by mairead » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:43 pm
A wee tale about the police in the countryside.
My son runs a campsite and a couple of weeks ago late at night, several lads attacked a couple pushing the girl to the ground. My daughter-in -law ran to help but she was also pushed about.
One of the lads then lifted a half drunk bottle of cheap booze to hit the guy with but my daughter-in-law saw him and she grabbed the bottle and confiscated it.
The police were called and asked to evict the rowdies who by now had all the other campers awake and worried, but they said they could not do that.
In the morning after my son finally got rid of them, the police came back to say that if my daughter-in-law did not return the bottle she had confiscated she would be charged with theft.
How is it that fighting drunks can be arrested in a pub and not on a campsite. How come folk can behave like that and the police take their side.
Too much paperwork maybe.
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