I'm curious, what's stopping people sending footage to the Police? I get it if it's minor, but it seems that some people here have a particularly high threshold for things that they'd assist with.
I actually did take footage into a police station when some idiot on their phone pulled out in front of me on a roundabout. I had to slam the brakes and I smashed the horn too to let them know that they shouldn't have pulled out in front of me asleep at the wheel.
Which woke them up. Two neds in a new white a class merc. The passenger proceeded to turn around and swear at me up until the next roundabout. I ignored it and said use your eyes next time.
They are in the left lane which is first turn off and has markings. I'm in the right lane which is to go around the second roundabout and there are clear road markings leading up to this second roundabout and signs. Basically they have to go left otherwise they will cross into my lane and into the side of me as my lane goes from being the inside lane to the outside lane after the first exit.
A gap opens up and I move off. They decide to slam the accelerator and pull across in front of me into my lane. Forcing me to brake again to keep a safe distance.
Even though they were in the wrong lane, driving aggressively. They knew the roundabouts in question as its probably the most well known roundabout in the area as its leaving the busiest supermarket in the area as well as a retail park.
So that's 2 incidents within a matter of 20 seconds the second worse than the first and they weren't interested at all.
The copper said its your word against there's and they will just say they didn't know that lane was left turn only. My argument was if that is the case then why did they accelerate full pace into the roundabout and cross lanes?
A normal person if they were in the wrong lane would indicate and wait for someone to let them in.
Throughout the whole footage they never indicated once. To say they needed to get into the other lane.
Basically at this point I realised the lazy **** wasn't going to do anything other than steal a wage. So I decided to get them to follow up on another incident in which involved some poor bloke who had his head panned in by 10 people and the police refused to come out to that too when I called them and they then turned up 3 hours later when they were all long gone. I gave them the cctv footage and they never caught any of them.
Basically the police seem to think they are above doing any work. They make up the law as they see fit too. I had to have several arguments and sight the law to them before they agreed to change an incident from x to vandalism.
The stupid bint even said yeah it says reasonable excuse. They had reasonable excuse as the law states. I then quoted the example underneath which talks about emergency services cutting a car open to save a person's life. That's reasonable excuse and therefore not vandalism as they are trying to save the person's life and to get access to them they have to damage the car.
How the **** does that mean you then have reasonable excuse to damage someone's property whilst having a street fight?
Seriously some coppers are lazy and should be sacked. They will back up a colleague in the wrong so not to show their incompetence until challenged at a higher level.
Funny how they they then made a second incident report and this time it was classified as vandalism as it should have been in the first instance. So I now have 3 incident numbers.
One for accidental damage. One for vandalism and then another for the street fight / assault.
Also the main guy involved in the attack is best mates with a guy who lives around the corner. The police question him and even though the guy stayed overnight at his house and was drinking with him all night. He pretends he doesn't know him or anything other than his nickname. So they never follow it up when his parents are back from holiday. Basically a house party whilst parents were away and got out of hand, spilled out into the street and then onto my driveway and property.
Next time I'm just going to go out with a baseball bat.