You’re never more than a few feet away from a rat......

[silverclaws]

Well, it's a mentality that goes back a long way, people you don't like outside your castle turf something down on them. I guess coppers aren't liked.

 

[highlandsflyer]

I do remember a fridge landing on top of a cop car outside the flats at cantril farm estate in Liverpool and I must admit it was funny, cops were in the flats at the time. Cantril farm was so bad it got renamed to stockbridge village, it didn't change much.

I can't see how that could be funny.

 

[cyfa2809]

Funny irony?

All sounds pretty nuts though. Not a situation i would like to be in. Some people.

 

[silverclaws]

If my memory serves me well, coppers were not very friendly when I was a kid, and no I wasn't a scally, but one's experiences create impressions, harassment by the police for doing nothing more than being out with one's pals on bikes was a regular occurrence, so when they came unstuck, everyone was happy, it made a change from the usual.

 

[cyfa2809]

If my memory serves me well, coppers were not very friendly when I was a kid, and no I wasn't a scally, but one's experiences create impressions, harassment by the police for doing nothing more than being out with one's pals on bikes was a regular occurrence, so when they came unstuck, everyone was happy, it made a change from the usual.

I thought it was quite the opposite (have no knowledge of before my time (not long ago)).

I thought it was a few era's of repsect and it is 'my generation' that lacks this?

 

[silverclaws]

It depends on the area, the area I lived in when I was a kid was the Liverpool area, where I started to range out in the late seventies and early eighties, cycling. Liverpool was a place with problems, mass unemployment which culminated in the Toxteth riots, the police were identified as being contributory to what came about, their attitude towards people plainly sucked.

But if you wish to get a grip of what it was like there at the time , may I recommend a most excellent series of plays by Alan Bleasdale, ''Boys from the black stuff''

http://youtu.be/PqcKhXKkrMI Retro alert !

My employment there, was the same as is faced by school leavers now, no jobs and no prospects, grab anything, do anything and get paid peanuts because there was always someone else who would have your job, so it was YOP schemes, YTS schemes, schemes that promised much but went nowhere. I finally quit Liverpool in '89, joined the military and moved away.

 

[Charlieboy28]

It depends on the area, the area I lived in when I was a kid was the Liverpool area, where I started to range out in the late seventies and early eighties, cycling. Liverpool was a place with problems, mass unemployment which culminated in the Toxteth riots, the police were identified as being contributory to what came about, their attitude towards people plainly sucked.

But if you wish to get a grip of what it was like there at the time , may I recommend a most excellent series of plays by Alan Bleasdale, ''Boys from the black stuff''

http://youtu.be/PqcKhXKkrMI Retro alert !

My employment there, was the same as is faced by school leavers now, no jobs and no prospects, grab anything, do anything and get paid peanuts because there was always someone else who would have your job, so it was YOP schemes, YTS schemes, schemes that promised much but went nowhere. I finally quit Liverpool in '89, joined the military and moved away.

I think cops have mellowed a bit too, i remember at around age 10 spitting newcastle coals sweets onto cars ( they were all the rage at the time, little sour fizzy things) with a few of me mates from a flyover type bridge, police come while my mates were off round a corner and grabbed me while i was completely engrossed in launching another volley. coppa picked me up by a handful of top under my chin, lifted me off the ground and held me over the bridge, his exact words were, "tell me where you friends are or im gonna Fk you off this bridge" they dont tend to do that kind of things these days thankfully

 

[yagamuffin]

I think cops have mellowed a bit too, i remember at around age 10 spitting newcastle coals sweets onto cars ( they were all the rage at the time, little sour fizzy things) with a few of me mates from a flyover type bridge, police come while my mates were off round a corner and grabbed me while i was completely engrossed in launching another volley. coppa picked me up by a handful of top under my chin, lifted me off the ground and held me over the bridge, his exact words were, "tell me where you friends are or im gonna f**k you off this bridge" they dont tend to do that kind of things these days thankfully

or sadly, depending on your viewpoint

 

[Tazio]

Years ago when I was still at school a bunch of guys from my school managed to steal a dodgem car from the shows (funfair to the english) get it on top of nearby 8 floor high flats and chuck it over.

Must have been a hell of an effort so fair play to them.

 

[silverclaws]

The mind boggles as to why ?


But Liverpool when I was younger there were three flats fairly close to each other and the cops were trying to catch a lunatic motorcyclist who was using the flat roofs to jump between the flats on his scrambler.