A heart warming tale from last night

[Simster]

I got up at midnight to feed our baby boy, and some moron outside woke up my wife by throwing over all the wheely bins onto the pavement. Rubbish was strewn everywhere.

Wife, very pissed off, phoned up the police and went back to bed, grumpily wondering which mug was going to have pick up the contents of our particular wheely bin the following morning.

So how satisfying to receive a phone call half an hour later from the police stating they'd caught the oik (3 people had phoned the police) and he would be walking up the whole road picking up every piece of rubbish and putting it back in the wheely bins.

I even gave him a little wave from my bedroom window 5 minutes later as he picked up all the nappy sacks from the pavement outside my house, closely watched by the following police car.

It must have taken him well over half an hour to put it all back, at around 1am. Ruddy marvellous.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I got up at midnight to feed our baby boy, and some moron outside woke up my wife by throwing over all the wheely bins onto the pavement. Rubbish was strewn everywhere.

Wife, very pissed off, phoned up the police and went back to bed, grumpily wondering which mug was going to have pick up the contents of our particular wheely bin the following morning.

So how satisfying to receive a phone call half an hour later from the police stating they'd caught the oik (3 people had phoned the police) and he would be walking up the whole road picking up every piece of rubbish and putting it back in the wheely bins.

I even gave him a little wave from my bedroom window 5 minutes later as he picked up all the nappy sacks from the pavement outside my house, closely watched by the following police car.

It must have taken him well over half an hour to put it all back, at around 1am. Ruddy marvellous.

Not sure I'd have waved.

The same little scrote will put a brick through your window, or key your car, within the week.

 

[Simster]

He didn't see me. Lets just call it artistic license.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

bet he gets about 500k compo now for having his human rights violated.
welcome to Dave and Nick's Britain!

 

[Tooting Gull]

It's that Reigate Rudy Giuliani zero-tolerance policy kicking in. Next week: Shoot to kill for parking violations.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

It's that Reigate Rudy Giuliani zero-tolerance policy kicking in. Next week: Shoot to kill for parking violations.

Don't think they're ready for London laws just yet!

 

[Simster]

It's that Reigate Rudy Giuliani zero-tolerance policy kicking in. Next week: Shoot to kill for parking violations.

There is a bloke who frequently parks illegally outside the pub at the bottom of our road. Literally every other time I walk past, he has yet another parking ticket so I reckon his pints cost him about £25 a pop.

So yes, I really do think shoot to kill is probably the only answer.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Nah, it's called "community resolution" these days

Which basically means that, rather than going down the route of arresting someone for something fairly minor, and wasting hours of everyone's time only for them to receive a caution (ie nothing at all) in the end, they can be asked to put right whatever it is they've done, be it paying for the damage, clearing stuff up, repairing it, apologising to the victim, paying for whatever it is they've half-inched etc etc, as an alternative to being nicked.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Nah, it's called "community resolution" these days

Which basically means that, rather than going down the route of arresting someone for something fairly minor, and wasting hours of everyone's time only for them to receive a caution (ie nothing at all) in the end, they can be asked to put right whatever it is they've done, be it paying for the damage, clearing stuff up, repairing it, apologising to the victim, paying for whatever it is they've half-inched etc etc, as an alternative to being nicked.

I prefer the Sicilian way,
Don't bother calling the plod,just give em a good hiding!

 

[Simster]

Nah, it's called "community resolution" these days

Which basically means that, rather than going down the route of arresting someone for something fairly minor, and wasting hours of everyone's time only for them to receive a caution (ie nothing at all) in the end, they can be asked to put right whatever it is they've done, be it paying for the damage, clearing stuff up, repairing it, apologising to the victim, paying for whatever it is they've half-inched etc etc, as an alternative to being nicked.

Interesting. In some cases, it's a good policy. I mean here, the evil hooligan has been massively inconvenienced and not caused any lasting damage, so it's a winning policy.

If not sure I'd be happy if I was a shop keeper and a thief had simply been told to pay for what he stole as "punishment".

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I prefer the Sicilian way,
Don't bother calling the plod,just give em a good hiding!

I think there is a place for it (CR, I mean, not good hidings, although if you do go for that option, just let me know and I'll be somewhere else).

If some little shite snaps your car wing mirror off in a drunken haze, traditionally they'd get nicked, admit it, get cautioned and that's the end of it, leaving you with bugger all except the cost of paying for the damage to your car. Whereas now, if they and you agree to it, they can be asked to pay for it (and left with the threat of arrest if they fail to make good that promise).

