Is Mick Parry A Nimby? 2:
Posted by: Berlin Fritz on 14 January 2006
When two police officers arrived to arrest Eliza Greenhall at her Carlisle home shortly before Christmas, they weren't going to stand any nonsense. So even though Mrs Greenhall is 79 and three-quarters and registered disabled with a serious heart condition, after that she protested that she need to cancel a doctor's appointment, they insisted on handcuffing her and escorting her out to their waiting car. Mrs Greenhall's crime? Failing to pay council tax arrears of around �800. The unpaid bill and warrant for her arrest came about after a dispute over the calculation of Mrs Greenhall's disability allowance and pension. In addition, a year ago she lost almost everything in Carlisle's floods.
Generously Carlisle magistrates declined to send her Mrs Greenhall to prison for Christmas, putting an order for recovery of the debt against her possessions (though due to floods she doesn't really have any). However, Mrs Greenhall and her family are outraged by the heavy-handed and humiliating actions of the police. "There really was no need to put me in shackles," she said. "I wasn't putting up a fight. I am 79 and I just wanted to call my GP to cancel my appointment. One of them even tightened the things with what looked like an alum key." It was in fact the second time that officers from the Cumbrian force had arrived to enforce the arrest warrant for non-payment. The first officer, after talking to Mrs Greenhall and asking what it was all about, said he would take more advice, adding that should he return "it would be with kindness".
Asked about its distinctly unkind treatment of a frail and and elderly woman, a spokesman for Cumbria poilce said that because of her age and disability, special arrangements had been made to arrest and take her straight to court, rather than as is usual into police custody. The officers had allowed her to take her heart medication and decided that the use of handcuffs was the "safest way to escort her to the car". That's a new one!
Lord Gnomes Thingy, handheld issue 1149, January 2006.
N.B. A spokesman for the Deputy Prime Minister, Brig. Maynard-Partly. RPG-and clip (Rtd), was quoted as saying "We just can't allow these type of people to strip the Nation's hard earned coffers bare through their greed and selfishness! Our highly trained and educated police officers risk their lives daily dealing with such 'Potential terrorists', and in my view should have pepper sprayed her, then tasered her (after ensuring she wasn't carrying semtex in her undergarments) (apparently a Bible was discovered concealed in her bedroom night-table as well, and was taken as potential evidence). Fortunately we didn't have to call in our local 24/7 CSO Firearms unit, and a liason officer had already informed the Army's Lt.Col. Damsen-Marmalade-Smythe at SAS HQ, near (A Pub in Hereford) in case any specialist jam making assistance was required"
DPM 2J. Prescott, was later quoted as saying " That fucking Private Eye's gone too bloody far this time, making up all these libellous porkies, I'm gonna see to it that they get dragged through the courts by God"
It's not always easy.
Regards,
Fritz, innit*
N.B. For the sake of those of you out there who don't know the UK that well, Cumbria & The Lake District are Englands Jewel in the crown, for beauty & sheer wilderness. I camped there as a young warrior, though it was safe in those days of course, with no chance of murdering Grannies lurking in the tarns, and of course real police patrolled the sheep & fields, and were always there when you needed to know the time, unlike todays 'reportedly' Motley Shambling excuse for a Crew, but you know me!*
Oy! That sheep's smoking in a public place, You're nicked! What's yer name sheep?
Kevin, Sir*
"Do you know Mick Parry?"*
Generously Carlisle magistrates declined to send her Mrs Greenhall to prison for Christmas, putting an order for recovery of the debt against her possessions (though due to floods she doesn't really have any). However, Mrs Greenhall and her family are outraged by the heavy-handed and humiliating actions of the police. "There really was no need to put me in shackles," she said. "I wasn't putting up a fight. I am 79 and I just wanted to call my GP to cancel my appointment. One of them even tightened the things with what looked like an alum key." It was in fact the second time that officers from the Cumbrian force had arrived to enforce the arrest warrant for non-payment. The first officer, after talking to Mrs Greenhall and asking what it was all about, said he would take more advice, adding that should he return "it would be with kindness".
Asked about its distinctly unkind treatment of a frail and and elderly woman, a spokesman for Cumbria poilce said that because of her age and disability, special arrangements had been made to arrest and take her straight to court, rather than as is usual into police custody. The officers had allowed her to take her heart medication and decided that the use of handcuffs was the "safest way to escort her to the car". That's a new one!
