Police helicopter scrambled after Brighton woman hit over head by 'burglar' (From The Argus)
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Police helicopter scrambled after Brighton woman hit over head by 'burglar'
10:56am Friday 3rd September 2010 in
The Sussex Police helicopter was scrambled to assist officers in the hunt for a burglar who hit a woman over the head.
Police were called after a woman in her 40s reported that someone had attempted to enter her house and hit her over the head with an unknown object.
Police refused to reveal her address because it could lead to her identity being known, but the incident happened at a property in the city centre at 10.30pm on Thursday.
When detectives arrived they could not find the woman, but she later rang police from her mobile and was spotted on the seafront at Brighton Marina after apparently wandering off in a temporarily confused state.
She was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, but had suffered no visible injury and was discharged.
Nothing had been stolen from the property.
Comments(11)
Page the Oracle
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11:51am Fri 3 Sep 10
Totalmisery wrote:So if your Mum was burgled & hit so hard on the head that she wandered off with a head injury in a confused state you would say "No I don't want you to do everything possible to find her whatever the cost!", would you?
What a waste of money!
I doubt it VERY much.
Sounds like she had concussion & a VERY appropriate use for the chopper to me.
Tammy Flugh
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1:14pm Fri 3 Sep 10
Page the Oracle wrote:No visible injuries. Nothing stolen. It is possible there's no truth in her claim.
Totalmisery wrote:So if your Mum was burgled & hit so hard on the head that she wandered off with a head injury in a confused state you would say "No I don't want you to do everything possible to find her whatever the cost!", would you?
What a waste of money!
I doubt it VERY much.
Sounds like she had concussion & a VERY appropriate use for the chopper to me.
ssilkystone
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1:42pm Fri 3 Sep 10
Granny
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3:35pm Fri 3 Sep 10
TheInsider
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9:01am Sat 4 Sep 10
We would all be posing angry comments if the police had ignored the call for help.
The police and other emergency services have to act in good faith which is why hoax callers are such a nuisance because the emergency services cannot use judgement as to whether a call out is necessary or not, they have to go out.
HoveRocksActually
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10:12am Sat 4 Sep 10
TheInsider wrote:Agree completely - the police aren't psychic (or of any use at all, but that's a different story) - they got a report of a vulnerable woman that was attacked and reacted appropriately.
Maybe the woman has mental health problems, but either way the police received a report of a woman in a vulnerable state and they acted on it.
We would all be posing angry comments if the police had ignored the call for help.
The police and other emergency services have to act in good faith which is why hoax callers are such a nuisance because the emergency services cannot use judgement as to whether a call out is necessary or not, they have to go out.
As for your second comment, 95% of the posts I read on this website are angry or indignant people having a whinge. People would probably moan about the cost of the chopper had this been a completely legitimate occurrence and the police had caught the perpetrator. Whinge whinge whinge!
AmboGuy
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10:17am Sat 4 Sep 10
Page the Oracle
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3:03pm Sat 4 Sep 10
AmboGuy wrote:What I believe or (as seems to be the Argus forum way) assume is completely irrelevant. I will keep those thoughts to myself. I am just saying that, along with a couple of other rational people, is that the police appear to have acted apprpriately under the circumstances they were faced with.
Come on Page the Oracle don't be so niave! Clearly there was no burglary, there was no assault. This was a mental health patient or extremely drunk woman making it up. Can't you see that?
Facts of Life
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1:28pm Tue 7 Sep 10
Page the Oracle wrote:It is people like Page the Oracle that make the Argus the Paper it is and Sussex Police the Force it is....
AmboGuy wrote:What I believe or (as seems to be the Argus forum way) assume is completely irrelevant. I will keep those thoughts to myself. I am just saying that, along with a couple of other rational people, is that the police appear to have acted apprpriately under the circumstances they were faced with.
Come on Page the Oracle don't be so niave! Clearly there was no burglary, there was no assault. This was a mental health patient or extremely drunk woman making it up. Can't you see that?
To think these people have the vote and can serve on Jury's is terrifying
You will hear no more about this in the Paper I assure you...it is like most of the pap, a non story spun by the Police. A squad car sent to 'interview' the individual would have identified her..problems..NOW THAT would have been appropriate Police action..
Page the Oracle
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2:11pm Tue 7 Sep 10
To think these people are allowed to express their ill-thought out comments and knee jerk assumptions, let alone breed, is horrifying.
You will hear no more about this in the paper I assure you, as it is yesterdays news, reported by the police, to perhaps inform as to why the helicopter was overhead.
I am sure that "A squad car sent to 'interview' the individual would have identified her .. problems" - ONCE THEY HAD FOUND HER WHICH WAS WHY THE HELICOPTER WAS USED!!
Read the story n*mb-n*ts!
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Totalmisery says...
11:21am Fri 3 Sep 10