PSNI helping women to get home safely at night..

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 03-08-2014 2:18pm #1

..by giving them free flip flops.

Police handing out pink FLIP-FLOPS to women on nights out

They are more used to dealing with hardened criminals but police officers in a seaside town have a new enemy in their sights - sore feet!

And in an unusual move police are using free flip-flops in their arsenal to fight their unusual war on party-goers’ blisters and aching heels.

One grateful woman, who had been suffering in high heels, was on the receiving end of the new flip-flop initiative after a late night in Newcastle, Co Down, last weekend posted her thanks on the PSNI Down Facebook page.

She said how “getting a taxi was a nightmare, when an absolutely lovely police officer pulled up alongside and handed us all pink flip-flops.

“We couldn’t believe it. What a lovely thing to do.

“Saved us all sore feet and blisters.”

Police replied: “Lol this is something we do in partnership with Down PCSP (Policing and Community Partnership).”

They added: “I don’t know how you girlies manage to walk home in the freezing wind and rain! Ur (sic) like secret ninjas or something lol.”

The free flip flops are part of the Research Project, which is funded by Down PCSP and implemented by the Kairos Centre in Newcastle.

Inspector Mark Peters, of Newcastle Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “Handing out things like flip-flops and hot drinks is a simple kind gesture but it is one that is appreciated by those who benefit.

“Policing with the community is at the very heart of every thing we do and we fully support this PCSP initiative.”

He added: “These strong relationships will ultimately help keep people safe, reduce the risk of crime in the Newcastle area and increase public confidence in local policing.”

The flip-flop hand outs are receiving mixed responses online with some people praising the PSNI while others commenting that it’s a waste of taxpayers’ money.

What an absolute farce. You'd swear these women were suffering extreme poverty or something. That they couldn't afford decent footwear and were walking around with the soles worn away and these kind folk just had to come to their aid.

When the truth is they have more than likely spent a small fortune on the shoes they're carrying, which barely feet them, that are less comfortable to walk in than stilts, and all for God knows what reasons.. and they then get treated like they deserve rescuing??

They should all be forced to walk home so that they never risk clogging up emergency rooms from sustaining the injuries that regularly result from girls getting drunk and attempting to walk in absurdly high stilettos and wedges. Free flip flops is the last thing they should be getting. A free toe up the arse would be more apt.

Penny Tration · 03-08-2014 2:23pm

Ah, would ya feck off, they did a nice thing.

03-08-2014 2:23pm

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

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They should all be forced to walk home so that they never risk clogging up emergency rooms from sustaining the injuries that regularly result from girls getting drunk and attempting to walk in absurdly high stilettos and wedges. Free flip flops is the last thing they should be getting. A free toe up the arse would be more apt.

And anyone who drinks too much and risks clogging up the emergency rooms should be what? What do they cost in increased police presence in city and town centres every weekend over the last decades? More or less than flip flops?

Free flip flops is annoyingly stupid, but if a woman can't walk and is drunk they might help her get home safely. Even stupid people deserve safety. If a person is so inebriated that they fall down drunk in the street, it costs a lot more to get them home safely or to ER or the cells for the night.

It's the cops job to keep us safe, even if that means from ourselves.

The Backwards Man · 03-08-2014 2:26pm

Good publicity for the cops.

Less claims for the council.

More happy feet on a Sunday morning.

What exactly is the problem?

Hootanany · 03-08-2014 2:30pm

Could ever see are corrupt Gards doing something like that?

The Backwards Man · 03-08-2014 2:34pm

Hootanany wrote: »

Could ever see are corrupt Gards doing something like that?

They do, but they keep it quiet because they know you would come running here complaining about the waste of resources, nothing better to do, taxpayers money, etc etc, if they publicised it.

brummytom · 03-08-2014 2:36pm

Why are police officers posting like school children?

Lol flip flops omg lol

Sir Arthur Daley · 03-08-2014 2:37pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Less claims for the council.

Is there some reason that women in high heels can claim off the council on a saturday night instead of say sunday after mass?

Gummy Panda · 03-08-2014 2:40pm

PSNI?

am I suppose to get outraged about how another state uses its taxes?

The Backwards Man · 03-08-2014 2:41pm

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Is there some reason that women in high heels can claim off the council on a saturday night instead of say sunday after mass?

They are much less likely to get their bare feet impaled on a Buckfast bottle outside mass. In most areas anyway.:)

Iwasfrozen · 03-08-2014 2:43pm

FREE FLIP FLOPPPSSSSSS???! HOW DARE THEY!!!!!!!!!

Sir Arthur Daley · 03-08-2014 2:43pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They are much less likely to get their bare feet impaled on a Buckfast bottle outside mass. In most areas anyway.:)

So if i go up the north smash a bottle on the ground and get my girlfriend to trip on it can i claim successfully off the council?

Son Of A Vidic · 03-08-2014 2:43pm

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

PSNI helping women to get home safely at night..by giving them free flip flops.

