Police stole my bong!

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simoid

19,772 posts

157 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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Explain to them that you only commit some crimes and you'll be fine then.

diddly69

695 posts

176 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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Drugs are bad mmmmmkay! biggrin

Wing Commander

2,179 posts

231 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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If this is true, it is freaking hilarious!

Most Dope

1,541 posts

171 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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John145 said:
So you are a good criminal? One rule for some another for others? Demand it back, I'd love to see an update.
Why can't he be a good criminal?

It's illegal, doesn't mean it's wrong.

spitfire123

Original Poster:

21 posts

153 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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.

jas xjr

11,309 posts

238 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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I would be more worried about the fact that a gas leak occurred. You want to thank fk you are alive

cotney

554 posts

170 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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.
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Well said mate.

outnumbered

4,067 posts

233 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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Remember to smoke some weed before you go, it'll calm you down a bit.

spitfire123

Original Poster:

21 posts

153 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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It was a water leak, sorry, I should have mentioned.

Most Dope

1,541 posts

171 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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cotney said:
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Well said mate.
Yep, i like this guy.

pinchmeimdreamin

9,837 posts

217 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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jas xjr said:
I would be more worried about the fact that a gas leak occurred. You want to thank fk you are alive
I think he had more chance of drowning.

spitfire123 said:
and my water supply being turned off.

tenohfive

6,276 posts

181 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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.)

Ganglandboss

8,294 posts

202 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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?

pinchmeimdreamin

9,837 posts

217 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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Ganglandboss said:
Since when has recording soap operas been illegal?
The little green men who live in the Bong said it was.

TheBear

1,940 posts

245 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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This is a wind up!

Surely no-one records Corrie?! Madness I tell you!!


spitfire123

Original Poster:

21 posts

153 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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.

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.





Ganglandboss

8,294 posts

202 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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?

Big Rod

6,198 posts

215 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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! rolleyes )

Edited by Big Rod on Wednesday 24th August 22:33

Big Rod

6,198 posts

215 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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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!! wink

DPX

1,027 posts

199 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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rs1952 said:
So now we've been told.

But for the over 55s on this site, after reading the title of this thread I've now got a variation on Billy Cotton's theme tune "Somebody stole my Gal" going through my head ....

shout Wakey Wakey!!!!!! getmecoat
Naaaa

Ding Bong Merrily On High