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Complaint to Devon & Cornwall Police (sorry about the>>)

  • 16-09-2008 7:24pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭


    This is a genuine complaint to Devon & Cornwall Police Force from an
    angry member of the public


    A true email sent to the force, lengthy but brilliantly written.....

    Dear Sir/Madam/Automated telephone answering service,

    Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Bodmin
    police station to pick up a telephone I have decided to abandon the
    idea and try e mailing you instead.

    Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this message on to your
    colleagues in Bodmin, by means of smoke signal, carrier pigeon or
    Ouija board.

    As I'm writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments
    (I think you call them youths) in St Mary's Crescent, which is just
    off St Mary's Road in Bodmin.

    Six of them seem happy enough to play a game which involves kicking a
    football against an iron gate with the force of a meteorite. This
    causes an earth shattering CLANG! which rings throughout the entire
    building. This game is now in its third week and as I am unsure how
    the scoring system works, I have no idea if it will end any time
    soon.

    The remaining five failed-abortions are happily rummaging through
    several bags of rubbish and items of furniture that someone has so
    thoughtfully dumped beside the wheelie bins. One of them has found a
    saw and is setting about a discarded chair like a beaver on ecstasy
    pills.

    I fear that it's only a matter of time before they turn their limited
    attention to the caravan gas bottle that is lying on its side between
    the two bins. If they could be relied on to only blow their own arms
    and legs off then I would happily leave them to it. I would even go so
    far as to lend them the matches.

    Unfortunately they are far more likely to blow up half the street with
    them and I've just finished decorating the kitchen.

    What I suggest is this - after replying to this e-mail with worthless
    assurances that the matter is being looked into and will be dealt
    with, why not leave it until the one night of the year (probably bath
    night) when there are no mutants around then drive up the street in a
    Panda car before doing a three point turn and disappearing again. This
    will of course serve no other purpose than to remind us what policemen
    actually look like.

    I trust that when I take a claw hammer to the skull of one of these
    throwbacks you'll do me the same courtesy of giving me a four month
    head start before coming to arrest me.

    I remain your obedient servant

    ???????


    Mr ??????,

    I have read your e-mail and understand your frustration at the
    problems caused by youths playing in the area and the problems you
    have encountered in trying to contact the police.

    As the Community Beat Officer for your street I would like to extend
    an offer of discussing the matter fully with you.

    Should you wish to discuss the matter, please provide contact details
    (address / telephone number) and when may be suitable.

    Regards

    PC ???????
    Community Beat Officer


    Dear PC ???????

    First of all I would like to thank you for the speedy response to my
    original e-mail.

    16 hours and 38 minutes must be a personal record for Bodmin Police
    Station, and rest assured that I will forward these details to Norris
    McWhirter for inclusion in his next Guinness book.

    Secondly I was delighted to hear that our street has its own Community
    Beat Officer.

    May I be the first to congratulate you on your covert skills? In the
    five or so years I have lived in St Mary's Crescent, I have never seen
    you. Do you hide up a tree or have you gone deep undercover and
    infiltrated the gang itself? Are you the one with the acne and the
    moustache on his forehead or the one with a chin like a wash hand
    basin? It's surely only a matter of time before you are head-hunted by
    MI5 to look for Osama.

    Whilst I realise that there may be far more serious crimes taking
    place in Bodmin, such as smoking in a public place or being Christian
    without due care and attention, is it too much to ask for a policeman
    to explain (using words of no more than two syllables at a time) to
    these twats that they might want to play their strange football game
    elsewhere.

    The pitch on Fairpark Road, or the one at Priory Park are both within
    spitting distance as is the bottom of the Par Dock, the latter being
    the preferred option especially if the tide is in.

    Should you wish to discuss these matters further you should feel free
    to contact me on <???????>. If after 25 minutes I have still failed to
    answer, I'll buy you a large one in the Cat and Fiddle Pub.

    Regards
    ?????????

    P.S If you think that this is sarcasm, think yourself lucky that you
    don't work for the sewerage department wit whom I am also in contact
    !!!


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭35notout


    Brilliant! Oh how I wish to be able to compose letters like that!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭rocky25


    :)That's one of the best ever...Great find Pat :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    that is brilliant, what a hero


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    but isn't he so patient ?? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭???


    That was feautured on BBC's the Now Show. It actually gives it a bit more credibility!!! Great podcasts by the way, if people don't download them they should download the Friday Night Comedy Podcast from BBC.


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