A frail 81 year old pensioner is accused of assaulting two burly, young PCs and they radio for back up assistance! Why did this case even come to court in the first place? Secondly, why has it dragged on for so long? He was accused of being drunk whilst driving, when all he had drunk was a sip of communion wine. Haven't the police got better things to do than harass this old codger? "Pc Steven Cole told Medway magistrates' court that Mr Gibson had grabbed his thumb. "It hurt. He twisted it back and I noted down in my pocket notebook that I let out a yelp. There is no way else of describing it." More a case of the police wasting police time, methinks. "The officers said that they were so traumatised by the OAP's actions they called for back-up before arresting him".
Plodberry: This reminds me I must make a blackberry pie with the blackberries I picked the other day.
Hat-Tip to Charon QC.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
This is obviously a case of wrong attitude. The P'licemen had expected a polite attitude from the chap that they had pulled over but the young lad in the drivers seat was having none of it.
ReplyDeleteA molehill blown into a mountain. This would have never happened in my day. (last year)
Also one has to reckon with the attitude of the arresting officers. Here in Lincolnshire we are blessed with absolute gentlemen (in most cases) as in my experience they are brought up by parents who know how to bring up their offspring. I have NEVER had any bad dealings with any of these blokes in the course of their duty.
SWITCH to a constabulary in a city elsewhere and one finds that the P'Lice have to deal with all sorts of scummage and they react differently, always on the defensive.
Here in Lincolnshire our P'licemen would always ask you if your handcuffs are too tight. What a difference to the rest of the country. Just one reason to live in the least populated county in England.
PS I am NOT kidding.
Well said Ron. This seems Much ado about Nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe policeman's thumb got hurt. This reminds me of the story on the news yesterday about the young soldier who had been very badly injured, having been blown up by a landmine in Helmand province. The doctors treating him said that he was the most badly injured soldier to have survived such injuries. As a result, he was awared a little over £150,000 in compensation. The compensation (from MOD) is set up so that a person can only claim for three separate injuries, and in a sliding scale i.e. injury number 1 has the highest award and injury number 3 the lowest. Hence the sum of £150,000 being arrived at. The system does not permit any more than three separate injuries to be claimed for and this young soldier has 27. The boy's mother is challenging this award on the grounds not just that it is too low, but that had her son had one single injury that was worse than any he did incur (as if losing two legs is considered anything other than horrific), the award would have been much higher. When asked about this on the news yesterday evening, the MP who was being questioned responded by stating that "people are surviving injuries that they would not have survived a couple of years ago". ????? Was this boy "supposed" to die? The whole piece was introduced by first stating that a typist who worked at the MOD hurt her thumb and made a claim - and won - compensation of £400,000 !
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