A Friend of mine's Dad was a copper
During the Poll Tax Riots- Frightening stuff apparantly. But some time after he was shopping in Tescos with my friend (who as about 3 at the time) when he came across one of the protestors he had arrested who started to menace him.

He lifted my friend into a freezer and went to protect himself with the only things he had to hand- some tins of baked beans. The Protestor left and he managed to call for back up. The Protestor was arrested a mile down the road about half an hour later after attempting armed robbery. He was armed with a revolver the whole time.

Sorry for any gaps here- I only heard this story once off my friend who can't actually remember it, but he says it was the scariest thing to ever happen to his dad( who isn't a policeman anymore)
(FondaAccord, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 17:59, 5 replies)

baked beans?
what, no woman's weekly?
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 18:01, closed)

Glad that mine wasn't the only mind that went directly to that song.

(teff, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 0:21, closed)

'tis a great song

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 0:39, closed)

if he was in the freezer
why didn't he defend himself with crinkle cut oven chips?
( writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Thu 11 Nov 2010, 22:37, closed)

Everyone knows...
the Arctic Role is the hardest material known to man/woman kind.

It's the first thing i reach for when i need some frozen improvised defensive article (FIDA)
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 8:36, closed)