What would you do...

[stevieb]

Had a few incidents int he local area over the past few days with teenagers smashing up old cars in a supermarket carpark late at night!

Would you call the BiB??

Also would you expect the BiB to trun up..

I called them and one copper turned up looked and carried on driving, the second night called no one responded the same the following.

Now there are 3 cars burnt out around the area which were the ones being driven by the lads..

What would you do?? Complain to the station directly

Thanks

[puggit]

A complaint to your MP might help

[BliarOut]

Stick a finger up at a that should get a fairly rapid response

[marcp68]

Surely burnt out cars indicate that they're stolen therefore a crominal matter therefore keep reporting it to the police I'd have thought.

[stevieb]

BliarOut said:

Stick a finger up at a that should get a fairly rapid response

May have to try that and see if they respond any quicker...

[Parrot of Doom]

Get a camera and catch them in the act.

[hedders]

stevieb said:

BliarOut said: Stick a finger up at a that should get a fairly rapid response May have to try that and see if they respond any quicker...

They will...

But they will charge you a call out fee.

[J1mmyD]

Last year I was heading out to a site inspection in Devon, so I was leaving home at a little before 5am. At the bottom of the road I live on was a very obviously dumped car, so I called the local police call centre.

"I'd like to report a dumped, stolen car please"

The response wasn't 'can I take your details' or 'can you give me the location' or anything like that. Rather it was a quick lecture on wasting police time and 'how did I know it was dumped anyway?'

Pointing out that the two front wheels were on the road while the two back wheels were on the path; that the driver's door was open and the rear drivers side window broken; that I could see the glovebox cover broken off and that the boot lock had been pushed out and that that was also open I said that I considered it a fair assumption that the car was indeed stolen and dumped.

It's not hard to understand the growing antipathy towards the services when this is your first point of contact.

(Can any of you imagine remaining in business if you employed a receptionist like that?)

[egomeister]

J1mmyD said:

Last year I was heading out to a site inspection in Devon, so I was leaving home at a little before 5am. At the bottom of the road I live on was a very obviously dumped car, so I called the local police call centre. "I'd like to report a dumped, stolen car please" The response wasn't 'can I take your details' or 'can you give me the location' or anything like that. Rather it was a quick lecture on wasting police time and 'how did I know it was dumped anyway?' Pointing out that the two front wheels were on the road while the two back wheels were on the path; that the driver's door was open and the rear drivers side window broken; that I could see the glovebox cover broken off and that the boot lock had been pushed out and that that was also open I said that I considered it a fair assumption that the car was indeed stolen and dumped. It's not hard to understand the growing antipathy towards the services when this is your first point of contact. (Can any of you imagine remaining in business if you employed a receptionist like that?)

Sounds like what happened a mate of mine who works in a bank.

Her: Someone is trying to use false documents to open a bank account
Police: How do you know it's fake?
Her: It's obvious, they are really poor copys
Police: Yeah, but how do you know?

etc etc....

[lightstepper]

J1mmyD said:

(Can any of you imagine remaining in business if you employed a receptionist like that?)

I dunno - NTL, Carphone Warehouse, and the CSA spring to mind...

[justinp1]

Parrot of Doom said:

Get a camera and catch them in the act.

A good idea, but...

When I was in the Crown Court at my appeal for my LTI2020 'speeding' case I got to sit in and see the appeal of the other 'criminal' like myself.

This young scrote was appealing against his sentence of 9 months at an offenders institute. He, and his gang of teenage thugs were destroying property. They saw an old guy taking photos of them so they chased him, smashed his glasses and camera, and punched and kicked him to the floor before leaving him battered and bleeding.

If that is not a bad enough viewpoint on society, wheras I had to spend £800 on a barrister to represent me, the young scrotes parents did not pay a penny for their representation, who put forward to the court that the scrote had learnt his lesson, it wasnt just him kicking sh1t out of the old guy on the floor, and he had asthma.

Although the judge said the attack was savage, and the appeal against sentence was weak, he did think that the sentence was longer than the other scrotes and gave him 2 months off.

Back to the point:

I would love to go out with a camera myself, but after seeing this case unfold I am not sure I would want to see the consequences myself.

[TonyHetherington]

J1mmyD said:

Last year I was heading out to a site inspection in Devon, so I was leaving home at a little before 5am. At the bottom of the road I live on was a very obviously dumped car, so I called the local police call centre. "I'd like to report a dumped, stolen car please" The response wasn't 'can I take your details' or 'can you give me the location' or anything like that. Rather it was a quick lecture on wasting police time and 'how did I know it was dumped anyway?' Pointing out that the two front wheels were on the road while the two back wheels were on the path; that the driver's door was open and the rear drivers side window broken; that I could see the glovebox cover broken off and that the boot lock had been pushed out and that that was also open I said that I considered it a fair assumption that the car was indeed stolen and dumped. It's not hard to understand the growing antipathy towards the services when this is your first point of contact. (Can any of you imagine remaining in business if you employed a receptionist like that?)

You; "oh, no, hang on...it's ok, I've just set fire to it. Give it a few hours, it won't be a problem anymore".