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Nigel Worc's
5,279 posts
57 months
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wildcat45 said: The military get very upset by this. I was a guest on a big warship. We were at a cocktail party in the hangar (I am a Civvy) when I noticed two RAF guests putting sorme sort of RAF marketing sticker on a navy helicopter. A harmless jape one would think. I casually mentioned it my friend - a senior officer who had invited me - thinking he'd see the funny side, but I couln't have been more wrong. He went ape s  t. I have inadvertantly dropped the RAF guys in it. All very restrained at the party but I understand the two RAF lads were soundly b ked afterwards for what at the worst was a bit of cheeky fun. (Just to say I have witnessed a lot of RN high jinx. The ceiling in the officer's mess in MPA in the Falklands bears testimony to this with the side number of a British Frigate sandpapered into the wood. Stand at a certain angle and you see "F94" above your head as you drink. Just a reminder to the RAF and army that HMS Brave waz 'ere. I can't see the harm in what the cops did.) The Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps used to get very upset about this, so we used to do it as often as possible, always an advantage not to have civvy snitches around though ! Jesus wept, it was even common amongst different squadrons. RAF humour at its best, annoying the "lessers" 
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dustybottoms
504 posts
64 months
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Tango13 said: How long have the Met had these 'You've met the Met' stickers? The reason I ask is I once heard a story about a Yorkshire farmer who had an entire cow covered while the Met were helping out with policing the coal miners strike back in the 80's  I remember being given some of these stickers when I was about 7 or 8 years old (1979/80 growing up in South London) when I was at school and the Met Police used to come and do class talks. I also remember some Thames River Police stickers (don't remember the tag line)and British Rail I've been Train Trained stickers...
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Landshark
1,503 posts
50 months
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Nigel Worc's said: The Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps used to get very upset about this, so we used to do it as often as possible, always an advantage not to have civvy snitches around though ! Jesus wept, it was even common amongst different squadrons. RAF humour at its best, annoying the "lessers" I remember a story whilst at Akotiri about 43 Sqn(?) aircraft which had the cockerel painted on the tail, and another Sqn with a tiger, overnight the cockrel was painted out and replaced by a pile of bones, along the fuselage and down one wing was painted paw prints!!!
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Regiment
1,560 posts
28 months
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Nigel Worc's said: The Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps used to get very upset about this, so we used to do it as often as possible, always an advantage not to have civvy snitches around though ! Jesus wept, it was even common amongst different squadrons. RAF humour at its best, annoying the "lessers" An old NCO of mine told me he got his "soldier" out in a mess at an army barracks one evening and plopped it on some "stuck up tosser" of an army officer's shoulder...there were a few others who backed him up on the story.
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Greendubber
2,807 posts
72 months
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Some of our vans have them on from various deployments.... Who cares! Well one force did when an entire van got covered top to bottom in them  (I'm not a comedy genius from the met)
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mondeoman
6,776 posts
135 months
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The Law is the law after all ...
Personally I think its a complete waste of time to even consider investigating it, but this is what you get in digital law enforcement
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mph1977
4,795 posts
37 months
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Nigel Worc's said: The Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps used to get very upset about this, so we used to do it as often as possible, always an advantage not to have civvy snitches around though ! Jesus wept, it was even common amongst different squadrons. RAF humour at its best, annoying the "lessers" and if an RAF aircraft broke in a commonwealth nation it was not unknown for the red 'dot' in the centre of the roundel to be replaced by the local version ( maple leaf, 'roo, kiwi ... )
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wollowizard
6,604 posts
69 months
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The world has gone nuts. 
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T0nup
451 posts
69 months
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Complete waste of time and effort. The Welsh officer that complained needs to grow a sense of humour.
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Hooli
21,203 posts
69 months
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Landshark said: Nigel Worc's said: The Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps used to get very upset about this, so we used to do it as often as possible, always an advantage not to have civvy snitches around though ! Jesus wept, it was even common amongst different squadrons. RAF humour at its best, annoying the "lessers" I remember a story whilst at Akotiri about 43 Sqn(?) aircraft which had the cockerel painted on the tail, and another Sqn with a tiger, overnight the cockrel was painted out and replaced by a pile of bones, along the fuselage and down one wing was painted paw prints!!! I like that thinking.
