don't wear hoodies, or "street" clothing

[brooner]

wear this:

end up being searched:

Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".

Earlier this year Manchester teenager Dale Carroll, 16, was banned from wearing a hooded top for five years after terrorising a community.

ahem.

[richardm]

i can feel another court case coming on like this one
i wear hoodies all the time; doesnt mean i'm gonna stab you and steal your shoes.

i suspect its all talk...

[Supersaint]

haha, nearly every sports club at our uni has hoodies, they'll have to stop every person going to any uni sports event.

[rob f]

its ridiculous. Nearly every person in britain under the age of 25 (and some over) have hoodies. And then theres the baseball cap issue

[richardm]

people wearing "street clothing" were blamed for more than 60 robberies in the past three weeks.

but how many robberies were there in those 3 weeks? its like saying x amount of robberies have been carried out by men in the past week, so all men will be stopped and searched.

I wonder if the police would search everyone wearing hoodies - the anarchist in me thinks we should get some large groups of oaps to wear hoodies and see what the police do...

[Rookie]

Not sure where - might have been my local paper - but there was an article about "gangsta grannies" who were wearing hoodies to make them "uncool".

[Carnage Head]

Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".

Where's this quote from? Sounds like 'The Sun'! To stop and search "every youngster" with a hoodie would not only be ridiculously expensive, but against the best practice developed by police forces since the end of the use of 'sus' (suspicion) in the early '80s. Although I suppose with the new anti-terrorist laws, and with the evidence of the severity that some police forces are applying them, nobody should perhaps feel as though they are above suspicion for any crime now:

Police Officer, having overheard 'bleeping' sounds, addressing sweaty orienteer running away from bleeps: "Have you got a use for that map and compass?"

Sweaty orienteer: "Yes, orienteering."

PO: "Well, I believe you've just set off a time bomb, and are using your tools to plot your escape route through the forest. You're nicked."

[Carnage Head]

Perhaps they are too slow to catch me in the forest, ha ha. (Although my policeman mate always beats me on a couple of legs when I drag him out orienteering - must've thought the control was located on a doughnut, not a ring contour.)

[Gandralf]

Not sure where - might have been my local paper - but there was an article about "gangsta grannies" who were wearing hoodies to make them "uncool".

apparently it worked as well.

[brooner]

Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".

Where's this quote from? Sounds like 'The Sun'!

bbc website!!! dumbing down eh...

[Carnage Head]

Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".

Where's this quote from? Sounds like 'The Sun'!

bbc website!!! dumbing down eh...

And I thought the BBC would be ultra-careful with their sources, since the '45 minute claim / David Kelly' affair. I blame an over-eager intern, on free loan from Channel Five News (or should I say 'Five News'). "Every youngster" indeed... this one's got me grumbling - I'm an angry old man, and I've not even hit thirty yet!

[Pingu]

"I can guarentee we will not be having a hurricane"

[bendover]

i can guarentee that the literacy rates of King Edward VI Aston Pupils will fall dramatically from 1997-2005.

[HOCOLITE]

Shame they don't teach spelling there.Eh

[Carnage Head]

Police launching a crackdown on street robberies are to stop and search every youngster seen wearing a "hoodie".

Perhaps the bbc website is correct - I just passed the only group of hoodied youngsters I have seen in the last 24 hours, and lo and behold, they were being questioned by the police.