Police Tape
Its stretching the qotw of the week a bit but it all fits into unreasonableness by the general public.

When part of a street is taped of by the police with the usual 'Crime Scene Do Not Cross Tape' ala CSI why do people think they still have the god given right to wonder across my scene?

The fact that there is a 6in gap between the lamp post where the tape is tied and the edge of the road does not mean you can squeeze through said gap and claim you didn't realise it meant whole road was closed - Perhaps the tape, the fire engine, ambulance police vehicles should have given you a clue.

The amount of dogs that suddenly get walked whenever something is cordoned off is amazing.

Also the fact that you live 'just down there' 'just want to pop to the shops' or 'don't know another way' cuts no ice with me, perhaps you'd like to walk the long way round just this once while this murder/serious accident/or fire is dealt with? Or in the case its a crime scene maybe you'd like to be arrested, after all every good detective knows the murder always returns to the scene, maybe its you trying to contaminate the forensics to give yourself an alibi.

Also should an area be cordoned off, a lot of fire engines in attendance and smoke coming from a building, its no use comming up and saying ' Whats happened here then?' Chances are believe it or not its a fire!, the same if a lot of vehicles are scattered about the road with bits missing off them - its likely to be a road accident and not a burglary.

Recent conversation stood on a cordon:

'Can I come through here?"
"No sorry its cordoned off at the moment due to the fire"
"Well thats not very polite"
imagined reply "Well what else would you like me so say, should I right that down in a gift card with flowers for you? Would you like to be covered with 16 thousand gallons of scalding oil should the place explode"
Actual reply "well you can follow that path over there which will bring you out the other side"

If somewhere is cordoned off its cordoned off for a reason, If by chance you happen to live at one of the places caught up in a cordon then speak to the people there and they will find a way through for you if its safe.

Otherwise use common sense and go a different way.
(Titanix, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 22:48, 4 replies)

I was in Manchester
when it was bombed about 15 years ago. The police did a fantastic job of getting people out of the line of the bomb. However I did see some people just ducking under the tape. How thick do you have to be?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 8 Sep 2008, 22:58, closed)

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I must be honest, I live in the land of Mancs, I was here when teh bomb went up, and I'm a photographer. I spent that day and the next trying to cross over police lines, just to get a decent shot, which I could flog to teh nationals. I'm a greedy, ignorant and insensitive bugger, sorry.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 9 Sep 2008, 5:45, closed)

But these people
were trying to get past the police line to carry on their shopping!
And this with a policeman bellowing in their ear that THERE WAS A FUCKING BOMB AND THEY MIGHT DIE.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 9 Sep 2008, 10:07, closed)

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Fairy snuff. I had coppers suggesting, "mind out the way sir", to "out the way cunt", and I stick my hands up to being a twat. I was just trying to earn a living, and I wouldn't try shopping in the middle of an inferno.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Tue 9 Sep 2008, 12:55, closed)