
Football, as Septic Bladder and various superinjunction wielding players know, can be ruinous wrt one's personal reputation.
Sadly, Tom Clarke (15) recently found this out as well.
Tom was recently having a kickabout with his cousin in his garden in Chalgrove.
Can you guess what happened next?
Yes, that's right, the ball went through a neighbour's greenhouse.
Being a teenager, Tom legged it.
Now at this stage, were people behaving in a reasonably "human" way one would have assumed that at some stage an angry neighbour would have appeared at the front door demanding an apology and restitution etc.
This of course is Nanny Britain and therefore, for reasons that are not clear (it could be that there is ongoing friction between the neighbours), the neighbour reported it to the police.
One therefore might assume that a friendly copper would have turned up and "had a word", thus defusing the situation.
Errmmm...no, not quite!
Can you guess what happened next?
Yes, that's right, a police patrol car, two officers and the Thames Valley police helicopter (complete with thermal imaging cameras) were dispatched.
Unsurprisingly, with all these resources, officers did manage to track Tom down.
What did they then do?
Tick him off, have a word with his dad?
No, they told Tom that the incident had been recorded as criminal damage and could be revealed to future employers carrying out record checks.
Errmm, am I being terribly soft here, is this not an overreaction to a simple accident?
It never happened like this when Dennis The Menace trashed his neighbour's greenhouse!
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