Sunday, January 15, 2006
Dumb Cops And Professional Animals.
If you don't live in Britain, it must be hard to imagine how crazy the whole place has become with political correctness, backed up, of course, with equally crazy laws which stifle free speech, free thought and even a natural sense of humour.
I think I commented on the case in May last year of the student from Belfast who approached a police horse in Oxford, England, and suggested to the witless and humourless dummy perched aboard that the animal was gay.
The student was arrested after two police cars were called by the offended horse - sorry, no, apparently the horse wasn't offended, only the police officer - and after a night in the cells the student was fined £80, which he subsequently refused to pay. As a result, the police took the case to the Crown Prosecution Service who have just decided not to pursue the matter.
Anyone browsing the archives of this blog will quickly gather that I am no great fan of the British Bobby, but despite my critical view of the species, I always assumed that no matter how dumb and institutionally everything undesirable they may appear, they, or at least the higher ranking officers among them, would be just about well educated enough to know that criminals - at least the majority of them - are pondlife.
Apparently not.
A detective constable, along with three other cops, have been taken off frontline duties that might bring them into contact with members of the public after being taped, inadvertently, during an investigation into alleged corruption involving another member of staff. One of the four, who were not involved in any criminal activity, was heard referring to a career criminal as "pondlife" during a private conversation, and has been told he might lose his job as the criminal “might have been offended” had he heard the remark, although he was not present at the time.
Duh!
Unlike their human colleagues, police animals do not indulge in such ridiculous petty nit-picking and PC lunacy, and just get on with the job. Jazz the Springer Spaniel, a sniffer dog in Leeds, England, has just returned to work after coming close to death when he accidentally punctured a bag of heroin with his teeth. No doubt at the time he wasn't thinking about political correctness, or whether the owner of the heroin would be offended at his methods of police work, and almost certainly he will not put in a claim for injury at work, consult the health and safety handbook, or even look for promotion for his actions, just as the horse didn't consult a therapist when his manhood was questioned.
They just got on with the job the public employed them to do.
I think I commented on the case in May last year of the student from Belfast who approached a police horse in Oxford, England, and suggested to the witless and humourless dummy perched aboard that the animal was gay.
The student was arrested after two police cars were called by the offended horse - sorry, no, apparently the horse wasn't offended, only the police officer - and after a night in the cells the student was fined £80, which he subsequently refused to pay. As a result, the police took the case to the Crown Prosecution Service who have just decided not to pursue the matter.
Anyone browsing the archives of this blog will quickly gather that I am no great fan of the British Bobby, but despite my critical view of the species, I always assumed that no matter how dumb and institutionally everything undesirable they may appear, they, or at least the higher ranking officers among them, would be just about well educated enough to know that criminals - at least the majority of them - are pondlife.
Apparently not.
A detective constable, along with three other cops, have been taken off frontline duties that might bring them into contact with members of the public after being taped, inadvertently, during an investigation into alleged corruption involving another member of staff. One of the four, who were not involved in any criminal activity, was heard referring to a career criminal as "pondlife" during a private conversation, and has been told he might lose his job as the criminal “might have been offended” had he heard the remark, although he was not present at the time.
Duh!
Unlike their human colleagues, police animals do not indulge in such ridiculous petty nit-picking and PC lunacy, and just get on with the job. Jazz the Springer Spaniel, a sniffer dog in Leeds, England, has just returned to work after coming close to death when he accidentally punctured a bag of heroin with his teeth. No doubt at the time he wasn't thinking about political correctness, or whether the owner of the heroin would be offended at his methods of police work, and almost certainly he will not put in a claim for injury at work, consult the health and safety handbook, or even look for promotion for his actions, just as the horse didn't consult a therapist when his manhood was questioned.
They just got on with the job the public employed them to do.
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