saxitoxin wrote:bigtoughralf wrote:Dukasaur wrote:Just imagine if you were given the task of bombing all the bartenders in London, without accidentally harming any of their patrons.
Funnily enough the Met police don't solve all their problems with indiscriminate carpet bombing.
Urinate in public: get an ASBO.
Do it again: all your neighbors are incinerated with white phosphorous.
Some find such scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners, (literal or figurative) wall-to-wall thermonuclear tactics to be 'excessive use of force'... but perhaps the better phrase, that too-often escapes them is 'lasting positive change'.