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By JAFO
#1886454
ROG wrote:When my son joined the police he left his mobile on the desk where he was interviewing a client. As he left the interview room he went to pick up his phone-gawn. Yes you"re already there.
It was recovered but due to its previous home-he never used it again.


In Kent, I believe that the said hiding place is known as "The Chatham Pocket".
By TopCat
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ROG wrote:When my son joined the police he left his mobile on the desk where he was interviewing a client. As he left the interview room he went to pick up his phone-gawn. Yes you"re already there.
It was recovered but due to its previous home-he never used it again.

Was the miscreant something of a wide boy?
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By JAFO
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If I somehow got a 57mm round stuck where the sun don't shine then I think I'd prefer to die with it stuck there than go to A&E.

Luckily, as far as I'm concerned, that particular passage is a one way street, so it's not likely that I'll have to make that decision.

You never know what lives people are leading behind closed doors, though. When I started working for the police, I think I assumed that everyone lived similar lives. Sure some people lived in a mansion and others in a council flat and some drove their Bentley to work while others got the bus, but, underneath all that, we lived in much the same way. It didn't take long for me to be disabused of that notion.
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By Propwash
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JAFO wrote:You never know what lives people are leading behind closed doors, though. When I started working for the police, I think I assumed that everyone lived similar lives. Sure some people lived in a mansion and others in a council flat and some drove their Bentley to work while others got the bus, but, underneath all that, we lived in much the same way. It didn't take long for me to be disabused of that notion.

Amen to that. We hear a lot from critics of the police (and other emergency services) about "canteen culture", by which many mean dark humour that to outsiders seems insensitive at best and offensive at worst, but frankly there isn't any other way to process a lot of what is witnessed and experienced by officers. It is also one of the reasons that, certainly in my day, officers tended to socialise together rather than mix more generally with wider society. To this day my wife doesn't know half of the things I was called upon to deal with, and the average civilian wouldn't believe many of the things that go on if they were told. They do after all pay the police to experience many things so that they don't have to. On the greater scale, having unexploded ordnance lodged in a rectum is on the milder side of what goes on. :lol:

PW
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By JAFO
#1886686
StratoTramp wrote:@JAFO @Propwash Can't imagine. Well done both for dealing with dark stuff (as well as the moments of hilarity!).


Well, in my case, you don't need to imagine. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1785632620/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1638623994&sr=8-1

Reasonably priced, delivery in time for Christmas and easy to wrap.

Oh, come on, I couldn't let that one pass. :thumright:
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