ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Boumer** · 04-05-2012, 22:03

Originally Posted by mercurydancer

I still have my copy of the Judges Rules... If I had stayed on in the police I'd have retired a few years ago. I didnt stay in the police that long, just long enough to get to continuation.

Sadly, I haven't that many years in. But as I say with a slight grin in different circumstances, "It's not the years, it's the mileage".

But again, the fault must lie with those in charge, who abdicated their authority and duty to protect the public in favor of covering their own arses

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Werewolf, don't worry mate. As the saying goes you haven't seen a war fought that badly since Olaf the Hairy ordered 500 helmets with the horns on the inside. Troops on the ground getting messed around and the seniors (as we know now) apparently bottling decisions.

But then, I was told stories like we heard last year about the 1980s riots. Plus ca change?

**scalieback** · 05-05-2012, 00:27

Originally Posted by mercurydancer

Good Grief thats going back a bit - do you still have the dog eared copy of the Judges Rules in the top pocket of your tunic?

Quarter sessions m'lud.....

**Yokel** · 05-05-2012, 13:12

What about those of us being sent on Olympic security duties? Will we be trained and equipped, or will we just be easy targets?

**tankboy1** · 05-05-2012, 13:40

Mmm, have a guess.

**Boumer** · 05-05-2012, 13:48

Originally Posted by Yokel

What about those of us being sent on Olympic security duties? Will we be trained and equipped, or will we just be easy targets?

You'll have a gell-tex yellow jacket.

They solve everything don't they? Or so the bosses seem to think. And are bullet/bomb-proof.

**fu2** · 05-05-2012, 13:56

**PnGu** · 05-05-2012, 15:21

Originally Posted by Boumer

You'll have a gell-tex yellow jacket.

They solve everything don't they? Or so the bosses seem to think. And are bullet/bomb-proof.

Certainly are. They're magic things, yellow jackets... They ensure that the family get a pay out when you get run over by a blind pensioner at a crash.

Last dying words of the copper: "zip....my....jacket.........up.......please"

**Boumer** · 05-05-2012, 15:40

Originally Posted by PnGu

Certainly are. They're magic things, yellow jackets... They ensure that the family get a pay out when you get run over by a blind pensioner at a crash.

Last dying words of the copper: "zip....my....jacket.........up.......please"

To be fair, they're the reverse of those tin-foil blankets at any 'persons injured' shout.

"Sure you've been run over and there's no paramedics to come, but we're put a tin-foil blanket over you and it looks like we're doing loads to help".....

**tankboy1** · 05-05-2012, 15:42

And put my eppaulette's back on.

**The_Seagull** · 05-05-2012, 16:03

Originally Posted by tankboy1

And put my eppaulette's back on.

Or, better yet, someone else's epaulettes. It's always handy to have someone on the team that has a similar helmet number too. Those stickers come loose very easily.

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