roadrunner
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 02:14 PM |
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Police camera Action
I have just had a Police Camera Action moment. I had just finished my dinner when i heard someone shout for help, on the other side of our car park
there is a butty van and Anne who works there was shouting. It turned out that two lads had attacked it with a sledge hammer and run off.
So i went back to my workshop took off my overalls and legged it after them, found what i think was one of them as i did'nt see the attack ,
caught him up asked him and then he runs off with me in hot pursuit dialling the police and telling them where i was.We had been running for around
twenty minutes and i said to the police i am going to take him out and they said no. I lost him in the end after climbing seven foot fences but we
soon had the police chopper out and they still couldnt find him.
At least they got the perfect discription.
Going to have a cuppa now.
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andyharding
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 02:20 PM |
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Well done!
I caught a drunk thug pulling the door mirrors from cars in our street last night. Gave chase and persuaded him to stay put until the bill arrived and
promptly arrested him. Spent all morning giving a statement and copies of my CCTV but should result in a successful prosecution of the CPS decide to
proceed.
Are you a Mac user or a retard?
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roadrunner
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 02:39 PM |
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Well i was felling quite good about myself until my neighbour said `did you take a picture of him with your phone' erm i didn't think of
that. DOH.
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richardh
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 02:40 PM |
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lucky you didnt get stabbed or something
fair play though 
Time for a change!
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 02:43 PM |
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well done and rember next time to give um a right good kicking but dont tell the police you are going to!!
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 02:52 PM |
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I personally would not recommend people getting involved in such things. Police are trained and wear protection and even then often get badly injured.
Given the prevalence of knifes, chasing someone down is very likely to end up with you being stabbed in a struggle and simply bleeding to death, all
for very little.
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roadrunner
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 03:00 PM |
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i was aware that he might go for me with a weapon so i did keep a bit of a distance and when he was close enough he was too knacherd to do anything
and with him being 16 and me 38 there would of been no contest.
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carpmart
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 03:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by roadrunner
i was aware that he might go for me with a weapon so i did keep a bit of a distance and when he was close enough he was too knacherd to do anything
and with him being 16 and me 38 there would of been no contest.
Yep, the 16 year old will win every day!
Maybe he didn't have a knife, just a gun! Doesn't take too much stamina to pull the trigger. Lots of these scrotes carry modified air
pistols. A .22 pellet from a 15 lb/ft pistol could easily kill you!
On the other side, well done for having a go!
You only live once - make the most of it!
Radical Clubsport, Kwaker motor
'94 MX5 MK1, 1.8
F10 M5 - 600bhp Daily Hack 
Range Rover Sport - Wife's Car
Mercedes A class - Son's Car
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Irony
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 03:33 PM |
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Good for You!
I like stories of local heroes like this! It gives me my faith back in the human race!
Yeah, yeah the guy might have had a knife or a gun but he didn't and now I bet you feel chuffed with yourself for trying to help. I hope you
get a free butty!
Risk of injury = high
Pride in self = priceless
Couple of years back four guys jumped me and a friend. One just leaped on my back with his arms round my throat. Another demanded 'give me
wallet and phone else you'll get a kickin'. My reply 'F*&K, you, you Bas%*£D'. Yes I got a kicking and yes my head swole
up a bit. But I head butted one and kicked another in the nads before I went down. And my wallet and phone were NOT taken.
Risk to self = very high
Self confidence and pride = priceless
thanks to police = they didnt turn up
I say 'good on you mate'. If there were more people like you then the world would be safer.
Rant over
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TimC
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 03:59 PM |
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Sweet. Nice work fella! Shame you couldn't manage the patented kick/trip of his ankles at full speed.
When I was 16 I worked in a sports shop on Saturdays. One day a very dodgy looking pair wandered in. I stuck to them like poo-to-a-blanket and they
eventually wandered out. An hour later I'm wandering through town on my lunch break and see three figures hurtling up the high street. The
same characters had gone to the town's other sports shop and literally grabbed an arm full of clothes off a rail and legged it. The girl behind
the counter then grabbed a bat and chased after them. The street runs down-hill from my position so I have a pretty good view. As the male culprit
runs passed the newsagents a big fella steps out and hits this guy with a rugby tackle apparently designed to remove the thief's head from his
shoulders. He goes up in the air and lands flat on his back. He was a right mess. I was a little surprised (but very pleased) that the tackler
didn't get done for ABH or something. The thiefs got some lightweight punishment from the courts which was barely worth it. The injuries
sustained were a far more fitting punishment.
Hysterical to watch.