Fair play to them, it certainly beats the olden days and the oul plastic bullet.

03-08-2014 2:45pm

Dunno what people are moaning about. It's community policing with a positive vibe to boot.

What would you rather 1) a police presence at chucking out time full of drunk people interacting negatively with the authorities? Or, 2) a police presence at chucking out time full of drunk people interacting positively with the authorities?

The Backwards Man · 03-08-2014 2:45pm

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

So if i go up the north smash a bottle on the ground and get my girlfriend to trip on it can i claim successfully off the council?

You can claim, most certainly.

Succesfully is another matter entirely.

Sir Arthur Daley · 03-08-2014 2:47pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You can claim, most certainly.

Succesfully is another matter entirely.

Clever use of words now haven't you

03-08-2014 2:51pm

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

So if i go up the north smash a bottle on the ground and get my girlfriend to trip on it can i claim successfully off the council?

Staging an accident to make a claim is called attempted fraud.

You can try though, as BM says you won't automatically be successful.

c_man · 03-08-2014 2:53pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

PSNI?

am I suppose to get outraged about how another state uses its taxes?

Well no doubt you'd be one of the first into a United Ireland thread complaining that the North would cost too much, so yeah you should have an interest I reckon.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 03-08-2014 3:53pm

green_screen wrote: »

Ah, would ya feck off, they did a nice thing.

They "did" a nice thing?

If this was some rare occurrence where some female Police lady person gave a woman a pair of flip flops that she just happened to have in her handbag, than I might be in agreement with you, but it's not something they just "did", it is in fact something they are proactively setting out with the intention of 'doing' and will no doubt continue to do.

And why? Because certain girls haven't got the cop on to wear shoes that fit them and that they will have a good chance of being able to walk in when drunk? Do me a favour. Society shouldn't be pandering to these fools. How are they supposed to learn from their idiocy if the cops just come along and give them free footwear every time they choose to waddle out of their house on stilts and proceed to get drunk.

Look, if they injury themselves, fine, call an ambulance but the Police should not be going around with bags of fcuking flip flops just in case their are any women about who might have wandered out of their houses wearing shoes that they can't walk in. You see these twits all the time, struggling along trying to hold each other up as they get out of taxis, and that's before they have a drink.

Spend the money on free chowder or pillows for the homeless and get the Police instead to spend their time marking these imbeciles with a stamp that prevents them getting taxis or public transport for the next 24 hours, so they then have no choice but to walk home carrying their fecking wedges. Maybe then, the next time they think of heading off into town with footwear that they can barely stand up in, they'll think twice about it.

And as a brucie bonus, we then mightn't have muppets like the following one making songs about the fcuking things like they're some kind of non-self-inflicted badge of bloody honour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0olkZHqmo

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 03-08-2014 4:00pm

It's a cheap, easily transportable and (one would think) entirely inoffensive item that the Police can hand out as a way fostering positive relations with the wider community, something that's a rare enough opportunity and a high priority in a jurisdiction where policing is nearly always political. Of all the fcuking things I've seen people get pissed off at the PSNI over, seriously.

03-08-2014 4:03pm

some female Police lady person

So..a police officer?

Gummy Panda · 03-08-2014 4:09pm

c_man wrote: »

Well no doubt you'd be one of the first into a United Ireland thread complaining that the North would cost too much, so yeah you should have an interest I reckon.

Nah because i know thats never going to happen

Czarcasm · 03-08-2014 4:22pm

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

And as a brucie bonus we then mightn't have muppets like the following one making songs about the fcuking things like they're some kind of non-self-inflicted badge of bloody honour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0olkZHqmo

The price is right - a couple of pairs of flip flops that cost feckall really to foster community relations. Jesus a simple good-will gesture.

Cheers for the video btw, wondered what happened to her

Shakespeare's Sister · 03-08-2014 4:24pm

Bit conflicted here. It is a nice gesture but in fairness women who wear those insanely high heels which are so painful and surely cause physical damage - why can't they prepare themselves and bring out their own flip-flops? It's not as if they don't know the pitfalls.
Cringe at the PSNI getting down with the youngsters and using textspeak/Facebookisms.

Lapin · 03-08-2014 4:25pm

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

Spend the money on free chowder or pillows for the homeless...........

Yes because money spent on chowder and pillows has been proven to solve homeless problems elsewhere in the world.

Would ya feck off OP. Your hissyfit against a positive policing inititave has backfired on you spectacularly.

Take the hit and concede defeat. Kneel before us now and beg our forgiveness.

Zen65 · 03-08-2014 4:31pm

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

It's community policing with a positive vibe to boot.

:cool: I see what you did there!

c_man · 03-08-2014 4:48pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Nah because i know thats never going to happen

A United Ireland thread? :pac:

Karl Stein · 03-08-2014 4:53pm

God I love being a priest man.

Frito · 03-08-2014 8:09pm

This kind of thing is quite common in the UK particularly weekend nights, but it's usually done by street pastors than police.

