Fake police asks people to take off England shirts

[paulnolan]

Remember the slew of stories claiming that the police were banning people from wearing England tops? I debunked that here, as others have repeatedly.

Now, the Worksop Guardian reports (via @JonnElledge):

A BOGUS police officer is operating in and around Worksop telling people to remove their England shirts and take down their flags.
A probe was

Comments

[jiaren_shadow]

Not if you're a stripper.

[paulnolan]

Yep.

Although PCSOs aren't really police officers so I don't know whether that applies or not.

[jiaren_shadow]

When I read this story all I could think of was that episode of Arrested Development where GOB owed money to a cop-themed stripper group after he failed to complete a gig because he was too convincing.

[ghost_busting]

Ugh so stupid. It's beyond me how people actually believe this. to begin with.

[tifa]

LOL~ troll in the dungeon!!! That really is ridiculous though~ why would you even do that? [=______=]

[lisaee]

I shouldn't find this amusing, should I?

But who pretends to be a PCSO anyway? I swear they're not really even allowed to do anything.