Stripogram copper walks on offensive weapon rap
Anonymous Coward
well of course #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 12:03 GMT
If there had been no trial how would the coppers have explained spending the evening in a nice warm bar full of Girls who wanted to see a policeman's truncheon.
Spleen
Hooray, everyone looks stupid #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 12:03 GMT
The stripper should quite clearly have worn a coat over his uniform if he was going to be out in public and there was a reasonable possibility he might be mistaken for a real cop.
The real cops should have told him the above and let him go on his way.
Who comes out worst? Well, I would venture to suggest the ones who wasted thousands of pounds of the taxpayers money bringing a pointless prosecution. The cops responsible should be sacked and the stripper hired in their place.
Anonymous Coward
Did the Cops meet their arrest targets that month #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 12:53 GMT
Sort of stupid situations that can occur because management set stupid targets
Thomas Jerome
*gets coat* #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 12:53 GMT
"They followed me into the bar, watched the show, then asked me to go back to the station. It was all quite friendly."
<insert bent copper joke here>
Nano nano
Usually spelt ... #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 12:53 GMT
... "strippogram".
I believe a "stripogram" could be something to do with zebras.
Anonymous Coward
really? #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:12 GMT
I'd go for "Stripper-gram" on account of it involving a stripper...
No IT angle? Not even a tenuous PH one? Shame!
Norman
Things you don't hear about in the paper #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:37 GMT
The reason there was such a fuss is because he wasn't wearing a 'Fake' uniform - He was wearing an actual Grampian Police uniform. It's still not know where he got it from.
vic denwood
Real Uniform? #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:51 GMT
If he was spotted whilst in real uniform, then it was because he was on foot! Real Policemen only travel in cars.
Hans
Hazzard County? #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 15:16 GMT
Quote: - " However, Sheriff Kenneth Stewart ruled he had no case to answer."
Ya just gotta lurvvv the Scottish Legal System for retaining the Sheriff.
Now, if only his name had been Rosco P. Coltrane . . .
Graham Bartlett
Real uniform?! #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 15:43 GMT
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7126899.stm
Tell me how real that uniform in the top picture looks. If the cops round your way really have "STRIPPER" printed across the backs of their jackets, I think you may just have strayed into some Village People fantasy sequence by accident...
Matthew Joyce
No charge... #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 17:04 GMT
The second case may have been successfully dismissed, but the first has simply gone unanswered ... which means in the police files he's probably still listed as an unprosecuted criminal. Which enables them to keep any and all data, of course.
Hans
Got off too lightly #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 17:04 GMT
Well I think that he should have been fined at least $222,000, because who knows how many other times he might have posed as a stripper, potentially millions.
What we need is consistency in the application of the law, then we can rest assured that justice really is being done.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/05/jammie_thomas_fine_ok/
Randolf McKinley
Coppers weren't that bent #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 17:10 GMT
At least one of the coppers was a woman.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7113574.stm
"Pc [Fiona] Duncan added: "We went into the bar to make sure we could keep an eye on him."
"Later that night, Pc Duncan took Mr Kennedy to Grampian Police headquarters for questioning.
It doesn't say what sex here colleague was, or how closely she kept an eye on him. I wonder if it was on his truncheon?
Anonymous Coward
IT angle - that title #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 18:05 GMT
>> Stripogram copper walks on offensive weapon rap
Is heavily overloaded. It would fubar a FSM.
Anonymous John
I'll get my coat #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 21:42 GMT
Police uniform
Batons
Spray canister
Anonymous Coward
Not the 1st time #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 00:08 GMT
I'm sure this is now the 3rd time this guy has been charged with impersonating a police officer. You'd think Grampian police would have let it slide after nothing was done previously... Mind you hes been getting great free advertising in the national scottish papers each time.
Alt0n
Usually spelled... #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 10:42 GMT
"strippogram" is relatively unusual, if the Google hits are anything to go by:
1,190 for strippagram
2,560 for strippogram
4,930 for stripagram
22,300 for stripogram
So "stripogram" wins.
Sam
Just enquiring #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 11:49 GMT
Do the WPC strippergrams batons have batteries in?
The black kevlar, thanks...
Phil
@Usually spelled... #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 21:45 GMT
106,000 English pages (30 pp) for strip-o-gram
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