Tail Docker · 03-08-2014 8:24pm

Makes a change from giving out free rubber bullets. Rubber shoes. Progress, IMO.

shruikan2553 · 03-08-2014 8:40pm

On one hand its a good way to improve relations. On the other hand I find it hard to feel sorry for any of the stupid wenches that dont at least bring something more comfortable to walk in themselves.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 04-08-2014 2:43pm

Lapin wrote: »

Yes because money spent on chowder and pillows has been proven to solve homeless problems elsewhere in the world.

What's with the strawman bs? I never said it would solve homelessness, I implied that the money would be better spent by doing that, and it would. The fact that it wouldn't "solve" homelessness is neither here nor there. Handing out flip flops doesn't solve stupidity does it?

Would ya feck off OP. Your hissyfit against a positive policing inititave has backfired on you spectacularly.

Calm down. The only one having a "hissyfit" here is your good self and I don't know how my expressing my bewilderment at this nonsense has "backfired" exatacly. Have the Guards decided to follow the PSNI's lead on the back of this thread or something? As that is about the only way it mean it had 'backfired' .

Take the hit and concede defeat. Kneel before us now and beg our forgiveness.

Eh, no.

Candie wrote: »

So..a police officer?

Christ. Do you really think I was being serious referring to a female Police officer as 'female Police lady person'? I was attempting to reference how certain parties have bees in their bonnets about the term Police woman (or in our own recent case, Ban Gardai).

Joey Mammoth Hood wrote: »

It's a cheap, easily transportable and (one would think) entirely inoffensive item that the Police can hand out as a way fostering positive relations with the wider community, something that's a rare enough opportunity and a high priority in a jurisdiction where policing is nearly always political. Of all the fcuking things I've seen people get pissed off at the PSNI over, seriously.

It shouldn't be happening. It's not the job of Police to be carrying bags of footwear around for people stupid enough not to wear some that they can walk in. We're talking about the Police here, not some charity group. If I stopped the Guards last night and told them my feet were sore cause I was wearing these beautiful Cuban heels so the ladies would think I was a little bit taller that I actually am, they'd piss themselves laughing and ask me why the bloody hell I wore them out and rightfully so.

It's treating women like they are precious flowers. Genuine victims of fashion that need to be helped. Course, I'd be just as perplexed if the Guards were stopping their squad car on George's Street cause some of the entrants of Miss Gay Ireland had sore feet. It's a nonsense. Give them flip flops one week and they will want them the next week and no doubt will soon start flagging them down and requesting them, if they haven't already.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 04-08-2014 2:45pm

You are really misunderstanding the motivations behind this, and you take people wearing heels far, far too seriously.

I am pie · 04-08-2014 2:54pm

I AM ANGRY AT ONE PARTICULAR TYPE OF SHOES.....VERY ANGRY !

diograis · 04-08-2014 4:42pm

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

What's with the strawman bs? I never said it would solve homelessness, I implied that the money would be better spent by doing that, and it would. The fact that it wouldn't "solve" homelessness is neither here nor there. Handing out flip flops doesn't solve stupidity does it?

Calm down. The only one having a "hissyfit" here is your good self and I don't know how my expressing my bewilderment at this nonsense has "backfired" exatacly. Have the Guards decided to follow the PSNI's lead on the back of this thread or something? As that is about the only way it mean it had 'backfired' .

Eh, no.

Christ. Do you really think I was being serious referring to a female Police officer as 'female Police lady person'? I was attempting to reference how certain parties have bees in their bonnets about the term Police woman (or in our own recent case, Ban Gardai).

It shouldn't be happening. It's not the job of Police to be carrying bags of footwear around for people stupid enough not to wear some that they can walk in. We're talking about the Police here, not some charity group. If I stopped the Guards last night and told them my feet were sore cause I was wearing these beautiful Cuban heels so the ladies would think I was a little bit taller that I actually am, they'd piss themselves laughing and ask me why the bloody hell I wore them out and rightfully so.

It's treating women like they are precious flowers. Genuine victims of fashion that need to be helped. Course, I'd be just as perplexed if the Guards were stopping their squad car on George's Street cause some of the entrants of Miss Gay Ireland had sore feet. It's a nonsense. Give them flip flops one week and they will want them the next week and no doubt will soon start flagging them down and requesting them, if they haven't already.

hope ur ok hun xx

Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius! · 04-08-2014 4:45pm

What kind of police officer would go on record saying "lol" and "Girlies" !?
Sounds like The Mirror copied the article straight from Waterford Whispers

Zen65 · 10-08-2014 9:12pm

shruikan2553 wrote: »

On the other hand I find it hard to feel sorry for any of the stupid wenches that dont at least bring something more comfortable to walk in themselves.

Harsh.

Not everyone thinks that far ahead (though I agree they should). Maybe they planned to take the last bus home but missed it?

PSNI helping women to get home safely at night..

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