The Great British Theft Epidemic

cheesefest said:
I did Brownies and Guides. Gave Guides up at the end of year 8 (13 and three years of Guides). As mystery walk was a walk around the perimeter of the recycling behind the Guide hut.

Plus I became one of the older Guides and expected to make my own washing up stand (for camp) from wood, bamboo canes and string on my own. I am useless with knots.

Then I hated Guide camp. Three I did. First one it ****ed it down all weekend. The Scouts in the next village got flooded

Second one - it was my tent’s turn to empty the loos. We shared the tent with a Guide group from another village. Walking through two fields carrying two buckets of **** each to the sluice. One of the Guides tripped up and a bucket of **** fell on me.

Third one - food poisoning. It took a lot of convincing from the guide leaders to ring my parents to collect me. It was in the days before mobile phones were popular. Husband of one of the leaders took me home.
Click to expand...

Sounds like you should have joined the scouts instead, we do fun stuff like archery, laser tag, 240m long, 20m high ziplines, and making campfires :D
 
Last edited:
Dirk Diggler said:
Tory Britain is the actual reality, and you swiftly dismiss it by citing a figment of your imagination..

..And people are horrified by the thefts and asking how it's came to this. English people are lunatics :p
Click to expand...

Everyone buzzing around like not a care in the world on the roads. I can remember quite vividly being stopped by police plenty of times as a teenager for routine checks but haven't been stopped for nearly ten years now.

It is pretty much obvious how much the cut backs have been with the police over the last decade and a half.

People our age do not realise this as we were instilled with the idea that the police are watching you but the younger 20+ never had this so they see the world in a different way to us.
 
Last edited:
That's absolute nonsense. My elder son has been stopped by police loads of times in his car. Got stopped the very 1st day he went for a drive after passing his test. He had to produce at station as his insurance was soo new it wasn't in their database.
It's more likely you just don't drive like a young person anymore, so don't attract the attention of police.
 
adam cool dude said:
Everyone buzzing around like not a care in the world on the roads. I can remember quite vividly being stopped by police plenty of times as a teenager for routine checks but haven't been stopped for nearly ten years now.

It is pretty much obvious how much the cut backs have been with the police over the last decade and a half.

People our age do not realise this as we were instilled with the idea that the police are watching you but the younger 20+ never had this so they see the world in a different way to us.
Click to expand...

Passed a police checkpoint the other day where they were pulling random cars over and checking tyres etc.
 
Nutty667 said:
That's absolute nonsense. My elder son has been stopped by police loads of times in his car. Got stopped the very 1st day he went for a drive after passing his test. He had to produce at station as his insurance was soo new it wasn't in their database.
It's more likely you just don't drive like a young person anymore, so don't attract the attention of police.
Click to expand...

I think it is more region specific. I was getting pulled all the time in my Saab 9-5 Estate grandad spec so it really isn't that.
 
Last edited:
adam cool dude said:
Everyone buzzing around like not a care in the world on the roads. I can remember quite vividly being stopped by police plenty of times as a teenager for routine checks but haven't been stopped for nearly ten years now.
Click to expand...

So you got stopped plenty as a teenager and now, because you don't get stopped, its because of cutbacks? Perhaps it might be because you now look like an old man?
 
Nutty667 said:
That's absolute nonsense. My elder son has been stopped by police loads of times in his car. Got stopped the very 1st day he went for a drive after passing his test. He had to produce at station as his insurance was soo new it wasn't in their database.
It's more likely you just don't drive like a young person anymore, so don't attract the attention of police.
Click to expand...
Yep! I see them pulling people over everywhere, no matter the 'style/type' of car. I see them stopping people walking home dressed up for town/pubs and even on bikes riding at night with lights riding home? The list is endless... And we live in a nice area. I guess that's why they've got the time/man power to waste...

The only places that don't will be high crime rate areas where they literally don't have the man power to do everything, so all these people saying this clearly live in rough areas with a high crime rate or a massive city/both... Birmingham being a major example, I've been there a few times, and every time people are driving like utter dicks, flying about everywhere in very loud cars speeding, blatantly illegally modified cars with no front plates, limo tints on the front windows, mad amounts of camber/stretched tyres, super low ride heights, no catalyst's popping flames out the back with their shotgun pop and bang maps etc etc - stuff that your car will get impounded for where I live, and the police don't even turn around in places like Birmingham, IF they're about at all...
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom