{"id":279,"date":"2010-02-20T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T16:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomjottings.co.uk\/wpress\/?p=279"},"modified":"2014-02-12T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T10:17:30","slug":"snow-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Snow Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"Greater<\/a>I was shocked to hear this week that Greater Manchester Police has thrown all common sense out of the window and decided to class incidents of snowball throwing as \u201cserious violent crime\u201d<\/a> even though none of the incidents led to injury.<\/p>\n

As if their crime statistics weren\u2019t bad enough to start with there seems to be a culture of over-egging the pudding, it doesn\u2019t help that none of these miniature sub-zero terrorists has been traced, bumping up the unsolved-crime rate.<\/p>\n

Granted, with the amount of bureaucracy policing involves these days writing a report on serious crime is probably a good way to stay inside during the cold spell we\u2019ve been having, contributing to the 6 million hours a year lost to form filling.<\/p>\n

There has been some criticism of whoever called the police when the kids started throwing snowballs, but to be fair, it\u2019s got to the point where you daren\u2019t challenge them.
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\nGone are the days that you could shout at the kids and they\u2019d disappear off and keep their heads down for a bit, now you\u2019ll get a torrent of abuse and a police officer at your doorstep (within 5 minutes) arresting you for hurting their feelings!!!<\/p>\n

To stop the generational descent into barbarianism we need to take action quickly. The police need to be relieved of the red-tape that is hampering their efforts and have their common sense reinstated. Parents also need to be made responsible for their children\u2019s behaviour so that police can go back to using the time honoured tradition of the \u201cclip round the ear\u201d<\/p>\n

This \u201cclip\u201d in this day and age wouldn\u2019t be physical chastisement, but it is wrong to either drag children through the courts for minor offences or let them off because it is a waste of resources to pursue it.<\/p>\n

In this case the \u201cclip\u201d should be an order to make good any damage done (preferably with the child involved in the repair not just by the parent digging into their pocket) or it could be a small community punishment that once completed wipes the slate clean. Either way, the parent should be the one responsible for seeing that the task is carried out and could face further proceedings if not complied with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was shocked to hear this week that Greater Manchester Police has thrown all common sense out of the window and decided to class incidents of snowball throwing as \u201cserious violent crime\u201d even though none of the incidents led to injury. As if their crime statistics weren\u2019t bad enough to start with there seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomjottings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}