Category: Odd + Funny Author : Duncan Riley Posted: April 3, 2009
Tags : england, police, wrong
The police state has now completely lost the plot. A student in the UK was arrested for theft over a phone he found and was handing into police.
Paul Leicester found the handset lying in the street on his 18th birthday, and rang the last number dialled, telling a friend of the owner he would leave the phone at a nearby police station, according to the Daily Express. On attending the local police station to hand over the phone, officers arrested him for “theft by finding”, held him for four hours and took a DNA sample.
Paul told the paper that he won’t be doing the right thing again in the future: “I thought I was doing the right thing and had it thrown back in my face. I wouldn’t go to the police in future. All I was doing was the honest thing. It was a shocking experience.”
After being contacted by the media, police say that they would be reviewing the circumstances of the arrest.
Apr 3, 2009
Rules and procedures so often fail us. Check out this story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st….
Apr 3, 2009
and took a dna sample….freaking ridiculous.
Apr 4, 2009
I hate cops. Cops are idiots with guns, too much time on their hands and confrontational attitutues.
Apr 6, 2009
Not all cops are idiots. Just the ones that get in the news…
The other cops think cops that pull this sh!t should be fired.
Its just like where you work. Some coworkers need a beating some don't.
I think we need cops with morals. Morals start with God not what society thinks morals should be.
Otherwise you get someone in authority that has no integrity and has their head stuck up their bum doing stuff like this. Good cops should be promoted, Bad cops should be fired.
I would have had a lawyer on that copshop so quick they would have been pissing fishhooks.