road rage with a twist!

[MikeHunt]

Late last night, I'm driving back from visiting my mother and saw a bizarre incident. A lad in corsa var was doing a 3 point turn ahead of my, I don't know if me driving towards him distracted him but instead of going forward he reversed and hit a parked car.

This is the bizarre part, a small oldish women ran out a house, his exhaust was pretty loud so presume they heard the revving, a bang and their alarm going off. The kid wound down his window and the women grabbed him and starting to choke and hit him, she threw his keys into the road and then opened the door and tried to pull him out of the car before grabbing his wallet and running back into the house. Im sat there for all of 10 seconds just not knowing what to do or think.

I wish I had gone a different route as it took another 90 mins before I could get home!

Turns out, the lady is a senior police officer (it is a well to do road in Bromsgrove), she accused myself and the lad of being a criminal gang and targeting her. There were 6+ police cars on the scene on within minutes, I was breathalysed and questioned even though I was an innocent passer bye, it actually made me a little worried about omicron and I insisted that the policeman sanitised and allowed me to open the blow pipe.

I felt sorry for the kid, he was telling me it was his first 'drivers' car after building up his insurance, he had a black eye, blood all down his clothes and clawed marks on his neck. The parked car was a cooking newish golf and the bumper wasn't too badly damaged. Sorry this is a bit random, but everyone I've told today doesn't quite believe me and if I didn't have the crime ref and phone number of a policeman, Im not sure if Id been eating too much cheese before bed!

[mik]

Bizarre.

Sounds like she went a bit far!

[speedingfine]

Fucking hell. That'll put him off the police for life!

[Marv]

Jeez, I've always had faith in the Police, but seem to be hearing more and more instances of their brutality

[dan]

How bizarre!

Whereabouts was this?

[mr_jon]

Weird. Hopefully the lad reported her for assault?

[Jobbo]

Did you have a dash cam? Sounds the sort of story where you want video evidence to back up your lack of involvement!

[MikeHunt]

Old Birmingham Road, Marlbrook Dan.

I wish I did have a dash cam and the pair us us looked like the most unlikely criminal master minds, an old and young pair of geeks. They claimed that he had rammed another car earlier, but the damage to their other car was near a brick wall so impossible to have happened and it made them look like crazy drunks. Honestly, every time I think about it I just think how weird it was. We used to have loads of fights at school, but something weird about a middle age women going ham!

Not sure if he will press charges as the police were persuading him not to and telling him she would lose here job. I said that if I had grabbed someone by the neck, I would be in the back of the van.

[jamcg]

Not sure if he will press charges as the police were persuading him not to and telling him she would lose here job. I said that if I had grabbed someone by the neck, I would be in the back of the van.

I’d say fuck her, if you told them if you got arrested for assault you’d loose your job they wouldn't care. The people who enforce the law need to be held to the same account

[Beany]

Not sure if he will press charges as the police were persuading him not to and telling him she would lose here job.

Yes. That's what should happen to someone who's job is to protect the public, who then attacks the public. That's literally the causal flow of justice being applied.

I'd report them too, frankly - that sort of shit is exactly why some people think (mostly erroneously, I'd hope) that the police are a bunch of corrupt bastards who don't give a shit about actually doing their jobs.

[speedingfine]

Not sure if he will press charges as the police were persuading him not to and telling him she would lose here job.

Yes. That's what should happen to someone who's job is to protect the public, who then attacks the public. That's literally the causal flow of justice being applied.

I'd report them too, frankly - that sort of shit is exactly why some people think (mostly erroneously, I'd hope) that the police are a bunch of corrupt bastards who don't give a shit about actually doing their jobs.

For once I read this Beany message and approve of it fully

[240PP]

Not sure if he will press charges as the police were persuading him not to

Sounds about right. I had an off duty copper punch me in the back of the head on a night out, big fight started and we both got arrested. All caught on CCTV, I was released without charge and he ended up in court. CCTV was *lost* and it was thrown out.

If he goes ahead with it he shouldn’t expect an easy ride, they naturally look after each other.

[Beany]

This still makes me laugh harder than it should.

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[dinny_g]

240’s right.

Without video evidence, you’d be mad to go up against Plod.
This isn’t right it fair but we don’t live in a right or fair world

[Jobbo]

Video evidence would be nice, but an independent witness to the assault should be sufficient.

[dinny_g]

Yeah good luck with that…

[MikeHunt]

It gets worse! The lad phone me today as I had recorded the conversation on my iPhone and he wants a copy to support him.

He drove past the house today and there was a mobile repair man fixing the the van. He spoke to the guy and it turns out that the van repair was booked 2 weeks ago.

So if they didn't lie about the van, then they have serious foresight and I might ask them what this weeks lottery numbers will be.

[dinny_g]

So if they didn't lie about the van, then they have serious foresight and I might ask them what this weeks lottery numbers will be.

Didn't you see him hit the van and then the Alarm go off ?? Although I suppose it could have been damaged previously and now they're going to try to get all the repairs done via young lads Insurance..

[MikeHunt]

Not quite dinny, but thats down to my bad explanation. The lad had hit a car that was parked on the road. They also claimed that he had damaged their van which was parked on the drive. The van had a nasty knock on the corner, but it would have been impossible to have damaged it without knocking down the wall along the side of the driveway.

[jamcg]

That further seals it for me. If you’ve got her recorded as claiming he damaged the van, plus the repair already booked in you could add insurance fraud to the assault charge.