This is weird - just heard today about two mates who both had (separate) overly thorough searches on Lewes Road in Brighton. Thought it's worth posting to see if anyone else had the same experience or has a view on the leaglity of the searches. Seems to go beyond the normal definition of a stop and search.
One guy was pulled walking along the street with a bag of artwork. The cops told him he was detained on suspicion of burglary, then searched him completel - more thoroughly than he had ever been searched before over the years is what he said. They took his fone off him, demanded the number then phoned it in to the station to check if it belonged to him (?) They went through the bag and then let him go, with no record supplied.
Another friend was cycling along with a frame over his shoulder. The cops in a car clocked him, then pulled up in front and said they were detaining him. They said he had nicked both bikes. He explained he works at a bike repair workshop. They then searched him for drugs (?) One cop said now I'm going to touch your penis (?) and then had a good grope, repeatedly. Then he felt all around his arse (?) They then let him go, with no record supplied.
Seems like both cases step beyond the normal level of harrassment...
Conclusion?
Makes me think the best policy is to run like fuck if a copper wants to talk to you on Lewes Road, unless you enjoy being sexually harrassed by someone in uniform!
Another friend was cycling along with a frame over his shoulder. The cops in a car clocked him, then pulled up in front and said they were detaining him. They said he had nicked both bikes. He explained he works at a bike repair workshop. They then searched him for drugs (?) One cop said now I'm going to touch your penis (?) and then had a good grope, repeatedly. Then he felt all around his arse (?) They then let him go, with no record supplied.
Seems like both cases step beyond the normal level of harrassment...
Conclusion?
Makes me think the best policy is to run like fuck if a copper wants to talk to you on Lewes Road, unless you enjoy being sexually harrassed by someone in uniform!
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TSA
13.05.2012 10:06
This story could have uncovered something quite important. In the USA, at airports, football games and now on the side of regular highways, the TSA has mandatory checkpoints which give you two options. To walk through naked body scanners, scattering radiation all through you're body (also it's on record that first the TSA denied the capability to save the naked images of people, it later came out it was regular protocol ha!)
and if you don't wish to be radiated and visually raped, you're subjected to 'an enhanced pat down'. Basically sounds like what's described in the stop and searches. Countless people have filed lawsuits, said that the person doing the search seemed to be getting some enjoyment out of it.
THIS IS COMPLETELY ILLEGAL. Not that law means much as slavery was once legal, BUT
I said this article may have uncovered something, as I read that the TSA are coming to the UK for the olympics, we'll probably even get our own version.
FILMING THE ENCOUNTER IS ALSO GOOD IDEA. Pretty sure if you had the dollaz you could have had a nice bit of money for yourself from that little encounter if you'd took it to court, it's sexual assault.
Don't let guys like this touch you up (unless you like that sorta thing!)
toilet security agency
Bogus police?
13.05.2012 13:01
anon