You guys really do live in a police state don't you? How can the police decide to arrest somebody for theft when the "victim" hasn't complained? How come the police officer still has a job? How come the cashier still has a job?

The fact is that the neither the police officer, the assistant principal or the cashier bothered to check with the "victim" if they had a problem. And the only reason I can see for that is that those adults are comfortable with the idea that they live in a police state where you handcuff first and arrest later.

I can't believe that in any other country armed police would be used to enforce this law. In the free world a couple of local government health and safety inpectors would have called armed with nothing more than a clipboard.

If you need a definition of the term "police state" look no further than a country that uses armed police to enforce food retail statutes.

Who cares if it's fake or not?

365bhp is lame.

Oh dear. Why were there so many people back then, particularly in the USA, who felt that the one thing that would improve the motorcycle would be to add bodywork like a car.

Want a car? Get a car. They do being a car so much better than a motorcycle does. On the other hand bodywork like this adds so many disadvantages to a motorcycle it's pointless.

Yes, it's very pretty as a museum or even art gallery exhibit, but a mode of transport it is not.

The parish where I live is adjacent to a parish which used to be called Shitlington. Their solution to the problem of embarrassing nomenclature? To remove the H from the name. Probably a lot easier than having huge stone signs installed.

@Vonskippy

I can only assume "backhander" means something different to you than to me. To me is means either a bribe or a blow using the back of the hand, effectively a reverse slap. I can't see how either of those could work in the context of this story.

This is an old, old, old joke.

Back in the seventies I got a birthday card which ran: "I asked the Great Weevil what to get you for your birthday and he told me to buy a sports car. Then I asked the Little Weevil and he told me to buy a card. Naturally I chose the lesser of the two Weevils."

It wasn't funny or original then. It certainly isn't now.

Nothing new here. A friend of mine built a Millenium Falcon bass nearly thirty years ago.