We have all heard and seen the stories which surface on the internet about the individuals who buy blue lights off of eBay and fit them to their cars. Some people do it because they want to dart through rush-hour traffic without realising that the men and women who staff the speed camera enforcement office’s will still send a Notice
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You have got to be pretty ballsy to turn up to court in a stolen car, but that is precisely what a couple in South Australia did recently. A post that was shared on the South Australia Police Facebook page said: “A man and woman were arrested after turning up for court in a stolen car at Christies Beach yesterday.
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Police work can sometimes be mildly ‘entertaining’ as well as dangerous. We got wind of a story involving a female police officer who found a male who was ‘fornicating’ with a pumpkin in the middle of the night (USA). The following day, the male was charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, public indecency and public intoxication. In Court, the seedy
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Did you know that some ‘land sharks’ (police dogs) are so highly trained, that they can create social media posts giving details of some of the jobs which they deal with? The details below were ‘written’ by PD ‘Lars’ who is based with the Brevard County Sheriffs Office. K-9 Lars was inspired to put paw-to-keyboard after one particular job, where
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If, like me, you are an animal lover, then do not worry, as this story has a happy (albeit soggy) ending. When a cat managed to ascend 80ft up a tree, onlookers became worried for its welfare and so asked the emergency services for their help. As no other major incidents were happening at the time, local Firefighters made their
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For many people, its the stuff of dreams; you are driving along the motorway (or freeway), and an armoured car in front of you starts to haemorrhage cash out of a door that had been left open. The $50 and $100 bills pour out of the armoured truck and onto the road. You see thousands of dollars fly off with
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How many times have you seen a video on social media where protestors are filmed as they block an emergency vehicle, rather than letting one through? We’ve lost count of just how many of these videos we have seen where protestors believe that their ‘right’ to stop the emergency services on the road is more important than someone’s life. But
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When you are in a situation where you need to call for an ambulance, then you might have thought that the last thing on your mind would be the fine art of ‘self-pleasure’. But in this case at least, clearly not. A lady had called for an emergency ambulance because she had fallen over at home. Because of this fall,
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Regardless of which part of the emergency services they fly for, helicopter rescue pilots are renowned throughout the world for their fearless acts of incredible airmanship. The video below is just one example of such airmanship. We spotted the footage during our ‘weekly rounds’ where we attempt to try and find material which we think will either make you laugh
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Here is some pretty spectacular footage from our oppos in Australia of the moment a meteorite was caught on CCTV burning up in the atmosphere behind a HEMs chopper. The footage was recorded by a camera that was positioned next to the helipad of the South Adelaide Hospital. You can clearly see the object burn up in a ball of
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