The WPC stated she had felt threatened by his size - 5' 11" and about 12 stone - and implied that she found it intimidating. [More]5'11" is too tall? Who the hell is she, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins?
I don't suppose "the professional standards department of Kent Police" might consider the predictable ramifications of giving paranoid authoritarian cowards official power over others...?
[Via William T]
I guess now they are going to want tall people to register themselves so they can keep track of them. Would a person taller than 6' be likened to an "assault with high capacity clip?"
ReplyDeleteAnd knowing the English government, they would want to tax them more because they have a larger carbon footprint.
Police in Kent have at last acknowledged that arresting people for being too tall might not be a very good idea
ReplyDeleteDavid, it might be time to start running an ongoing WoG quiz feature called...oh I dunno..."Real? Or a Monty Python sketch?"
I mean come on, you can just imagine Eric Idle in jacket, tie and horn-rimmed glasses, reading that sentence in that nasal BBC Newscaster voice...
Then cue Graham Chapman wandering on set with "This isn't very funny..."
Lobelia Sackville-Baggins had more guts than that officer -- remember, she took after a couple of Saruman's thugs with an umbrella. ;-)
ReplyDelete12 stone is 168 pounds, the man was a veritable giant. Oh my God! Save England from the giants. Send them your chain saws so they can whittle these assault bipeds down to English size.
ReplyDeleteHow about microscopic size to match their courage and intellect?