The Modern Police Farce

Clearly we have solved crimes in this country.

Police are looking for someone who has been going for their daily walks while dressed as a 17th century plague doctor during the coronavirus lockdown.

People in Norwich have spotted the person wearing a long black cloak, hat and pointed beak-like mask.

When I first saw the pictures I found it amusing. Clearly someone has taken their Gothic tendencies to the next level. A bit of fancy dress. I’d have thought most people will have joined in with the joke. Yes?

No, apparently.

Jade Gosbell, who saw the walker, said: ‘It was like 20 degrees, he was wearing a full black suit, it just looked ridiculous.’

‘It’s clearly for attention or something like that, because normal people just wouldn’t do that.’

So what? The world needs oddballs, it makes life a little more rich and colourful. But, again, so what? No harm is being done here.

Jade said she was worried her mum, who has a phobia of masks, would bump into the person in costume.

‘Kids would be frightened, my mum would be frightened, however some people really don’t think it’s that deep, they just think that he’s having a laugh, he’s just trying to find something to do with himself during isolation and lockdown,’ she said.

Oh, FFS! Grow up. Of course that’s what he’s doing. Again, no harm is being done here and you are being an hysterical fool.

Norfolk Police said that they were aware of the individual and that they would like to identify them to ‘provide words of advice about the implications of his actions’.

What? Why? Since when was it a police role to provide words of advise to people wearing fancy dress? Has a crime been committed? No. Well plod can fuck off and need to be told to do just that very firmly. Clearly the cretins didn’t get the message from the last time they tried checking peoples’ thinking.

23 Comments

  1. That’s a great gag. And when I saw the complainant’s name in the article was “Jade” it was immediately clear that we were dealing with someone from one of the estates

  2. Not a good time to be afraid of masks.
    How is she with burqas?
    Could be a genuine, linguistically correct case of islamaphobia.

  3. It was like 20 degrees

    Er, sorry – do you mean the temperature was 20 degrees, or is there a film by that name featuring a similar character?

  4. Calling the Police because a guy was walking his dog whilst wearing a costume? And the Police take it seriously? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. The lunatics truly have taken over the asylum.

    • The lunatics have not only taken over the asylum but are wearing uniforms and checking people in and out at the main gate.

  5. What a crime free paradise it must be. In a more civilised age, they would have been told to go home, have a nice cup of tea and stop bothering the grown ups. I should point out that “Plague Masks” of both the “Steampunk” and classical Plague (16th Century) are available via Amazon…

  6. Jade Gosbell, who saw the walker, said: ‘It was like 20 degrees, he was wearing a full black suit, it just looked ridiculous.’

    ‘It’s clearly for attention or something like that, because normal people just wouldn’t do that.’

    Maybe it was a female, or are there no Rops in Norwich? Are children and her mum scared of RoP men in dresses & women in full black suits?

    Norfolk Police’s Constable Savage said that they were aware of the individual and that they would like to identify them to ‘provide words of advice about walking on cracks in pavement and falling down stairs in a spit mask’

    Jade & Plod, find a cupboard, lock yourself in with no key

    More deranged ‘Jades’
    Activists Protest Trevor Phillips’s Role in Ethnic Minority Deaths Review over His ‘Islamophobia’

    Why the heck has Gov launched “an inquiry into the high proportion of black and minority ethnic (BAME) deaths due to coronavirus”?

    It was reported on in February before CV19 deaths in UK started using data from foreign countries. It’s Genetics, no multi-million pound lawyer bonanza needed

  7. ‘provide words of advice about the implications of his actions’.

    And will they also consider the implications of the actions of the hundreds throughout the country who are out and about whilst wearing the apparel of Police Officers, yet not acting at all as Police Officers should?

  8. And British people laugh at the French.
    Around here the Gendarmes know what their duties are. If I wish to go out I have a govt. approved list of reasons. I sign a piece of paper downloaded from the internet and go out to do my business.
    The Gendarmes have calmed down a lot and if I decide to go across the road from the chemist to the M/C/ shop as long as I don’t take the mickey, they leave you alone.
    My missus goes over to see the neighbours but follows protocols and keeps her distance.
    There seems to be a complete lack of social cohesion in the U.K. The police have obviously forgotten what they are there for.
    I’m so glad I no longer live in such a miserable country.

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