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F.A.O. Adidas Tissy etc.
Found this on NSC related and thought you might appreciate this. I know living where I do that this is so, so true
True email sent to the force, lengthy but absolutely brilliantly written.....
Anonymised correspondence from a member of the public
Dear Sir/madam/automated telephone answering service
Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Leith police
station to pick up a telephone I have decided to abandon the idea and try
e-mailing you instead. Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this
message on to your colleagues in Leith by means of smoke signal, carrier
pigeon or Ouija board.
As I'm writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments (I
think you call them youths) in West Cromwell Street which is just off
Commercial Street in Leith. Six of them seem happy enough to play a game
which involves kicking a football against an iron gate with the force of a
meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout
the entire building. This game is now in it's third week and as I am unsure
how the scoring system works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon.
The remaining five walking abortions are happily rummaging through several
bags of rubbish and items of furniture that someone has so thoughtfully
dumped beside the wheelie bins. One of them has found a saw and is setting
about a discarded chair like a beaver on speed. I fear that it's only a
matter of time before they turn their limited attention to the bottle of
calor gas that is lying on it's side between the two bins. If they could be
relied on to only blow their own arms and legs off then I would happily
leave them to it. I would even go so far as to lend them the matches.
Unfortunately they are far more likely to blow up half the street with them
and I've just finished decorating the kitchen.
What I suggest is this. after replying to this e-mail with worthless
assurances that the matter is being looked into and will be dealt with, why
not leave it until the one night of the year (probably bath night) when
there are no mutants around then drive up the street in a panda car before
doing a three point turn and disappearing again. This will of course serve
no other purpose than to remind us what policemen actually look like.
I trust that when I take a clawhammer to the skull of one of these
throwbacks you'll do me the same courtesy of giving me a four month head
start before coming to arrest me.
I remain sir, your obedient servant
...
Mr ......,
I have read your e-mail and understand you frustration at the problems
caused by youth playing in the area and the problems you have encountered
in trying to contact the police.
As the Community Beat Officer for your street I would like to extend an
offer of discussing the matter fully with you.
Should you wish to discuss the matter, please provide contact details
(address / telephone number) and when may be suitable.
Regards
PC Huh
......
Community Beat Officer
Dear PC Huh
First of all I would like to thank you for the speedy response to my
original e-mail. 16 hours and 38 minutes must be a personal record for
Leith Police station and rest assured that I will forward these details to
Norris McWhirter for inclusion in his next book.
Secondly I was delighted to hear that our street has it's own community
beat officer. May I be the first to congratulate you on your covert skills.
In the five or so years I have lived in West Cromwell Street, I have never
seen you. Do you hide up a tree or have you gone deep undercover and
infiltrated the gang itself? Are you the one with the acne and the
moustache on his forehead or the one with a chin like a wash hand basin?
It's surely only a matter of time before you are headhunted by MI5.
Whilst I realise that there may be far more serious crimes taking place in
Leith such as smoking in a public place or being Muslim without due care
and attention, is it too much to ask for a policeman to explain (using
words of no more than two syllables at a time) to these ****s that they
might want to play their strange football game elsewhere. The pitch behind
the Citadel or the one at DKs are both within spitting distance as is the
bottom of the Albert Dock.
Should you wish to discuss these matters further you should feel free to
contact me on........ If after 25 minutes I have still failed to answer,
I'll buy you a large one in the Compass Bar.
Regards
......
P.S If you think that this is sarcasm, think yourself lucky that you don't
work for the cleansing department.
True email sent to the force, lengthy but absolutely brilliantly written.....
Anonymised correspondence from a member of the public
Dear Sir/madam/automated telephone answering service
Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Leith police
station to pick up a telephone I have decided to abandon the idea and try
e-mailing you instead. Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this
message on to your colleagues in Leith by means of smoke signal, carrier
pigeon or Ouija board.
As I'm writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments (I
think you call them youths) in West Cromwell Street which is just off
Commercial Street in Leith. Six of them seem happy enough to play a game
which involves kicking a football against an iron gate with the force of a
meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout
the entire building. This game is now in it's third week and as I am unsure
how the scoring system works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon.