Lord Gnomes Thingy, handheld issue 1149, January 2006.
N.B. A spokesman for the Deputy Prime Minister, Brig. Maynard-Partly. RPG-and clip (Rtd), was quoted as saying "We just can't allow these type of people to strip the Nation's hard earned coffers bare through their greed and selfishness! Our highly trained and educated police officers risk their lives daily dealing with such 'Potential terrorists', and in my view should have pepper sprayed her, then tasered her (after ensuring she wasn't carrying semtex in her undergarments) (apparently a Bible was discovered concealed in her bedroom night-table as well, and was taken as potential evidence). Fortunately we didn't have to call in our local 24/7 CSO Firearms unit, and a liason officer had already informed the Army's Lt.Col. Damsen-Marmalade-Smythe at SAS HQ, near (A Pub in Hereford) in case any specialist jam making assistance was required"
DPM 2J. Prescott, was later quoted as saying " That fucking Private Eye's gone too bloody far this time, making up all these libellous porkies, I'm gonna see to it that they get dragged through the courts by God"
It's not always easy.
Regards,
Fritz, innit*
N.B. For the sake of those of you out there who don't know the UK that well, Cumbria & The Lake District are Englands Jewel in the crown, for beauty & sheer wilderness. I camped there as a young warrior, though it was safe in those days of course, with no chance of murdering Grannies lurking in the tarns, and of course real police patrolled the sheep & fields, and were always there when you needed to know the time, unlike todays 'reportedly' Motley Shambling excuse for a Crew, but you know me!*
Oy! That sheep's smoking in a public place, You're nicked! What's yer name sheep?
Kevin, Sir*
"Do you know Mick Parry?"*
People just don'r deserve dogs sometimes Luigi Old Bean* (other people as well quite often too)
Cheers,
Fritz*
Do you know the song 'Old Shep?'
Pretty Bloody sad actually me Old Rasher, innit, just as I was saying above to Our Luigi, some people eh!*
At least I keep mesen to mesen, you know me!*
Fritz* (Smiley without a question mark)
Cheers,
Fritz*
Do you know the song 'Old Shep?'
quote:Originally posted by Rasher:
Sorry to interupt, but is this you two starting a role playing game?
Pretty Bloody sad actually me Old Rasher, innit, just as I was saying above to Our Luigi, some people eh!*
At least I keep mesen to mesen, you know me!*
Fritz* (Smiley without a question mark)
Fredrik! Godt Nyt År! 
quote:Originally posted by andy c:
Nime - it was a slight joke on my part, woithout the use of smilies 'cos they are not 'in' at the mo, are they?
FWIW it's the officers own decision, is this one, based on a few factors, including the two you mention, & also to prevent loss of evidence, too.
sorry for any offence i may have caused.
andy c!
No offense to me andy. I can't say the same for the 79-year-old.
It's just as well they didn't put her in a stress inducing position while they questioned her. Denmark has just found itself guilty of having done so and is in breach of the Geneva Convention.
Why wasn't the fat gobshite who owed £8k handcuffed and dragged off to court? Because he has wealth and power and that's really the only justice today (and yesterday).
I'll leave you to fill in the smilies to taste.
Here's one to be going on with:
Andy
You are much too hard on yourself! It's easy for us to be as cynical as well like and say practically anything that comes into our empty skulls. While completely ignoring the delicate position you find yourself in. Nobody else here would tolerate the invisible limitations that you manage to surmount so effortlessly in your posts. Your tact, diplomacy, humour and intelligence are a credit to your position and an asset to the forum. We need all the good guys we can get these days to remind us that not everyting is corrupt.
And, anyone tempted to post some cynical remark about my post had better make it funny!!
You are much too hard on yourself! It's easy for us to be as cynical as well like and say practically anything that comes into our empty skulls. While completely ignoring the delicate position you find yourself in. Nobody else here would tolerate the invisible limitations that you manage to surmount so effortlessly in your posts. Your tact, diplomacy, humour and intelligence are a credit to your position and an asset to the forum. We need all the good guys we can get these days to remind us that not everyting is corrupt.
And, anyone tempted to post some cynical remark about my post had better make it funny!!
With respect andy,
Negative thoughts do not make a task easier.
Visualisation of success is rather more constructive. Or so I am told.
Negative thoughts do not make a task easier.
Visualisation of success is rather more constructive. Or so I am told.