Police Take Flowers From Girls, For Mothers Day....

[trt]

Should the policewoman just have given the Father a warning, and let the girls keep the flowers,
or should the Father have bought flowers from a florist, in the first place?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4352570/Angry-father-films-police-officer-confiscating-daffodils.html?offset=1325&max=100&jumpTo=comment-191791122#comment-191791122

[murraymints]

the deed was done...spilt milk and all that...ticking off would have been enough for them not to do it again..kids probably did not know they had done wrong.....now they do..dad was to blame..nothing to gain from upsetting kids though because he was a tool !

[B00]

But it's like claiming a mugger has the right to keep your stuff as they now have them and the "deed was done"

[murraymints]

not quite the same boo...I remember picking daffs when out in country having picnics as a wee girl..never for one minute thought it wrong...was common practice with kids on such days..might still be ..

[anotheoldgit]

Can't understand why the faces of those two little girls were not pixelated out, imagine the flack they will get from their school friends?

[Islay]

I would imagine the bampot of a father gave permission for his children's faces to be shown as a way to show how upset they are at this big bad policewoman ruining their day!

[-Talbot-]

B00 What an utter spoon this guy is!

No wonder his wife/gf didn't get out of the car, she was probably trying to hide from her cretin of a partner.




That's not the reason his wife didn't get out the car B00. (happy birthday)

[B00]

Talbot- "That's not the reason his wife didn't get out the car B00. (happy birthday) "

not following, are you suggesting she was sat on a shedload more daffs? LOL

And ta chuck xxx

[-Talbot-]

The inner Sherlock in me tells me it was his dad sat in the front seat.
(don't eat too much cake)

[andy-hughes]

Looking at this from a calm perspective -

This dad is embarrassed because he has done wrong without realising it, so he over-reacts as a consequence.

Human nature dictates that we don't want to be in the wrong, so if we can make someone else in the wrong, it deflects the responsibility for being responsible for the conflict, and that is what this man has done here.

The correct response is - my apologies officer, I didn't realise this was an offence, I understand that you need to take the flowers, and I will explain to my children that I have made a mistake, it is not their fault and they are not in trouble with you, and neither am I.

His incorrect reaction - although understandable for reasons explained - is to make the officer the villain, and to underline his sense of self-righteousness (deflection of blame again) by insulting and demeaning her - "I pay your wages, and you should be catching criminals ..." - the standard 'defence'.

As the officer points out, she also pays taxes, possible more than he does, and what she didn't point out, but could have done, is that she had caught a criminal - him!

The notion that whatever offence you are being spoken to about is not as serious as a rape or a murder is no defence whatsoever. The police don't ignore one offence they can see because other more serious offenses outside their sight are going on - that is fatuous as an argument.

The man behaved badly by blowing everything up into a major row, and filming his children for his own self-justification, instead of talking to them calmly about what had happened, and why.

You can never stop people making fools of themselves, and because everyone is a Martin Scorsese with cameras on phones, they can make fools of themselves to millions of strangers, who will scoff at them, like I am doing now.

[-Talbot-]

Looking at this from a calm perspective -




What as opposed to all the hysterical answers from the other ABers?

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - Just because I am advising that I am looking at the situation from a calm perspective does not infer, much less state, than no-one else is not doing the same.

You really must lose this habit of seeing things that are not there, and then arguing about them - it's tedious and it takes the thread off-track.

[-Talbot-]

Well everyone else was looking at it from a calm perspective. I didn't see the point in you telling us us you were 'Looking at this from a calm perspective'

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - I really don't need you to adjudicate my posts, thanks, let's stick to the thread shall we.

[aelmpvw]

The fact that he got someone to start filming tells me he thinks he's going to get one over the police. He's oblivious to the fact that he's an idiot.

[andy-hughes]

ael - I think he was filming himself.

It is the bastion of the self-righteous, to try and tell the world that they are a victim, when in fact, it's the police officer who emerges with her dignity intact, which was obviously not what he intended.

[aelmpvw]

that's why i described him as an idiot :-)

[-Talbot-]

aelmpvw, he filmed it himself.

[aelmpvw]

i see my mistake in thinking he got someone else to film it but it don't see the relevance?

[Baldric]

The Dad was in the wrong encouraging his Children to steal.

The Police Officer was in the right, well done her.

If he hadn't been so 'tight' it would never have happened.

[Smowball]

Think the point is that yet kids like picking flowers of course, but if everyone went around picking 27 daffodils there would be none left! Still think on this occasion seeing as they'd already been picked she should have let the girls keep them - they went to an old people home in the end anyway so the girls could have taken them home.