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andyharding
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 04:13 PM |
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I have some training when it comes dealing with people as I volunteer with a charity that provides medical cover for premiership football matches. At
no point did I ever get closer than 6ft to the guy and that includes when he made offensive moves towards me. That's not to say I wasn't
sh!tting myself. I wouldn't recommend chasing someone if you are the hot headed type that can't keep their cool and know when to turn
round and run - I had to a couple of times but as soon as he tried to give it legs I was back with him. When I left the house I had time to get my
phone or my maglight and decided the maglight would be more use. What disheartened me was I asked several passers by to dial 999 and give them my
current location and not one did. It was all worth it this afternoon when a neighbor came and thanked me for catching him as her car was one of the
ones done over.
Are you a Mac user or a retard?
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UncleFista
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 04:17 PM |
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I'd imagine if he'd have had a gun, he'd have waved that around at the robbery rather than a hammer
Good on you for giving chase
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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jacko
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 04:38 PM |
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Nice one Brad well done run faster next time and jump on the bast------
Graham
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Andi
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 04:51 PM |
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Running for 20 minutes and using the phone?
No wonder your called road runner 
Only knowing a bit of the picture, is it possible it was some kind of "hot dog wars"?
People have died in Leicester over that.
Well done though, we need more of you.
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designer
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 06:20 PM |
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Me and my neighbours once caught a young lad leaving through a window. We grabbed him, pushed him to the ground and one of us sat on him.
After FIVE calls to the police (the station was 300 yards away) they arrived after 45 minutes, arrrested the young lad who said he was looking for
somewhere warm to stay.
We then got a bollacking for throwing him onto the lawn and sitting on him!!
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roadrunner
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 06:28 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Andi
Running for 20 minutes and using the phone?
No wonder your called road runner
Only knowing a bit of the picture, is it possible it was some kind of "hot dog wars"?
People have died in Leicester over that.
Well done though, we need more of you.
After talking to the ladies working the van this seems to be the case, another cafe has opened up 200 yards down the road and they are blaming the van
for taking business away from them, the van has been there for years and the cafe has been open for two months.
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02GF74
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 07:14 PM |
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good on you!!!
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Miketheconn
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 08:20 PM |
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Back in 97 saw a bloke trying to snatch money fro a guy who had just got out of a van near where I used to work in Salford , so gave it legs after him
shouting for security form my work to head him off as the culprit was running back towards my offices. Anyway he was quicker tyhan me and we lost him
in the carpark. Turned out he scalled a fence ran across the train lines up an embankment on the otherside and then accross the M602.
It was lucky I didnt catch him because the bloke who got attacked said the lad was carrying a knife. Apparantly he was shouting at me to stop chasing
. I thought he was shouting for the culprit to stop
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 08:35 PM |
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Some years ago two plain clothes officers were chasing a housebreaker, he ran across a busy street and was hit by a van.
One of the Officers ran to a payphone and called in the accident, then left the scene.
Traffic officer responds, sends the kid to hospital (two broken legs) does the van driver with Impaired. All's well that ends Well.
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JoelP
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 08:55 PM |
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whats 'impaired'? Drink driving?
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JoelP
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 08:59 PM |
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i was once running after two lads who tried to rob me, went round a corner where they jumped into a car with 2 more fellas in it - at that point i
changed my mind and ran back to my car! Thats definately one of the most satisfying events of my life, the fact there were armed and prepared and
still failed.
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miikae
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| posted on 19/10/09 at 09:16 PM |
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A few years ago now a car load of lads shot up our road and tried to hide there car on the gravel drive behind one of my garages, my two children 5
& 3 years old where only playing there moments before fortunatly, i was in the garage stripping a RV8 , i grabbed a garden fork and stopped the
car from moveing whilst being threatened by the lads to run me over , i just told them to try it , a couple tried to get out the car to sort me out
but there mates stopped them , i must say i was really mad as they could well have killed both my children , i was ready to stick the fork straight
through the rad or even the bonnet for that matter , the driver apologised in the end so i let them all go on there way to another pub possibly.
Mike
If it can be done it i will be done .
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TimC
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| posted on 20/10/09 at 09:33 AM |
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On the flip side of things - I lived with two mates from my hometown in my last year of Uni. We persuaded another mate with a van to help us clear
the flat at the end of the year, Unfortunately each of us were relying on one of the other two to bring a key. None of us did. We had to enter the
flat by going to Hypervalue and buying a cheap scredriver which we then used to remove the latch on the bathroom window so it didn't remove my
spleen as the other guys 'posted' me through the small opening (forward roll from 6ft-odd into bath.) I then let the other guys in
through a larger window and we emptied the flat by passing everything through windows: TVs, Microwave, PCs - the lot. Not one person asked us what
we were doing or called the police. Crazy!
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