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[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2314808/Police-feed-teenage-yobs-KFC-meals-refuse-come-roof-days.html

So, it seems that times have changed.
Can you just imagine this scenario in the 50's?

"Officer, Cod and chips with mushy peas twice , mate, salt and vinegar, but easy on the salt"

[anneasquith]

KFC...........waste of money. let them starve, they'd soon come down .

[Sharingan]

I'd have personally starved them down too, but they obviously need feeding when they are apprehended so it might be normal practice there to feed take aways to prisoners if they have no food making facilities in the police station.

[anneasquith]

shar, they were on the roof, not apprehended/

[FredPuli43]

Well, it worked didn't it? :) The KFC may have been fresh out of apple pies, so the psychological effect on them may have been devastating, though if they'd asked for several large bargain buckets I'd have been a bit worried.

Circumstances alter cases, so it may have been the easiest and best course.

[anotheoldgit]

You are not actually saying "it never happened in my day" are you Sqad, if so it will be interesting to see if the usual suspects can find proof in their history books that it did. :0)

[jim360]

I don't think it will have happened "in your day".

I wouldn't be too surprised, though, if had the police left them up there indefinitely until they starved, it would have been a breach of some Human right or other - to food, perhaps (if you can call KFC food). The police would have come under criticism that way, too.

Catch-22 for the police force, perhaps? I have every sympathy for them, and very little for the clods on the roof.

[anotheoldgit]

Makes one wonder if it had been a person with weapons, held up in a building, and surrounded by armed police, they would still send him in some food when he became hungry.

[tonyav]

I think that the police should have helped them down, maybe with a police helicopter I'm sure the down draft would have helped those on the roof with a pretty speedy desent !

[boxtops]

Ridiculous, but it's not the first time I've heard this, police feeding people taking root on roofs. I'm surprised they don't offer them a slop bucket up there too - it must be some contravention of human rights to be forced to pee down a chimney :-(

[jake-the-peg]

Sounds like the outcome justifies the police's handling

The police built a rapport with them, they came down - nobody was hurt

You'd rather have antagonised them and had them start ripping up roof slates and hurling them around the place?

Sounds to me like the police know what they're doing

[Baldric]

Tony, what's wrong with a good old-fashioned Fire Hose?

[lady-janine]

imo feeding them kfc is the equivalent to torture. wot about their human (?) rights?

[tonyav]

Ah yes, thanks for reminding me Baldric, I had forgotten about the good old fashioned fire hose.

[Baldric]

///You'd rather have antagonised them and had them start ripping up roof slates and hurling them around the place? ///

Bit late for that imo JTP

///Danger zone: Police were forced to wear hard hats and shields after being pelted with slates, stones and glass///

[jake-the-peg]

And they built a rapport up with them and they stopped and they came down

Perhaps you'd have preferred the police to shoot them?

Hey then they could have used water cannon in the resultant riot and we could have spent six months and millions of pounds in a public enquiry

[Booldawg]

'Perhaps you'd have preferred the police to shoot them?'

Ed - can you set up a poll please.

[jno]

obvuiously trying to fatten them up until they fell through the roof, but they came down early.

[ichkeria]

Threatened with having to eat a KFC "meal" I'd have come down from the roof immediately and gone quietly ...

[237SJ]

Down the road from here (Richmond) it would have been "Warm goats cheese salad and a bottle of San Pellagrino, easy on the lemon please".
It`s the duty of care rules, the police have to do it.

[emmie]

perhaps they could have surrounded the place with something soft to land on, then hosed them off the roof, no one gets hurts, except they get a bit wet.