Ah, but Mr Walker, you're of
a generation when policemen didn't react with panic & a strict adherence to health and safety and 'procedure', aren't you?
...he had no idea that when he placed the shell, wrapped in plastic bags, on the front counter of Sutton police station yesterday that it would trigger a huge police operation.
Immediately the station was evacuated and police cordoned off surrounding streets, telling staff in nearby shops to stay indoors while explosive experts were called in to examine the device.
The only
real surprise is that they didn't arrest him...
I simply won't hear of our modern plod being branded as cowards.
ReplyDeleteWhenever they have felt the need to threaten anyone on this blog, they have always done so under their normal sobriquet.
As a child I liked to collect unexploded incendiary bombs, there were a lot of them about where we lived. Quite why the adults I gave them to as presents were so shirty about it, I have never been able to understand.
ReplyDeleteUhm Joolz, you'd be the first to have slammed the Police for simply taking the word of some old fart who had said that it was unarmed and to blame them for the resulting loss of life or limbs.
ReplyDeleteI can;t say I would have acted any differently had been there. Common sense, nay sheer self-preservation, dictates that one clears the area and gets in someone who can verify its inert state.
Remember when you were at primary school and there was a fire alarm? The thrill of leaving your desks, evacuating the building, standing about in the playground chattering excitedly, wondering if something ace was going to happen - and best of all, you didn't have to do any work while it was all going on.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much modern policing.
How many actually pooped in their pants? Society including police has become infantilised.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the bravest thing you've ever done Melvin? Written a post without sneering?
ReplyDeleteI know this station well and the "Acting Chief Inspector" quoted.I have no doubt his application for promotion will have this incident detailed in glowing terms.
Jaded
"What's the bravest thing you've ever done Melvin?"
ReplyDeleteDidn't I dump you on Facebook, dear?
All UXBs, suspect packages etc to Melv's place up in Huddersfield, just Google the nutter!
ReplyDeleteHe soooo bwave our lickle Melvy-poos
Just in case -what is the proper procedure if I find an unexploded devise?
ReplyDeleteCall the police?
Phone the Daily Mail?
Put it in the fridge so the neighbours kids can take it to bits later?
Will nobody help WC Jaded 'device' a plan?
ReplyDeleteYou picked the wrong target to sneer at Melvin,I always sign my posts.I use this laptop "devise"
ReplyDeleteJaded
Our syntax fingerprints are prominent, Jaded.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, your wildly paranoid accusations reveal an historic sensitivity to criticism.
Julia please tell the Huddersfield buffoon that I didn't post that comment at 00.11 or it will be another one of his lies that grows and grows.
ReplyDeleteJaded
Only the proudest of police liars work overtime to deserve the name.
ReplyDelete"Quite why the adults I gave them to as presents were so shirty about it, I have never been able to understand."
ReplyDelete:D
"... you'd be the first to have slammed the Police for simply taking the word of some old fart ..."
Not really, no. Once upon a time, that's exactly what they would have done, quietly.
Now, it's all flashing lights & the whole security theatre panopoly.
"That's pretty much modern policing."
Heh!
"Julia please tell the Huddersfield buffoon that I didn't post that comment at 00.11..."
I can't! Unlike Wordpress, Blogger gives me very little in the way of info about posters.
ReplyDelete"Julia please tell the Huddersfield buffoon that I didn't post that comment at 00.11..." - "I can't!"
A stealth insult is repaid with generous interest for treachery, JuliaM.