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And Finally... Coppers Come A-Cropper

An alleged 'booby trap' in an alleged squat causes alleged injury to a couple of over-eager officers...

Not one, but two officers fell down a hole concealed beneath a rug in a raid on a Brighton squat earlier this month. Three men arrested after the raid were interviewed about the 'possibility' that their choice of rug placement over an exposed trap door constituted the offence of grievous bodily harm. The other possibility being that in their zealous pursuit of the squatters, the humming of a completely unnecessary police chopper ringing in their ears, the cops didn't look where they were going.

Given that the alleged booby trap was a 'one time' sort of deal - the alleged rug, presumably, was displaced by the first copper - one wonders how the second made the same error. Surely the second count of GBH will be thrown out of court as fast as a pig falls down a hole.

We hope there's video evidence in court.

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