A friend who was in the Police told me a story about him and his mate getting a shout to a local landmark where a guy who had been drinking too many sherries was on the structure and threatening to jump. After a 90 minute conversation of 'Come down' 'No I'm gonna jump!' 'No, come down and we'll sort it out.' 'No I'm gonna jump!' the other cop looked at his watch and said. 'Look we're supposed to be off duty in 20 minutes if you're going to jump for f***s sake just do it!
The guy went down, the slow way.
Here's a scenario
@Brandane will probably be familiar with:
It's a snowy nighshift and the divisional controller puts a call out for someone to attend reports of a man indecently exposing himself at the junction of X Road and Y Crescent. Two pandas and the beat man respond, and the description of the suspect is: male, white, around 5'5", heavy build, wearing only a scarf and baseball cap.
Everybody gets there at the same time to find the suspect as described -
- except he was also sporting an impressive erection.
Oh what larks!
GC