police, dogs, helicopters torches criminals - yes it happened to me tonight!

[Tortington]

so, i hear the police helicopter - nothing much new there we here it now and again ( not as much as in Oldham) and we kinda get used to the nice background hum it makes.

but the back window was open and it was really loud for ages.

top of my voice - like the classy bird i am i hollar "F&ckin' 'ell, are the paratroopers landin' or what"

dh pulls back the curtains to find many policemen with dogs and torches scouring out back garden. looking in the sheds.

they tap on the back door and ask dh to open the middle shed - which hasn't got a handle on it ( we open it with a screwdriver..again muchio classy) "its never open" says dh.

they go away

another tap on the door. " there is a stolen car been dumped out side your house, someone ran down your alley way can we look in your house... really sorry" he says
" sure" says i " take a good look around - its a bit of a mess make sure you wipe your feet...on the way out"

so he goes no further than the kitchen and asks who is in the house. we duly parade family infront of the policeman who takes partic interest in my 15 year old. " has he been here all night?"
"yes, with his girlfriend" says i.
he goes out again.

we settle down theres another tap on the back door.
"look, says the police man, we ran the tape from the copter whoever ran down your alley did not get as far as your back fence"

right - sh*t thinks i, there gonna arrest my ds for sommat hes not done.
dh says " lets look in the middle shed ( the one with no handle) lets look anyway just to be sure " so he grabs a screwdriver and as hes about to open the door a fella shouts " am commin' out, am comin out"
dh runs indors shut the door - policeman shouts " behave your self or i will tw@t you - got it"
which made me giggle actually

lots of palava in the garden we cant see - meanwhile dh says " sh*t, they might think i was hiding him or sommat - quick light a fag up it might be the only one i get for the next 4 hours"

another knock on back door - policeman immediatley shakes dh hand and profusely apologises to ds and readily admit they were gunning for him. he apologised again and then went.

so that was my very exciting evening. how impressed are you? no am not making this sh*t up i promise.

They take fingerprints from a kid for breaking a window with a ball????

Blimey Custy - it's all go where you are !

My Mum once rang the Police to report a burglary taking place at the house behind ours (it was very early - about 7am - and she could see two blokes carting stuff out of an open ground floor window - VCR, TV etc). 10 minutes later all hell broke loose....at our house. Police banging on the front door shouting "Open up! Police!" - more Police vaulting over our back fence. My brother, me, and my dad wandering round in our 'jamas looking bemused. My Mum going "not here! Over there!"

By the time they realised they'd got the wrong house the villains had seen all the commotion and scarpered.

Another time in Brighton was walking past a jewellers in North Street when 3 boys in hoodies ran out nearly knocking into me, and police cars screaming down the hill. A copper jumped out of his vehicle and took my name and address as a "witness to an attempted armed robbery"

Got called in to the station to try and ID one of the boys in a line-up a weeks later

And the line-up wasn't behind a screen like on TV, I had to walk up and down and put my hand on the shoulder of suspect Couldn't ID anyone though.

Ha Moo - have a mental picture of a couple of burglers creeping out of house with swag bags over their shoulders while the police are smashing down your mums front door.

Custy - crikey, good job they found the man rather than carrying off your DS to the station. LOL at the "or I will twat you" from the copper.

What is "twat" you? Is it a stun gun?

i dunno - i thought a good ol' batterin' miself!

Wow - scarey stuff. Bet you'd have twatted them if they'd taken your ds!

There was a drugs raid about 8 or 10 houses down from our house when I was in my teens. It had happened once before so we had some idea what was going on and ran around locking up all the doors nad windows, and then watched from upstairs. We saw a man legging it across the neighbour's garden, over the fence and into ours, so my brother ran downstairs and let the dog out. A great big boxer dog - the man turned round and legged it back into the police's arms. Got a nice polite 'thank you' from them afterwards.

wow custy! HOW DRAMATIC
WHAT TIME WAS IT?
WE HAD THIS WHEN WE were STUDENTS ON A TERRACE - WOKE UP TO EHAR DOGS AND ALL - SAmE THING EXCEPT THEY THINK HE HAD run through our hosue throuseh my downstairs open bedrom window!

yikes
we awere so bladdered we slept through ti all

it was about 10pm it happened.

aparently this fella stole a car and crashed into 3 cars - no one was seriously hurt. but they called off the police car chase - just kept the copters on becuase they were aftraid he was goingt o crash into more people.