Dispensary Corner 15 Feb 12
February 15, 2012
DOPPELGANGERS are among us?
A junior British police officer
spent 20 minutes chasing himself
recently, after a CCTV operator
mistook him for a suspect.
The incident occurred when the
plain clothed officer attended the
scene of a burglary.
Shortly after having arrived at
the crime scene, the officer was
called by the operator who
wanted to report someone acting
suspiciously.
The officer then began to track
the suspect, following the
operators instructions, with the
operator insisting that he was
“hot on the heels” of the criminal.
It was not until the officer
walked into the control room that
the mistake was realised.
A HEADACHE and a fine.
Residents were nursing more
than headaches on New Year’s
Day in St Mary’s Island, Sicily,
after they found they had been
given parking fines.
According to reports, residents,
a little worse for wear after a big
night of celebrations, stumbled
out of their respective New Year’s
haunts to find they had been
given fixed penalty notices.
The fines did not sit well with
the bleary-eyed bunch, who
labeled the police force as
draconian and begun to lodge
complaints.
It was soon after the complaints
began to roll in that the police
realised the fines were not the
work of the officers, and were in
fact the work of a prankster who
had dressed as a traffic warden.
“We were a little confused as
there was no one on duty on New
Year’s Day,” a police statement said.
“Using our honed investigation
skills, we think we have realised
what has happened.
“If you received one of the
above tickets from the fancy
dress Isles of Sicily Parking
Warden, they are not real and
nothing to do with us!,” the
statement added.
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