Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I posted this yesterday in the confrontational thread.
"And by sheer coincidence i've had another confrontation today. Soon after posting the above message i went for a walk like i do most days,in the local cemetery. There are a few "winos" who've been using the place to go about their activity. I happened to notice one of the winos having a pee where he sat. He just lobbed it out and peed there and then. Should i say something or let it go i thought to myself. No,something has to be said i thought. So i said to the offender that it wasn't a nice thing to do,peeing like that in a cemetery. The offender then launched into a tirade of threats and swearing. Again,in my state i had to back down. I decided to phone 101. I shouldn't have bothered! They operator asked more questions about me than the winos. After about 15 minutes of waffle,i asked if they were sending the cops out to have a word with them."We'll see what we can do" said the operator. I hung around in the cemetery for about 90 minutes,but the boys in blue didn't arrive. What was the point i thought. Now i know why folk take the law into their own hands. Hopefully the gobby wino will upset the wrong one one day and he'll get a slap".
I thought i might've got a few replies about the plod not turning up. Anyway,i've decided to seek answers from my fellow CCers. I'm just not happy! Like i said above,the conversation took about 15 minutes. I know i've posted a few times about my speech problem,but yesterday it was pushed to the limit. The conversation was near to a main road so i not only had to spell many words out to the operator who took the calls,but i also had difficulty hearing her timid child like voice. When i say child like i mean she sounded like she was on work experience. She spoke very quietly and to make matters worse i don't think she could spell very well. Anyway,the gist of my thread is about the lack of response to my 101 call. After the call i stood back,still in the cemetery but away from the offenders,waiting for the police to arrive. 90 minutes later no one turned up so i left. Then later in the day i got talking to a woman who told me she'd been subjected to similar abuse off them after asking them not to throw their plastic cider bottles around the place. Why didn't the police go to the cemetery and at least have a word with these anti social gits?! They tell us that we shouldn't take the law into our own hands and instead let the police and courts do the job,but if they don't then folk will either grumble and walk away or take actions into their own hands like giving these "winos" a good beating.
The operator asked me my DOB,my address,the height of the offenders,their build,their hair colour,what they were wearing,what they were drinking etc etc,but why?! Nothing was done about them! I felt like she would've passed the info' onto some coppers and they'd have laughed and thought "We have better thing to do than sort a few cider heads out". If that's the case why didn't the operator just say at the beginning of my call something like "Sorry,but we don't respond to trivial incidents,so it's up to you how you deal with it". It would've saved me 15 minutes of torture!
"And by sheer coincidence i've had another confrontation today. Soon after posting the above message i went for a walk like i do most days,in the local cemetery. There are a few "winos" who've been using the place to go about their activity. I happened to notice one of the winos having a pee where he sat. He just lobbed it out and peed there and then. Should i say something or let it go i thought to myself. No,something has to be said i thought. So i said to the offender that it wasn't a nice thing to do,peeing like that in a cemetery. The offender then launched into a tirade of threats and swearing. Again,in my state i had to back down. I decided to phone 101. I shouldn't have bothered! They operator asked more questions about me than the winos. After about 15 minutes of waffle,i asked if they were sending the cops out to have a word with them."We'll see what we can do" said the operator. I hung around in the cemetery for about 90 minutes,but the boys in blue didn't arrive. What was the point i thought. Now i know why folk take the law into their own hands. Hopefully the gobby wino will upset the wrong one one day and he'll get a slap".
I thought i might've got a few replies about the plod not turning up. Anyway,i've decided to seek answers from my fellow CCers. I'm just not happy! Like i said above,the conversation took about 15 minutes. I know i've posted a few times about my speech problem,but yesterday it was pushed to the limit. The conversation was near to a main road so i not only had to spell many words out to the operator who took the calls,but i also had difficulty hearing her timid child like voice. When i say child like i mean she sounded like she was on work experience. She spoke very quietly and to make matters worse i don't think she could spell very well. Anyway,the gist of my thread is about the lack of response to my 101 call. After the call i stood back,still in the cemetery but away from the offenders,waiting for the police to arrive. 90 minutes later no one turned up so i left. Then later in the day i got talking to a woman who told me she'd been subjected to similar abuse off them after asking them not to throw their plastic cider bottles around the place. Why didn't the police go to the cemetery and at least have a word with these anti social gits?! They tell us that we shouldn't take the law into our own hands and instead let the police and courts do the job,but if they don't then folk will either grumble and walk away or take actions into their own hands like giving these "winos" a good beating.
The operator asked me my DOB,my address,the height of the offenders,their build,their hair colour,what they were wearing,what they were drinking etc etc,but why?! Nothing was done about them! I felt like she would've passed the info' onto some coppers and they'd have laughed and thought "We have better thing to do than sort a few cider heads out". If that's the case why didn't the operator just say at the beginning of my call something like "Sorry,but we don't respond to trivial incidents,so it's up to you how you deal with it". It would've saved me 15 minutes of torture!
