Every day that goes by brings more evidence that the world is going mad and spending by public bodies is out of control. This latest story - please, someone tell me that it is nor true and that it is an April Fool story made up early by some loony in a local newspaper office! - concerns one of those blocks that makes up the foundation of modern day policing. I mean, of course.the police helicopters. This particular whirlybird was buzzing around over Yorkshire, thermal imaging camera at the ready, eager to discover crimes as they were taking place. Flying over a council estate, the sensitive instrumentation picked up heat rising from a detached garage in an area known to be occasionally populated by criminals. The message was give that they had discovered a possible cannabis factory. The logic that lead them to this conclusion is about equal to that of any householder who hears a bang out in the street and immediately assumes that a nuclear reactor has exploded. The cops turned out in force with cars, vans and trucks to make an immediate raid on the said garage. The local residents were much amazed to see the cops smashing to bits a small garage in which lived two guinea pigs. The small harmless animals were the pets of a twelve year old boy who had, thoughtfully, provided them with a small electric heater to keep them warm in the cold weather. Of cannabis there was not the least sign. How much this massive police exercise cost is anybody's guess but flying helicopters about is not cheap and the costs rise alarmingly whenever they embark on this kind of crime detection.
Mind how you go as Richard Littlejohn advises us in The Daily Mail.
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