Armed police on on North Cross Road last night

[gwynfor]

There were two policemen with M16 rifles on Lacon Road/North Cross Road last night, bit perturbing! There seemed to be quite a heightened police presence around East Dulwich after they'd gone too. Any clue as to what was going on?

[jctg]

Men being naughty.

[gwynfor]

Automatic rifle naughty?

[????]

Not clowns this time but two mime artists attacked and assaulted a bloke by the Blue Mountain...what they did to him was unspeakable

[Huggers]

someone didnt use their new brown recycling bin correctly?

[DJKillaQueen]

A fox poo'd in someone's garden.

[Narnia]

Were they standing on boxes?

[Sue]

Fending off a moth attack.

[Damian H]

Doubt it was an M16 as they are kind of outdated and were never used by the Met. I suspect you may have seen a Sig Sauer or a Heckler & Koch carbine.

[david_carnell]

With that sort of knowledge Damian, you'll be on their target list.

[Penguin68]

That sort of thing used to be The Bill filming - I remember coming home to armed police around Langton Rise running up the road - came round the corner to see the cameras etc. but bit of a bad moment for a minute.

[TheArtfulDogger]

it is a secret

[DJKillaQueen]

I promise not to tell ;-)

[gwynfor]

my gun knowledge is wholly based on Goldeneye, apologies

[Bellerophon]

Standard issue for Met Police (SO19) Armed Response Vehicles is the Glock 17 9mm sidearm, plus the H&K MP5 Carbine.

What the OP may have seen is the H&K G36 Carbine, which, with its 5.56 battlefield round, is deployed in exceptional circumstances

If this is the case, then it was probably quite a serious incident

[DJKillaQueen]

Must have been a monster poo by that fox then backed up by a hoeard of monster moths.......

[huncamunca]

gang activity

[ruffers]

Counter Strike taught me all I need to know.

[JohnL]

Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 1 & 2 surely - always wander around with the M16 - good for long distance shots.

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> Counter Strike taught me all I need to know.

[louisiana]

MP5 every time.

[sprocket]

Did they have bayonets?

[Mick Mac]

gwynfor Wrote:

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> There were two policemen with M16 rifles on Lacon

> Road/North Cross Road last night, bit perturbing!

> There seemed to be quite a heightened police

> presence around East Dulwich after they'd gone

> too. Any clue as to what was going on?

I have read all of the helpful responses to this post. I'm not sure what was going on, are you...

[Michael Palaeologus]

It was a "My M16 is bigger than your H&K G36" row, big style.

The "but my H&K G36 wont jam every 5 minutes" argument won.

[Captain Scarlet]

was it the grammer police?.....looking out for exclamation marks?

[Sue]

Captain Scarlet Wrote:

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> was it the grammer police?.....looking out for

> exclamation marks?

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Or possibly the spelling police looking out for mispelling of grammar :))