Musings from the Merse
Monday, June 23, 2008
Watch Your Step
We are awaiting with bated breath to see if the Borders Council are going to use their powers, delegated under the anti terrorism legislation to deal with serious crime in the area;as seems to be happening in some English local authorities. In our case it is believed that Fishwick Special Branch will be empowered to be the cutting age of the campaign against the dangerous scoff-laws who besmirch our proud reputation of being a very low crime region. To date there have been no reports of unmarked police cars stalking dog walkers and using high power digital cameras to collect evidence of unscooping the poop, as it were. Nor has anyone yet been held for putting the wrong kind of recycling in the white and purple bags-I have yet to check my wheelie bin for recording devices but with the advanced and miniaturised technology now in use they might be quite hard to spot.
If anyone suddenly is out of circulation for (perhaps soon to be) 42 days we will know that some thing is afoot-or in the case of dog pooh, underfoot.
Comments:
Not entirely. Fishwick Special Branch use BT vans based on the Paxton Exchange The darkened van was from an aggressive firm of undertakers : Wantabox.com-touting for custom in the old cemetry area.They went away when I explained they were all dead already.
You should be thankful for dog walkers.
Dog walkers and dogs are the most reliable and inexpensive security resource in society. With their daily presence in our parks and on our nature trails, they are the eyes and ears of the community, frequently the first to discover crime and consistently a deterrent to it. We should be encouraging the presence of dog walkers and their dogs rather than implementing public policies that restrict and prohibit them.
Good Dog !!
Dog walkers and dogs are the most reliable and inexpensive security resource in society. With their daily presence in our parks and on our nature trails, they are the eyes and ears of the community, frequently the first to discover crime and consistently a deterrent to it. We should be encouraging the presence of dog walkers and their dogs rather than implementing public policies that restrict and prohibit them.
Good Dog !!
Ah! But what is a lone dog walker without a dog. They do not become merely a walker but are perceived as suspicious or at best odd. So a dog is a perfect disguise for someone up to no good. Now, if they had two or more dogs then they are obviously a pillar of society :)
I worry not about the owner-just the poo. Good Dogs should clean up after them. And so should the owners. Otherwise FSB is on the case.
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