Rabbit Stew.
April 10, 2008 by inspectorgadget
It would appear that this Blog is now infamous enough to be misquoted.
The Medway district councillor who had to ’stand down’ for suggesting on his Blog that women on welfare should be sterilised, did mention Inspector Gadget in the offending piece. That much is true. I saw the first draft and I was aware of this.
But there are stories on the web that I had said it first in my post about Shannon Matthews. That is not true. You can read the unedited original post here.
All I said was that any front-line public services provider could spot a pile of poo like this at 100 meters. True, I said it before it was officially revealed as a pile of poo. But you don’t read this Blog to see old news do you?
This Blog is not a whistle blowing site. All I do is keep my eyes and ears open and I have a few trusted contacts around the police Blog community.
Kibble Chops; fond of eating raw rabbit and squirrel.
If you want a website that talks about citizen-focused driven service delivery in a diverse multi-agency environment, consulting key stakeholders to provide positive outcomes for our customers; please go somewhere else.
If you want a website that talks about sterilising criminals; please go somewhere else.
If you want the fastest growing police Blog in the UK with over one million one hundred thousand hits, that talks about doughnuts, Llamas, Orwellian nonsense and front-line policing; please keep it here.
Not that I’m bitter or anything!! (and I’m NOT linking to the aforementioned sites - please don’t ask!)
go-go-Gadget!
x
Good post!
Thanks.
Have you seen this?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/10/wsafrica110.xml
It actually does not surprise me, having lived in that part of the world. The pendulum always swings, to-and-fro. At least, that’s what Einstein allegedly proved.
Yrs,
Morse
cc: Lewis
What are your preferences reference the all important doughnut question?
Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time?
Should “refs” be taken back at station or at a take away/restaurant/cafe/bistro/eatery of your choice or should all nutrients be combined into a super food pill that would allow for more front line officers to concentrate on being on the streets? And therefore allowed more time for paperwork!
Come on Inspector Gadget these are important questions that should be addressed at Home Office and Cabinet level meetings!
I, we need answers or no one will be able to sleep….
…must go now as I am a washing machine (Traffic Cops-BBC1 9/4/
Yours Sincerely
Jellywobblehatrack.
The “Krispy Kreme” choccy ones with the white and milk choc bits on the top are the finest in the world. If it was possible to live on them I would!
Refs should be taken at the nick (at least on E/T which is probably the only shift the workers on here get to have any!) therefore fostering a good team spirit (seriously) and enabling your team to all have a chuckle together and giving the witty repartee providers on the team (you all know who you are) a captive audience to hone their skills for when they get on the TSG!
The superpill already exists - it’s called a chicken & mushroom Pot Noodle!
Gotta go with XTP on this Krispy Kreme choc ones, except if they get thrown at u during refs and you have to go smelling like a chocolate doughnut, lol.
(really shouldn’t make smutty comments at refs)
Met Police to be Chip’n'Pin’d, Link to Daily Mail article. Beyond satire! Beyond a joke!
http://tinyurl.com/43xkw5
there’ll be a couple of big bleeping spots on the London map around NSY and the Empress State Building.
What’s a ‘workstream manager’?????
Bit of a mashmush these blogs - doughnuts and sterilisation at refs - we scumbag civilians stand no chance of understanding the “force” at work - you’re all not REALLY plods and upper-plods are you?
Good going boss, at this rate Mcnumpty will be slagging your work off in parliment before you know it.
Whilst on that subject, when’s the book out? I’m not sure I can wait for too much longer.
I’m glad we’re all back on the correct intellectual level. Bert Rustle is obviously a highly intelligent person, as a result I get a wee bit left behind when reading their entries (check out the gender non specific linguistics!) so I’m glad we’re on a subject I can understand. BR, what are your donut preferences?
And is donut an acceptable corruption of doughnuts, or can our doughnuts never be corrupted? And have you tried the pain au raisin twists at Asda? Gorgeous.
And I’m still in love with Connie Huq. And Ellie from Newsround (though she’s away on maternity leave).
I’m off for a nice lie down now.
Inspector gadget wrote:
‘If you want the fastest growing police Blog in the UK with over one million one hundred thousand hits, that talks about doughnuts, Llamas, Orwellian nonsense and front-line policing; please keep it here.’
Talk about blowing your own trumpet. Best ordering a new hat inspector, the old one must be getting a little tight now.
@12 - anonymous once more. If you dont like it you can always go and look at a good supermarket website and do your shopping you muppet!
