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June 17, 2013, 11:22:31 PM »
So I get a call from a friend who’s at Aspers casino in Strafford, he tells me that he has just spoken to a kid that he knows thru poker who was talking about killing himself
He told me the kid looked distressed and was pacing back and forth in the casino, my friend went over and asked the kid if he was okay, the kid calmed down after a little while and started telling my friend how he was going to kill himself.
Now when someone makes a threat against their own life in a casino I really wouldn’t know how to take it, as he may have done his absolutes on the tables and it maybe momentary madness, but this kid told my friend that people have told him to kill himself and that he would go to heaven. That’s something that I would take seriously. My friend asked him who these people were, he said he couldn’t say but he respected them and that they were respected in his community, my friend tried to get more out of him and asked if they were voices etc, but the kid said these people were real.
So I told my friend to put the phone down and tell the staff and also contact the police asap, which he did half of. He told the staff, who barred the kid from the casino, but didn’t call the police as “He don’t deal with police” so I told him to put the phone down and I’d do it and give them his details.
Dialed 999 and explained very slowly and carefully what my friend had told me over the phone, I then said someone needs to contact him asap and get this guys details/description and pass it onto the relevant authorities, even if he isn’t a threat to himself and others he’s clearly disturbed and needs help. The lady on the other end of the phone told me she could do anything and that I needed to call the Met, I even protested and said what about if his threats are to the wider public not just himself and told the lady that the kid mentioned, going to heaven, Islam and people that he respected telling him to kill himself, what about if he's a freaken terrorist, but that didn’t make a difference, I was still told “dial 118-500 and get the number for the local police in that area, there’s nothing more I can do”.. ffs she didn't even offer the 101 number to me
Now I’ve taken appropriate action and called the relevant authorities, but the police didn’t make it easy and they have a duty of care to the general public and the casino, FFS all they did was barr the kid and had him escorted of their premises, ffs imagine this guy jumped in front of a train or did something else crazy, where’s the freakin duty of care, I mean WTF is going on when you make a real complaint and your treated with contempt and told that "If this complaint is that serious why don't you put the phone down and call 118-500 get the number for the met and call them, because we can't do anything" It's a freaking joke...
FML, anyway needed to vent….
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June 17, 2013, 11:38:18 PM »
Just had a call from the Met police who told me they're dealing with the situation etc...
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June 17, 2013, 11:41:42 PM »
hope it works out. fair play to you for going the extra mile so to speak.
Lets hope they contact, and the kid gets the help he needs, if any, it this becomes the "turning point" in his life etc.
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Re: Incompetent policing, crazy guy threatening to kill himself
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June 17, 2013, 11:42:41 PM »
Lol at your friend that 'dont deal with the police'
Plenty of random nutters in London, and elsewhere for that matter, police prob get hundreds of calls like this.
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Quote from: celtic on June 17, 2013, 11:42:41 PM
Lol at your friend that 'dont deal with the police'
Plenty of random butters in London, and elsewhere for that matter, police prob get hundreds of calls like this.
But at least tell me I need to call 101 not give the number for bloody direct inquiries ffs. Hopefully he is a random butter, but on the off chance his threats are serious I'd feel better knowing that I've done something to prevent someone killing themselves..
Had a friend called Kevin Dhindsa, who made threats like this years ago and one day they found his body on the train tracks in Derby, his body was so disfigured that they had trouble identifying him, so I kinda takes threats that people make against their own lives a little more serious then others..
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June 17, 2013, 11:56:38 PM »
Weird world where a casino would rather just ban him, than try and get him help or arrested. And it took someone outside the casino to call the police.
You prob done the right thing.
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