Oh No, The Police Are Knocking On The Door Of Every House On The Street!

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They haven't asked on our side of the road yet but they're wearing scary rubber gloves and stuff.

Emsk reckons they're CSI's - CRIME SCENE INFESTATION!!!

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Eeep! Keep us updated!

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, they are hanging out in a white rent-a-van - how official can they be? One of them keeps stamping his feet like he's got CRIMEGOO on his boots.

Brixton sure is a fun place to hang out after hours.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

For fuck's sake, hide the hobo corpses!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

People have been letting them in quite happily, so who knows...

WOW!!! Now there are proper police with hats and flak jackets as well. It's the blue gloves that are really bothering us. What if it's a biohazard of some kind?

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they going door to door dismantling weapons grade burritos?

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

This is Brixton. More like weapons grade Camberwell Carrots.

Last week, they dismantled a PRIATE RADIO STATION in Streatham Hill. That wasn't very nice of them.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If you see people wearing those all-over biohazard suits with respirators and everything, I'd start to worry.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Just creepy blue gloves. and the boot-knocking.

They can't seem to get into the last house on the block. Maybe someone died in it!

Wonder why they haven't knocked on the doors of any houses on this side of the street!

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, there are now FOUR of them (two without gloves, even) and one of them has a TROWEL and the other went off down the street with two of those MASSIVE FUCKOFF TORCHES like they use on CSI and the X Files.

What *is* going on?

Everyone is hanging out of their windows staring at them. Emsk waved, but I told her not to or they'd come and raid us! Honest, we have nothing but claret up here!

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

one of them has a TROWEL

ARCHAEOLOGY POLICE!

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It really is starting to look like it!

I honestly think someone has died in one of the houses, or else they are digging up the gardens or something. It's very odd.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A trowel does suggest digging up a garden - but why, in that case, would they need to go in every house?

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

surprise them by meeting them at the door wearing nothing but cling wrap

that'll put a smile on their faces and brighten up their day

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe there's a terrible smell and they've got to dig up every garden to figure out where the corpse is burried...

Who knows. they're all hanging out by the rent-a-van now.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, you missed all the excitement while ILX was poxy fuling.

The police walked down the street with a LARGE PLASTIC BAG then about half an hour later, walked back, holding up said plastic bag with SOME STRANGE OBJECT in it (might have been a small knife or a large slug, couldn't really see). They all stood around their van for a while and looked at it, then drove off.

Excitement over.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

They all stood around their van for a while and looked at it

Was it a particularly interesting-looking van?

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it was a National Rent A Car van. More like a people carrier than a White Van.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, duh, I am dumb. They were looking at the EVIDENCE in the plastic van, natch, not the van.

That was well worth missing CSI:NY for. More exciting, too.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The police have to rent vans?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In Brixton they do. Damn Lambeth cuts.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever you do at this point, I'd follow kingfish's lead and makes sure that it is inspired by Playboy featurettes from the 1960s.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sure that I will read about this in the Lambeth Guardian next week. Or more likely the South London Post, as they get more excited about crime in Lambeth and how Brixton is BAD, while the Lambeth Guardian just writes about feel good stuff like gardening competitions and openings of new parking meters and stuff.

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You often see police in rented vehicles.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Not up here you don't. Or maybe I only notice them when they are in vans that say "Police" on them rather than "Cheapskate Rent-a-Van"

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What makes you think the Met Gardening Division doesn't have its own fleet of unmarked vehicles?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no! Unliscenced dahlias!

Improper use of colour in a herbacious border!

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Ailsa, I probably wouldn't notice a bunch of cops if they were in a random hired white van.

(the police's own vans around here are pretty decrepit and battered. Especially the Dog Section's vans, which I often see parked outside the local Chinese takeaway picking up their order)

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 1 May 2005 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

are you sure they're picking up and not delivering?

― emsk, Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Meow!

Oops, I mean, sorry - WOOF!

― Lapdog Shoesnog (kate), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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