Police arrest terminally ill man.

Jules said:
As usual, the story doesn’t tell all the facts. When he bared his butt, who was around? If it was a family setting, he was an a$$.
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There's a joke in there, somewhere.
 

Capt Lightning said:
As reported in the news today...

"A terminally ill man who wanted to fulfil one of his bucket list wishes by mooning at a speed camera found himself being wrestled to the ground in his garden by six police officers. Darrell Meekcom, 55, has written a list of things he wants to do before he dies after he was diagnosed with multiple system atrophy, a terminal condition which affects the nervous system.

He managed to tick one of these off his list last week when he bared his naked bottom at a mobile speed camera van in Kidderminster, Worcestershire."

There obviously isn't any crime in Kidderminster when the police can spare six cops to assault him. Hope he sues them.
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How often do the police in Kidderminster have advanced notice that a person is going to moon a MOBILE SPEED camera. Or was this after the fact because they recognized his butt?
 
Jules said:
As usual, the story doesn’t tell all the facts. When he bared his butt, who was around? If it was a family setting, he was an a$$.
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Yes, families generally do gather round speed cameras with pick-nick baskets, colourful bonnets, and share photo albums with friends and relatives.
 

feywon said:
If you read the article, you would know he was apparently in a parking lot while wife shopped. Families do often shop together.
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Yes, I see what you mean. Families generally do gather round speed cameras (always located at the curb on the edge of parking lots furthest away from the entrance to shops) with pick-nick baskets, colourful bonnets, and share photo albums with friends and relatives.
 
On my bucket list is the driver of the car behind me laying on the horn the moment the light turns green. I am going to put my car in reverse and push the accelerator to the floor.
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I have been known to "accidentally" put the car in reverse and watch for the look of panic on the face of the driver behind!

As regards the question of the mooners arrest, I can't understand why the police lost their sense of humour. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have form of some kind.

I wouldn't mind a pound for all the times I have been mooned by teenagers from the back window of a school bus.
 
hollydolly said:
However just to be pedantic, we don't have speed cameras in Parking lots ..or car parks as we call them here...
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So another detail the news people unclear about? Cause the article made it seem like he was outside a Testco waiting for his wife. This why i try not to get emotional about these stories, so often details incomplete or misleading.
 
I do not know where people are getting these "news reports" from. The man was not in a car park. He was driving along a road called Stourbridge Road in Kidderminster. He was wanted for "dangerous driving" and also for "mooning"the camera along Stourbridge Road.
 
hollydolly said:
However just to be pedantic, we don't have speed cameras in Parking lots ..or car parks as we call them here...
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Yes. Britain tried the American method of positioning speed cameras in the centre of shopping car parks but quickly discovered that it was infinitely more effective planting them closest the roadside where it is much more likely for motorists to actually exceed the speed limit.
 
Purwell said:
I have been known to "accidentally" put the car in reverse and watch for the look of panic on the face of the driver behind!

As regards the question of the mooners arrest, I can't understand why the police lost their sense of humour. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have form of some kind.

I wouldn't mind a pound for all the times I have been mooned by teenagers from the back window of a school bus.
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Apparently never been in trouble with the police in his life... nicknamed a goody 2 shoes all his life ..

The tesco turns out to be a little Tesco Express which is on the main road.. not in a Retail park, so he was able to stop outside on the road, while his wife quickly popped into the store, near where a Mobile speed camera van was parked... and then he mooned them

Click on this link and watch the video as he's wrestled to the ground, after the police kick his back gate in to get to him.. (incidentally this particular force have been reprimanded several times in the past for their heavy handling of other situations) ..


https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/09/term...x-police-after-mooning-speed-camera-15571065/
 
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hollydolly said:
Apparently never been in trouble with the police in his life... nicknamed a good 2 shoes all his life ..

