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 Forest Hillbilly  in a hidey-hole 01 Dec 17 11.05am |
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Positive or negative In the 1970's a police officer friend advised to never hand in a wallet/purse with cash and no ID to local police station, as this was immediately transferred to the 'bobbys' Christmas Pot. Had an off-duty police office crash into my father-in-laws parked car around 2005. Driver wasn't even breathalysed by police on the scene and gave false details, which I fortunately discovered a couple of years later and was able to ID him. Never brought to account. Around 2007 I was nearly shot by armed police conducting a drugs raid on Sydenham Hill as I jogged along the pavement in my black jogging gear. "Get back! Armed police!" as a balaclava'ed officer pointed a loaded rifle at me. I needed new underpants immediately. Recently (2 weeks ago) had a 'hit and run' on my parked car outside my house. I was out, but a neighbour got the licence plate details and photos. On arriving at said police station in the evening , the response was "we didn't need you to come in. We have all this stuff passed to us by your insurers. We might not be able to ID the driver" So they wanted me to find out who the driver was (the registered owner of the vehicle is under legal obligation to disclose who driver was), and if I didn't, that's my insurance fcked. I realise those police in the spotlight get all the shlt and are under stress. But fck me, this debacle is biased against the innocent and needs sorting out. Mis-management from the top, in my opinion. Saw a traffic cop directing traffic with Sooty and Sweep puppets on his hands in the 1980's. That was amusing at the time Edited by Forest Hillbilly (01 Dec 2017 11.12am)
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OllieMaidstoneEagle  Maidstone, Kent 01 Dec 17 10.03pm |
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Went to The Marquee as a 15 year old punk in 1977 and the support act were The Police. There were about 20 people in the audience and after a few minutes of shyte fake reggae music and the monotone drone of the singer most of us decided to stand by the exit or (the older ones)go to the bar. Sting was heard to be shouting 'We're gonna be the next best thing! Where are you idiots going?'. The hatred of him and The Police has lasted 'til this day. PS .I think I may have got the gist of this thread wrong!! Ollie's Dad,Ash.
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cryrst  The garden of England 01 Dec 17 10.18pm |
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Way back about 40 years ago I found and handed in a wallet.
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PalazioVecchio  south pole 02 Dec 17 7.00am |
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the time that a lunatic drug dealer moved into my Palace neighbourhood, the cops didnt exactly fix the problem. 2 years of nutty anti social behaviour. Guns, drugs, attempted arson, pitbulls, pooh, fights, etc etc. Eventually he shot somebody in the face in Jasmine Grove, Anerley. I put i a complaint with the coppers complaints authority.....at how ineffective they had been. Boy, did they push hard to get me to rescind the complaint. Promises that he was in custody and would be facing a long stretch in jail. i understand, The shooter got off with a slap on the wrists. Something along the lines of ''Not enough evidence to nail him, seemingly. Not the first time i have encountered the cops to be inadequate at protecting the public. The other time, which i will not go into in detail, they bottled it, scarpered and i am very lucky to still be alive and healthy today. Next time, i wouldn't bother dialing 999. Mods, feel free to divulge my details to any coppers wishing to pursue the first matter. It may be that the Courts let the public down in this instance. I spoke to the bloke who got shot in the face, like myself, he prefers to try to forget the whole incident. It seems he was innocently trying to protect a member of his family. Edited by PalazioVecchio (02 Dec 2017 8.18am)
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| legaleagle 02 Dec 17 9.52am |
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Story I was told by an ex senior police officer from an out of London force. Back in the pre-Met corruption clean up 1970's,he and colleagues had come to London to interview someone held by the Met they were also after. After a while,the Met said,let's go and eat,took the detained's credit card,and everyone (except the card holder who remained in custody) went off and wined and dined on it for the night.
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chateauferret  02 Dec 17 9.53am |
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I posted a whole lot in the Seaweed kettling thread so mods might what to move that stuff here. However. In the summer my phone went missing on the train back from Edinburgh. No sign of it at the lost property but it had tracking on so I tracked it and the map said it was at the junction of Reidvale St and Thomson St in Bellgrove, Glasgow. I went there the next morning and there was a City Council rubbish bin on that exact spot. I used the tracking to make the phone ring and heard it ringing from inside the bin. The bin was locked and you couldn't reach inside it, so I told the police what I knew and they said they'd get the Council to unlock the bin and try to retrieve it. Six weeks later and after about a dozen chasers and parcel-passing between Police Scotland and the BTP, they said that the Council had emptied the bin and it wasn't there.
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| Midlands Eagle 02 Dec 17 11.07am |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
I posted a whole lot in the Seaweed kettling thread so mods might what to move that stuff here. I'm afraid that moving individual posts within a thread can't be done but you could always copy and paste it onto this thread
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 Hrolf The Ganger 02 Dec 17 11.22am |
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Sting ate my hamster........ But seriously... I and some of my friends got stopped on suspicion for no reason at all late at night in London in the eighties coming back from an Alex Harvey gig. Took names and addresses. I once got followed in my car stopped and searched by a whole carload of Sweeney types back in the eighties for no good reason. Been pulled over by the police at least three times in the States but the didn't shoot me. I did have to pay a couple of fines. My wife was in a crash caused by a drunk and in court, the copper concerned could even find his own notes and got dismissed. Poor. Not very exciting really. Wish I hadn't bothered.
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| Midlands Eagle 02 Dec 17 11.57am |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
I and some of my friends got stopped on suspicion for no reason at all late at night in London in the eighties coming back from an Alex Harvey gig. Wow. That's a name that I'd long forgotten about even though I used to play his stuff a lot at the time
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| nickgusset Shizzlehurst 02 Dec 17 12.04pm |
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Can't get this out of my head now.
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| Hrolf The Ganger 02 Dec 17 12.57pm |
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He looked like a crazy Scottish nutter. Reminded me a bit of Bon Scott with a bit of Dan McCafferty thrown in.
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