I will undoubtedly be keeping it here for the forseeable future. Police blogs will come and go but this one remains the gold standard against which all others must be judged.
One cannot hope to bribe or twist
The honest British journalist
But seeing what the swine will do
Unbribed, there’s no occasion to.
How are the sheep?
InnercityPC- Who said I didn’t like it? Best blog on the net. I’m sure Inspector Gadget can take a little joke without you jumping to his defence.
As you can tell from my username, I love doughnuts and kebabs, but If prefer my rabbit cooked.
As for the Matthews family, has anyone seen this week’s popbitch?
Good blog and one I keep returning to. TUPC at 5 is, I believe slightly incorrect re the bead and circuses. The mob didn’t demand ‘em, the particular Caesar saw that that sh1t was hitting the (not yet invented) fan and gave the populace , especially the under/inbred class, bread and circuses (paid for by the merchants and other major taxpayers) to keep ‘em happy. It is, of course, pure coincidence that the modern under/inbred class is being given tax credits and ‘Big Brother’ (paid for by the middle and working classes - but no real comparison, there).
Rather than doughnuts, the shift I was on preferred nice, juicy, Eccles cakes. We had the sugar rush, the fruit of the currants - classed as one of the 5 a day - and we never had the problems of jam down the front of our shirts.
Plod @ 17 - what a great idea! I can feel Eccles cakes taking over from doughnuts when I “do it in” next. Mind you - I haven’t been late for at least 13 years so don’t hold your breath.
Boss - do you worry that your blog has been taken over by idiots and do you hark back to the days when it was just a few of us (Old Bill, I mean) chewing the fat?
I do. Mind - I’ve been flicking through my comments and there’s not many of them would make the Long List for the Booker!
Inspector Gadget wrote … about citizen-focused driven service delivery in a diverse multi-agency environment, consulting key stakeholders to provide positive outcomes for our customers …
What is apparent is that the Celebration of Diversity has yet to enrich the Dog Units. Kibble Chops almost always seems to be stereotypically German Shepherd. This is an apparent case of Institutionalised Breedism, as demonstrated by the under representation of Poodles and Saint Bernards. Apparently dog handling breedists are unaware that the only differences between breeds is due to breedism and a lack of equal opportunities. Indeed breed is a social construct and Pit Bulls would make perfect Police Dogs or Guide Dogs, if only they were treated fairly and with respect.
In the new five year plan, Dogversity Great Leap Forward, Pit Bulls will be subject to Positive Action to increase their numbers in the Drug Sniffing Squad. Furthermore, to demonstrate our commitment to sheep-focused driven service delivery in a diverse multi-agency environment, we will be consulting key farmers to provide positive outcomes for our local underprivileged flocks as a top priority, and then delivering inner-city Staffordshire Bull Terriers to these farmers as sheep dog trainees.
Simultaneously, our barking Neighbourhood Policing Teams will be distributing Dogversity leaflets to Community Breeders to counteract the misleading information spewed by genetic scientists in academic journals. Indeed, though these genetic scientists have only just been able to demonstrate that there is any genetic difference at all between dog breeds, or dog breeds and wolves, it has been conclusively demonstrated by the Police Service that the comparatively massive genetic distance between Homo sapien population clusters has absolutely no bearing on behaviour whatsoever.
Finally, it is with pleasure that we announce that the previous five-year plan has just concluded with all senior management positions now staffed with lap-dogs.
For a user friendly guide to the science alluded to here see http://www.amazon.co.uk/Race-Reality-Differences-Vincent-Sarich/dp/0813340861/
Spitting Feathers 11 wrote … what are your donut preferences? … I will try and make some this month and if this post is still active, I will let you know. I have fond memories of jam donuts – any suggestions of how to get the jam in?
Spitting Feathers 11 wrote … is donut an acceptable corruption of doughnuts, or can our doughnuts never be corrupted? … Donuts can never be corrupted, though they can corrupt the consumer, as perhaps big fat trucker may testify.
Spitting Feathers 11 wrote … have you tried the pain au raisin twists at Asda? … No. I have tried their Hungarian Duck Pillows though and found them disagreeable; indeed as I am reminded by your nom de guerre, I was spitting feathers.
XTP:
‘Boss - do you worry that your blog has been taken over by idiots and do you hark ba ck to the days when it was just a few of us (Old Bill, I mean) chewing the fat?’
