Mistaken identity

March 15th, 2011 · Posted by Skuds in Life · No Comments · Life

Today the BBC website has a story of police idiocy on a par with when the Irish police had Prawo Jazdy at the top of their most-wanted list.

Basically, the police an address more than 40 times in 18 months by mistake.Â  It seems they were getting calls to a house in Repton Grove but kept going to a house in Repton Road instead.Â  It makes you wonder what is going on at the house in Repton Grove to lead to 40 calls in 18 months doesn’t it?Â Â  And that is only assuming the police always go to the wrong address.Â  If they only get it wrong half the time there would be 80 calls in 18 months – about one a week.

Highlight of the story is this quote:

When my girlfriend rang Police HQ at Lloyd House the gaffer there said he knew all about it because they had seminars about not getting it wrong.

A whole seminar about telling the difference between one road and another?Â  How long can you spin that out?

I hope somebody had an interview a bit like this one…

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