Post by Jack Nifedlorry on Aug 7, 2008 8:17:19 GMT
"Now Now, Lets all calm down!"
The police constable was trying his best to sort out some order from the crowd surrounding him.
He had been sent to that part of the sea front following a call to the station to say that a
woman and a child had been assaulted, and that there was a bit of a family fight going on.
"The caller sounded a bit drunk, said his name was Harry" the message had said,
Sure enough when he got there, there seemed to be quite a few people who had obviously enjoyed a few beers.
"Did anyone here actually see what happened?" the constable pleaded to the crowd. "Is there anyone here called Harry?"
"No he went to call the cops, I'm Billy," came the reply, "I shaw it all appen. I was sat over there and saw thish bloke hit the baby and then the woman hitsh the man. They started avin a go at each other and screaming at each other as well.
"What happened then, did anyone else see anything?' The constable looked round the crowd hoping that someone else would come foreward with some information.
"My mate Johnny wash wi me, ee can tell you" said Billy pointing to a man leaning against the railings.
The constable turned to the man and asked if he could help him out.
"Didn't see the start of it," he said, "When I looked up the fighting was still going on and then a policeman was there and the bloke started to hit him as well."
This was the first time the constable had heard that another policeman had been involved. Either the station didn't know or had neglected to tell him.
"Did anyone see what happened to the policeman?" the constable asked the crown in general.
"Yesh I did" slurred Billy, "he just seemed to vanish from sight. One minute he was there the next he was gone.
By this time the constable was beginning to get really frustrated with things and was just
about to radio to the station when Billy said, "Here's my mate Harry, he saw it all and called you lot."
The constable looked around to see another man tottering towards them, waving a beer can at him.
"Took your time getting ere, didn't you.?
The officer ignored the remark and wondered to himself why he had volunteered to do this part of the sea front that day.
"I understand you saw what happened here today" he said to Harry. "You saw the fight that started it all, the man hit the woman.?
"Yea, I saw it. I saw the bloke with the big nose hit the woman, but that's not what started it. It all started when the crocodile ate all the sausages.........."