If someone did that to me, I'd rather they just gave me the money and apologised, than got some pointless reprimand while I'm still left out of pocket.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Interesting. In some cases, it's a good policy. I mean here, the evil hooligan has been massively inconvenienced and not caused any lasting damage, so it's a winning policy.

If not sure I'd be happy if I was a shop keeper and a thief had simply been told to pay for what he stole as "punishment".

A lot of the time that's all the shops want, believe it or not. Most small shops do nothing when they catch someone stealing, mainly because it's usually kids with Mars Bars etc. They just grab the stolen stuff back and tell the miscreant never to darken their doors again. They rarely call police because they don't have the time or inclination to sit down writing statements for court, knowing that the thief will get little or no punishment from sir or madam magistrates for the offence. Only the supermarkets and chain stores bother calling police because they pay store detectives to do exactly that.

Anyway, it might not be simply paying for something: we can be quite creative these days as to what is an acceptable resolution. Within the bounds of their human rights of course

 

[Norman Potting]

Anyway, it might not be simply paying for something: we can be quite creative these days as to what is an acceptable resolution. Within the bounds of their human rights of course [/QUOTE]

oooh do tell!

 

[simply the best]

haha what a mug , got what he deserved

 

[The Grockle]

It’s stories like this that make me glad I moved away from the ghetto that is Reigate, you don’t get this sort of anti social behaviour in Croydon.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Anyway, it might not be simply paying for something: we can be quite creative these days as to what is an acceptable resolution. Within the bounds of their human rights of course

oooh do tell![/QUOTE]

Well it could be anything really, so long as it's considered reasonable recompense in the circumstances? They do have to agree to it, but most people will, if it means they get to avoid being nicked and spending time in a cell while it's sorted out. Doesn't apply to habitual criminals or serious offences of course, I'm talking about the sort of low level but immensely annoying crimes that cause the rest of us great inconvenience or expense, typically because of someone else's momentary idiocy.

 

[Simster]

It’s stories like this that make me glad I moved away from the ghetto that is Reigate, you don’t get this sort of anti social behaviour in Croydon.

Quite right. Even the TRAFFIC in Croydon is better than Reigate at the moment.

Incidentally croydon, that mug with the perma-ticketed car is a true story - he's always parked where Sims used to be opposite the Panther. I'd slash his tyres but Edna would only come along and make me fix his wheel.

 

[BensGrandad]

bet he gets about 500k compo now for having his human rights violated.
welcome to Dave and Nick's Britain!

I think you will find it was Tony Blair who instigated all this violation of human rights rubbish and his wife, the QC, who then took up the fight to earn a fortune defending them against her husbands government. I always joked that they lay in bed at night, him suggestinmg laws and she suggesting parts to omit that she could utilise to defend her clients.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Human Rights Act is dated 1998, which suggests it would have been actually drawn up several years before that, as legislation takes years to be incorporated into the system. I think Labour got in in 1997 didn't they?

It's true to say that Cherie Blair is a specialist in the sort of case that winds the rest of us up tremendously (usually prisoners demaning Sky TV in their cells and the like) but I'm not sure you can blame her husband for the Human Rights Act...

 

[BLOCK F]

I got up at midnight to feed our baby boy, and some moron outside woke up my wife by throwing over all the wheely bins onto the pavement. Rubbish was strewn everywhere.

Wife, very pissed off, phoned up the police and went back to bed, grumpily wondering which mug was going to have pick up the contents of our particular wheely bin the following morning.

So how satisfying to receive a phone call half an hour later from the police stating they'd caught the oik (3 people had phoned the police) and he would be walking up the whole road picking up every piece of rubbish and putting it back in the wheely bins.

I even gave him a little wave from my bedroom window 5 minutes later as he picked up all the nappy sacks from the pavement outside my house, closely watched by the following police car.

It must have taken him well over half an hour to put it all back, at around 1am. Ruddy marvellous.

Sorry to hear about that Simster,but pleased that the little shite got what he deserved.Didn't think that kind of thing happened too often in my old town;standards must have dropped since we moved out!
Anyway,it sounds like this 'community resolution' Edna tells us about is a good thing and I reckon they should do likewise down here as we have little serious crime ,but too much mindless twattery!