Is England Truly Insane?

[Jeff]

I read this the other day, and I was stunned. Even with all of the recent "let's ban kitchen knives and replica guns" BS that is coming out of that collapsed state, I found this story to be particularly revolting.

[emphasis mine]

Store's ban on shopper in 'filthy basket' dispute

Six police officers warned him of arrest
STROPPY shopper Andrew Williamson was barred from his local supermarket after a bust-up over "filthy" shopping baskets.

By Mark Lavery

Bosses at Somerfield in Ossett slapped the ban on the dad-of-two when he complained for a second time about the plastic baskets which he claimed were full of old bits of food and congealed milk.
Mr Williamson said six police officers then turned up at his taxi business to warn him he would be arrested if he returned to the store.
Dad-of-three Mr Williamson, 46, who owns A 2 B Taxis on New Street, Ossett, told the YEP: "I spoke to one of the store managers on Wednesday and he thanked me for pointing it out and said he would get it sorted."
But unhappy that his remarks had been ignored, Mr Williamson complained again on a visit to the Dale Street store the following day.
After an exchange of opinions store bosses decided enough was enough and barred Mr Williamson.
"They have barred me from the shop for complaining about the shopping baskets being filthy," said Mr Williamson. "You can get all sorts of bacteria growing in there.
"I don't want to see old food and milk in my shopping basket.
Warned
"But they just weren't bothered and told me they didn't want me in the supermarket and called the police and half a dozen officers came round to my taxi office." Mr Williamson said he was also warned by the police and told he would be arrested if he returns to the store.
"It's their shop, they can bar who they want but I think it's a bit much banning me for complaining about levels of cleanliness," he said.
A spokesman for Somerfield, said: "We can confirm that an incident occurred at the store yesterday morning.
"The police were called and the matter has been resolved."
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police confirmed Mr Williamson had been visited at home by six officers. He added: "A 46-year-old man was spoken to by police at his workplace but no arrests have been made in relation to the incident."


Are the cops there just afraid of going after real bad guys? Is there more to this story? Please tell me there is, British members.

 

[P95Carry]

Can't comment - only EX Brit but heck - the sound of things as per the report makes this seem absurd in the extreme - making me think there must (surely) be something else. Maybe the guy got threatening?

If he didn't then the while thing is pitiful. Hard to say more!!

Mind you - there is little that occurs there that surprises me any more - I saw plenty over many years of 'captivity'!

 

[Hypnogator]

Is England Truly Insane?

Yes. Next question?

 

[scottgun]

I can't stand the dirty hand baskets at the grocery store either.

This incident is just plain nuts.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I've given up on groceries because they were dirty, poorly lighted, narrow-aisled, and short of help at the cash registers.

England appears to have devolved into a third world nation under socialist "leadership." It's not at all surprising. Sad, yes, but not surprising in the least.

 

[Stand_Watie]

An even better one in the Telegraph...

http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/...nion.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=92675


....When they install speed cameras, serious accidents increase. When an estranged husband threatens his wife, they send round helicopters and "armed response vehicles" and contingents of officers in full body-armour, and then let them sit around at a safe distance until the estranged husband has finished killing everyone in the house.

That's what they did when Vicky Horgan and her sister were shot and bleeding to death in Highmoor Cross, declining even to enter the village, never mind the house. And that's what they did when Julia Pemberton called 999 at 7.10 one evening, racing round in response, arriving at 7.50 and then waiting until 1.20 in the morning before deciding it was safe to enter. It was: Mrs Pemberton and her son had both been dead for some hours.

As we now know, if you require a less desultory response from Thames Valley Police, the best advice is to speculate about the sexuality of the officer's horse. As my colleague Sam Leith reported yesterday, late in the evening on Bank Holiday Monday, Sam Brown, an Oxford University undergraduate, inquired of a mounted policeman on Cornmarket Street: "Do you know your horse is gay?" Also, "I hope you're comfortable riding a gay horse."

Within minutes, young Mr Brown was surrounded by six officers and a fleet of patrol cars, handcuffed and tossed in the slammer overnight, after which he was fined £80. A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police told the student newspaper Cherwell that the "homophobic comments" were "not only offensive to the policeman and his horse, but any members of the general public in the area."

"Offensive to his horse"? Well, you never know. If any constabulary is keeping a full-time equine psychologist on staff, it's bound to be Thames Valley. Even now, the horse may be on one month's stress leave at home on full pay, with his feet up listening to Judy Garland on his iPod. Whoops, sorry. We don't know whether the horse in question is, in fact, gay. It may be just the way he trots. Whoops, there goes another 80 quid. What I'm getting at is that, even under a generous interpretation of "homophobia", it's hard to see why simply identifying the horse as gay should be a criminal offence.

Mr Brown didn't say: "Tell your gay horse to stop coming on to me" or "I couldn't get near Royal Ascot last year because those gay horses were queening around and backing up traffic." Few of us would appreciate inappropriate speculation about the sexuality of our mounts, yet even in Thames Valley the offence of hippophobia is surely a stretch.

Caligula made his horse a consul but only Thames Valley has made its horses' sexuality a hate crime. Had Mr Brown gone on to slur one of the police cars as obviously homosexual, would Thames Valley's spokesperson have complained that the homophobic comments were deeply offensive to the officer and his vehicle?...

 

[bjbarron]

Are the cops there just afraid of going after real bad guys?

In a society that has been co-opted by the left, this is exactly what happens. A collectivist society can only work if the population is under control...and since it is difficult to keep a free and honest man under control, everyone must be criminalized.

This is the reason for all the nanny state rules...complete control and criminalization of the general population. The nanny state cops would much prefer to harass non-violent and honest people rather than take the chance with real criminals. The nanny state makes everyone a criminal, so the cops see no difference between surrounding a guy complaining about dirty baskets and surrounding a guy with a gun...the former is just as much a criminal.

The stats look great for the cops, but real crime doubles every year, guns and knives are made illegal, and anyone who defends themselves from a dirtbag with anything up to and including a feather pillow is sent to prison.

A far cry from these days....would that generation even recognize England now?

England is at a crossroads. Will it embrace the EU and become even more collectivist, or will it forge tighter bonds with the US as some eastern European countries are doing...and become Atlantist. Either way...

We gots our own problems. They need to take care of theirs without us this time.