Crankarm
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...... but it ended when I encountered a foul mouth thug in the local park who wouldn't call his two guard dogs away from me, one I'm sure is a Doberman. I was crapping myself as they ran around and jumped up at me. He was laughing, not calling them off, so I started filming, camera already in hand. He then became very abusive and threatening. I tried to remain calm (sh1tting myself really because of the dogs) not wanting to agitate them but all the while he was coming closer to me. He was well built and quite tall, looking like a bad news thug. Anyway dogs then suddenly lost interest, I ran on told him they should be on leads at which point he and them came after me again, me turning to run backwards while trying to film him least he try to hit me or the dogs bite me, dogs getting very aggitated - very scary. Tell him I'm filming still - more abuse, he then turns around drops his kacks and says "Kiss my fat arse you f*****g ***** !" I sprinted over a nearby bridge to the other side of a canal. Dogs were running along opposite bank. His fat missus was shouting abuse as well. Told him I was going to call police, which prompted more abuse. Made it a short and final lap of the park, but the thug comes running over (about 6'2", white, heavily built, thug looking, in a dirty tracksuit. He then says he's going to run as well, comes right up to me, thought he was going to lump me, dogs going bananas again. I ask him twice to call them off. He does nothing. Instead he sticks one raised finger right in front of my face. "That's not big or clever either is it?" "F*** you!" "What's your name?" repeated several times. Then he gives me a name, dob and address then points to his chav Vauxhall car outside the park giving full registration. He's very aggressive, asking what am I going to do about it? I'm waking backwards the whole time. I have some good footage. I decide to get out of there asap. The dogs let me go. Back home, shaking and checking to make sure he's not followed, I call the police.
The operator at call centre is very sympathetic and understanding as to how scary this was, although she cannot find the park, or the road it's on and says they do not exist! She says I need to make a statement so officers will call later. However when later arrives and uniformed officers turn up, they try and make out there was some misunderstanding between me and the thug, that I am unduly nervous around dogs and that it is the council's responsibility to put up signs saying dogs must be on a lead ! I don't like the sound of this. They sound like they are fobbing me off. They do not seem interested, not even in my camera footage. The male officer was a youngish lad about 23-25 years old with a huge spot on the end of his nose who did all the talking and another older woman who didn't smile once or say a word. They didn't introduce themselves, give any collar numbers or leave any card. They said they would go and speak to the owner but as it is friday night he might be down at the pub so might not be able to until tomorrow. They have full details of his chav car which I initially gave the call centre but which they were also spectacularly uninterested in. What a waste of time!
So called their call centre again and another woman I spoke to was most apologetic and said she would now grade the incident as serious. So let's see what happens.
The thug committed a number of offences not least not keeping his dogs under control (no leads what so ever), but public order offences, breach of the peace, swearing, threats of violence, baring his backside and making offensive threatening gestures at me all of which I recorded. So really an open and shut case. This guy is an easy collar, but why weren't they interested? If this chap isn't already on their radar then he is now.
The operator at call centre is very sympathetic and understanding as to how scary this was, although she cannot find the park, or the road it's on and says they do not exist! She says I need to make a statement so officers will call later. However when later arrives and uniformed officers turn up, they try and make out there was some misunderstanding between me and the thug, that I am unduly nervous around dogs and that it is the council's responsibility to put up signs saying dogs must be on a lead ! I don't like the sound of this. They sound like they are fobbing me off. They do not seem interested, not even in my camera footage. The male officer was a youngish lad about 23-25 years old with a huge spot on the end of his nose who did all the talking and another older woman who didn't smile once or say a word. They didn't introduce themselves, give any collar numbers or leave any card. They said they would go and speak to the owner but as it is friday night he might be down at the pub so might not be able to until tomorrow. They have full details of his chav car which I initially gave the call centre but which they were also spectacularly uninterested in. What a waste of time!
So called their call centre again and another woman I spoke to was most apologetic and said she would now grade the incident as serious. So let's see what happens.
The thug committed a number of offences not least not keeping his dogs under control (no leads what so ever), but public order offences, breach of the peace, swearing, threats of violence, baring his backside and making offensive threatening gestures at me all of which I recorded. So really an open and shut case. This guy is an easy collar, but why weren't they interested? If this chap isn't already on their radar then he is now.