breach of the peace is *NOT* and never has been an arrestable offence if it is neither on going or likely to recur. So you can stop yourself from being arrested if you shut up when the police arrive ;-)

actually, the police have a warrant that permits them to arrest for arrestable offences. the police seldom don't know what is and isn't an arrestable offence though as I can attest. I was once "arrested" until I explained to the officer that my "crime" wasn't actually an arrestable offence and they could only arrest me during the commision of the crime or if it was likely to recur (which it wasn't), so they would need a proper warrant to arrest me. the matter was dropped.

I always thought it was about a Captain that could keep his ship in the harbour long enough to get everyone off.

I suspect that the methane produced through the switch to a vegetarian diet would overshadow the CO2 reduction. Methane is thought to be a much more efficient greenhouse gas.

I thought that the firing pin and the bullets were still metal and therefore detectable?

why not? they are the finniest books in living memory.

it was frozen upon collection (standard procedure). So it was already dead when they counted in inside. Do not wish scorn upon others for it may fall upon you.

s/practice/practise/g you want the verb, not the noun.

i think both you and the summary mean "practise" the verb, not practice the noun.

...because I felt far safer in Cuba than I did in America.

The foor is a little known keyboard elf that causes's typo, they like to live under spacebars as this allows them greater room to breed but it is not unknown for them to inhabit any key on a keyboard. They are a distant cousin of the Mouse-monkey that yanks your pointer to that link you really shouldn't have clicked - these are responsible for a large number of relationship breakups amongst humans.

There's a great tradition of self sacrifice for the benefit of scientific knowledge the name Curie and Rutherford spring to mind although they are both what might be termed as "uninformed sacrifices" at the time - but have reaped a huge benefits for scientists and the general public at large. I'm also mindful of intentional infestation with hookworm as a cure for all sorts of ailments from asthma to IBD - all with a modicom of sucess that hopefully peer review that will better our experience of being human beings. Way to go, this is how to science!

If I were you, not out of spite - but out of concern for J Q Public - I'd drop an email to the auditors. OK, I admit it, there'd be some spite involved.

and this yet again shows me why I should preview and re-read my posts. I think I typed "i think he" but the "think he" got lost in the buffer.

because the french have very tight privacy laws - they have rather strict photography laws too, you don't even get freedom of panorama in France. I sued there because he could win there.