When I was a copper, we were taught to use common sence and discretion in our dealings with the idiot public.
It seems, however, that the lessons we were taught have now given way to the "P.C Jobsworthy, fukin, J, Idiot-keystone copper".
The phrase "Kill Bill" takes on a TOTALY new light.(Especially those of you "down South").
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It’s a Boy’s Own gift that will be stuffed into thousands of Christmas stockings, but a retired brigadier has discovered that the credit card-sized toolkit — complete with 5cm (2in) blade, compass, tweezers and toothpick — could put the recipients on the wrong side of the law.
Tom Foulkes, 56, who spent 35 years working for the Ministry of Defence developing real weapons, was arrested, locked up and had his fingerprints and DNA sample taken after the kit was discovered in his overnight bag by police.
The former Royal Engineer was preparing to board a Paris-bound train at Waterloo when an X-ray machine alarm was triggered by the toolkit. He was hauled from the station, placed in a cage in a van and taken to a police station for questioning. Four hours later he was released and cautioned after admitting to possessing an offensive weapon; Mr Foulkes had seen it as something with which to sharpen pencils and cut off luggage labels, and that his wife occasionally used to pluck her eyebrows.
Mr Foulkes aired his grievance in a letter to The Times. Yesterday he revealed more about his ordeal. “The whole thing was an absolute farce,” he said. “I’m now on the police database. They have photographs of me and records of my DNA and my fingerprints, all because I was carrying this useful little tool.”
Now director general of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Mr Foulkes was on a business trip to Paris when the officers arrested him. “I was bundled into the cage of a police van and taken to Tottenham Court Road custody centre,” he said. “My former rank seems to be the only thing that saved me from being handcuffed.”
The “multitool” was sent to a knife destruction centre in North London.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...462834,00.html |
25-11-2006, 05:37 AM
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