FS - Biker's rucksack (no longer required)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/4102758.stm

 

"The motorcycle broke down two junctions further down the motorway."
just shows it does'nt matter how much money you throw at these things...

 

Vass scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Don't use a Norton as a getaway vehicle...

 

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"The motorcyclists, from the Isle of Wight, told police they were going
to buy a car with the money.

"This raised our suspicions and we are making checks as to where the
money came from at the moment but it's not an offence to carry money,"
the spokeswoman added. "


Point: What fucking possible business is it of the police as to where
the money came from? There were absolutely no grounds for suspicion of
the origin of the money and quite frankly, if the cops had demanded an
explanation of me, I'd have been telling them quite sharply what to do
with their noses.



"The motorcycle broke down two junctions further down the motorway. "

Just as well they were going to buy a car, then.

 

Why should they? What business is it of theirs?

 

No it's not. It's one step further along the road of eroding personal
freedoms. If I choose to carry 10 grand in cash for the purpose of
buying a car, it's nobody's business but mine and I owe no explanation
to anyone.

Of course they do, but the same police start getting above themselves
and lose sight of the fact that not everybody in possession of a large
amount of cash is a crim or a drug dealer.

Those polite questions you seem to regard with approbation rapidly turn
less polite if you stand up for yourself and tell them, quite rightly,
to mind their own business. Problem is, most coppers think along quite
fixed lines and immediately start to suspect dirty doings if you don't
fawn over them and bend over.

I would point out to you that the police are supposed to be a body of
public servants, primarily formed to defend property and the rights of
property owners. Sometimes they need to be reminded of this and that far
from being nosey about the origins of a rucksack full of cash, they
should be doing their best to re-unite the missing cash with its owner.

These are not the same type of thing. Why do you not have a problem with
the police poking their nose in simply because someone is carrying a
wedge of cash?

 

Suits me. Go and patronise someone else.

 

No. I merely treat them as I would expect to be treated; with a degree
of common courtesy and civility - up to the point where some copper
starts to get inappropriately nosey, then I get quite firm about how far
his or her right of questioning goes.

Perhaps you don't understand that.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon scribbled on the back of a napkin:

It's only for our own best that we have to bow down before them.

 

True. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

 

Grimly Curmudgeon was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

"But if you're not hiding something, we'll just mae it up."

 

It might be going to fund terrorism or be profits from some sort of
crime, like having independance.

When they drag you off for being cheeky can I look after the Jackdaw?

 

If you can find him. He buggered off out the window this morning and
took up sitting in a tree.

When I was working out the front during the day, he came down and
circled me a couple of times but showed no desire to come any closer.

I think nature won out in the end - he'd tasted freedom; which was
available to him every day for the past week, but he didn't take it up.

The window's been open all day in the chance he might fancy getting fed
again, but no sign. I suspect the presence of a couple of carrion crows
and other jackdaws around might have driven him away and he's got lost.

By now he's either dead in a ditch or flying free somewhere.

Ho hum.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon scribbled:

Can I just say here a number of thoughts that have entered my rusty
brain:-
1. If I was genuinely carrying £10k about in a rucksack I'd make damn
sure it was in £50 or £100 notes, in an envelope, with an elastic band
around it, in something relatively heavy.
2. I don't consider it the norm for someone to be carrying around £10k
in £20 notes, loose (or in a plastic bag) in a rucksack.
3. And as its abnormal, I do consider it normal practise for the police
to naturally wonder "WTF?" and ask questions, but of course to ask them
in a curteous and non-accusational manner.

Now someone going somewhere with £10k stored safely I wouldn't wonder
about, but why did they have £20 notes (I recall the article saying
drivers were stopping trying to grab the £20 notes), and why stored so
insecurely? And if valid reasons for both, the police IMHO still have
perfectly valid reasons for finding out those reasons, and then being
happy about them and helping the poor sod who's lost his/her money.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon scribbled:

So by refusing to answer their simple questions you're suggesting to
them you have got something to hide and they become suspicious.

 

Can I just say here a number of thoughts that have entered my rusty
brain:-
1. If I was genuinely carrying £10k about in a rucksack I'd make damn
sure it was in £50 or £100 notes,[/QUOTE]

Do we have £100 notes?

 

No.
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Thought not

 

that said, if you make some, you could always sell the to frag.

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