Sometimes XTP thats the price you have to pay for becoming popular. Something I doubt you will ever have to worry about!
plodnomore, Eccles cakes as a substitute for doughnuts?????
I always wondered why Tescos still stocks them, so now I know who buys them; they tried to force feed them to us @ junior school but they were rejected ‘flies graveyards’ but not without a fight, as that and few 8 year old kids vomiting into the ink wells.
School days, the best day of my life? maybe not.
@22 - anonymous once more
I’ll keep it short…Troll off somewhere else…muppet
Ok InnercityPC, you will hear from me no more after this i pomise you. By the way, before i go, I now work at a well known burger place , please drop by anytime for a free coffee. If your peckish have some chips too, should go nice with the one’s already on your shoulder!
I keep coming back to this blog, mainly for us cops, who after a hard shift listening to scrotes having a whine, get to talk a load of bollards and put the world to rights.
I’d hate to see the cop hating variety on here spewing venom about us. Please keep them out IG. I stopped visiting another well known cop blog as I grew tired of numpties putting on venomous blog entries about us.
Keep it up, doughnuts and rabbit stew - lovely. Mmmmmm. You can’t beat a jam filled doughnut.
Cops attract nutters on and off duty.
Why?
What is so interesting about us?
Bert @21 - if you think thats good - the other morning there was a call for Police repsonse to a very very well known address on Whitehall. The reason at 0530??? Three pints of milk were delivered to the wrong door outside the cabinet offices and the cleaner and kitchen manager deemed them suspicious and so Metcall put it out as an Immediate response. Naturally EVERYONE who was available went to it to prove the point and the cleaner was most impressed. Strange though how the DPG (Diplomatic protection group or ‘Doors Posts and Gates’) didn’t move from their static post 20 meters away to go to it and stand everyone down!!!!
I am sorry that a side-effect of the “hatchet job” against me has impacted upon here (though once things had started rolling I suppose that was likely to happen). I have throughout asked people to read the articles and the comments here first, so they would know what was and was not said here.
Every reporter who called me got that message from me, and promptly ignored it (it wasn’t part of their agenda y’see) but it certainly wasn’t for lack of effort on my part.
Ah, well: never mind. Pass the doughnuts!
Please no more with the Llamas, you know I cant get it out of my head once it gets stuck.
…and as for my fave Krispy Kreme’s. Well that’s stuck the tin lid on it, as I wont be anywhere near Manchester till the summer as that’s the nearest place.
Now I’ve got the Llama song going round in my head and am craving Krispy Kreme’s. Thanks a bundle!
Well grumped,
Lucy
You want doughnuts? IMHO Tim Hortons Honey Cruller wins hands down. Try these locations for a Timbo’s if you can blag the mileage.
—Road Chef, Clackett Lane, M25, UK (that’s the east-bound M25 Services)
—The Queen Medical Centre Hospital, Nottingham, England
—Metro Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Metcountymounty 28 wrote … the other morning there was a call for Police repsonse to … Whitehall. … Three pints of milk were delivered to … the cabinet offices and … deemed … suspicious …
So if the boys over the water get bored with topping each other all they have to do is fly over here, hijack a milk float and then we will have Whitehall II The Sequel? What would the headline be, Milkfloat Mayhem? Lactate Delivery Operatives to be shot on sight?
Metcountymounty 28 wrote … Strange though how the … “Doors Posts and Gates” didn’t move from their static post 20 meters away to go to it … Evidence indeed that being on the receiving end for a while is a prerequisite of insightful humour. What is the career progression of DPG – do they go back on Response after a few years or do they move onto the Squidgy Squad and then resign to become bodyguards to the rich and infamous?
Anthony Charles Lynton “Tony” Blair arrives in hell whereupon the Devil informs him that he will spend from now until eternity up to his neck in boiling excrement. Anthony Charles Lynton “Tony” Blair complains that surely this cannot be correct, as Hitler is only waste deep. Ah, the Devil exclaims, this is true, but this because he stands on the shoulders of Stalin!
Theres a missed detection in there nobodys thought of yet IG: Karen Matthews has 7 children by 5 fathers right? So who’s the depraved bastard who went to bed with her twice?!!
And while i’m at it, saw this in one of the papers this morning (no, i don’t read the telegraph but it was the best weblink i could find!):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/11/ntag111.xml
Opinions various job readers?
