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| Friday 7th March
2008 | Issue 623
...AND FINALLY...Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside... Five unnamed cops from Gwent police have been found guilty of using patrol cars to take day trips to the coast whilst on duty. Dubbed the “Seaside five”, they were competing to see who could travel the furthest from Blackwood police station in South Wales without being rumbled. The self-styled ‘thin blue shoreline’ felt so untouchable they actually used their phone cameras to then record the results of their away-day jaunts to the likes of Barry Island and Porthcawl. The intrepid sightseers only came a cropper when they crossed the river Severn, after a punctured tyre brought them grinding to a halt on their way to Weston-super-Mare. Although they told local rozzers who tried to help that they were on an ‘official operation’, their own senior officers later confiscated their phones only to find photos of the filth munching ice cream and frolicking on the beach at various seaside landmarks. They had even snapped themselves riding the log flume at Barry Island Pleasure Grounds! A Gwent Police spokesman described them as ‘grotesquely stupid’ (although we’d push that label a bit further than merely applying to those five). Two have resigned, and two others were fined thirteen days’ pay each but remain on the force. The other one had already resigned over abusing a member of the public. Who watches the Baywatchmen? (Us, presumably when they start posting their exploits on YouTube).
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