An rather strange thing has happened to us this week.
On tuesday night someone vandalised our car by spraying some kind of paint stripper on it, which has dissolved a lot of paint on the roof, passenger door, and the chassy under the door.

Bizzarely we actually saw it happen, but didn't realise, some guy was kicking off at the bus stp over the road and we were watching it when another car parked up over the road and our neighbour saw a guy get out, get something out of the boot of his car and empty it on the pavement and while doing that some sprayed on our car. Then he put the empty bottle back in the car and walked off.

So we reported it to the police and then last night, same car turns up over the road, so we call the police again. They send out an unmarked car and 2 plain clothes officers. The coppers have a look through the windows of the offenders vehicle, talk on their radios, then fuck off.

Then we get a call from one of them saying "It wasn't that car, that car is registered to a police officer. It wasn't that car" and was really abrupt and unhelpful, so we called 101 again and explained to the guy that it WAS the car and that we had a witness (who is also a police officer) that confirmed it was the right car. And the guy on the end of the phone said he would make a note of all this, but that there was some information he couldn't tell us. Then he said that he had to end the call as they also dealt with 999 calls and he couldn't talk anymore.

So, we're a bit stumped. Our neighbour told us to phone our local police station and make an official complaint to the duty inspector as this should prompt them to actually do something.

All in all, very odd.

Sorry, TL:DR. BORING CAR CRIME STUFF.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:03, 6 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

That's a bit fucking mental.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:04, Reply)

That's not boring at all,
So your car's been fucked up by a policeman? Shit Al, you are in SRS SH1T.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:05, Reply)

It's just left me feeling really confused.com

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:07, Reply)

LOL

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:08, Reply)

Oh Soz, I forgot you don't like that.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:08, Reply)

He's just grouchy
'cos its nearly time to wake up.
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:10, Reply)

^hilarious subthread of the week.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:13, Reply)

Why don't you gocompare.com it to your face.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:15, Reply)

simples
/collective noun for offtopic.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:25, Reply)

Phone the station and shout your fucking heads off. Do you have the reg of the car, etc?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:06, Reply)

Yeah, I took photos of it last night too.
My first reaction was to want to go and slash his tyres. But I get the feeling I should tread a bit carefully.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:06, Reply)

Fuck 'em up

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:17, Reply)

Your use of the word tread makes me want to start a tyre pun subthread
but I honestly can't think of any.

It's a bit of a LETDOWN.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:17, Reply)

That's wheely bad.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:19, Reply)

My sides have just been punctured from mirth.

( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:21, Reply)

Tracking this conversation has no bearing on mirth

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:22, Reply)

I'm putting this subthread in suspension

( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:27, Reply)

Monty just told you.
it's SRS SH1T
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:07, Reply)

I like that attitude
Oh you must be wrong, that man is a policeman. They couldn't possibly be a lawbreaking cunt. You are wrong, leave it now, we know where you fucking live!
( djtrialprice, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:07, Reply)

Thing is, I'm not sure if it's that attitude because he's a copper and therefore above the law
or because he's an undercover officer who may or may not be investigating the gambling den that goes on down our road.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:08, Reply)

How would emptying chemicals into the road be anything to do with investigating a drugs den?

( girlinthehole, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:09, Reply)

MINDPISSING

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:11, Reply)

I would have thought that was just a stupid mistake which happened to have caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to my car.
Apparently it wasn't like he actually aimed it at our car.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:12, Reply)

What the fuck is he doing dumping strange chemicals on the pavement then?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:11, Reply)

You mean you don't?

( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:24, Reply)

I'm not sure pissing yourself in public counts as dumping strange chemicals on the pavement.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:27, Reply)

It's fine if it's against the kerbside rear wheel of a Hackney Carriage.

( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:28, Reply)

When my dad was in the force, they'd close ranks over something like this.

( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:09, Reply)

The police close ranks over whose turn it is to make the tea.
I know that as individuals they are doing a hard job under difficult circumstances, but I have no trust in them as an institution. The fact that no officers have ever been convicted of causing a death in custody says it all.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:14, Reply)

When my sister joined the police
I told her that a day would come when she would have to choose between lying to protect a colleague and eating her lunch on her own for the rest of her career. They’re probably less bent than they were in the 70s but I’ll bet it’s still rife.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:17, Reply)

I don't understand the implication here at all, people repeatedly bang their heads off of walls all the time.

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:18, Reply)

They're as bad as cons. You'll never get a copper to grass on another.
Their stock answer is "whatever my mate said happened, happened"

I can't blame them to some extent
( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:18, Reply)

You should join up.
You'd be the archetypal 'bent copper'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:19, Reply)

Hah.
I thought about it for a while.
( Kroney, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:21, Reply)

I really don't know where I stand with the police.
Sometimes they've been utter, utter cunts with me, whereas on other occasions they've been nicer than you could possibly imagine. I guess it's the same with everything, judge them each individually.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:40, Reply)

More decisive commentary as it happens

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:41, Reply)

He was getting rid of the chemicals left over
from dissolving the body of the last person who died in a police cell
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:17, Reply)

car-paint-stripper-gate!
Sounds really dodgy
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:36, Reply)

You should call the IPC really
take it to the top, CALL THE MAYOR!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:38, Reply)