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Amnesia10
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Police refuse to tackle burglary suspects at travellers’ site 'over health and safety fears’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... fears.html 
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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something similar happened to me (Many years ago). Some travellers knocked down an old woman and I went to help her (Called ambulance etc) and then tried to stop them leaving the scene. They knocked me down and drove off.
Dispite me giving them a description of the blokes and the number plate of the car the police office told me that nothing would be done for the assult or for the hit and run as it would cause them to much agro to attempt to arrest them
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:58 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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See this is why people don't like gypos. They break the law and get away with it.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:23 pm |
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Linux_User
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Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm Posts: 7173
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Would you go in without sufficient backup? The uniform certainly isn't going to save you. Holding the office of constable doesn't obligate you to march in without backup and get beaten the [LIFTED] out of*.
*unless there's an immediate danger to life or property.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:26 pm |
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jonbwfc
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And this is why these days people don't give the police the respect they used to. if they don't enforce the law, why should anyone listen to a word they say? They're just a bunch of blokes in silly hats. As for the traveller's reaction if the police entered the area to arrest the suspects, I'm not quite as sure about what their reaction would be as you are. If I was one of the people sitting in Dale Farm trying to protect my home, the last thing I'd want is for someone to start a riot and give the police an excuse to come in and make arrests en masse (which they would surely actually love to do), leaving the site much more vulnerable when/if the bailiffs come in. As it stands, the police are staying out of it and that's what the residents want to continue. If I was in there, I'd happily give up a couple of scrotes who are obviously so stupid they can't even see that burgling someone when half of the local constabulary and the national media are sat on your door is a pretty bad idea, rather than start a chain of events which will almost inevitably see me homeless. They've put the whole campaign at Dale farm in jeopardy over a couple of gas canisters. If I was their neighbour, I'd be seriously considering either handing them over or giving them a fair hiding. Jon
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:51 pm |
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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I don't think this case is anything to do with Dale Farm.
Northamptonshire, I think, from the posted article.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:02 pm |
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rustybucket
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:14 pm |
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm Posts: 6580 Location: Getting there
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A couple of flamethrowers and problem solved.
In fact they could increase the business at the Kalashnikov factory by purchasing a few hundred to quickly sort out these people.
Permanent solution... sorted.
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:17 pm |
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HeatherKay
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm Posts: 7262 Location: Here, but not all there.
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Now, if you'd posted that on Twitter someone would have retweeted it to the Northampton plod as incitement to violence. 
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:38 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I want a new TV so NO I want a riot! 
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