How to call the police in QLD :)

[gawdelpus]

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE.

George Phillips of Gold Coast, Australia was going up to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. ( Boy does this sound familiar! )

George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" and he said "no". Then they said that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be along when available. George said, "Okay," hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again.

"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I've just shot them." Then he hung up.

Within five minutes three police cars, an Armed Response Unit, and an ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence and caught the burglars red-handed.

One of the Policemen said to George: "I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"

(True Story) I LOVE IT -Don't mess with old people!!

[Batpig]

Dear Gawd,

I hope I'm not overusing the old "That would be funny if it wasn't true!" line, but in this case it is fully applicable...

I always deplore hearing the newsreaders describe some crime as either "a Hold-Up that went horribly wrong..." or "a Home Invasion that went horribly wrong..." What exactly is the desirable outcome (and who is desiring it?) for these crimes to be described as turning out "right"?..

Yep... from everything you read and hear, you've got to figure that the law is pre-disposed towards an assumed position of advocacy towards the criminal element here in Australia. Sad but true I'm afraid. Queensland is a basket-case in this regard...

Best Wishes,
Batpig.

[damian]

My place got robbed, police turned up the next day. After hammering them I got a forensic person to dust for prints, that were obviously all over the window. Nuh, not enough to go on, never heard another thing.

A friends mum was locked in here flat with a bunch of kids right there trying to break in the front door. Police flatly refused to attend.

[Blocklayer]

People around here no longer bother calling the police.

Its a total waste of time.

The government loves it, because their 'statistics' show a lower crime rate.

You get what you vote for

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[Retromilling]

There is something very wrong with our Police force.
I once saw a motorist draging a young girl into a car.
It looked for all the world like an abduction.
I followed the car so I could stay with it and rang the Police on my mobile.
Guess what the brain dead moron of a copper did ?
He started chastising me for driving while using a mobile phone , while I was trying to give the rego number and description of the car !!!
True story . I still have never heard from the Police if it was an abduction and it worries me even years later especially knowing that I could have stopped it myself .

[Retromilling]

People around here no longer bother calling the police.

Its a total waste of time.

The government loves it, because their 'statistics' show a lower crime rate.

You get what you vote for

.

Mate I know that government policy and lack of funding is the cause of a lot of these kind of Policing issues and the Police are coping all the flack from them . Unfortunately all political parties are just as guilty as each other.

[Blocklayer]

Mate with all due respect , I think the Police are a law unto themselves and it does not matter which political party is in power . No government seems to have the guts to clean out the bad apples and rejuvinate the force.

Its so bad here, we're considerring re-electing Joe Bjelke-Peterson (and he's dead!)
Surely, even dead he couldn't do any worse than the pathetic mob we have now.

.

[bsrlee]

An unfortunately true story about Qld Police - several years ago I used to work in the NSW Police, in the section where 000 calls end up. I recieved a call from Telstra asking me to take a 000 call in Sydney about an accident at Beaudesert in Qld, as she had been trying for 20 minutes to get the caller thru'. I had to explain that we didn't have a magic number to ring & I couldn't send the nearest NSW Police (Tweed Heads) to attend the accident.

Since then I have been told that the Qld Police have put an answering machne on 000 that asks you to leave your number & they will get back to you when they are not busy........

Unfortunately I think NSW is following since they moved responsibility for 000.

[Ianab]

It's not just an Aussie thing.

A NZ farmer found some guys trying to steal his quad bike...

So he fired a 'warning' shot from the ole .303, and actually hit one of them. Accidentally... honest.

So he call the cops, knows they are 30mins away at the best of times, but there is this guy bleeding on his driveway.

Now because shots have been fired the local cops and Ambos are not allowed in, even though they are talking on the phone to the guy that fired the shots, and he is trying to keep the guy he shot alive...

2 hours later the armed offenders guys arrive, give the all clear, and the ambos can come and pick up the injured guy.

Next thing the police arrest the farmer, reckless use of a firearm.... Fortunatly the jury thought taking pot shots at thieves wasn't really reckless and he got off. Even the guy he shot agreed with the verdict.

It's a crazy world out there

Ian

[weisyboy]

i love it when i read that some old bloke shot a robber and didnt go to jail. more people should shoul do it.

i would not hesatate to shoot someone if they brke into my house. and as far as im consernd they bloudy well deserve it.

[damian]

Best make sure it's fatal and no one finds the body. In Sydney it's easier, you just dump them about a mile offshore on an outgoing tide and by the time the tide turns what's left has sunk, but in Brisbane you got the bay to traverse then the continental shelf extends so far offshore it's always possible divers will find the remains.

I knew a bloke who was involved in the lifesavers for decades. He said it was quite regular to see bodies floating about. After the first few they no longer bothered retrieving them.

Thank you to the moderator who edited my previous post. I was about to go back and erase the whole thing but you got there first. It's terribly sad we're having this thread at all.