Have A Go

@chickenman wrote:

15 years ago I was on holiday and there was an robbery at a local shop. The police gave chase to a suspect who someone saw running away from the shop. He was miles ahead of the police so I joined in and ended up catching him and wrestling him to the floor and held him until the police caught up. They took my details and that was it. About a year later I got a letter from the chief constable in that area to say thank you for my help and without my help he properly would of got away. It was in this letter I also found out he was armed which I didn’t know when I gave chase. I didn’t have to go to court and didn’t get any hassle from what happened just a simple thank you which is good enough for me.

More recently I was a witness to a car accident. This happened two years ago. I’m still getting letters from solicitors, ive have to keep giving the same statement over and over again. I’ve now been told I might have to go to court which I’ve told them I wont be going as it’s 100 miles away. I’ve now been told if I don’t go they can suppenor me. I’ve had nothing but hassle, I’m being treated like a witness to a war crime or the murder of jack the hat ffs.
So if you are asking would I help my instinct would be yes but my head tells me no way.

For what it’s worth chicken, I think you did the right thing in both incidents. It’s very weird, very odd, the way that the laws see things. I can’t understand it either, anymore than I suppose you can, but it’s the way things work.

Think about this, how many years did a few guys get today, for the amount of money that they stole, against how many years does your average joe peadophile get, none of it makes any sense, I hope it all works out for you.

@chickenman wrote:

15 years ago I was on holiday and there was an robbery at a local shop. The police gave chase to a suspect who someone saw running away from the shop. He was miles ahead of the police so I joined in and ended up catching him and wrestling him to the floor and held him until the police caught up. They took my details and that was it. About a year later I got a letter from the chief constable in that area to say thank you for my help and without my help he properly would of got away. It was in this letter I also found out he was armed which I didn’t know when I gave chase. I didn’t have to go to court and didn’t get any hassle from what happened just a simple thank you which is good enough for me.

I can just imagine you in a bright yellow chicken suit with red beak and spindle shank legs giving chase. If I was the robber I wouldnt have been able to run for laughing. You would have caught me no problem :lol:

@sharongooner wrote:

Big Bird!

Well you may have put a slight bit of weight on during the summer break Shazz but I wouldnt call you big. :-

@cas wrote:

@sharongooner wrote:

Been there done it got the t shirt, and would always do it again.

My bug bear is with the tin pot coppers who never dived in to save a drowing child, their only excuse was not being qualified.

But we have also been there and done that argument on here also.

Shaz

Sunday before last at my branch, I was working a 5 till 10 on my own. Threshers off lioences. A woman came in, checked the chewing gum and complained bout the price of it, I replied as I often do, take it up with head office lol.

She left, a neighbour from across the road, who’d been outside buying ice cream, came in and asked me had the woman been in,,,,,,,she said there had been a young lad outside and gave a description of him, and that he’d been swinging a crow bar around…..The woman had left the shop,,,,,they had then, gone into a shop further down the road, the young lad, had hit this woman, in the face, breaking her nose, to steal the till and its contents, 120 quid. We informed the shop that we had CCTV of this couple, and a witness. On the Tueday, remembering this had happened on the Sunday evening,, two of these ”plastic policemen” turned up asking for the CCTV tape, I gave them the tape, they said they would pass it to the officer dealing with the case. The witness, the neighbour across the road, who could give a full description of this pair, as well as the evidence of the CCTBV, has yet to be questioned about it. My faith in the police force reads nil :?

You will get the standard letter through the post “sorry to hear you have been a victim of crime” with a number on to call if you feel you need the victims of crime helpline… well… that drove my sister to suicide attempts when she could not get through to victim support after being a victim of an arson attack. We even identified and gave the NAME of the culprit. Same as you, not even questioned, still running around and still the main name at the Chief of the Fire Department’s arson headcase list!

You have my sympathies Cas x

So true Shaz, well we won’t, the lady who had her nose broken will….

It seems that these same two pillars of society, took the car down another turning, set it alight and legged it,,,,,,even more proof, more witnesses.

And the police force wonder why joe public, you and I, have no faith whatsoever in them :roll: