The case of the missing pyjamas

Hurrah! It’s the weekend. I have actually already written the first part of today’s blog post. Infact everything so far was written last night whilst listening to Alexi Murdoch, The Mystery Jets and Paramore. I wanted to write a post yesterday, but figured I would appear little too keen to post two stories on the first day of re-commencing my blogging career.

Yesterday at work whilst trying to make the time pass, Penny and I got discussing all the cases that we read in our day-to-day business and how many are a total and utter waste of police time and tax payer’s money. At which point Luke in the corner pipes up with a classic… “I know we’ve all been 18 or 19 at some point in our lives, but has it ever struck you at such age to steal pyjamas off a washing line?”…err – I think the answer to that can safely be answered with a “no”.

So then he asks “if you were a lad, why would you want to steal pink pyjamas in the middle of February?”…presumably said thief was a little cold while jumping over the fences and maybe needed an extra layer of insulation?? (If you want to propose a reasonable response to this question, please add it to the “comments” box which can be found at the bottom of this page).

You’re probably wondering where I’m going with this. Well, it all ties in with the cases that waste police time. It’s annoying when you read some files and the police don’t seem to be too bothered about finding the perpetrators to a crime and it get’s NFA’ed (No Further Action) and archived where it will sit gathering dust for a few years. However, this was not to be for the saga of the stolen pink pyjamas. Take a guess at how many days you think a police officer would want to chase down the culprit to such a crime?! 7, maybe 10 at a push?

Try one hundred and twenty. Yes…some saddo in Cambridgeshire Constabulary spent four whole months hunting down a thief sporting pink PJ bottoms! You’d have thought any dissemination around the force of such a description would have made him easily identifiable from the rest of the thieving cretins out there! I suppose this is just another example at how far some officers are willing to go to meet their Home Office targets. Anyways, I left before I found of whether he was ever caught if so, was he wearing the pyjamas?! Had he sold them on to fund his habit? Or were they safely returned to their rightful owner?!

The saga continues on Monday… Don’t know about you, but I can’t wait!