Police stole my bong!
Discussion
simoid said:
Explain to them that you only commit some crimes and you'll be fine then.
I may have, in the past, committed a trivial crime using my bong, but there's no way the police could have known that when they just took it.I want my bong back, and if I have to pay a 50 quid fine for that, so be it. So what if there's trace amounts of something illegal on the gauze. Fine me, dispose of the gauze, and give me my freaking bong back. A 50 quid fine won't even come close to paying for the admin, paperwork and forensic testing.
I feel like I'm getting the piss taken out of me and that this is just a joke to the cops. I'm seriously going to go into the station tomorrow to ask to speak to someone about it.
spitfire123 said:
John145 said:
So you are a good criminal? One rule for some another for others?
Are you a criminal? Have you ever downloaded from PirateBay or recorded Coronation Street on a VCR? How would you feel if the police broke down your door, saw your laptop, and decided to just take it because it could be used for torrenting? Or took your VCR because it could have been used to record Eastenders?
Oh, your car could be used to commit many crimes. Let them speculatively take that too.
Well said mate.
Here's what you need to do:
Ring up the station. Demand to speak to the highest ranking officer. Complain to the IPCC. Inform the press whilst you're at it.
That way instead of the minor inconvenience of having to collect it from the police station, you can be nicked for whatever traces of illegal substance are in the bong.
So complain away.
(And yes, if police have entered the property lawfully for one reason - such as to protect other peoples property from a leak - they can deal with criminality that is put right in front of their faces.)
Ring up the station. Demand to speak to the highest ranking officer. Complain to the IPCC. Inform the press whilst you're at it.
That way instead of the minor inconvenience of having to collect it from the police station, you can be nicked for whatever traces of illegal substance are in the bong.
So complain away.
(And yes, if police have entered the property lawfully for one reason - such as to protect other peoples property from a leak - they can deal with criminality that is put right in front of their faces.)
spitfire123 said:
Are you a criminal?
Have you ever downloaded from PirateBay or recorded Coronation Street on a VCR? How would you feel if the police broke down your door, saw your laptop, and decided to just take it because it could be used for torrenting? Or took your VCR because it could have been used to record Eastenders?
Oh, your car could be used to commit many crimes. Let them speculatively take that too.
Since when has recording soap operas been illegal?Have you ever downloaded from PirateBay or recorded Coronation Street on a VCR? How would you feel if the police broke down your door, saw your laptop, and decided to just take it because it could be used for torrenting? Or took your VCR because it could have been used to record Eastenders?
Oh, your car could be used to commit many crimes. Let them speculatively take that too.
tenohfive said:
Here's what you need to do:
Ring up the station. Demand to speak to the highest ranking officer. Complain to the IPCC. Inform the press whilst you're at it.
That way instead of the minor inconvenience of having to collect it from the police station, you can be nicked for whatever traces of illegal substance are in the bong.
So complain away.
(And yes, if police have entered the property lawfully for one reason - such as to protect other peoples property from a leak - they can deal with criminality that is put right in front of their faces.)
I'm not going to ask to speak to a high ranking officer. I'm going to ask to speak to a fair and reasonable officer who will listen to what I have to say.Ring up the station. Demand to speak to the highest ranking officer. Complain to the IPCC. Inform the press whilst you're at it.
That way instead of the minor inconvenience of having to collect it from the police station, you can be nicked for whatever traces of illegal substance are in the bong.
So complain away.
(And yes, if police have entered the property lawfully for one reason - such as to protect other peoples property from a leak - they can deal with criminality that is put right in front of their faces.)
Seeing a bong in a students flat stretches the definition of "criminality that is put right in front of their faces". The police do a great job, but the guy who saw my bong and decided to take it is an asshole. It doesn't smell of anything, it's generally clean, and only through forensics would any trace of an illegal substance be found. There was no other smoking related paraphenelia in my flat, which is a modest, generally tidy student flat.
The police needed, and had a right, to be in my flat.
I'm going to tell whoever I speak to tomorrow that I'll take a caution if any illegal substance is found on the gauze. They can confiscate the gauze and give me my bong back.
spitfire123 said:
I'm not going to ask to speak to a high ranking officer. I'm going to ask to speak to a fair and reasonable officer who will listen to what I have to say.
Seeing a bong in a students flat stretches the definition of "criminality that is put right in front of their faces". The police do a great job, but the guy who saw my bong and decided to take it is an asshole. It doesn't smell of anything, it's generally clean, and only through forensics would any trace of an illegal substance be found. There was no other smoking related paraphenelia in my flat, which is a modest, generally tidy student flat.
The police needed, and had a right, to be in my flat.
I'm going to tell whoever I speak to tomorrow that I'll take a caution if any illegal substance is found on the gauze. They can confiscate the gauze and give me my bong back.
You want to join the rozzers and you are happy to accept a criminal record for possession of an illegal substance? Seeing a bong in a students flat stretches the definition of "criminality that is put right in front of their faces". The police do a great job, but the guy who saw my bong and decided to take it is an asshole. It doesn't smell of anything, it's generally clean, and only through forensics would any trace of an illegal substance be found. There was no other smoking related paraphenelia in my flat, which is a modest, generally tidy student flat.
The police needed, and had a right, to be in my flat.
I'm going to tell whoever I speak to tomorrow that I'll take a caution if any illegal substance is found on the gauze. They can confiscate the gauze and give me my bong back.
hornetrider said:
I think plenty of people have ornamental 'sheesha pipes'... I know we have. Demand it back.
I have about six shisha pipes, (narghile, hookah call 'em what you like!), in different shapes, forms and sizes but they're not ornamental.In fact I'm smoking from one right now but I use it for flavoured tobacco. Double apple; It's delish', but it doesn't smell like 'normal' tobacco! It's quite sweet and could, I think, easily be mistaken for 'another' substance.
I'd be at least a bit annoyed if a BiB took one because he thought was being used for illicit purposes especially if it was my only one.
Edit for a comma! (PH makes me paranoid! )
Edited by Big Rod on Wednesday 24th August 22:33
spitfire123 said:
There was no other smoking related paraphenelia in my flat, which is a modest, generally tidy student flat.
The police needed, and had a right, to be in my flat.
I'm going to tell whoever I speak to tomorrow that I'll take a caution if any illegal substance is found on the gauze. They can confiscate the gauze and give me my bong back.
The pipe I'm smoking right now was bought second hand from eBay, (It has been cleaned thouroughly since then I might add!!). I have no idea what the people who owned it before me smoked through it!! The police needed, and had a right, to be in my flat.
I'm going to tell whoever I speak to tomorrow that I'll take a caution if any illegal substance is found on the gauze. They can confiscate the gauze and give me my bong back.
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