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Bullet in the Head

straight from Boing Boing:

New police guidelines: shoot suicide bomber suspects in head:

[…] wearing a heavy coat in warm weather, carrying a backpack with protrusions or visible wires, nervousness, excessive sweating or an unwillingness to make eye contact […]

An international group of police chiefs recently expanded its guidelines for use of deadly force, instructing officers to shoot suspected suicide bombers in the head. Details were printed in yesterday’s Washington Post.

Comment from Xeni Jardin (Boing Boing):

[…] God help any iPod-toting, eye-contact-avoiding, sweaty nerds on the subway from user error. […]