What was going on?

[10ClarionSt]

I live in Middleton, Manchester. On Fri, about 1 p.m., a VW Golf came tearing into our street. He must have been doing 50 mph. He was followed by an unmarked police car, sirens blaring. But we live in a cul-de-sac, so I thought that was that. Got 'em! But the guys in the Golf must know the score with these things. When they got to the top of the street, they stayed in the car. The police piled out and started battering the Golf with baseball bats. Big lads too. But they couldn't break the windows. Not a one. The Golf just did a 3 point turn and raced off down the pavement, out of the street, while the cops were still getting in their car. I haven't heard or seen anything on the news, so I don't know what it was all about. What amazed me was the way the Golf withstood the pounding from the baseball bats. Are they made that way now or would it have been fitted with toughened glass?

[Doc.Spock.1]

Must be the vorsprung durk technic thingy..

[Ethel]

Never heard of police wielding baseball bats.

Maybe there's cuts in the police budget in Manchester

[puss_boots]

It must be the latest craze. Same thing happened outside our house on Thursday night 3 men in car followed by 2 police cars sirens and flashing lights but the police got the men and bundled them into a van. We also live on a lane which is a dead end.

[Eve]

You could try searching the news archives for the MEN and Granada news/BBC Manchester.

Trouble is, I've seen loads of things round Manchester but you never get to know what happened half the time as there is other stuff being reported.

I have to say it does worry me that some of the stuff is not reported on the news, sad sign of the times.

[legendis.god]

i suspect alan handsome was in the volkswagen and the police were trying to arrest him for an alleged crime.

but thankfully he made a hasty retreat


did that help ?�

[sir.prize]

Maybe just another rumour, eh 10clarin?