Strange logic
Grandad November 13th, 2011
I read a little piece in the Irish Times yesterday.
I am confused.
Maybe someone can help me out?
More than a dozen suspected criminals have been arrested as part of an undercover sting operation after being duped into ringing the police to claim free beer.
Derbyshire Police said the suspects were detained after officers sent letters to a string of people who had evaded arrest for several months, urging them to claim a complimentary crate of beer from a marketing company.
OK. So far so good.
Chief Inspector Graham McLaughlin, who led the operation, said: “These suspects are people who have managed to evade arrest for some time so we have used different tactics to find them.
“It has been very cost-effective as it can take a lot of time and money to track people down.
On the face of it – fine?
But let’s move back a bit….
it can take a lot of time and money to track people down.
and
officers sent letters
So they didn’t know where the suspects were, but had their addresses?
Did it not occur to these bastions of law and order that if they had the addresses of those people, that that might have been a good starting place to look for them?
Or am I missing something?
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nope you got it right, they did the same thing here somewhere saying they ‘won’ a tv….i mean really? you mailed them a letter and you couldn’t find them? ow..just ow
Cat – It follows along the same logic as phoning someone to ask them what their telephone number is?
What you are missing is that catching a fugitive at the address where they have their mail delivered would be a lot more time consuming than they have resources for. 24 hour stake out for hundreds? of fugitives? Still, a sharp and funny post.
They caught a murderer here last year by letting him think he had won a couple of million on the lottery.
http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/3359/10/3359_1319803260.pdf
TRY THIS
What about this for a bunch of Gobshites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dos1bm_tU_k
Rambo, that should be req’d reading in schools. It’s spot on.
TT – As a means to get the criminal to go to the police, that’s fine. But why didn’t they say that?
Slab – If I didn’t know better, I’d say that was O’Connell Street. Heh!
Ramrod – I’m lost again……
Grandad:
Become recovered by reading-up on revolutions. When brave people get angry about being pushed around by the ruling class, they kill the hired guns of the ruling class.
”after being duped into ringing the police to claim free beer.”
Not clear enough for ya ?
Ramrod – I think I’m recovered enough thanks. I’m too old to be going around killing people. Except for sport, of course.
TT – Jayzus! What’s wrong with everyone today? I scribble a bit of light reading and everyone gets pedantic on me.
Grandad:
Fighting means harming people. You can use your website as a weapon. I did that until U.S. Judge Joan Gottschall stopped the harm that I was doing.
The federal order of protection against me is my badge of courage. Do you have a badge of courage?
Badges, to god-damned hell with badges!
We have no badges. In fact, we don’t need badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón and ching’ tu madre! Come out from that shit-hole of yours. I have to speak to you.