Traffic cops
Not so long ago ( recent enough that i should be ashamed of myself) I was walking home about 2am through the studenty bit of Bristol. Surrounded by students. They were hammered, as was I, and in the general spirit of petty larceny present at that time of night in said place i thought it would be a WICKED idea (as a 27 year old business manager) to swipe a mini traffic cone from the side of the road and take it home as a souvenir.

About a hundred yards down the road a cop car pulled up by the side of the road and the constable leaned out of the window to ask... 'is that yours?' I toyed with snappy replies for a moment and then said,'er, no, i just picked it up, shall i put it back?', like a decent member of the community.

'Oh, yes', says plod. Now, since he was on the same side of the road in a car I expected him to drive on and leave me to it, at which point he pulled a U-ey and gave me the slowest, most embarrassing police escort back to the roadworks you've ever seen, while Bristol Uni's finest staggered past giving me almighty abuse.

Like they've never done it.
(toomanypies, Sat 7 May 2011, 2:10, 2 replies)

That's excrutiating.
On the flip side, I have seen similar and happened to snigger at the poor bugger putting back a traffic cone under snippy directions from an uptight security guard.

With ya.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 7 May 2011, 11:12, closed)

Ha ha ha
I remember being in Bath watching two coppers following a couple of lads down the street that were clearly pissed. The two lads came across a pile of bin bags from a shop out for the collectors and proceeded to rip them open and have a good old laugh throwing all the shit about.
In the meantime I was enjoying watching the coppers chuckling away watching this before tapping the lads on the shoulders and making them litter pick it all back up again very sheepishly....
( Jimbuktu See? Right here, Sat 7 May 2011, 20:10, closed)