Over Zealous Police?

[BeatrootandBenedick]

Was there for 10 mins while sorted stuff and got kids in car..went to car and couldn;t find keys anywhere. kids in car, running late mad dash as usual.

Running around house like mad women and there is a knock at the door..

'scuse me madam - are these yours?' the police had driven by and taken the keys and then had a go at us for leaving it unlocked.

1. the police are never ever here ever usually
2. often leave car like this and have never ever had trouble

hey ho - good thing there are no real criminals around here for them to be 'fighting'

Ah, well you see, in some places the car would have been 'borrowed' by 9 year-old TWOCers and have the remains of 3 innocent pedestrains on the wheels within 10 mins. Then sold to a drive-by assasin and the proceeds used for crack cocaine and street-walkers.

I'd say lucky you for never having had trouble for leaving keys in the car tbh.

yup Blu - but strangely not in my neck of the woods!! well not yet anyway

But that's because you have bobbies on the beat pouncing on every crime waiting to happen!
I feel a Gilbert and Sullivan number coming on.....

they do walk in pairs doing those little side kicks as they go along - I guess that is because there is nothing else to do round ere

Why didn't they give them back straight away? Did they get carried away and set off looking for potential suspects of teh potential crime before they brought the keys back, or what? Maybe they had them fingerprinted and DNA tested with a little chemistry set behind the post office?

they were hiding around the corner - i think they have been watching to much of The Bill.

Surprised they didn't surround the house

Teaching us a lesson -

I so needed that lesson after my day!!

she came back and asked 'so have you learnt a lesson'

I said no - it i has made me think that you need to grow up and stop humiliating people. Surely you should just knock on the door and remind us that it is not a good thing to do. rather than watching us run in and out looking for the keys!@

DH gave me stern looks

Did you really Beety ? If so jolly well done.

I did

I am that they deliberately let you run around like a blue-arsed fly...very over-zealous.
Although, sometimes, when members of staff here wander out of offices leaving doors unlocked (we lose a significant amount of valuable equipment through theft each year) I am sorely tempted to remove thier handbags for a panic-inducing length of time.