Police: 'We've stolen your bike'

My point is that its an article that says 'something happened last
week'.
There is no attempt to find out why it happened nor who was
responsible for it happening.
Still it filled up a bit of the paper and they are obviously hoping
for some
outraged letters to fill up a bit of next weeks too.

Steve

 

<Bad form>

If anyone is registered with MCN, post this link...

<http://www.ukrm.info/CLUES/exploits/mcnsting.html>

</Bf>

 

Yes, it did... and up until now, it was only 'Disgusted of UKRM' that
happened to know about it.

Now, anyone thick enough to buy MCN, (given they don't appear to have
been gracious enough to put the article up on their webshite), will
also have the chance to read about what the Keystone Cops have been up
to of late.

How do you know that?

Which part of 'lengthy statement' is it you're having difficulty with?

Why do you suppose the flatfoots concerned would feel the need to
issue such a statement?

See above - I take it 'reading between the lines' isn't your strongest
suite...

 

Heh, even _I_ noticed a few grammatical errors.

 

The part where the 'journalist' states that the plod issue a statement
and makes no attempt
to question them on it nor make them account for their assertion that
they have made every effort
to minimise inconvenience , which from SteveH's posts here clearly is
not true.
Or do you think that the story 'Police execute man on Tube - they have
issued a lengthy statement'
would be acceptable journalism?

Steve

 

<Bigot wandering round a Chinese Market mode>

'They all look the same to me'

 

NFN

 

Unless you were privvy to exactly what MCN said to plod, and what plod
replied in answer to it, you cannot determine that to be an absolute.

It *may* have happened like that... the term 'lengthy statement' leads
me personally to suspect otherwise.

What you haven't been privvy to up until now is that it also appears
that said 'lengthy statement' was issued in response to MCN contacting
plod and not getting said official 'lengthy statement' until they'd
had time to go away and think about it.

 

Indeed.

 

I always knew ducatis were trouble. You never had this bother with the VFR. :
P

Fraser

 

Nice one.

 

Done.

 

Heh. So you have.

 

I would suggest that someone go and clean the text up, it's full of errors.

 

Hahaha. It's been air brushed out, now. I saved a copy with your
comments here:

<http://prawn.mine.nu/mcn001.pdf>

 

Brilliant! I don't suppose another biking mag would be interested in
that?

 

It was pretty obvious that they would and I'm not sure how much interest
beyond here it would gather. If anyone can be arsed, before:

<http://prawn.mine.nu/mcn001.pdf>

after:

<http://prawn.mine.nu/mcn002.pdf>