To think these police officers could have shown a little bit less enthusiasm?

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Last night I was innocently wandering along the road when i was confronted with a man wandering the other way who has pulled his penis through his flies and was blatantly having a wank. I decided to say nothing and went on my way.

A minute further up the road I met a couple of female police officers so stopped them. The conversation went

Me - Sorry to stop you but that man down the road is walking along playing with his penis

woman officer 1 - Really? Is it out right now?

woman officer 2 - sounds more fun than we normally get

Me - well it was certainly out when I saw him he seemed to be playing with himself

woman officer 1 - We'll run on and have a look then, sure we'll enjoy advising him

woman officer 2 - yup its been a boring shift so far

And off they raced - I saw them catch up with him further down the hill

AIBU to think they could have curtailed their enthusiasm a little (and to think they were sorely disappointed when they discovered he was probably in his late 60s and very drunk!)

You ruined his breezy bash, his freedom fumble if you will

Would a bloke in his late 60's really try to have a wank whilst stumbling down the road.. .. could he not have perhaps just peed in a bush and was still shaking the drips off... that would sound more plausible..

I don't know squeakytoy but it certainly looked that way to me and it wasn't really a bushy road

Thats actually a really serious offence and I am at their reaction.

Yabu. Police have a difficult and shit job. That's probably the funniest thing they have dealt with in a while. The police I know (most of my parents social circle) say if you don't have a sense of humour about certain things you would end up a very angry stressed person. I am inclined to agree.

Why is that that women never do anything like this? Or make dirty phone calls.

Well i heard a story recently of a woman doing similar...while driving apparenty. Swerving all over the place so she got pulled. Might see if i can find it.

The man doing this more than likely had MH issues. I find their reaction unsympathetic at best. No matter how funny a situation may be, or how shit their day has been, they are in a position of responsibility and should not be speaking in this manner about anyone.

they simply have a sense of humour. imo

and they ran

I'm sure they were just being a bit funny, I'd imagine had you appeared distressed by the vision they'd have been a bit more circumspect. Sadly some women do stuff like this too, there was a random woman flashing her bits at oncoming traffic one drizzly Friday night. We did the same as you and reported it to a couple of policemen a bit further up the road.