Brickbat: Stealing My Own Stuff

In England, Surrey police arrested Vanessa Brown and held her in a cell for over seven hours on suspicion of theft after she took away her daughters' iPads to help them focus on schoolwork. She took the devices to her mother's house, where police tracked them following a report of concern for safety, treating the situation as a potential crime and even pulling one of Brown's daughters out of school for questioning. Brown described the ordeal as traumatic, criticizing the police for overreacting and treating her and her elderly mother like criminals. The next day, police confirmed the iPads belonged to Brown's daughters, dropped all charges, and lifted her bail conditions, admitting she had the right to take the devices.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

In England-

Stop right there.

[SQRLSY]

In England, the cops can actually admit that they made a mistake!

Can we PLEASE get them to teach this lesson to Dear Orange Leader, with disrespect to His Stupid Imperial Unprovoked Trade War?

[Thought about __ all my life]

always a stupid comment. IT was a mistake , a bad one. You want nothing done about that -- and you say Trump (who would never arrest a mother for taking her kids' IPADS, is worse.
YOU are ever the moron

[SQRLSY]

Speaking (writing) of stupid cumments, I see YOUR PervFected Cumment, which does SNOT refute a DAMNED thing that I wrote about the TOTAL lack of HUMILITY on the part of Our Dear Orange "leader"!!! Twat do YOU, Oh PervFected One, have to say about THAT? Tariff-taxes will REALLY make us all rich?

All that YE have, Oh PervFected One, is grade-school-yard insults!!! Vague ones at that-shit!!! "IT" is twat? Information Technology? "IT" is all One Big Giant Mistake? The same for fire and the wheel? Or even multicellular orgasms in general?

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[SQRLSY]

Give up ALL of yer decadent "IT", peons, 'cause morally-ethically Superior "Thought about __ all my life" SAID so!!! BOW LOW, peons, and ALL Hail "Thought about __ all my life"!!!!

[SQRLSY]

In England, parents can ALSO go to jail for SNOT letting their children eat any pudding, if they didn't eat their meat!

(And how CAN you have any pudding, if you don't eat your meat?!?!?)

[Idaho-Bob]

following a report of concern for safety,

The tyranny of all tyrannies.

[mad.casual]

Maybe my predilection but I read *a* report of a concern for safety rather than a *neighbor's* report or an *anonymous* report as "one of the little Ingsoc shits narced their own mother out to Big Brother".

I suppose that sort of backstabbing manipulation is more the norm between Mothers and daughters, but JFC. Pull a gun or hit me with a blunt object when my back is turned and take your iPad back you spineless twit. Don't force your cowardly malevolence on other people.

[mad.casual]

Surrey police said a search for the devices began after a man in his 40s reported the theft of two iPads to officers who attended an address in Cobham, following a report of a “concern for safety”.

OK, hit this guy with a blunt object when his back is turned.

[Think It Through]

*These aren't the iPads you are looking for*

[KiwiDude]

I assumed that was the father/ex-partner

[Winston in Wonderland]

READY!
FIRE!
AIM!

[KiwiDude]

“ where a 50-year-old woman from Cobham was questioned about the iPads and denied any knowledge of their whereabouts.

“However, a tracking device on the iPads showed that they were at the address. Officers encouraged the woman to return the items and resolve the matter, however the woman did not cooperate and therefore she was arrested on suspicion of theft. A search was then carried out using post-arrest powers and the iPads were located.”
(From linked story)
Stupid of her to lie to the police, thats usually an offence. (In Nz, its an offence for police to lie to suspects as well, so that seems fair) and thats what really got her in trouble. Why (assuming the police arent lying about that) wouldnt she say “The iPads are mine, I have suspended their use temporarily etc”?
I do agree that, according to the linked story, 2 cars to investigate, 2 cars to go to a school to talk to a child in a massive over reaction and as the mother says people are calling up about violent attacks etc and not hearing back for days.
Priorities i guess

[LIBtranslator]

In the USA, newspapers tell us, kids shoot nazi parents.