Pensioner gets visit from police over socially distanced cup of tea.

[MercyBooth]

www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-03-18/pensioner-given-covid-breach-warning-over-socially-distanced-cup-of-tea

Doesnt it make you glad to be alive.

My elderly disabled parents were dobbed in by a neighbour for having my sister around daily. She’s their carer. Yet teens are hanging around town causing all sorts of damage each week and not much is being done.

My 83 year old, recently widowed dad had a visit from the police recently. He had been spotted in his car delivering some essentials to an elderly friend. He did not go in the house, but he was accused of visiting other households.
After everything he’s been through in the last year I think that whoever reported him needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

I struggle with this, drunken parties yes attend and give 'em what for but pensioners drinking tea in the garden. I do wonder if it's just easier to do this sort of thing than proper policing. Paperwork all done and dusted by the end of a shift, they look productive but they don't achieve anything.

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@Sundances

The people who defend this sort of "policing" genuinely disgust me. What are you going to do with yourselves when this is all over?

It's teh people who report these events to the police who you should be complaining about - I don't know why people can't see the difference, but it was front page Daily Mail so people just take that on board and instantly respond (as teh DM wants you to do, more clicks for them) spread it on MN and FB, lots more clicks. Win, win DM.

I rather think Brexit proved just how easily many in the UK can be made to jump when the tabloids shout.

Or the story about Amazon marketing knives to school-children. Totally bogus, but all the Sun readers bought it.

And yet, despite countless examples of the police overreaching on Covid (easy pickings), yet turning a blind eye to burglary, frauds, roses and any gathering involving young men (where they’re in danger of getting a kicking if they try to enforce), the government wants to entrust the police with sweeping new powers in the new police bill.

I can see why the government wants it, but how is this a good idea for the rest of us?

Rapes, not roses 🙄

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In this C4 News exclusive footage, this is the moment police officer PC Oliver Banfield violently attacked a woman walking home at night in 2020.

She faced an uphill battle to get justice from the police forces involved

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In this C4 News exclusive footage, this is the moment police officer PC Oliver Banfield violently attacked a woman walking home at night in 2020.

She faced an uphill battle to get justice from the police forces involved

Good grief. Hope they appeal that sentence.

I posted this on another thread, but the consensus was that the police were right and I was wrong, which I still can’t wrap my head around.

We had an intruder in my nursery (OK - he was in the garden and there weren’t any children on site at the time, but even so). The police told me to call the Samaritans to check on the intruder’s welfare.

I swear to God, they actually said that. Naturally they wouldn’t come out. I had to deal with it, and all they were bothered about was the intruder’s welfare.

I say the kids weren’t on site - they weren’t (it was late afternoon and the nursery was closed), but I don’t think the police knew that. They didn’t ask.

That’s how safe the police ensure your kids are at nursery. I think it’s mind blowing, but most people disagreed on the last thread. Mind you, Mumsnet isn’t exactly representative of what the people think. The vocal minority maybe, but not the rest of us.

There is no way I would answer the door at 9.45. I only answer the door when there is a definite appointment.If I see (on the cctv) someone hanging around I press the panic button and the alarm goes off. That tends to get rid pretty quickly.

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We had an intruder in my nursery (OK - he was in the garden and there weren’t any children on site at

If an intruder was in your garden would you expect someone else to deal with it?
I'd have gone and asked him what he was doing? Probably with someone else's support - only phoned police if he was aggressive.

@Sundances

We had an intruder in my nursery (OK - he was in the garden and there weren’t any children on site at

If an intruder was in your garden would you expect someone else to deal with it?
I'd have gone and asked him what he was doing? Probably with someone else's support - only phoned police if he was aggressive.

Do you politely ask a burglar to pop your things down or say to a rapist excuse me I think your penis is inside me? Its literally the polices JOB to act on this sort of thing and they are failing badly

This is just devastatingly sad to read, that poor lady. The year she’s probably had and just having tea outside.

Makes me reealllllly angry.

Its literally the polices JOB to act on this sort of thing and they are failing badly

So everytime anyone sees someone somewhere they think that they possibly shouldn't be you call the police to come and speak to them to see if actually they should be there or not??
Mad

@Sundances

Its literally the polices JOB to act on this sort of thing and they are failing badly

So everytime anyone sees someone somewhere they think that they possibly shouldn't be you call the police to come and speak to them to see if actually they should be there or not??
Mad

Nice that you cut the rest out to make me look like that's what I was saying but no thats not what I said at all

I'd certainly expect the police to come out to reports of an intruder at a nursery. I dont understand why anyone wouldnt

@BonnieDundee - I know, and it sounds like made up rubbish that you read on the internet; it’s so unbelievable. As I write it, I can’t believe it myself, but I swear to God, it is exactly what happened.

A six foot burly guy came staggering down the path, completely off his face on drink or drugs, climbed over the wall, lay down on a bench in the nursery playground and went to sleep. He did this right in front of me.

@Sundances - I did politely ask him to move on, but he was completely out of it. I don’t think he even understood me.

I called 999 because what else was I meant to do? Well, here’s a tip. If you find yourself in that situation, don’t bother. The right course of action in Broken Britain is to call the Samaritans. The ‘police service’ is too busy investigating alleged incidents of misgendering to be interested. Lesson learned.