To think my council tax would be better utilised paying for a police officer than being ploughed into the fire service?

[HoneyDragon]

I live in a beautiful Welsh coastal town. My council tax is going up and up due to the actions of local children. In particular one, the ringleader who's fecklessness has led to all manner of serious incidents.

He regularly causes incidents that require search and rescue, at an average of like a thousand pound an our.

I can't help think that if we had a local police officer to seriously bollock the little sod, or give him a formal warning, than the town would be much nicer. Instead the fire department repeatedly return him to his mother for a cuddles and fuss. It's infuriating. We could put the money into encouraging tourism for example. We already have an excellent Elvis impersonator who'd be quite the draw.

AIBU?

I know the exact lad you refer to. He is a bit naughty isn't he?

I've visited and barely made it out alive.

Plus i noticed no one ever tries to sort anything out themselves and neither do they seem able to call 999

They all seem to call one fireman.

My suspicions are that the fireman they all call had an illicit affair with the woman who runs the general store and they had the boy in question....

DH says the fire crews in your town are rather inefficient...

Honey, it says a lot about you and your life that this all seemed perfectly reasonable until your third post . I even thought "oh,,didn't know she was Welsh".

I always liked the idea of a late night Fireman Sam where Norman went totally feral and started sniffing glue.

Yes. The insistence on dialling 999 for everything round here is staggering. They have had the fire force out for a kite stuck up a tree, chicken pox and a rabid squirrel.

That boy fell down a Cliff once and got stuck on a ledge. We should have left him there but his mother was having none of it.

cliff

No aged singers were harmed.

Falling down a Cliff would be awkward.

Yup. They'd probably call out the fire brigade for that too, even though the poor bugger only came for a summer holiday.

I'm sure they had to call the firebrigade out to let a man out of his van, and to release the same boy who got his shoe stuck between 2 rocks on the beach! Both in the same day!

I read this thinking "ooo I wonder which Welsh town, I've not heard of any fires".

Stupid arsehole that I am.