Sunday 3 January 2010

I Guess Too Much Paperwork...

...isn't the only thing that's stopping the police from doing their jobs.

MummyLongLegs links to this (at first) amusing story of neighbour wars in Liverpool.

It's hilarious, until you read that 'Merseyside Police are investigating'...

Investigating what, exactly? Is it a crime to have a funeral home next door? Is it a crime to hang a plastic skeleton in your window? I hope that's just a stock PR statement, and they aren't. I hope, in fact, they've sighed, rolled their eyes in despair, and got on with the business of catching real criminals, instead of wasting time on some neighbour tit-for-tat.

But these days, you just never know...

4 comments:

woman on a raft said...

You missed the mistake.

"a grieving family who just want to be left in piece."

They don't say which piece. The story seems to have come from the Liverpool Echo (Trinity Mirror) where the spelling mistake originated.
My favourite paragraph is:

Mr Rae believes his wife’s recent heart problems, which saw her flatline in hospital and get fitted with three “stems” to keep her heart working, contributed to his mother-in-law’s death.

I can understand that the late Mrs Mrs McKune might have been dreadfully upset that her daughter, Mrs McRae, was so very ill in hospital with a heart condition, but I maintain that Mrs McKune's seven previous heart attacks, culminating in the eighth which carried her off, probably had something to do with it.

JuliaM said...

Lol!

AntiCitizenOne said...

The heart inserts are called "stents" not stems. But maybe you knew that.

JuliaM said...

You'd think an editor would pick that up, wouldn't you?

But then, this is 'journalism' in 2010 - do they still have editors?