It is alleged the striker celebrated in front of home fans at Eastlands and mouthed a swear word towards the City supporters in the stands.I suppose 'wasting police time' isn't a crime now?
Greater Manchester Police said they would speak to the fan who complained before deciding whether to investigate.
You know from Gadget's place that wasting police time has ceased to be an offence.
ReplyDeleteThe new generation of cops are only too pleased to act on a complaint from just one of the professionally offended. It beats chasing criminals.
Oh, indeed. No wonder so many of the good police bloggers have upped and left our shores.
ReplyDeleteBut mouthing an obscenity..? Is that even a crime?
But mouthing an obscenity..? Is that even a crime? An interesting point, the answer to which I have asked time and time again on police blogs about various such "no crime" incidents, and have never recieved an answer.
ReplyDeleteBut then when, as a year or two ago, you get van drivers being arrested for basically "looking at a bin bag wearing woman, "in a racist manner"" I am reminded of the sketch on "Not the nine O'Clock news" where Rowan Atkinsson is the inspector, pointing out that "using a zebra crossing whilst being black" is NOT an offence. Replace black with white today, and Britain is NO different to that sketch. Except maybe the inspector is not CRITISIZING the constable. But congratulating him on "a job well done".
But mouthing an obscenity..? Is that even a crime?
ReplyDeleteAt a PUSH it COULD be "Behaviour likely to case a breach of the peace. But from what I have read, even THAT does not appear to exist these days.
Greater Manchester Police Farce could not detect water if I threw them into the River Mersey! They have one of the worst detection and clear up rates in the country and are held in increasingly open public contempt. Of course they will investigate this as it means playing with "celebs" rather than catching real criminals. You may remember that it was our police farce that took a statue of Lara Croft into custody after smashing their way into the owners house claiming they thought it was a real gun. Only after the media made them look even more useless than normal did they return the now broken statue claiming it happened after they released the statute to its rightful owner.
ReplyDelete"Except maybe the inspector is not CRITISIZING the constable. But congratulating him on "a job well done"."
ReplyDeleteIndeed.
"Greater Manchester Police Farce could not detect water if I threw them into the River Mersey! They have one of the worst detection and clear up rates in the country and are held in increasingly open public contempt."
Yes, I thought the name had popped up on my blog with increasing frequency..
"You may remember that it was our police farce that took a statue of Lara Croft into custody after smashing their way into the owners house claiming they thought it was a real gun."
Good grief! It's a wonder they didn't stage a 24 hour siege and call in hostage negotiators...