The Last Straw

Ok, NOW it's official. The police in Britain have officially gone totally around the bend. Reports of them arresting a child for throwing a cucumber slice at another child were thought to be the bottom of the barrel. Seriously, how do you go lower than that? Well, they have actually managed to do it. They are now threatening to arrest scarecrows. No, really, straw-stuffed scarecrows.

A scarecrow dressed to look like a traffic cop didn't go down too well with real police officers.

In fact they took the matter so seriously when they heard about it a patrol car on the way to the scene of a fatal crash was diverted to pay the scarecrow's owner, Christopher Strong, a visit.

And after ordering him to take it down, officers warned him that he could be accused of impersonating a policeman.

Mr Strong, 58, dressed the one-legged straw dummy in a fluorescent yellow jacket from Halfords and a police hat from a joke shop for a village scarecrow competition.

He added a striped tie, epaulettes and a home-made badge reading "Scarecrow Traffic Policy'. His creation was completed with a speed gun fashioned from a ladies' hairdryer and a broken solar light from his garden.

But just a day after he propped the scarecrow on top of his privet hedge in the village of Mickle Trafford, near Chester, pointing its fake speed gun along the busy A56 main road in the hope it would deter motorists from speeding, he felt the full force of the law.

"It caused a real stir in the village," said Mr Strong. "The officers were rather brusque and told me they had received several complaints from motorists who thought it was a real police officer and that it could cause an accident if a car braked suddenly.

There is a picture at the link, it's a pretty clever scarecrow. The police, embarrassed by the media attention, are now claiming that they never did threaten to take the scarecrow in, but I don't think anyone is buying that song and dance. Let's face it, the cops were afraid that the strawman would do more to deter crime than they actually do. Which, come to think of it, is probably quite true.

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  By syn, Sunday, 24 June , 2007 @ 9:22 am

  Why would free people ever want to import Europeans oppressive Cultural Marxism, as in Social Liberalism, as in social engineering, can they not see how creepy the Collective crap has become?

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