The remaining five walking abortions are happily rummaging through several
bags of rubbish and items of furniture that someone has so thoughtfully
dumped beside the wheelie bins. One of them has found a saw and is setting
about a discarded chair like a beaver on speed. I fear that it's only a
matter of time before they turn their limited attention to the bottle of
calor gas that is lying on it's side between the two bins. If they could be
relied on to only blow their own arms and legs off then I would happily
leave them to it. I would even go so far as to lend them the matches.
Unfortunately they are far more likely to blow up half the street with them
and I've just finished decorating the kitchen.
What I suggest is this. after replying to this e-mail with worthless
assurances that the matter is being looked into and will be dealt with, why
not leave it until the one night of the year (probably bath night) when
there are no mutants around then drive up the street in a panda car before
doing a three point turn and disappearing again. This will of course serve
no other purpose than to remind us what policemen actually look like.
I trust that when I take a clawhammer to the skull of one of these
throwbacks you'll do me the same courtesy of giving me a four month head
start before coming to arrest me.
I remain sir, your obedient servant
...
Mr ......,
I have read your e-mail and understand you frustration at the problems
caused by youth playing in the area and the problems you have encountered
in trying to contact the police.
As the Community Beat Officer for your street I would like to extend an
offer of discussing the matter fully with you.
Should you wish to discuss the matter, please provide contact details
(address / telephone number) and when may be suitable.
Regards
PC Huh
......
Community Beat Officer
Dear PC Huh
First of all I would like to thank you for the speedy response to my
original e-mail. 16 hours and 38 minutes must be a personal record for
Leith Police station and rest assured that I will forward these details to
Norris McWhirter for inclusion in his next book.
Secondly I was delighted to hear that our street has it's own community
beat officer. May I be the first to congratulate you on your covert skills.
In the five or so years I have lived in West Cromwell Street, I have never
seen you. Do you hide up a tree or have you gone deep undercover and
infiltrated the gang itself? Are you the one with the acne and the
moustache on his forehead or the one with a chin like a wash hand basin?
It's surely only a matter of time before you are headhunted by MI5.
Whilst I realise that there may be far more serious crimes taking place in
Leith such as smoking in a public place or being Muslim without due care
and attention, is it too much to ask for a policeman to explain (using
words of no more than two syllables at a time) to these ****s that they
might want to play their strange football game elsewhere. The pitch behind
the Citadel or the one at DKs are both within spitting distance as is the
bottom of the Albert Dock.
Should you wish to discuss these matters further you should feel free to
contact me on........ If after 25 minutes I have still failed to answer,
I'll buy you a large one in the Compass Bar.
Regards
......
P.S If you think that this is sarcasm, think yourself lucky that you don't
work for the cleansing department.
17 December 2007, 08:47 AM
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It does work both ways.
I was working yesterday, watching 60000 people leaving the Emirates. Some bloke nearly gets wiped out by a young lad on a bike, the bloke comes over and demands "What are you going to do about that??"
I said 'Well, if you walked on the pavement instead of the middle of the road it would help to start with!!"
He walked off saying "Fair play!!"
18 December 2007, 07:50 AM
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It does work both ways.
I was working yesterday, watching 60000 people leaving the Emirates. Some bloke nearly gets wiped out by a young lad on a bike, the bloke comes over and demands "What are you going to do about that??"
I said 'Well, if you walked on the pavement instead of the middle of the road it would help to start with!!"
He walked off saying "Fair play!!"
18 December 2007, 08:29 AM
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It does work both ways.
I was working yesterday, watching 60000 people leaving the Emirates. Some bloke nearly gets wiped out by a young lad on a bike, the bloke comes over and demands "What are you going to do about that??"
I said 'Well, if you walked on the pavement instead of the middle of the road it would help to start with!!"
He walked off saying "Fair play!!"
Why didn't you grapple him to the ground for disturbing your day-dream
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