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Hugh Jboobs
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Saw this story doing the rounds today:
Link plus video of the incident here:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/watch-heroic-teenager-rugby-tackle-violent-thug-who-assaulted-two-female-police-officers-9736693.html
Good on the young lad I say!
I was once in a busy city centre and heard a bit of a commotion nearby. I looked up to see someone sprinting out of a mobile phone shop with stolen goods in his hands, plus an employee/manager chasing him and shouting. Quick as a flash, a guy standing nearby stuck out his arm and clothes-lined the thief across the neck, sending him flying and dropping the stolen goods as he did so. Sadly, the thief got up and escaped by climbing on the back of a waiting getaway motorcycle. But not before he'd menacingly (though emptily) warned "You're dead" to the guy who clothes-lined him!
My wife tells the story of when she was a young girl, she and her brother were in the car at the petrol station while her dad was inside paying. A young lad ran out the kiosk, having stolen something. My wife's dad gave chase and caught him, put him in the back of the car (next to my wife and her brother!) and delivered him to the police station!:D
Have you ever been a have-a-go hero, or witnessed anyone doing so? Any amusing tales to share?
If you found youself in such a situation, do you think you'd get involved, or stay well back?
This is the moment a have-a-go hero teenager tackled a thug who was fleeing after shoving two female police officers to the ground.
Kiya Ingham, 16, stepped in after seeing a drunken suspect force his way out of the back of a police car and push the two officers in Brighton.
After leaping to action and dragging the suspect to the ground he directed another police car to the scene to help the officers already there.
Link plus video of the incident here:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/watch-heroic-teenager-rugby-tackle-violent-thug-who-assaulted-two-female-police-officers-9736693.html
Good on the young lad I say!
I was once in a busy city centre and heard a bit of a commotion nearby. I looked up to see someone sprinting out of a mobile phone shop with stolen goods in his hands, plus an employee/manager chasing him and shouting. Quick as a flash, a guy standing nearby stuck out his arm and clothes-lined the thief across the neck, sending him flying and dropping the stolen goods as he did so. Sadly, the thief got up and escaped by climbing on the back of a waiting getaway motorcycle. But not before he'd menacingly (though emptily) warned "You're dead" to the guy who clothes-lined him!
My wife tells the story of when she was a young girl, she and her brother were in the car at the petrol station while her dad was inside paying. A young lad ran out the kiosk, having stolen something. My wife's dad gave chase and caught him, put him in the back of the car (next to my wife and her brother!) and delivered him to the police station!:D
Have you ever been a have-a-go hero, or witnessed anyone doing so? Any amusing tales to share?
If you found youself in such a situation, do you think you'd get involved, or stay well back?
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On a side note, here we see why you never see two females on foot patrol in a town centre at night.
I think you'll find we do.
Well done to that lad.
I once witnessed a young lad on a motorbike being chased by a police car, he took refuge in someone's back garden and the police drove straight past. So I followed them up the road in my van and told them where he was hiding.
He was taken to court for various traffic offences and I had to appear as a witness but fortunately after going to court twice he pleaded guilty at the last minute and I didn't have to give evidence.
Huh? Since when?
As a civilian, twice. Once to help an overpowered store detective and one, a couple of years ago when i rode my push bike into a suspect running away from two policemen, restrained him until they caught up.
Having been detained under section 136, I was left in the back of a police car and made a break for it.
Some do-gooder grabbed hold of me and got a kick in the nuts and covered in my blood for his efforts.
Mind your own business IMHO. Not everyone in the back of police car is even a criminal.
Cool story...
Suddenly there was this kerfuffle outside my classroom door and I realised a police chase was in full swing, down the corridor outside my room. I knew all my colleagues had gone home and I was alone, so I pushed the door gently shut, and let the chase continue on past my door and down the corridor. No doubt it was one of the parents, come in to steal a school computer. (1990s, no CCTV or security doors, etc). That was a rough school and my first job. There were often break ins targeting the computer rooms and I think they even knew which parent it was. I didn't look to see who it was - just saw the uniforms.
A few years back, I was a witness to a harassment case, and as I gave a statement to the coppers, they looked increasingly shocked. They then asked me if I'd also sue the person for harassment as he'd been putting pressure on me not to give evidence and that came up during my statement. I agreed. I suppose that is helping the police as they seemed very invested in banging this person to rights and I was so used to them being a dick, I hadn't particularly realised I was being harassed.
No thanks. If I see something that I thinks needs it, I will intervene as best as I can.
The person talking the call sounded incredibly bored the whole way through the call but she took the details. I never heard anything back but I hope they caught the driver.
With amazing bravery and swift decisiveness, I, errm, gawped gormlessly as they ran past me. Couldn't even tell you what race or gender they were. I'm great in a crisis situation, me
It was when I spotted unusual activity in my school's sports hall in the evening, and then the head master later told us about the break-in and said he is appealing for witnesses. I came forward, and gave a statement, but nothing else ever came of the case. (Plus the school was short of some of the sports equipment from the incident).
They had an electronic tag on as well.
What you was detained under the mental health act. You could of been a risk to the public.
I think most would err on the side of caution if they saw a man, covered in blood, trying to escape from the back of a police car.
I once vaulted over a fence to chase a burlger out of someones house.
And, the one thing I'm most proud of, is the time I stopped an old man from leading a child away from his dad