British policing at its finest!
 

[quote:42e2b]KFC siege man now in custody
(Filed: 07/06/2006)

A suspected car thief involved in a 20-hour rooftop stand-off with police has finally been arrested.

Officers had been in pursuit of Barry Chambers, 27, when he left the vehicle he was driving and climbed up a drain pipe at 2am yesterday.

He then refused to come down from the three-storey property in Gloucester city.

Police cordoned off the area in Midland Road as Mr Chambers dismantled a chimney and hurled bricks at officers and passers-by.

Residents had to be moved from nearby houses for their own safety as the situation became increasingly dangerous.

Police later surprised residents by sending a fried chicken takeaway to the suspected criminal.

Mr Chambers was first given a pack of cigarettes and a can of Pepsi, but the drink was refused and a two-litre bottle was demanded instead. Minutes later, he tucked into a family-sized KFC meal.

David Dalton, who runs a nearby guest house, said: "I couldn't believe it when I saw the police sending up a takeaway and cigarettes.

"Surely they should have been starving him out - not giving him food and drink so he can stay up there as long as he likes.

"But no, they used the hydraulic platform to take a KFC meal, a two-litre bottle and a packet of fags."

Gloucestershire Police said that, although he was being "a nuisance", they still had to look after his well-being and human rights.

The stand-off ended at 9.40pm last night when specialist negotiators finally persuaded the man to give himself up as a large crowd of spectators cheered.

He is now being questioned at a local police station.


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No wonder this country's going down the shitter. oOo:

Keystone Cops ?

Re: British policing at its finest!
 

[quote="Mr.Buttocks":59fae]"But no, they used the hydraulic platform to take a KFC meal, a two-litre bottle and a packet of fags."[/quote:59fae]
biggrin: ..it's exactly the same here, some knife-weilding fuckwit walks around the front yard in his
underpants and all surrounding infrastructure within a 5km radius is closed down indefinitely.

i woulda shot the bastard

They should have drugged the KFC with some high grade horse tranquilizers.

they should have pooped on his chimney via helicopter

thats cracked...give me the free shit.

sniper take the shot.


done.

Well fuck, that was my first thought when they gave him the goods. You know, I want to fire whoever made that decision. Human rights... happy:

lol - Definitely Human Rights, they'd have given him the decision to eat the horse tranq'd chicken or not...

They should have parachuted some police attack dogs onto the roof.

"but the drink was refused and a two-litre bottle was demanded"

DEMANDED.