(10 December 2011, 20:58)WetandCold Wrote: (10 December 2011, 20:43)NorthernRaider Wrote: If a tax payer accidentally damages the grass and is treated as a criminal then so should the police?
You were talking about a cop TV show with police chasing kids that most likely had done a crime.
Would you not get annoyed if say a member of your family on a motor bike chased down a mugger or worse, onto green grass and tackled the person to the ground and was then billed for damage to grass? Would you still say that is right thing to do as in bill your family member?
Not the case though is it, the police are required to comply with the same laws as the rest of us, so if they decide to prosecute someone for accidentally damaging public green space then they must be held to the same standard, its not so long since a cop car side swiped a cyclist on a cycle land up here because he drove his car off the highway and onto the enclosed cycle path. A local yob who kiled a kid in newport middlesbrough got 7 years for a similar offence. It does not matter what the criminal has done because its not relivent, The officer should not be charging people with criminal damage if caused acidentally otherwise they leave themselves open to a counter suite.
I'm obviously not saying the cops should not pursue criminals, I'm saying they should not be making stupid charges that are at best a civil offence and should be dealt with a caution at best. BUT if the idiot cop wants to start citing people for accidfentally damaging public land then they have to chagre people putting up marquees for events, people landing hot air balloons etc etc.
The cop where Mike lives is an idiot simple as that.
(10 December 2011, 20:58)WetandCold Wrote: Would you not get annoyed if say a member of your family on a motor bike chased down a mugger or worse, onto green grass and tackled the person to the ground and was then billed for damage to grass? Would you still say that is right thing to do as in bill your family member?
That sort of official stupidity actually goes on, its happened to me, Years ago I was driving down the ring road towards the round about in the middle of the night, I can across three cars in a crash on the round about, I rendered asistance and used the call box phone to call for help. Two weeks later I got a bill for £28 for each of the two ambulances that attended, then a month later the effing fire brigade tried to bill me for £300 for calling the fire service. Didnt pay obviously, but now I just drive right on past any accidents I come across. And IIRC I think it was one of the Pennine or Lakeland Mountain resacue teams who forced their vehicles through a hedgerow to gain access to a path up to some casualties and the council tried to charge them for damaging the hedgerow.
You have to realise our public services do have lots of good people, but equally they are outbnumbered by halfwits.
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