A Noise Patrol service was shut down because...
It was successful, and received no more complaints?
...council officers were chased out of buildings.
Wait, what?
The team, who were tasked with dealing with noisy neighbours over weekends, had run the service for more than 20 years.
But it was shut down last year over concerns on (sic) the safety of the staff.
A Brighton and Hove City Council report said: “There had been occasions when behaviour towards Noise Patrol officers has been inappropriate, including incidents where officers have been chased from a building.”
The council said it had been replaced by field officers who are “working to a 24-hour response rate” and following up complaints the next day.
When there's
no-one around to chase them? Outstanding tactics!
It was different generation. This next generation won't even be willing to go into the buildings the next day because of the bad feelings that could result in.
ReplyDeleteMost of us have grown up in a society with few risks and even then we molly coddled our kids so that they have no conflict or risk at all. Then we kick them out at 17, if we are lucky, and wonder why the need their hands held.
I have not done this with my kids and as such I'd actually be considered an abusive parent. Letting them climb trees and ride bikes without helmets. I even had a women phoning plod because I was on a road with one of my kids not wearing a helmet. She pissed off when I started talking to her kids in her car. Her face was a picture when I told her to fuck off in front of her kids. Needs must. Anyway, there are a lot like me but for some reason they never seem to get in positions of power.
bring on the revolution and we can take everyone of these snowflakes by using naughty words that will make them swoon.
Why not bolster the noise plod with some real plod, big bastards with dogs and instructions to take names and kick arse! My experience is that there are only a relative few who make life miserable for everyone else around, remove them and your problem goes away.
ReplyDeleteAs Lord T says, Come the Glorious Day ...
"This next generation won't even be willing to go into the buildings the next day because of the bad feelings that could result in."
ReplyDeleteI fear you're right!
"I even had a women phoning plod because I was on a road with one of my kids not wearing a helmet."
Pity they didn't turn up and do her for wasting police time!
"My experience is that there are only a relative few who make life miserable for everyone else around, remove them and your problem goes away."
We don't have any of those sort of police any more, do we?