A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose… Until Police See It On CCTV, Say It’s A Knife & Throw You In Jail For 3 Months

The UK has really been quite aggressive in installing CCTV surveillance cameras all over, trying to spot distress before it escalates, however apparently they’re not very excellent at it sometimes. <a href=”http://twitter.com/glynmoody/statuses/22601757525″ target=”_blank”>Glyn Temperamental</a> points us to the tale of the police spotting a male, who had been previously convicted of assault, walking along with his fiancee. Via the CCTV footage, police determined that the guy, Stephen McAleer, was carrying a knife, and a hardly any weeks later, the police showed up at his house in order to arrest him, tossing him in jail for three months. The only difficulty? It turns outside <a href=”http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/house/2010/08/male-carrying-rose-caught-on-cctv-carrying-a-knife.html” target=”_blank”>that the “knife” was really a rose that he had bought for his fiancee</a>. Apparently, it took three months and then a trial to get this all sorted outside. Don’t you feel safer immediately?<br /><br /><a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100831/03044310832.shtml”>Permalink</a> | <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100831/03044310832.shtml#comments”>Comments</a> | <a href=”http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20100831/03044310832&op=sharethis”>Email This Tale</a><br />
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