Just read Hampshire Plod's faceache page. No big deal, minor injury, no threat to public safety.
The old saying ( Churchill?) about lies being half way around the world before truth has its boots on is more apt than ever, what with social media.
The ARRSE threads of big news stories ( Boston Marathon bombing and Woolwich murders/terror attacks ) open the box of keyboard socialisers, beer and popcorn and TV to hand, watching and reporting everything that the non stop news programmes are guessing about to others who are doing the same thing. That and such detailed analysis that means Boston Police, Massachusetts State Police, the FBI, MI5 and the Met can all go home. Case solved.....not. WTF?
What wasn't reported about the Nelson incident was that 3 divers were reprimanded by their OIC for responding to the incident without having first had a facial and a manicure.