Oh dear oh dear, it seems that some of Nanny's police officers have suffered a sense of humour failure; as Miranda Skillings, of Brancaster, found to her cost recently.Brancaster recently held a fete, the tradition of the village being that people put up "humorous" scarecrows around the village in "amusing" places and poses.
Mrs Skillings made 7ft scarecrow that resembled a policeman with a speed gun, she put him up next to roadside post.
Can you guess what happened next children?
Yes, that's right, a policeman arrested the scarecrow for impersonating a police officer and took him to the police station.
Oddly enough the village had received permission from the police to create such an effigy.
Therefore you will be relieved to hear that Mrs Skillings was allowed to take her scarecrow home. However, she has been told to remove the radar gun.
Inspector Dave Buckley of Norfolk Police said:
"Speed radars are used to prevent casualties on our roads. They should not be recreated by the roadside in jest."
I guess there is not much crime in the Norfolk area then?
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So not only is it village tradition that this kind of thing is done, which the local police would doubtless have known, but the people building the effigy also sought permission first. And then the police have a problem with it? Can you imagine if you went to them and said something like
ReplyDelete"Do you mind if we mock you? We have a tradition of making effigies of authority to mock, just to let you know. By the way if you say yes we can then we will actually mock you and you'll get annoyed and confiscate our effigy because you don't think it's something we should mock even though we're asking you whether you mind if we mock you or not and you're just about to say yes we can mock you."
You'd be sectioned quicker than Mr Jones! What did they think they were going to do with the effigy, stick a garland round its neck to show that policeman are nice or actually have it attending a crime scene and pretending to do real police work? Now that would be mockery!
I suspect that the Scarecrow Police Officer was more effective than many of the real ones; At least it provides a visible presence.....I expect Nanny will roll out(What an awful phrase) these new Straw Coppers all over the country!!
ReplyDeleteSpeenzman said:
ReplyDelete"What did they think they were going to do with the effigy, stick a garland round its neck to show that policeman are nice or actually have it attending a crime scene and pretending to do real police work?"
I suspect it would have had to have attended a couple of diversity and difference training courses, as well as risk assessment and 'elf'n'safety courses first, not to mention a course that teaches how to tick boxes:-))
The best mockery of the 'police force' is the Community Police Support Officers - fat gits and spotty herbets running around town dressed as coppers - hilarious.
ReplyDelete'The best mockery of the 'police force'.....
ReplyDelete...is themselves when they do things like this.
The village should have made more effort to add a bit of reality to it though - like dressing it up as Dick Turpin.
"The village should have made more effort to add a bit of reality to it though - like dressing it up as Dick Turpin."
ReplyDeleteAdolph Hitler more like!
The police and safety camera partnerships continually trumpet the value of speed traps in reducing road casualties by reducing speed. I don't believe they do either.
ReplyDeleteBut by their own argument, the value of a speed trap is in prevention, not in detection.
Therefore, by their own logic, isn't this scarecrow a good thing that would benefit road safety?
Don't some police forces actually have dummy policemen (that's dummy as in the sense of a model, rather than intellectual status) standing round on motorway bridges to make drivers think they're a speed check?
ReplyDelete(verification codeword: 'ozzled', suitable description of this police force?
@anon 4.42 - they do in County Durham: they placed full-sized, cardboard, models of police patrol cars on the bridges over the A1M. I think they stopped doing it when they became a laughing stock (those who dared to mock got 2 years, I think...)
ReplyDeleteJay
If these people had their way, tv programmes like 'Spitting Image' would be banned and those involved with producing and presenting said programme prosecuted with the full weight of the law for incitement.
ReplyDeleteTonk. said...
"I suspect that the Scarecrow Police Officer was more effective than many of the real ones; At least it provides a visible presence.....I expect Nanny will roll out(What an awful phrase) these new Straw Coppers all over the country!!"
It couldn't have been any more rubbish at the job than these plastic policemen, let's face it!
Number 6 said...
"The best mockery of the 'police force' is the Community Police Support Officers - fat gits and spotty herbets running around town dressed as coppers - hilarious."
Sadly, this is very true.
Anonymous said
"...The best mockery of the 'police force'.....
...is themselves when they do things like this."
Also sadly true!
Toy Trumpet said
"....Therefore, by their own logic, isn't this scarecrow a good thing that would benefit road safety?"
Not from their point of view: it wasn't their idea!
Speenzman said...
ReplyDelete"So not only is it village tradition that this kind of thing is done, which the local police would doubtless have known, ...."
Local police?
Who has local police these days?
Universally the cops have a deficient sense of humour. Or else they can't carry out their 'coply' duties. This is a well crafted post.
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