Sunday 8 September 2013

obedience

i went out for lunch with the other 3 guys in the team, including the guy that is a volunteer police office. i previously posted about what i thought about it.
anyways, its 12:30 in the city of london on a sunny lunchtime. there is traffic in tight roads and the pavements are full of people. we get to where we need to cross a road and everyone stops waiting for cars to pass before they find a break in the traffic and all cross the street. everyone was stopped at the kerb, except the guy who is a copper. there was a minivan turning into the street and he deliberately steps out right in front of it and stops in the middle of the road in front of it and stares down the driver. i was thinking, what the fuck is he doing just standing in the middle of the road and why did he just walk out into traffic, but did not say anything. 

him and the driver end up staring at each other for about 5 seconds and to be fair, the driver would have been well within his rights to say what are you doing just walking out into the road and whats your problem and why are you standing in front of my car staring at me like i did something wrong?. anyways, the driver said nothing and the copper walked carried on walking. i waited for the minivan to drive off and crossed the street behind him as there was no other traffic. at the place where we were having lunch, one of the guys mentioned what happened and the copper said something along the lines of "yeah, i was waiting for him to say something and if he did i was going to get my police ID out and nick him". i did not say anything but was thinking to myself, "man, you are such a cunt". 

what is the point of deliberately being reckless by stepping out into the road in moving traffic, stopping a car, standing in front of it and then staring down the driver and then almost hoping for a confrontation just so that you can get your police id out and call for back up or whatever the fuck is you were going to do. what a fucking waste of time. do some real police work and patrol rough council estates were the local residents are so intimidated by gangs that they are afraid to leave their houses after dark. do that if you think you are such a hard bastard. dont be waking out in front of mini cabs on fleet street on a thursday lunch time in the sunshine and then trying to provoke them into saying or doing something, knowing full well you are not going to get chinned with 200 witnesses around. 

there is also a test for what he did. would he do the same thing in front of a police car?. would he deliberately walk out into the street in front of a police car, make it stop and then stand in front of it and stare down the driver. no he fucking would not. 

we get nuggets of his exploits and his law advice the days after he has done one of his police weekends. yes, thats section 47 of the road traffic act, that is section 23 of some other fucking law, blah blah blah. fuck me, you must have serious self esteem issues or you must be under the thumb or something for you to A: want to give up your weekends to ticket people for minor traffic infringements B:to spend time away from your family to do so, and C:to feel so proud about it and boast about it in the office. 

here is a clip thats relevant not just to education but afterwards and the principle of intimidating people over little things and then 'nicking' them.   


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