Go and sit on a motorway repeatedly, despite having been arrested for it and despite there being injunctions court injunctions prohibiting it, go on, fill your boots. Plod won’t do anything. Indeed, they are more likely to arrest the irate motorists who move you out of the way. But, by God, moonie a speed camera and they really go into action.
A terminally-ill pensioner was arrested by six police officers in his back garden after baring his bottom at a speed camera, because it was on his bucket list.
Retired university lecturer Darrell Meekcom drew up a list of things he wanted to do before he died after being given the tragic news last month he had multiple system atrophy.
Among the items was to moon a speed camera, so last Friday the 55-year-old bared his bottom to a mobile police speed van in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
But the officer in the speed van had reported the disabled father-of-two and former nurse to colleagues to report the ‘indecent exposure’.
Just 20 minutes later, three police cars pulled up outside the home of Mr Meekcom – who also has Parkinson’s Disease and heart and kidney problems – and demanded to be let in.
When he refused, officers allegedly raided his home and kicked down the garden gate before wrestling Mr Meekcom to the ground outside to put him in cuffs.
Repeat after me: The state is not your friend, the state is not your friend.
Is it any wonder the modern police force is looked upon with such utter contempt? Just a reminder if you cast your mind back about four years. I had a motorcycle stolen. This was a proper crime with a real victim. The bastards couldn’t even be bothered to look at the CCTV footage. Not that they were likely to find anything, but that’s beside the point. They closed the investigation before anyone had actually done any investigating.
The state is more like a legal version of the Mafia.
It’s exactly like that.
Wrong. The Mafia would send someone round to give someone a kicking if you paid your protection money.
This lot just take your money by force and don’t provide the agreed service. Pretty much all of them do the same. Scum.
Good point.
Let’s hope that he told them that another item on his bucket list was to cause the police to make utter twats of themselves with their ludicrous overreaction to the previous prank.
You’d think they might have more care when dealing with somebody who now hates them and has nothing whatever to lose.
The next item on his bucket list.
Dear Mr Longrider
When I was studying mercantile and company law it was not uncommon for lessons to digress, one such digression being the question of indecent exposure, which in the coy days of yore meant exposure of ‘the person’, something only a bloke could do.
Buttocks didn’t count.
They still don’t it would seem:
“What is classed as indecent exposure?
Indecent exposure is defined in the Sexual Offences Act 2003. It is an offence for a person to intentionally expose their genitals with the intention for someone to see them and be alarmed or distressed. This is the main indecent exposure offence.
There are two parts to the offence, both of which require ‘specific intent’. Specific intent means intentional exposure and intention that one’s genitals will be seen and cause alarm or distress.”
https://www.stuartmillersolicitors.co.uk/guide-indecent-exposure-laws-uk/
Buttocks are not genitals.
Let’s hope the chap has a decent lawyer who can give the police a sound drubbing in court.
DP
At the gym I regularly see women wearing swimwear that leaves most of the behind uncovered. Nobody seems to be complaining.