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Home | Friday 8th May 2009 | Issue 675

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CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK

For softshoe shufflin’...

Not exhausted by the weekend’s revelry Smash EDO were straight back on the day-shift with a Wednesday noise demo. Unfortunately cops weren’t quite so happy. Sussex Police very own Sgt ‘Sunshine’ Avery decided to nick someone for kicking a metal barrier – in plimsolls. Fortunately for Brighton’s most media-friendly copper (see the ‘And Finally’ film on SchMovies new DVD ‘Uncertified’ - http://www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies/), a BBC camera team were there to record the arrest for a rather pathetic ‘attempted criminal damage’.

An hour later cops released the barrier-kicker from the confines of the van having failed to find any damage inflicted on the metal and reinforced concrete.



 

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