Do you feel like this?

Biohazard said:
Yes, you are actually completely right.

I joined the department looking for a career in law enforcement, now I am looking out which is a sad state of affairs. What I find a shame is the people not long off pensionable age with long service, who are essentially chained to the department.

Have 5 applications out over the last week for various private sector jobs.
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I'm told a major health foods company (Holland and Barrett) would be interested in hiring me for a helpdesk role, should be a good laugh :) although to be honest I'd rather not be trapped behind a desk anymore. Seems to be endemic in the public sector (I've worked two front line jobs, including one unpaid in a hospital). Managers are more concerned about the paperwork than helping the people coming through...
 
Biohazard said:
lol :p
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I once read that adrenaline junkies and those who do things that could mean life or death just for the fun of it probably have a death wish subconsiously. The thing is i dont do mine for fun but it stems from an urge to see things right.....See the "mode" is hard to explain but when it happens, i am not thinking other than stopping or preventing a situation....Im sure someone would come along and know what am talking about..
 
i would like to think i'd give chase if someone stole an old ladies bag, or if i saw someone being beaten up, or i saw a robbery about to happen, but i dont think i would put my life on the line for a chain store.

they're insured, and you usually get no thanks or praise for all of your efforts and the risks you've taken, and equally every shop i have worked in has said that you have to put the safety of yourself, the other staff and customers before the need to 'feel like a hero' in those situations

(and what the smeg was a manager doing moving around £15k during shop hours?! till lifts at £500 or £1k are the usual, even in large stores)
 
Have stepped in during a few arguments in pubs etc and calmed things down. Only thing remotely like this was when i was 19, playing lots of rugby at a fairly decent level/going to the gym lots etc at that time and was doing landscape gardening to fund it all during the day. Was looking after a commercial estate in Aintree, Liverpool and was having a skive in the Homebase there, whilst going round the aisles saw your atypical druggie stuffing brass light fittings down his pants/up his jumper so grassed him to security as i was leaving. About 10 minutes later the druggie comes streaking across the car park towards me at full tilt with the fatty security guard chasing him with no chance of catching him. I line him up and completely flatten him with a full on 'big-hit' tackle, knock him out cold when he hits the floor. He was well known to the local Police when they turned up and was nicked on the spot, he had nearly £200 worth of fittings on him.

Best part of the lot, sitting in the police station giving a statement, then sitting with all the bobbies watching the CCTV footage of the guy running across that car park only for me to appear in the video and flatten him! Still makes me chuckle now, and the cops were wetting themselves.

He pleaded guilty at trial and i wasn't called to give evidence. The cops said they played the video in court and the judge thought it rather amusing.
 
ElRazur, I sincerely hope that at some point you jumped off a fire escape, rolled across a car bonnet and drove through some cardboard boxes while sporting a very bushy 'tash....if not you are a big girls blouse. :)
 
I have to do things like this every week

The last one was a crack addict shop lifting and i was the only one with any balls to go and challenge him at which point he put up a fight but got nailed G|mp style

He had needles on him that he was threatening staff and the police with :eek:

Even got a letter of commendation from the police because hes such a "nasty character"
 
G|mp said:
He had needles on him that he was threatening staff and the police with :eek:

Even got a letter of commendation from the police because hes such a "nasty character"
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A guy did the same thing while i was working in Grafton (cambridge) as security. He basically nicks stuff without even hiding it and when staffs try to challenge him, he would simply bring out a blood-filled syringe needle and squirts it then says loudly that he is HIV positive.

He was pointed out to me while i was on my rounds, I just literally went over to him and tackled him until help arrived. I was later given a bronze medal by Reliance security..... :p
 
ElRazur said:
he would simply bring out a blood-filled syringe needle and squirts it then says loudly that he is HIV positive.
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Its not HIV that you need to be worried about, its actually quite hard to contract HIV (1 in 300 IIRC)

Hep B is what you should be scared of, much higher chance of infection.
 
ElRazur said:
I once read that adrenaline junkies and those who do things that could mean life or death just for the fun of it probably have a death wish subconsiously. The thing is i dont do mine for fun but it stems from an urge to see things right.....See the "mode" is hard to explain but when it happens, i am not thinking other than stopping or preventing a situation....Im sure someone would come along and know what am talking about..
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I do know what you speak of.

I just choose not to give it a name.
 
Defcon5 said:
Its not HIV that you need to be worried about, its actually quite hard to contract HIV (1 in 300 IIRC)

Hep B is what you should be scared of, much higher chance of infection.
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I aint arguing that but belive me, it scares people more to shout "am HIV postive" than "am Hep B infected" :p
 
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