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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 5386394" data-attributes="member: 18305">About 15 years ago, I was driving along the highway in the early morning, half asleep, with hardly another car on the road, when I came across a police/army checkpoint.  This was pretty startling because they a)were carrying submachine guns, b) they were dressed in black and wearing balaclavas and c) this is England - the police don't routinely carry guns, and you just don't get army checkpoints.I slowed down, but was waved straight through.  I noticed that a van had been stopped.  This was the A1 - the main road from London to Edinburgh - and there were scary guys in paramilitary outfits with guns stopping people.  I watched the local news, and looked in the papers, but nothing was reported.  I can only guess it was some anti-terrorism work as this was the period when the IRA exploded some bombs in that part of the country.</blockquote>