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24 Hours in Police Custody

just watched the last one with the drug use and abuse, sobering stuff.

and yes I spent a night in the cells but its 20 years ago.

Its been really interesting.
 
How unlucky do you have to be to lose that much coke? He had one of those faces that spoke of a lifetime of misfortune. :(
 
How unlucky do you have to be to lose that much coke? He had one of those faces that spoke of a lifetime of misfortune. :(

And you almost expect there's more to come. Such a babyface.

I don't think they said how old he was but he was so frank when they interviewed him about not being ready to address his drug use and his saying that at school he was seen as a 'drug addict' felt almost like saying..'that's what I am'
 
And you almost expect there's more to come. Such a babyface.

I don't think they said how old he was but he was so frank when they interviewed him about not being ready to address his drug use and his saying that at school he was seen as a 'drug addict' felt almost like saying..'that's what I am'

Was that him? I thought it was two different people. I wondered where he came into it all. :oops: :facepalm:
 
How unlucky do you have to be to lose that much coke? He had one of those faces that spoke of a lifetime of misfortune. :(

Didn't he mention he was using a lot of ketamin?

If you're using k regularly your brain just goes a bit haywire and you do start doing silly stuff.......
 
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I hate hate hate the Channel 4 police / emergency services documentaries. 24 hrs here, there and everywhere. What I hate most of all is the constructed persona of the put-upon world weary-yet-tolerant copper/doctor/paramedic 'clearing up' after society's mess - the not so implicit political content being that the illness/upset/violence of the drunk/drugged/poor are linked to a breakdown in the social order. Not a politically engineered and designed impoverishment - no, never that. Just a mysterious change that magically appeared from nowhere across our cities since the 80s and has led to these outcomes that put-upon yet patient copper 'has to' clean up. But never mind, at least he/she gains the right to judge and condemn the terminally poor, unloved and unlucky - and on TV too. You know what PC Shrug Shoulders? Fuck off back to your suburb with your M&S meal deal for £10, or engage with what's in front of your eyes. Seriously, to think how challenging TV documentary could be to the police narrative up to the 80s, and how desperately arse licky it is now
 
I've no quibble with the A&E one, its good stuff.

The police custody one could be more hard hitting but it does what it says on the tin, its not an aggressive critique at all mind (what is these days though?)
 
The tension! The twists!!

There was that DCI (?) doing a talking head saying “The question I most wanted to ask was ‘why??’” and I just thought “Oh, blahblah people always say that. They always want to know WHY. It’s not usually much beyond people being greedy, or angry or mad. Very profound, Mr. Policeman :rolleyes:” But actually we didn’t find out why at all :mad: Wtf was that geezer thinking? He literally looped a crime directly back to himself...and for what? No real debts, no gambling probs(?), nothing to do with his partner or family. I mean...why??
 
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and they were all going on about how good a fucking copper he was even after arrested
 
The tension! The twists!!

There was that DCI (?) doing a talking head saying “The question I most wanted to ask was ‘why??’” and I just though my “Oh, blahblah people always say that. They always want to know WHY. It’s not usually much beyond people being greedy, or angry or mad. Very profound, Mr. Policeman :rolleyes:” But actually we didn’t find out why at all :mad: Wtf was that geezer thinking? He literally looped a crime directly back to himself...and for what? No real debts, no gambling probs(?), nothing to do with his partner or family. I mean...why??
He should have been given an extra 5 years for sheer incompetence. Using the plod computer :facepalm:, checking out the car park in plain sight of video surveillance :facepalm: .
 
I’d also hope they’d have made it clear whether he’d got away with it before and if that was really the first time. Like, the Loop of Ineptitude was so perfect...flawless. But that was apparently it. That was his big score :confused: Every ad break had a babble of speculation our end - that woman wouldn’t be in business long if that’s her caper! How much money has whoever made doing this!! A handful of successes is tens of thousands of pounds!!! How far is the wheelchair bloke’s jaw going to drop when the gossip hits him??!
 
he clearly was! even i'd have burnt the ransom note and wore a hood/hat when doing the recce
He wasn’t! He was clever. That’s why the why is interesting. Because something interesting went wrong. You’re thick so you don’t get it.
 
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