Misappropriation of Police Time

This report on the BBC News Website made me roll my eyes in a WTF! sort of way.

Some kids (as kids do) decided it was a good idea to put a moped wheel against a playground roundabout and then sit on the roundabout as the moped drove it ever faster.

Yes, the old "make the roundabout go faster until I throw up" idea, as kids tend to request, time and time again. This time with a bit on engineuity thrown in. (Love the Pun).

But, of course some kid decided that he would sit with his head to the outside. Even at eleven I knew that centrifugal force would throw the blood to my head and it would be a bad idea. Sitting in the middle, being spun really fast and getting dizzy was always the best and safest bet.

But no, small kid willingly sits on roundabout, gets spun really fast and ends up unconcious with swollen eyes.

So now the Police get involved, smelling some sort of prosecution, for the sake of prosecuting. I mean, the kid went on the roundabout volutarily so no assault, the moped rider wasn't breaking any traffic laws...

But no, the Police get involved, using up all that precious and scarce (as they keep telling us) budget.

In the report we have a Chief Inspector commenting on the case... it's gone all the way up to Chief Inspector level.... some kids fucking about with a scooter! I'd like to know how it got up to that sort of salary level and how much time he spent on the case...

He said the kid was "recovering well under the circumstances".....yes, as kids do normally.

He also said the kids involved had been the target of trolls who had sent abusive messages online. Aha! I assume this is why plod really got involved: cyber-crime!

But really, a bunch of dickheads that pull a stupid stunt deserve to be called dickheads... to their face or online, it doesn't matter.