If you were arrested but your family weren't told why , what would they think you had done?

[Deleted member 174758]

having a gun pointed at you tends to gain your attention

Agreed. In the days before Schengen me and a buddy got stopped on a little side road coming back from Germany to the Netherlands by the German Grenzen Politzei - green and white Merc, leather coats, peaked hats and machine pistols pointed at us. Frightened the crap out of me! We'd got lost and they pulled us over because we were about to enter NL without going through a border post . Maybe worth mentioning that this was still in the days when Bader-Meinhoff and the Red Army Faction were still active, so we knew that these guys had real bullets in their guns

 

[Mottie]

Many, many years ago, outside the local KFC my mate threatened a gang of yobs with an air gun that I had in my van. We were in my van eating KFC after the pub turned out and they started throwing their half eaten chicken legs and a box of chips at my van. My mate was ****ed. He got out with the gun, held it to one of their heads and threatened to shoot him! His mates all legged it, my mate gave him a kick up the arse, he legged it, we laughed about it, finished our KFC and drove off. We got to the end of East Ham High Street to find it blocked by a police car. We thought there was an accident. Other police cars screeched up and dragged us out of the van. Of course, they found the gun and chucked us in the cells while they were trying to find them (they had phoned in). They couldn't find them so they let us go about 4.00 in the morning but kept my gun.

That was over 45 years ago but whenever we bump into each other every few years, it's always the same. One of us will recreate the 'arrest'.

"Where's the Gun?"
"What gun?"
"Found it!"

We still have a laugh about it. I bet it wouldn't be so funny these days though!

 

[Deleted member 174758]

No. These days the itchy trigger fingered so and so's might off you. They shot dead a guy in Elland over in the Calder Valley a few years back - he was carrying a table leg wrapped in newspaper and they thought he had a shotgun...

 

[securespark]

Never mind carrying a table leg, but you have to ask yourself why it was wrapped up....i can see why a copper may be a little suspicious.

 

[securespark]

Me, I can see myself being stopped for walking out of a shop without paying for an item.

Absent-mindedly of course. I worry I may just have a funny moment and forget.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Never mind carrying a table leg, but you have to ask yourself why it was wrapped up....i can see why a copper may be a little suspicious.

Because he'd made (or repaired) it at night class and wrapped it in newspaper to protect it. The guy was a bit retarded and well known locally as being a bit simple. The police got the wrong guy, it was that simple.

 

[securespark]

Understand.

 

[motorbiking]

Me, I can see myself being stopped for walking out of a shop without paying for an item.

Absent-mindedly of course. I worry I may just have a funny moment and forget.

under £50 and they won't even bother to stop you. My eldest works in Poundland and its a sackable offence to chase a shop lifter and the police won't do anything anyway.

Not to mention that walking out without paying by accident, is not shoplifting as there is no mens rea.