PC Plod is revolting
A friend just sent me an e-mail.
He did it to wind me up, because it’s Friday and because he likes winding me up.
He sent me a news item…….
A High Court judge in Belfast is due to rule today on a GBP£100m (USD$196 million) compensation bid by 5,000 serving and former police officers who have claimed post traumatic stress suffered during years of violence in Northern Ireland.
Could someone please tell me what is going on here?
These people applied for a job in the police service. They presumably knew it was the police they were joining. Maybe they were all Enid Blyton fans and thought the police were all like Mr Plod?
It must have been quite a shock to them to find that there was a little bit of violence involved. Is it this shock they are claiming for?
The majority of the people in Northern Ireland never expected the violence either. But they weren’t allowed to go off duty. They weren’t being paid either. Maybe they should all bring an action against the police for not stopping the violence? after all, the police are going to have £100 million to share around.
Personally, I am bringing an action against the British Government for not shutting the politicians up. I am suffering from post-traumatic disorder. My nerves are in shreds. If I ever hear Gerry Adams talk about “the realidy of the sityeaashun” again, I shall scream.
Did you say ‘sityeaashun’?
That is brilliant, Pecker! 🙂
[I took out your correction, because you were right first time!]
Oh God, it’s the whole Irish Army deaf thing again. They got money for playing with things that went ‘BANG!’ now P.S.N.I are getting dosh coz some people gave them grief and Gerry Adams sounded much nicer years ago when they dubbed his voice.
I didn’t send it to you just to wind you up! I couldn’t believe what I was reading and I wondered if you had heard about it. Freakin’ lawyers! Shakespeare was right! The first thing we have to do is kill all the lawyers.
I didn’t say you sent it to me. I said ‘a friend’. Would you class yourself a friend?
I hadn’t heard about it actually. Though as B3n says, it has shades of the army complaining because their ears were damaged by the bangs!!
Let’s sue the lawyers for annoying us 😉
Take heart Grandad, recently a US court judge tried to sue his dry cleaner for . . .wait for it . . .$96 million for giving him the wrong pair of trousers.
Fortunately, sense prevailed (unusual in the litigious States I know) and he was thrown out of court. What gets me is the waste of taxpayer’s money while these things go through the legal system.