In message <ee75dcb6.0309160350.2beef4ba@posting.google.com>, Dave Babb 
<buffy500.nospam@ntlworld.com> writes
>Not that I can remember when I actually spoke to a PC, but I am
>willing to bet my next 4 years income that that regardless of how many
>times I am stopped by any Police office anywhere in the country it
>will never happen to me.

Don't think just being a polite, law-abiding citizen will save you: it 
won't.

>And if as you infer, all police officers are mindless thugs just
>waiting for someone's face not to fit to give a kicking too then being
>as ugly as me should put me at the top of this list.
>Or of course I know how act in public and no one would feel the
>need....

That doesn't help at all.  I've even been threatened (by the police) 
when I tried to report a racist assault.

><In Big Brother voice> Yoooou Decide.
>
>oh, and put of interest, where you actually beaten up ? Or did the Pc
>possibly just give you some advice which you misinterpreted ?

"Some advice" is just a euphemism for "a kicking"
-- 
Mike