Brickbat: Wrong Number

Police in Nottingham, England, knocked down the door to Robert Kerr's house and caused $793 in damage because the GPS on a stolen iPhone indicated that was the address the thief had taken it to. They eventually realized they had the wrong house. But police refused to pay for the damage to the house because they "reasonably believed" the person who took the phone was in the building.

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[db]

The prblem here is that people let a few rotten teeth besmirch the good name of an entire institution.

[Rich]

"Reasonably believed".... Yeah, that's the ticket!

[Cyto]

Yeah.... He "reasonably believed" that he could safely drive that night. But the road was icy and his car slid into a parked car. Does that mean that he doesn't have to pay for the damages?

[sarcasmic]

"Fuck you, that's why."

[db]

"Bugger off, that's why."

[Karl Hungus]

I believe the correct wording in this situation would be, "sod off, you right foul git," though that is certainly subject to slight regional variations.

[Apatheist ?_??]

What does the S in his name stand for?

Sod off.

Well, I guess it's none of my business really.

[sarcasmic]

"Bollocks!"

[Appalachian Australian]

Elsewhere in England, Her Majesty's loyal government must have decided Kelo was such a good idea that they should seize old ladies' homes, demolish them, and then leave an undeveloped brownfield behind: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17255852

She insists she was never against regeneration but that - if their house was to be flattened - they should get a like-for-like replacement.

Instead, she says she was offered an equity loan of 35,000 to bridge the gap between the price they would get for their home and the cost of a new-build.

"I used to say 'I'm 65, we worked hard to pay off our mortgage, why do I want a 35,000 loan?' - I didn't want to leave that for my kids," says Mrs Walsh.

[Appalachian Australian]

Took a great deal of machinations to post that, including not using <em> tags, not using an <a> hyperlink, and removing pound signs.

[RFID]

They offered her a 35000 pound loan? She gets her house torn down and then gets the privilege of paying the government money to build a new house?

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