Sometimes it is hard to believe

My conclusion is that these two police officers were either extremely brave in deciding to approach this gun wielding individual or they knew the gun was a toy and decided to get all drama queen on the kid. Either way they were clearly to lazy to actually put their desk sergeant’s money where their mouths (or asses) were.

"One officer spoke sharply to my son and said that he could arrest him, but because he was going off duty it would be too much paper work.

"We have always told our children the police are here to help us. But I think our son finds that hard to believe at the moment."

In reply to criticism about the incident police said:

Mr Astley was welcome to lodge a formal complaint.

We used to say similar things in the playground at school, though we used to phrase it differently: Come on then, let's see you try it mate.

Posted by John at June 10, 2005 03:32 PM | TrackBack