howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
I was on a bus about an hour ago in Folkestone and it pulled up at the first stop out of the bus station. A police car was parked there and two officers were speaking with a chap that was trying to stand up with two shopping bags and was failing miserably.
After about 5 minutes they helped the man onto the bus even though he had clearly been taken drunk. He continued to drink cans of super strength lager throughout the journey to Dover. Bus drivers normally refuse to let drunken people on so I am at a loss as to why the two officers thought what they did was a good idea.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#2
Getting the problem off their manor presumably!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
Seems that way the police don't normally arrest people nowadays for drunk and disorderly so drunk and incapable would be of no interest. A few hours in the cells might have sobered him up and given him time to reflect. Someone later will sit in the spillage and threaten Stagecoach with legal action maybe.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
At least the police should have taken the booze off him if he was that bad.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#5
In fairness to the police he wasn't drinking at the bus stop so they must have assumed he had got bladdered in a pub and was on his way home. The cans came out of one of his shopping bags once he was on the bus.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#6
I think if I had been the bus driver I would not have taken him in the first place ,With only one man bus crew they were lucky nothing happen.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#7
Normally they don't, maybe he got intimidated by the police asking him to hold the bus for a few minutes then loading him on ?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#8
I would not have moved away till they took him off again.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
#9
Shocking, wonder how they justified their actions? the system is broke.
Audere est facere.