Dispensary Corner 09 Dec 10
December 9, 2010
AS if emergency services in icy,
snowbound Britain don’t have
enough to deal with already, a
woman has dialled the police
hotline to report the theft of a
snowman from outside the front
of her house.
The caller, from the village of
Chatham in Kent, has been
labelled as “completely
irresponsible” by police officers,
who released a transcript of the
woman’s call.
“There’s been a theft from
outside myhouse,” she told the
gobsmacked operator.
“I haven’t been out to check on
him for five hours but I went
outside for a fag and he’s gone,”
she said.
When the operator asks for
further details of the supposed
kidnapping, the woman explains
that she’s talking about a
snowman she had made herself,
adding “I thought that with it
being icy and there not being
anybody about, he’d be safe”.
CLEARLY hippies celebrate
Christmas too, according to
German police who have
discovered that a two-metre high
Christmas tree in a home in the
western city of Koblenz was in fact
a cannabis plant.
Officers said the plant was
being held up in a Christmas tree
holder and was even decorated
with fairy lights, with the owner
saying he planned to put all his
presents beneath the “tree”.
AND while we’re on the topic of
the festive season, retailers in the
UK are being forced to demand
proof of age from shoppers who
want to buy Christmas crackers.
Under new health and safety
regulations, the festive table
decorations have been classified
as “category 1 fireworks,”
meaning they can only be sold to
people aged 16 years and above -
with fines of up to £5000.
The British Retail Consortium
slammed the “daft” legislation,
saying “it’s the health and safety
rules which have gone crackers,
and not retailers themselves”.
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