The tesco turns out to be a little Tesco Express which is on the main road.. not in a Retail park, so he was able to stop outside on the road, while his wife quickly popped into the store, near where a Mobile speed camera van was parked... and then he mooned them

Click on this link and watch the video as he's wrestled to the ground, after the police kick his back gate in to get to him.. (incidentally this particular force have been reprimanded several times in the past for their heavy handling of other situations) ..


https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/09/term...x-police-after-mooning-speed-camera-15571065/
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Ah! It all makes sense now. It was at a Tesco! I often do my mooning at Tesco's. Well, who doesn't?
 
In the video he says when the police came to the door and asked him to come out, he refused, "Because you read all this stuff about police brutality." I guess he never made the connection between the refusing to comply with the police and the police brutality.

So the police go get back-up and return and drag him out as he has forced them to do. Then he's talking a mile a minute about all his ailments and conditions, like he thinks he's in the court room and not his back yard, but they finally get him up off the ground, more gently than I've had people drag me up when I've fallen. ( I use a cane, too.)

He tells what happened at the police station and all the talking he did there and ultimately he was only charged with public indecency (no sex offender stuff, as rumored, after all.)

Finally, Darrell's back home looking quite aggrieved and self-pitying and tell us all that he's learned "at the end of the day." I was expecting him to say, "Don't break the law" but instead it's "Be kind to each other." Thanks Darrell.
 
Verisure said:
Yes. Britain tried the American method of positioning speed cameras in the centre of shopping car parks but quickly discovered that it was infinitely more effective planting them closest the roadside where it is much more likely for motorists to actually exceed the speed limit.
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Not sure why you would suggest that Americans position speed cameras in the center of shopping car parks. To begin with, it's extremely unlikely that many US shopping center parking lots would even permit law-enforcement to erect speed cameras in their lots, which are nearly always privately owned.

Speed cameras in general are very rare in the US. There are some red light cameras but they're not terribly common either. We do have traffic monitoring cameras, but they are neither used nor intended for speed enforcement.
 
StarSong said:
Not sure why you would suggest that Americans position speed cameras in the center of shopping car parks. To begin with, it's extremely unlikely that many US shopping center parking lots would even permit law-enforcement to erect speed cameras in their lots, which are nearly always privately owned.

Speed cameras in general are very rare in the US. There are some red light cameras but they're not terribly common either. We do have traffic monitoring cameras, but they are neither used nor intended for speed enforcement.
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We on the other hand being a small Island with almost 70 million people have roads which are very narrow ( just 2 cars wide in most places outside of Motorways ) and which generally are situated between heavily populated suburban areas and tiny villages which means keeping speed at a reasonable and safe level is essential .. I once read somewhere that we in the Uk have more speed cameras than any other country and I can believe it.. it's a HUGE cash cow for the Local authorities around the whole of Great Britain.

However we do have very heavy handed speed rules in some places.. where going just 2or 3 miles over the speed limit will get you a costly ticket... and this is what this guy was protesting against.. the fact that he'd got fined on a few occasions, he felt.. unfairly for just barely going over a 30mph speed limit... .
Not saying he was right or wrong for doing it, but I can assure every non-Brit here that there are a million people in the UK who would like to do more than Moon at those Cash cow machines..and particualrly those Police speed camera Vans who set out to entrap in busy areas where traffic is likely to be heaviest with commuters.
 
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Being non-compliant or belligerent when encountering police generally doesn't go well.

Years ago my son got arrested, he thought he would impress the deputies by slipping out of the handcuffs. They were not impressed, they deemed him an escape risk and he spent four months locked down in an ad-seg cell. He was not impressed.
 
Starsong, we have speed cameras attached to nearly every traffic light in busy intersections, in my county. (It's a county thing). I've been caught more than once going ONE mile faster than I am allowed to, and had to pay a fine. If the speed limit is 30, you are allowed to go up to 40; if you get to 41, you are in trouble. People are always grumbling about it.

However, I agree about speed cameras not being placed in parking lots. I've never seen one, anyway.
 

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