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CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK

For being a potential kerb scrawler...

Police wrote a new chapter in idiocy at around 9.30 last Friday morning. A 16-year old from Kent was stopped and searched near Soho Square, London. Upon finding two pens on him he was promptly arrested for being “equipped to commit criminal damage”.

After being in the cells for nine hours he was released - suffering only from having been fed dodgy green potatoes and beans. Our hero told SchNEWS, “I think they arrested me to try and deter me, if anything it’s made me more likely to organise.

School kids, teachers, accountants and everyone else carrying writing materials beware: the cops have lost the plot and are making up the script as they go along...



 

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