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50 police swoop on 1 boy, 12, for taking £10 note hanging out of ATM
More than 50 police officers swarmed on a 12-year-old boy accused of stealing a £10 note which was hanging out of a cashpoint (ATM).
The army of officers was called after a row broke out when a woman, 27, accused Pascoe Petgrave of stealing the tenner from an HSBC bank machine in Thornton Heath, south London.
Pascoe, who stands at just 4ft 7in, said he had been given his mother's bank card to withdraw money when he spotted the note - but the woman who had been nearby claimed it belonged to her.
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COPS NOTEBOOK:
1. Wait, those don't match
From the files of the Falls police force, further proof that beyond the just plain stupid there are the criminally stupid. Falling into the later category is one Frank Certo of Orange Park, Fla. Certo was stopped Thursday night as he tried to cross the Rainbow Bridge in his 1996 Dodge. The reason for the stop? To the amazement of Falls cops, Certo was driving with a California license plate on the front of his car and a Florida license plate on the back of the car.What was this guy thinking? Better question, how many cops from the Falls to Florida saw this guy driving and never put the two license plates together?

2. No Problem Scrapyard Will Buy Stolen Metal
Just when you thought the crazy stuff people will steal and try to sell to scrapyards couldn’t get any more bizarre comes this revelation. Sometime between 5 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Friday someone stole three fire hydrants that were in the 900 block of 91st Street waiting to be installed. Members of the work crew told police they had been approached recently by "representatives of local junkyards inquiring whether or not the hydrants could be taken." Seriously folks, first manhole covers, now fire hydrants? And the scrapyard dealers just keep buying this stuff like it’s not stolen. Maybe we need to slam some scrapyard fannies in a jail cell or two for possession of stolen property and then things might change.

3. Drop the drumstick
Add to the city whose criminals have pioneered bicycles as robbery get-away vehicles, the development of a new deadly weapon: the plate of chicken. That’s right, a Falls man reported that he had been assaulted by another man who first cut his face by swinging a broken chair of table leg at him and then told police the assailant struck him with "a plate of chicken." The report was not clear on the extent of the man’s injuries as a result of being struck by the chicken.
So does this mean Colonel Sanders runs a weapons factory?
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4. A delicate distinction
Forget for just a moment, that Janice Glover’s idea of responsibly dealing with youngsters is to threaten children with knives. Then try to fathom what she was thinking when she uttered these words, "I won’t stab you, but I will cut you deeply." Followed by, "I’ll show you the difference between cutting someone and stabbing someone." Sounds like Janice, who does face two charges of endangering the welfare of a child, ought to be kept a long way away from children.