Comments on: Party Police: English Police Storm Small Birthday Party in Body Armor and Protected with a Helicopter

By: pardon me?

pardon me? — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:09:25 +0000

Memorable 30th, though not a wang dang doodle good time.

By: hidflect

hidflect — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:30:59 +0000

Guliani’s fascist “Zero Tolerance Policy” at work. I can imagine the official crime rate in Germany was never so low as it was in 1939.

You ‘ave the right to do wha’ I tell you…

By: GWLawSchoolMom

GWLawSchoolMom — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:20:12 +0000

all night parties used to be called slumber parties and while a few I attended did get out of hand the most damage ever done was a TP-ing of a house in the neighborhood. I guess the british police force are really concerned that 17 people might decide to TP someone’s house. like the prime minister’s.

By: Dredd

Dredd — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:30 +0000

Who says the police do not listen to the Powell doctrine?

By: One More Reason To Be Suspicious of Facebook | Popehat

One More Reason To Be Suspicious of Facebook | Popehat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:31:35 +0000

[...] even the foul mouse’s parties can usually be broken up by one or two cops, tops. In England, they needed a “riot van”, four police cars, and a helicopter to break up a bloke’s 30th birthday party. The cops claim that they were concerned because of how it had [...]

By: Jericho

Jericho — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:19:48 +0000

The force must be bored…

By: Dave von Ebers

Dave von Ebers — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:01:14 +0000

Years ago, I would have said that this is the problem with not having a written constitution, the British approach being, essentially, “yes we believe in constitutional liberties but don’t ask us to put it in writing.” But these days, I’d expect to see the same thing in the U.S., the Fourth Amendment be damned.

Makes me want to dust of those old Clash records from the late 70’s and put ‘em on the hi-fi.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:33:01 +0000

A.Y.

Agreed. Police are searching through Facebook. Is having an all night party illegal? They should bring down children’s PJ parties immediately!!!

Police in the UK and the US are, IMO, doing dry runs in case either govt. wants to declare martial law. The more we acquiesce to these out of control police state actions, the more confident they will become that the public will not resist.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:18:07 +0000

Party down big bobby. So exactly how did this come to the attention of the authorities?

After rereading the article I still have the same question.

By: AF

AF — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:17:49 +0000

The UK police are currently suffering from a particularly rabid form of paranoia at the moment. This irrational fear and “over-kill”, of course, doesn’t extend to doing anything significant about young hoodlums running riot, setting fire to cars, terrorising elderly and other residents and stabbing and beating up ordinary people, or even to dealing quickly with burglars until they can be darned sure the culprits have left the premises and it’s safe to enter.

However, for all our sakes, let’s hope a cure for the mental instability of the police will be found in the near future, although the National Health Service is pretty sick itself, so who knows?