Having now returned from The Field, Inspector Gadget remarks upon the ruin of the life of one Mr. McCullough, who made the mistake of accepting a caution from the police having been accused of assault by his teenage daughter.
Gadget asks:
Who has taught these kids that they should call the police for things like this?
My three guesses would be: State conditioning centres (formerly known as ’schools’), soap operas (formerly known as ‘entertainment’), and their own parents, who are often very keen to rush into court to demand ‘compensation’ for any manifestation whatsoever of their own bad luck. One cannot expect a 13-year old (unless they are somewhat precocious students of the so-called ‘British Constitution’) to know the difference between a tort and a crime.
He concludes:
Once again, a decent working man trying to bring up his kids properly gets punished for telling the truth.
Quite.
Not all police officers are as thoughtful as the Inspector, or certain of his commenters; many will simply do the business and tick the boxes, relieved to have the politicised brass-hats off their collective back for a few minutes. This sort of thing isn’t going to stop.
One wonders what the ‘Conservative’ party might do about this once they’re in power. Make it worse, I suspect. There’s nothing like fear of one’s own children to keep the public in line, as was demonstrated by Pol Pot.
Concur fully.
Seconded, sadly.
He’s lucky he didn’t leave the light on – the Climate Cops would have been round.
The conclusion: never admit anything to Mr Plod, get a lawyer.