TheBinarySurfer, yes the article in the paper is correct and I have been informed by someone who I trust that every officer across the country will be monitored by the same system. For our own health and safety??. George Orwell and all that 1984 stuff. Science fiction is now fact.
# 7 and 34
Prior to the introduction of Airwave, there was a system called AVLS- Automated Vehicle Location System, working on the same principle with the basis that an officer wouldnt be too far away, this covered the officer safety aspect.
When booking on we were told AVLS wasnt working today- not sure when it did, however this is true as I knew the controller at the time, who called up somewhat tongue in cheek.
Unit *** you’ve left the force area with out permission.
Answer no, currently at …
Controller: AVLS shows you 300 miles off the West coast of Africa!
The cost of such a system was into the millions and scrapped because it was rubbish and replaced by Airwave, one of its benefits being officer safety, I believe this works quite accurately in terms of location, the only downside being ambient listening- check the form when you signed for your’s, PDS,PSD or whatever, do not have to apply for a RIPA to listen in.
What is the cost of this new system? I trust it has improved on AVLS, otherwise more tax payers money wasted and you have nothing to worry about, unless you are stranded in a boat in the Atlantic..
The Airwave AVLS and APLS linked to the Hand Helds can at times be very usefull, like when a dogman tracked across country at night, got his man, but did not know how to get to the nearest road and assistance did not know where he was. Trouble is it is on a screen about 12 inch square and uses 50% of the computers processing power which slows everything else down. It has potential but that is all it has at present in my force. For officer safety it cannot be argued against, but just what will it be used for is the question!
Bert Rustle @ 21 - Jam Doughnuts are by far and away my favourite.
You get the jam in using a syringe; basically you “inject” the jam into the cake.
34, 36 & 47….we had/have AVLS/Terrafix within the Ambulance Service and it is extremely useful.
For location of crews/vehicles nearest to an incident it is invaluable. It also compliments local knowledge on the ground as to sites and scenes which may be unfamiliar to an out of area crew.
The down side is…certain managers used it exactly for the purposes that some people feared. Chasing crews needlessly and monitoring their speed.
Once you get the managers out of their mind set of using it as a supervisory tool it is a good system (when it works!)
Yours Sincerely
Bonnie Tyler (Lost in France)
Whilst you are busy sending everyone “somewhere else”, I hope you make time to fit them all with an Automated Personal Location System (APLS)
Bert Rustle - I had misinterpreted the direction you were coming from (perhaps due to APLS) in some of your posts. I think I’m up to speed now and I like the cut of your jib.
Bert, 28 and 33 were actually my troll posting old comments of mine from about a year or so ago, something he obviously finds great humour in doing for some reason. Bless.
I only know a couple of people who went into DPG as they tend to keep to themselves afterwards, the usual progression is to move onto ARV crews in CO19 or onto squads in SCD (serious crime directorate) I’ve no doubt a few will and do go back to response, especially when commanding officers try to make their next promotion tick and in doing so make the working lives of everyone else considerably more difficult than it needs to be.
Are Ruralshire’s finest likely to be getting a “WhereTheF*ckAreThey” chip implant?
Your opinion on the prospect will be “interesting”.
Boss, since you’re so keen on Llamas I thought you might like this piece….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/3205803.stm
Nice!
metcountymounty 42, It would be better if everyone posted under their God given pseudonym.
Off topic, but a good read: Retired prison doctor Theodore Dalrymple says that Lord Woolf is wrong: we are not imprisoning the wrong people - just too few of the right people
http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001752.php
This short article does to Lord Woolf something similar to what happened to The Black Knight in the forest, A.K.A. John Cleese, in Monty Python’s “The Holy Grail”.
Enjoy.
Link found at Laban Tall.
Mr G,
you realise that the comment attributed to me in this post, tho not particularly disagreable…. is not actually from me?
I’m assuming troll boy is at it again!
No offence Gadget but you really are a pain in the arse. x
and while I’m at it - Binary (32) - what REALLY REALLY is your problem? You can talk to yer Auntie Jess you know. Yu don’t have to read the Telegraph to be human x
(On a roll now!!)
ewe - nightjack 13 - baaaaa x
This is all very well, but I haven’t heard a whisper about the Ruralshire Sheep for weeks. What’s going on there?
#19: Now hold on a minute, mate. Standard Poodles are fine French hunting dogs and their woolly coats are admirably adapted for hunting in frigid French winters. I should think they would also be good at searching for wayward Ruralshire Sheep oop on t’Fell.