indication yet that the couple have any views of that nature so far.

Wonder if they got name suppression over there??

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#2149644 23-Dec-2018 15:32

old3eyes:

Wonder if they got name suppression over there??

Name suppression doesn't seem to be such a thing in countries other than NZ. If you're arrested/charged for an offence in the UK and other countries, you'd expect your name to be published unless there are good reasons not to (eg protection of children).

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#2149674 23-Dec-2018 18:37

other good reasons include prejudice for a related trial. bans on media reporting seem common in the UK for that reason.

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#2149745 24-Dec-2018 07:18

Pair released without charges

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#2149920 24-Dec-2018 10:23

WTF!?: “[it is] always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine drone activity in the first place”

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#2149931 24-Dec-2018 10:56

Not surprising, mass hysteria is a real thing and drones have been talked up to a fever pitch to both pilots and the travelling public

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#2149935 24-Dec-2018 11:08

They were able to identify one, state it was an industrial model and sold at only a few outlets. One buzzed the control tower. Now they may not have existed?

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#2149945 24-Dec-2018 11:40

Oh dear what a stuff up:

Was Gatwick drone all a hoax? Police won't rule out theory it never existed

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#2149947 24-Dec-2018 11:43

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1063232/gatwick-drone-chaos-airport-drone-exist-sussex-police-jason-tingley

Gatwick drone hoax? Police admit Christmas ruining drone may not have existed

SUSSEX Police have admitted the drone which brought chaos to Gatwick airport and ruined Christmas for more than 140,000 may never have existed at all.

The startling claim came as investigating officers released two people without charge and insisted they were not back to square one. However, when pressed on whether there may not have been a drone at all an officer admitted that was a possibility. Now police have been forced to defend their investigation amid suspicions the 67 reported drone sightings were all false alarms.

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#2149948 24-Dec-2018 11:48

However, when pressed on whether there may not have been a drone at all an officer admitted that was a possibility.

I think that he was pressured, and off course anything is possible when the cause has not yet been found, so the media latched onto this making it a news story

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#2149951 24-Dec-2018 12:07

tdgeek:

They were able to identify one, state it was an industrial model and sold at only a few outlets. One buzzed the control tower. Now they may not have existed?

Has it been established that this part of the saga actually happened? Let's hope it wasn't a huge attack of imagination, plus lack of sleep, plus caffeine, plus keyboard, type event submitted by some reporter.

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#2149953 24-Dec-2018 12:10

amiga500:

tdgeek:

They were able to identify one, state it was an industrial model and sold at only a few outlets. One buzzed the control tower. Now they may not have existed?

Has it been established that this part of the saga actually happened? Let's hope it wasn't a huge attack of imagination, plus lack of sleep, plus caffeine, plus keyboard, type event submitted by some reporter.

It happened, there were IIRC, 67 sightings, one or more when they ID'ed the model

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#2149959 24-Dec-2018 12:25

One damaged drone recovered from Gatwick area.

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