Crime witnessed me, not quite inline with the qotw but kinda
I had been out walking on the beach, enjoying the sun, walking hand in hand with my gf, wonderful start to the day, we stopped at a restaurant for some beasty club sandwiches and a pint. The weather was scorching, and, after a lunchtime drink, we decided we'd go and sleep off the previous late night with a early afternoon nap.

Well naps start off innocent enough and you can probably guess what happened, anyway, after an hour or so napping and fooling about, we were both quite awake and went for a shower (This story does have a point I promise), I was finished before my lovely lady and I went to sit in the kitchen window and watch the world go by.

I noticed after a few minutes that there seemed to be some sort of commotion outside, there were people pointing at my flat and I saw a flash of a police uniform, I lent out of the window and saw 2 cops talking into their walkie talkies and staring right at me, not good me thinks.

I shout upstairs "I think someone has called the police on us, I'm going down stairs"

I approach the policeman and say "Is there a problem here?" Cue me getting shoved against the wall, and "you better start telling us what's been going on" he says.

I invite the cops upstairs and 4 more turn up, turns out some crazy lady in the cafe near my flat had told the police I'd been pointing a gun at her!! The armed response unit turned up and the police grilled me for about an hour saying "if you hadn't invited us up we'd have kicked the door in carrying our rifles." If I hadn't spotted them outside I could've been shot! This is what they said to me. Fuck.

The woman who made the allegation was seen walking swiftly away from the cafe when the cops weren't looking with a smile on her face. WTF?!

The police ended up confiscating a BB gun I had in the bottom of my wardrobe, in a shoebox, under a pile of old rubbish. They asked if I had anything that resembled a firearm so I went and got that out. They knew I'd done nothing wrong but insisted on lecturing me anyway.

I guess they were doing their job but these fellas were not mucking around, they refused to listen to a word I said, rolled their eyes when I said I was anti-gun, told me that the CCTV I requested wasn't required as there was a witness, spoke to their superiors saying I was playing Hi-jinks, generally treated me like shit and told me how much serious trouble I was in even though there was no weapon.

I'm not the hardest of people and you could say I'm kinda sensitive, this did not help. I'd done nothing wrong yet felt like shit. This all ended with them realizing there was nothing going on, I didn't even get a ref no. because there was no write up on it, they apologized and shaking my hand, no further trouble for me. "Go enjoy the rest of your weekend mate" they said, yeah right.

I don't hate the police but I wonder what drove a women to report a complete stranger for something they'd not done??

weekend ruined - confidence shattered. Sorry for length.

p.s Then my radiator fell off my wall and flooded my bedroom. Pissflaps.
( SauronWibble I'll hold it, you lick it..., Fri 15 Feb 2008, 12:26, 3 replies)

Pissflaps = Click!
I haven't heard many people use the Pissflaps expression for ages - good work, I will be encouraging my colleague E to use it at all times!
(TAZ220 Not giving a toss since, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 13:02, closed)

for hi..
jinx and because it makes a boring day interesting for gormless spazbots... bugger about the radiator though
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 14:09, closed)

sorry for your troubles
but the post script is made of win and gets y'all a click
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 14:48, closed)