Just a technical note, Weez – a lot of you recent photos have a very grainy texture, which results from using GIFs. A GIF is great for simple line-drawings with few colours, but not so good for photographs… you ought to be using JPGs.

Ironically, the mgk banner image is a JPG, but would look better as a GIF 😉

What progam are you using to create these pics, and does it support exporting to JPG?

how sad. Reminds me of the time my partner (also Brazilian) was detained by police for several hours on suspicion of being a terrorist, simply for being near an oil refinery and looking hairy and foreign.

Luckily the police asked questions first, and didn’t just open fire.

There is no excuse for opening fire upon an unarmed citizen.

Flash, some of my source images are small and are require enlargement, which causes much of the grain, not the file format. I find GIFs are often less grainy than JPGs, of course depending on the compression level in the JPG.

I tried the ‘mgk’ logo in both JPG & GIF formats and the JPG was about half the size for a comparable level of grain, so I used JPG.

I use Photoshop 7.0 which can do any format.

bbf, I really wonder what it was that caused this Brazilian chap to bolt from police. He is said not to have had any manner of criminal history. He would presumably have no reason not to stop and open his coat and bag for police. It was his flight which convinced the already nervy cops that he had a bomb.

*sigh*

The police were in plain clothes, perhaps they too were carrying backpacks or bags weez and they looked suspicious and threatening to our victim.
Perhaps our victim was as scared of them as they were nervy of him…his cousin stated that he was thinking of buying a motorbike to commute with as he was anxious riding the train system.
All in all very, very wrong.

This was not a “tragic mistake”. It was an unlawfull homicide and, if the British are to avoid being ruled by a gang of armed goons, should be prosecuted as such.

A man late for work, running for the train?

A man who thought he was being pursued by (plainclothes) hoons?

A man who just wasn’t paying attention?

It could happen to anyone. Sorry, anyone dark.

Come to think of it, this reminds me of that Tropfest film “Bomb” from this year’s competition.

A series of Mr Bean-style mishaps intersect with a pair of jumpy Secret Service agents, with (comically) deadly results. Except it’s not funny in real life.

It’s all pretty disgusting. Imagine what his family is going through at the moment. I hope they sue the bastards.

and it just gets worse.

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