Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...

[Southerner]

Kowalski655 said:

At the weekend then Riverside Museum in glasthad a display of fire engines outside, some really old, and quite a few newer ones that kids could sit in. Extremely popular.
Sunday, someone brings a WW2 Willy's Jeep to park next to them and for kids to sit in.
I've no idea why, it's not fire related at all, he may have been invited,or just turned up, I don't know, but it was just so incongruous.
At least the bloke with it wasn't in uniform

In fairness, you’d need quite a dose of the mental to be walting as a WW2 yank soldier in 21st century Glasgow!

[Gareth79]

CoolHands said:

Has been claiming some kind of disability then? He’d better get the dole poles ready for the cameras…

I don't think that has been mentioned, but there are various possible offences, depending on what hard evidence they uncovered. I think the main one is that his military service/record may have had a bearing on the decision to appoint him to the Chief Constable role, and to previous roles, possibly even the admission into his first police job. Secondly, I'd think a general misconduct in public office might be considered? I don't think anybody uncovered a direct written quote by him saying that he served in the Falklands or as an officer, but even if there is nothing then it's plainly obvious that he would have known that it was regularly published about him, and it would surely be misconduct for him to not have ever corrected the record.

edit: Just looked if any further info had been posted, one guy doing some digging (by "Simon Tilley") seems to have worked out that even Adderley's brother's medal doesn't make sense. He was apparently on MV Cedarbank, which was chartered 3 days after the cut-off for eligibility for the rosette.

https://roguetrader1980.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/t...

Edited by Gareth79 on Monday 15th April 16:15