Around here police confiscated an electric motorbike from a lad riding it illegally on the road, his dad was so upset he went out in his car to flag down the police. They then continued to also take his car that was driven without insurance.
A few years ago there was a disturbance early one morning at the front of the house. Police had 3 or 4 teenaged boys up against the wall, handcuffed. They’d broken into the pub down the road, set the alarms off, ran up the road towards my house and got stuck in the back gardens, where my next door neighbour saw them and called the police, who turned up a minute later.
That night I was in the back yard with my telescope, when I heard a car drive up the lane, someone get out and try to get into my dilapidated garage. I peered through the gaps in the garage door and started shouting that I was ringing the police and also had a cricket bat. Something of a lie, it was a hockey stick! The young bloke in the lane said he needed to get into my garden because he’d dropped his phone that morning. My reply was fairly short. The police arrived and took over.
It turned out that one of the teens from the pub burglary that morning had been released from custody, picked up by his father, who immediately drove him back to the scene to locate the drugs they’d stashed in my neighbour’s garden that morning. The drugs were found a day or two later by the neighbour. Too stupid for words!
