Ah, I have one that isn't a pearoast...
...about my 15-year-old-cousin. He's growing up in the same town as I did, but unlike me, seems to be about ready to live and die in that poxy chav-infested shitburg. Monosyllabic, sullen and devious, he'll probably fit right in. Most of that's down to being male and 15 though, I realise. He's capable of more, I think, but I also think that we may never see it.

But the ignorance comes into play in a nugget of news that my mum gave to me not much more than a week ago. Being 15 and in a town terminally infested with chavs, whilst currently possessing nothing that I'd call ambition or even purpose, you can guess which MO he adopts in order to mix with the crowd. I've heard less recently that he smokes pot these days. I can't personally call any kettles black on that score so we'll leave that one there.

So anyway, he was walking through the town's 'town' with one of his mates one evening and they decided they fancied a toke. This need required satiation immediately it seems, so they set about putting a light herbal treat together. In the middle of a car park. A heavily and highly visibly-surveilled car park. Heavily-surveilled because it had the town's Magistrate's Court sat on one side. Also, it had the town's Police HQ on another.

If those two aren't hit by a car before they're 21, I'll buy them both a drink to celebrate the achievement.

They told his mum when she came for him that about twenty of them had been stood around the HQ's surveillance station laughing at the pair of stupid fuckers whilst one went out there to reel them in just after they had sparked up.

A special kind of stupid.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 21:13, 2 replies)

I know a few plods
And most of them are sarcastic fuckers like those mentioned here. They'd rather sit back and watch the stupidity unfold laughing senseless, and then nick them at the funniest moment. Plods generally are humans too!
( DavyBoyInGravyJoy Grey Goose Vodka on Ice, nothing finer, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 6:27, closed)

I can't say I blame them...
...as I can make an educated guess at the levels of dim-ness they deal with on a daily basis. The thing with stupid people is that they assume no-one can be smarter (for want of a better term) than they are. If I were in your average copper's position having my intelligence so often insulted I'd be the same.

As for my dipshit cousin and his mate, they got what they deserved just for being so utterly stupid as to knock a fatty together in full view of the town's largest copshop. Idiots.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 9:24, closed)