Blue Shirts again
Ok...I swear this IS on topic. I, as an employee of a public service am paid by taxes. Which means that everyone (including me and my colleagues) are my customers. That makes sense right?

Right.

Colleague CSO comes back into the base with a massive grin pasted across his face, and proudly announces to the packed office that he's just caught two people "Going Equipped".
Given that this particular CSO proves that much of the current public perception of us is dead on, we naturally wanted a few more details. Had he caught two masked men holding crowbars? Or perhaps a gang of hoodies stood outside a bank with a blowtorch?

Nope.

Apparently he'd been walking along the local park, when he'd spotted a couple in their 70s walking towards him. He was holding a step ladder, she a basket.

He had stopped both of them, called for a patrol car, and tried to have them arrested for going equipped to steal apples from a publicly owned tree.

(postscript: yes, the poor sods who were in the patrol car did apologise to the couple and told him to fuck right off)

*Sweet alcohol eases the pain*
(Caveat Emptor, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:04, 3 replies)

Thats shocking!
Bloody apple-pinching old people.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:12, closed)

The boys in the car...
should have batoned them! That's a proportional response!
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:31, closed)

Report him
for walking around in public equipped as a rapist.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 13:22, closed)