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wildcat45
2,541 posts
58 months
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In the 70s a load of RN Phantoms which spent a few days in a US air base came back perfectlu painted with "Colonial Navy" rather than "Royal Navy" painted on them. Bit of fun.....nowt more.
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onyx39
3,446 posts
19 months
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T0nup said: Complete waste of time and effort. The Welsh officer that complained needs to grow a sense of humour. A Welsh Tard then?
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eccles
7,701 posts
91 months
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Nigel Worc's said: wildcat45 said: The military get very upset by this. I was a guest on a big warship. We were at a cocktail party in the hangar (I am a Civvy) when I noticed two RAF guests putting sorme sort of RAF marketing sticker on a navy helicopter. A harmless jape one would think. I casually mentioned it my friend - a senior officer who had invited me - thinking he'd see the funny side, but I couln't have been more wrong. He went ape s t. I have inadvertantly dropped the RAF guys in it. All very restrained at the party but I understand the two RAF lads were soundly b ked afterwards for what at the worst was a bit of cheeky fun. (Just to say I have witnessed a lot of RN high jinx. The ceiling in the officer's mess in MPA in the Falklands bears testimony to this with the side number of a British Frigate sandpapered into the wood. Stand at a certain angle and you see "F94" above your head as you drink. Just a reminder to the RAF and army that HMS Brave waz 'ere. I can't see the harm in what the cops did.) The Fleet Air Arm, and Army Air Corps used to get very upset about this, so we used to do it as often as possible, always an advantage not to have civvy snitches around though ! Jesus wept, it was even common amongst different squadrons. RAF humour at its best, annoying the "lessers" A little team of us used to support our Tornado around airshows, and at Fairford one year we made a 'zap' out an aircraft job card, bought a couple of can of luminous green and orange paint and the zapped everything in sight including the vehicles back at the digs. Turns out one of the vehicles was a MOD plod coach and they had a sense of humour failure and I ended up getting put on a charge and doing jankers! The F3 Tornado display team proudly wore our zap for the rest of the season on the hub cap of it's mini bus. On the Military side of thing zapping stuff is standard practice and cargo bays of Hercules transport planes around the world are covered in them. Our stickers were usually paid for out of the tea bar fund.
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ED209
2,909 posts
113 months
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This story and the sheer stupidity of investigating this astounds me, but then again having been nailed to the cross myself by PSD for a humour related crime nothing really suprises me.
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XCP
10,481 posts
97 months
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It's probably because the sticker was not bi-lingual. ( I am only partly joking).
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Red 4
1,359 posts
56 months
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ED209 said: This story and the sheer stupidity of investigating this astounds me, but then again having been nailed to the cross myself by PSD for a humour related crime nothing really suprises me. You clearly haven't had "the operation" yet then  You need to have your personality removed. I'm sure PSD will have gone some way to ensuring that. Most of the PSD officers have had "the operation". It is a pre-requisite to performing that role.
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poo at Paul's
3,063 posts
44 months
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What will the welsh coppers be complaining about next, banana in the tailpipe?
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ED209
2,909 posts
113 months
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poo at Paul's said: What will the welsh coppers be complaining about next, banana in the tailpipe? Banana's no good in a vans exhaust, a large potato on the other hand!
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Nigel Worc's
5,279 posts
57 months
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ED209 said: Banana's no good in a vans exhaust, a large potato on the other hand! Ooooooh yes lol, I remember that from my misspent childhood !
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groovylee
59 posts
24 months
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i know of a submarine crew that painted an image of periscope targeting crosshairs on the back of the T23 frigate i was serving on when we were in dock in Faslane one night.......... officially there was a big uproar, but internally it was seen as a great coup for the submariners, and a good laugh
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