AmericanThunder
Super Moderator
Before you read on, this is not my text and it didn’t happen to me!
My personal experience with the Police was that they came when called, but if the below text is an accurate representation then that Police force has some questions to answer.
I’m good friends with the guys
who run my local garage.
For reasons I won’t bore you with
-- long story! -- I had a load of old
tyres to get rid of this weekend
just gone.
The guy who runs the garage
told me to bring them down on
the weekend and throw them
in the back of the Garages van.
It never moves and has a broken
door, so you can open and close
it without a key.
A friend helped me load up the
100 or so tyres, one load at a
time, and we drove back and
forwards, depositing the tyres
in the van as we went.
Anyway, the point of all this is
that someone called the Police
because they thought we were
breaking in to the van!
This was on Saturday at about
5pm.
So what’s the reason I’m telling
you this?
Well, the first we heard of it was
on Monday morning when the
Garage called me, laughing.
The Police had just called them
to let them know that someone
had broken in to their van over
the weekend and that they
should check if anything had
been stolen!
They hadn't seen it as serious
enough to attend...
I’ve always been a bit skeptical
when I hear stories about the
Police not turning up to reported
crimes, but this is exactly what
happened!
I really could accept this if they
were out dealing with violent
crime, for example.
And of course in some instances
they are, and a fine job I'm sure
they do.
HOWEVER, the very next
morning, I drove past a Police
mobile speed trap less than a
mile from where we “broke in”
to the van...
Isn’t it disgraceful that Police can’t
turn up to a reported crime (even
if it turns out not to be) on a
Saturday afternoon, but they can
sit on a bridge issuing fines to
Motorists on a Sunday morning?
Something is very, very, wrong here...
My personal experience with the Police was that they came when called, but if the below text is an accurate representation then that Police force has some questions to answer.
I’m good friends with the guys
who run my local garage.
For reasons I won’t bore you with
-- long story! -- I had a load of old
tyres to get rid of this weekend
just gone.
The guy who runs the garage
told me to bring them down on
the weekend and throw them
in the back of the Garages van.
It never moves and has a broken
door, so you can open and close
it without a key.
A friend helped me load up the
100 or so tyres, one load at a
time, and we drove back and
forwards, depositing the tyres
in the van as we went.
Anyway, the point of all this is
that someone called the Police
because they thought we were
breaking in to the van!
This was on Saturday at about
5pm.
So what’s the reason I’m telling
you this?
Well, the first we heard of it was
on Monday morning when the
Garage called me, laughing.
The Police had just called them
to let them know that someone
had broken in to their van over
the weekend and that they
should check if anything had
been stolen!
They hadn't seen it as serious
enough to attend...
I’ve always been a bit skeptical
when I hear stories about the
Police not turning up to reported
crimes, but this is exactly what
happened!
I really could accept this if they
were out dealing with violent
crime, for example.
And of course in some instances
they are, and a fine job I'm sure
they do.
HOWEVER, the very next
morning, I drove past a Police
mobile speed trap less than a
mile from where we “broke in”
to the van...
Isn’t it disgraceful that Police can’t
turn up to a reported crime (even
if it turns out not to be) on a
Saturday afternoon, but they can
sit on a bridge issuing fines to
Motorists on a Sunday morning?
Something is very, very, wrong here...