In article , David Cantrell
writes
On 16 Jul 2005 03:00:58 -0700, "terzal" said:

Anyone who complains about police cars whizzing about have got to ask
themselves, if they were being attacked and call the police for help,
would they want the police to attend urgently or not?

Last time I called the police because someone was being attacked it
took them over an hour to show up. Mind you, the victim was black so
I suppose the police didn't think that was urgent.


Last time I called them because someone was being attacked, they, the
police, never turned up. It took the ambulance 45 minutes to arrive,
the victim could have died choking on his own blood. A gang of youths
had been using the poor guy's head as a football and the people who
arrived on the scene just before me had chased off the gang. A prompt
response might have enabled the police to pick up the gang involved
immediately. The man had a broken jaw.

To add insult to injury, when they eventually put up yellow witness
request boards they got the wrong stretch of road and the wrong time of
day.

Just to even up the balance, this guy was white, and the gang were kids
of all colours.
--
Nicholas David Richards -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"