Police swoop on students with toy guns

[emad]

By Sam Lyon, Evening Standard
3 June 2005

Armed officers swooped on a gang of gun-toting teenagers who were holding a bloody T-shirt in a dark alleyway.

But they found eight petrified Media Studies students filming coursework. The guns were toys from a sweetshop.

Members of Scotland Yard's SO19 firearms unit pounced on the students just after 2am in Barkingside, Essex, where the A-level students were finishing a film about gangsters. They were today set to visit a London police station to be interviewed. Their tape has been confiscated.

The pupils, from King Solomon high school, had been watched for an hour. Adam Langleben, 18, cowriter of the movie, said: "It was shocking. I heard, 'Get down, get down' and, 'Against the wall'. I thought my friends were joking, then saw a gun in my face, We were lucky not to be shot."

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/19063298?source=Evening%20Standard

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Almost happened to me once

Only I was filming in an unused wing of a local church. It was an "unsanctified" area, so the church custodian had said it was all right to film there.

After about 20 minutes, after doing the filming, we (me and the "star") were confronted by the Monsignor, who was in the dark about the whole thing. I calmly told him that we were filming a school project and the custodian gave us permission. He let us go, and we beat a hasty retreat.

The topic? The film was about a man so evil, he would even steal the cross from a church. A comedy, of course.

:evilgrin:

--p!

[jswordy]

2. Those cops ought to have REAL GUNS, not toy ones!

Oh....

NEVER MIND!!!!

[ContraBass Black]

3. I was filmin the climax of a gangster movie with lots of realistic

toy guns my senior year in high school. The neighbors, who didn't like the owners of the house we were filming in, called the police. Fortunately for us, they didn't arrive until we had moved the guns to film inside.