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"Granny nicked over missing ball"

Granny nicked over missing ball

I'm posting this because I'm reminded of Lucy and CM Gone ranting about kids going into their garden. Oh that reminds me is that new fence security working for you? I think he bought some spikey stuff to go on the fence to stop them from jumping over it.

We have a large garden so when we see a ball we don't know where it came from as we have 5 neighbouring gardens. And if we do take a guess and throw it over one, it'll end up over our side again, either because of the kids, or they think it's our ball heh.

So getting back to the news story, a good investment of police time? Or would it have just been cheaper to have the police buy the kid a new ball instead ¬_¬ I wonder what she did with the ball in the end.

The thing is, you think about times when people treat you particularly badly - but without committing a 'serious' crime (eg, altercation with chav lowlife), and you tend to think there's not actually much you can do. You can't really go to the police, you don't want to get into a fight...

Is this being dumb - not making some form of complaint - or should you just limit your responses to pretty feeble non-police, non-fighting, and effectively swallow it?

Hmm...

Well if police are making arests this easily, time to nick the company workers down the road for blocking our drive and using it as a turning point.

Failing that, a few carelessly dropped nails at the end may suffice.

It's all for police statistics, thats the only reason they bother with crap like this. It's easy to solve and improves their figures when dealing with complaints.

Is one of the requirements to be a police officer to lack any common sense? Seriously if these cops who actually went there and nicked her over that thought they were providing a service to the community and locking up a hardened criminal then they're fricking idiots.

Machie wrote:
> I'm posting this because I'm reminded of Lucy and CM Gone
> ranting about kids going into their garden. Oh that reminds me
> is that new fence security working for you? I think he bought
> some spikey stuff to go on the fence to stop them from jumping
> over it.

I think the spikey stuff ("Prikka strips" if anyone is interested, plastic spike strips which you can attach to the top of the fence, making it virtually impossible to pull your weight up) worked, but I can't be sure. The reason I'm not sure is that not long after we put it up, the main culprits moved house...

I saw this on the news last night and had to laugh otherwise I'd have cried!

Ive kept all my neighbours footy's etc... he has kicked over the fence :P Annoying lil get does it on purpose.

Its a complete and utter waste of police time, but I hate old women like that. ive lost so many footballs to them over the years.

Havent police got anything better to do?

I tell you now, it makes the police look really stupid, they only ever seem to deal with petty stuff well! You know stuff the people who.. attack.. rape.. kill.. etc...

Grannys pinched a ball :s

How ridiculous