..as a roofer, perhaps? Or would that be 'punishment of the undeserving poor' (
according to this daft mare)?
A neighbour said: “He was shouting and taking tiles off, yelling ‘they stopped my income support, they stopped my housing benefit, how am I supposed to live? ’
“He worked himself up into a bit of a frenzy and started smashing things.
“He was in his 50s or 60s and was wearing a t-shirt that he soon ripped off. He had a hammer and a can of beer.
“A few days ago he was playing music so loud it sounded like a rave in the street. The day before that he had all these strobe lights going, like it was a concert.
I think he’d just worked himself up and it built to this.”
He had time to do thousands of pounds worth of damage because, as usual, the police
allowed him the time to do so…
A Met Police spokesman said: “Police were called at 2.45pm to reports of a man throwing objects off the roof of a house. Road closures were put in place.
“Shortly before 9pm the man was arrested and released on bail. He was not taken into custody.”
It’s about time a suitable proportion of any payout for damage caused by their ‘softly, softly, hands off’ policy came out of their budget, isn't it?
17 comments:
I wonder if he owns the house or if it's the council?
If it's his, the neighbour should sue and have it sold from under the waster, if the council, eviction and charges for criminal damage.
Too much of this from scrotes.
What's your answer then Julia? How would you get him down? Serious question. Please don't answer "it's your job".
If he gets hurt who do you think he will sue? Then you can post about police injuring scumbags and paying out huge settlements.
Jaded.
Jaded,
You could always ask Melvin to pop over and have a few words with him. I would think after 30 minutes, he'd jump off the roof himself! Agree with your comments on how to get him down - usually it's those who have never had to do this who are the most critical or offer the most 'advice'.
Penseivat
30 minutes? Probably 30 seconds...
He will be along here soon giving us the benefit of his advice,in a clever and pompous way and us plebs should be grateful.
Jaded
Get a job? Why? It's my human right to live on benefits and protest when I don't qualify.
How to get him down? Wanna borrow my shotgun?
Yep, Melv knows all the answers, but then we've been here before with such incidents, at least this guy didn't get thru the whole Dominos menu before it ended. On the same subject check this:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/faversham-siege-christopher-smith-16634/
Read the wife's bleatings.............
When people do these kind of stupid things why are they not breathalyzed and the results made public?
I often imagine - maybe wrongly - that they are full of piss (or, I suppose, other drugs) and whip themselves up into a state of righteous indignation before acting like a twat.
Or maybe the coppers always suspect that this is the case and wait for the effects to wear off? Over to you, Jaded
What Dioclese says. Time we had a Castle Doctrine here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27243115
Causes might be drink, drugs, mental illness, excited delirium or a mixture of any or all.
The day that Police Officers became subject to Health and Safety was the day that dealing with these incidents more difficult..
I am of the old school - if a stupid bugger climbs up on to a roof just ignore him. If he becomes too obnoxious give him a bath with a fire hose.
The fact that the police close the road is pandering to the idiot and just the attention he wants, sorry Jaded, I know you are constrained in how you can react but now a days that action appears to be stupid.
In the spirit of ensuring all Emergency Services are MH Compliant I reckon this is one for the Fire brigade equipped with a large net.
"Rescue" the bastard "for his own safety".
How hard can this be, really ?
Man is on roof, either drunk, drugged up, suffering from mental illness or simply angry at the world and throwing tiles into street. Despite repeated requests, he refuses to come down. Police do not close road - thrown tiles hit passing cars or pedestrians/rubberneckers causing injuries; Fire Service hose him off the roof - result is serious injuries or worse; Police climb up on roof and struggle ensues - man falls off roof and sustains serious injuries; Dioclese turns up with shotgun and man is blown off roof covered in shotgun pellets. While some of the anons are happy and Julia blogs about excessive force who will be the ones in the court dock at the end of the day? The main role of emergency services is the protection of life, while it may, but not necessarily, apply to Dioclese (I read his blog on a regular basis), some actions can not be considered appropriate to the circumstances. Those who disagree are invited to suggest how they would deal with such an incident - Melv is disqualified from this as suicide through boredom is not considered appropriate.
Penseivat
Thanks, Penise.
I am not such a killjoy to heckle plod-play at a live spectacle. Yet I would be seriously miffed should it all kick off before I returned with adequate reserves of popcorn and Evian.
Penseivat, I will try and answer your question.
In my younger days if someone did something like this bloke everyone would be throwing the tiles back at him and if he fell off, tough - in other words we were considered to have personal responsibility for our actions.
Nowadays the state has taken over the responsibility of peoples actions by nannying everyone. What we have here is the direct result of that nannying to the detriment of all concerned. It will get a lot worse before being responsible for ones own actions returns to being the norm. I would almost go as far as saying that it might take a revolution for that to happen, just as it did in the past with Oliver Cromwell dismissing parliament.
"I wonder if he owns the house or if it's the council?"
He's on benefits, so...
"What's your answer then Julia? How would you get him down?"
12 bore, as Dioclese suggests?
"On the same subject check this..."
Those are English police..? Wow!
"The day that Police Officers became subject to Health and Safety was the day that dealing with these incidents more difficult.."
The day they decided that people like this were 'victims' in need of protection and not criminals is the day, surely?
"While some of the anons are happy and Julia blogs about excessive force..."
Nope, you'd get a free pass on this one!
"Nowadays the state has taken over the responsibility of peoples actions by nannying everyone. What we have here is the direct result of that nannying to the detriment of all concerned."
Spot on!
Well I suppose those of us who are already pig sick of it, could decide on a "you broke it, you own it" philosophy. One in which we simply leave it well alone to run the course. One in which the mess we survey today pales into insignificance compared to the irredeemable toilet it will become. We leave it to become that and on that day, when all this behaviour is so widespread it blights the lives of the so called great and the good(the politicians, the judges, the lawmakers and the dogooders) and it's their homes, their neighbourhoods and their families, they see their completed masterpiece and are crying and screaming and pulling their hair out desperate for help and are left to rue the day they shouted us down for pointing out the problems we saw coming.
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