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[MetalCrypt]

We've heard of school suspension for playing cops & robbers, now:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=397240&in_page_id=1766&in_page_id=1766&expand=true

 

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[SoulcrusheR]

Man!.....That was unbelievable..pure crazyness. There was a definate over the top reaction by the cops. If I was the father of those kids, I'd be stirring up major shit. When I was a kid I'd climb trees, maybe break a few branches but now..kids are getting busted for it.
 

[AntePavelic]

Simple example of some hicks (although in this case the British equivalent) that end up getting into the police force, who have chips on their shoulders and a lot to prove.  Cases like these are not legislated from above... the officers on the ground are the ones that make the discretion as to what to do with people like these.

[MetalCrypt]

Simple example of some hicks (although in this case the British equivalent) that end up getting into the police force, who have chips on their shoulders and a lot to prove.  Cases like these are not legislated from above... the officers on the ground are the ones that make the discretion as to what to do with people like these.

Note that their superiors approved of the action.

[Schattengott]

Note that their superiors approved of the action.

Yet it was greatly exaggerated, their superiors stated that it is a way to prevent "more serious matters".  How can climbing a tree and stripping some branches has suddenly become anti-social behaviour?
I guess we'll never know...

[Brewdog]

Nice to know the Bobbies got their priorities straight. Even if they can't go after real criminals, the property owners can rest assured that their trees are perfectly safe from any evil little mutant delinquent children would would dare violate the sanctity of the trees by climbing in up them. Yeah, today's tree-climbing child is tomorrow's Osama bin Laden!

Seriously, those cops have WWWAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY too much time on their hands! Maybe America, as an act of goodwill and friendship for "our cousins across the pond", could send over a few hundred or so crack dealers, pedophiles,  and gangbangers to give the British cops some REAL criminals to worry about. The cops there have something to keep them legitimately busy, and the cops here in the States have their workload whittled down a bit. One might consider that a win-win situation.

[ConanTL]

Maybe America, as an act of goodwill and friendship for "our cousins across the pond", could send over a few hundred or so crack dealers, pedophiles,  and gangbangers to give the British cops some REAL criminals to worry about.

Please, take them!

[Zdan]

This is what happens when police concerns themselves with matters that they should not even think about (instead focusing on....say....catching real criminals). That was just pure idiocy on their part - climbing trees huh? What's next - wearing a Iron Maiden t-shirt?

I second the notion of America lending some of their criminals to the British!

[Ares]

This is what happens when police concerns themselves with matters that they should not even think about (instead focusing on....say....catching real criminals). That was just pure idiocy on their part - climbing trees huh? What's next - wearing a Iron Maiden t-shirt?

I second the notion of America lending some of their criminals to the British!

and I second this comment. When I was pulled over by the pigs back in January, they saw my bullet belt and asked me if I had weapons, I answered no. Then the cop told me to step out of the car and put me in handcuffs, he informed me that I wasn't under arrest and he was just detaining me. The pigs then search my car inside and out. They didn't find anything so, I just got off with a simple citation but, still that's just fuckin' bullshit.

[AntePavelic]

and I second this comment. When I was pulled over by the pigs back in January, they saw my bullet belt and asked me if I had weapons, I answered no. Then the cop told me to step out of the car and put me in handcuffs, he informed me that I wasn't under arrest and he was just detaining me. The pigs then search my car inside and out. They didn't find anything so, I just got off with a simple citation but, still that's just fuckin' bullshit.

I agree that it's bullshit but there comes a certain point in your life when you have to realize you're too old for bullet belts.  I stopped wearing mine YEARS ago.  It's so much easier going through life when you blend in with the rest of society.  So much gets done quicker, faster, easier, with less headaches.

[Mystophales]

I don't know how easy it would be in there but here in America there would already be more than a dozen lawyers beating the hell out of each other for the chance to fire up this lawsuit.

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[Zdan]

I agree that it's bullshit but there comes a certain point in your life when you have to realize you're too old for bullet belts.  I stopped wearing mine YEARS ago.  It's so much easier going through life when you blend in with the rest of society.  So much gets done quicker, faster, easier, with less headaches.

To a certain point this is true however if that is your passion you should not abandon it totally - after all he is not breaking the law (Judas Priest pun here ) or anything then why should he be punished? The police's vast inefectiveness in my opinion is lack of proper focus on crucial matters and instead tending to those less crucial ones...

[Ares]

I agree that it's bullshit but there comes a certain point in your life when you have to realize you're too old for bullet belts.  I stopped wearing mine YEARS ago.  It's so much easier going through life when you blend in with the rest of society.  So much gets done quicker, faster, easier, with less headaches.

I don't wear my bullet belt quite as often as I used too. I usually wear it when I'm at a show or around a metal crowd. I just get tired when I go to "regular/normal places" and people keep asking me "are those bullets real?" jesus fuckin' christ, I think I've been asked that a thousand times. It gets old after a while. So, I only wear it on occasion and let's say I'm coming home from a show and it 2 am, I'll take my belt off so, if I get pulled over again I won't have to go through the same shit.

[Mouse]

I retired my bullet belt when I was 15. Now what gets me in trouble are my pink stilettos and french maid outfit. Try going to a restaraunt and not get stares. I really don't see the problem with it.Maybe the tattooed legs clash with the pink. Is it a colour thing? I dunno.

[Ulysses]

I retired my bullet belt when I was 15. Now what gets me in trouble are my pink stilettos and french maid outfit. Try going to a restaraunt and not get stares. I really don't see the problem with it.Maybe the tattooed legs clash with the pink. Is it a colour thing? I dunno.

Damn it, Mouse! 

You retired your bullet belt when you were fifteen? Did you have it since you were nine years old or something?