Alcohol thread trimmings - Page 3

codprawn · 16 August 2007, 22:45

Unfortunately coppers don't use much discretion these days - if they did old men wouldn't be arrested for letting their dog foul a pavement and children wouldn't be arrested for chasing another child with a waterpistol.

And these are just a tiny example of a very worrying trend........

Mugshot · 16 August 2007, 22:56

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Unfortunately coppers don't use much discretion these days - if they did old men wouldn't be arrested for letting their dog foul a pavement and children wouldn't be arrested for chasing another child with a waterpistol.

And these are just a tiny example of a very worrying trend........

Do you have a link to the child being arrested?
Why shouldn't the old man be arrested? Whats the problem here, the fact he's old? His dog shat on the pavement, do you want to step in it! I'd appreciate a link to that one too please.
Do you honestly believe that someone who was, along with their family, in mortal danger with no other option than to operate a boat whilst drunk in order to get to safe harbour would be arrested for doing so if legislation controlling getting mashed at sea was in place?

codprawn · 16 August 2007, 23:38

Well if you are the sort of person who thinks an old man should be arrested becuase his dog craps on a pavement what hope is there for this country?

There are MANY things wrong in Britain - stepping in dog mess in not very nice but really wouldn't make me join the hordes of people choosing to emigrate!!!

Can't find the particular links at the moment but how about this

Children arrested, DNA tested, interrogated and locked up... for playing in a tree

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...66&expand=true

Any wonder I get so worked up!!!

Ah here's one

http://www.eco-action.org/porkbolter/aug02.html

Crime of the Month - from The guardian

"THREE 12-year-old children playing a James Bond game with a plastic toy pistol were surrounded by police from three patrol cars, arrested, fingerprinted and required to give DNA samples," reported The Guardian on August 3. The report added: "Northumbria police, who also issued the two boys and a girl with a formal reprimand, the juvenile equivalent of a caution, said guidelines issued by the Home Office in April gave them no choice. "The reprimand by a senior officer carried out in the parents’ presence two days after the arrest, will stay on police records for three years, but the prints and DNA will be kept for life." You couldn’t make it up

John Kennett · 17 August 2007, 06:48

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Can't find the particular links at the moment but how about this

Children arrested, DNA tested, interrogated and locked up... for playing in a tree

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...66&expand=true

Any wonder I get so worked up!!!

Top tip. Stop reading the Daily Mail. Mail Readers enjoy getting worked up in a froth of righteous indignation . . .

John

Rogue Wave · 17 August 2007, 22:20

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Maybe he can't find it cos it's not there? A few of our posts seem to have succumbed to the "iron fist" of god..............

Aghh I thought it was the dodgy connection from the North Sea, that explains why a few of my Posts have gone by the way

Bigmuz7 · 17 August 2007, 23:34

Not just on this thread either

Bigmuz7 · 17 August 2007, 23:42

Maybe JK's gonna do a JF !! all that wavings gone to their heads!.. I'll know if this post is gone by the morning...

Mugshot · 18 August 2007, 09:14

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Maybe he can't find it cos it's not there? A few of our posts seem to have succumbed to the "iron fist" of god..............

It seems we were being inflammatory cod , I can't believe it could be that we were unenlightened or irrelevant.

Tims Osprey · 18 August 2007, 10:04

John apologies again for the other day, had some friends around who were having a laugh and getting involved

have changed my passwords now,bloody students

Tims Osprey · 18 August 2007, 10:22

On the disappearing post thing some may have had yellow cards waved at yu but i was shown the straight red

bloody refs

will be calling yu graham poll soon john

my appeal is pending....

codprawn · 18 August 2007, 14:15

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Originally Posted by John Kennett

It's still here as Tims Osprey found. Isn't the search feature great?

I have deleted some of the less enlightening and more inflammatory posts in this thread as it's getting very long and really doesn't need any padding. I haven't deleted anything that's actually relevant to the discussion though.

John

Well I thought the point I was trying to make was relevant - ie that discretion is no longer a word the Police understand when apply these new laws.

Maybe I should have put it a bit more succinctly though!!!

codprawn · 18 August 2007, 18:28

Carling...........

Bigmuz7 · 18 August 2007, 21:59

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Originally Posted by John Kennett

Oh, and I reserve the right to keep on deleting any off topic posts in this thread!

John

Thats your privilege John, but there must be a balance between free comment and the iron fist, if posters keep getting their posts removed, the essence of what this board is all about, becomes dilute.