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I do not believe it!
Every day one reads unbelievable true things in the newspaper..
Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
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I was informed that, as a toddler, I had an inseparable bedtime companion whom I named "Wow-wow". Notwithstanding the appellation, photographs suggest that it was in reality a rather moth-eaten rabbit. No substitute was ever acceptable, so it seems.
But when its stuffing and general wear-and-tear started to get the better of it, my mother gently suggested that perhaps it was time to 'grow out' of it. She told me in later years that not only did I (aged about 4) agree to this, but I actually dumped the creature in the dustbin myself.
End of my 'soft toy' phase.....
But when its stuffing and general wear-and-tear started to get the better of it, my mother gently suggested that perhaps it was time to 'grow out' of it. She told me in later years that not only did I (aged about 4) agree to this, but I actually dumped the creature in the dustbin myself.
End of my 'soft toy' phase.....
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I had a teddy too, golden-brown, Toby was his name
40 years later I used to take the neighbours dog out, he was called Toby too
This should maybe go under 'amazing coincidences'
40 years later I used to take the neighbours dog out, he was called Toby too
This should maybe go under 'amazing coincidences'
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Cyril Haearn wrote: 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400
At €3.70 a bear that is a pretty good deal. They won't have to be useful very often to be cost-effective.
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Cyril Haearn wrote: 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400.
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
A nice little order for Steiff then.
You'll never know if you don't try it.
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Trauma Teddies.Cyril Haearn wrote:Every day one reads unbelievable true things in the newspaper..
Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
Devon and Cornwall Police use them and have done for some time, no doubt other forces use them.
Locally, money was raised for them. Mrs Mick F and others were involved.
Mick F. Cornwall
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Mick F wrote:Trauma Teddies.Cyril Haearn wrote:Every day one reads unbelievable true things in the newspaper..
Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
Devon and Cornwall Police use them and have done for some time, no doubt other forces use them.
Locally, money was raised for them. Mrs Mick F and others were involved.
Do they work? I know they have been used elsewhere
On the one hand I think it is obscene that the cops use teddies but don't bother enforcing the law, on the other..
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661-Pete wrote:I was informed that, as a toddler, I had an inseparable bedtime companion whom I named "Wow-wow". Notwithstanding the appellation, photographs suggest that it was in reality a rather moth-eaten rabbit. No substitute was ever acceptable, so it seems.
But when its stuffing and general wear-and-tear started to get the better of it, my mother gently suggested that perhaps it was time to 'grow out' of it. She told me in later years that not only did I (aged about 4) agree to this, but I actually dumped the creature in the dustbin myself.
End of my 'soft toy' phase.....
You can't throw wow-wow away just because of that.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him
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From what the police have told us, yes. They do work.Cyril Haearn wrote:Mick F wrote:Trauma Teddies.Cyril Haearn wrote:Every day one reads unbelievable true things in the newspaper..
Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
Devon and Cornwall Police use them and have done for some time, no doubt other forces use them.
Locally, money was raised for them. Mrs Mick F and others were involved.
Do they work? I know they have been used elsewhere
Mick F. Cornwall
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profpointy wrote:661-Pete wrote:I was informed that, as a toddler, I had an inseparable bedtime companion whom I named "Wow-wow". Notwithstanding the appellation, photographs suggest that it was in reality a rather moth-eaten rabbit. No substitute was ever acceptable, so it seems.
But when its stuffing and general wear-and-tear started to get the better of it, my mother gently suggested that perhaps it was time to 'grow out' of it. She told me in later years that not only did I (aged about 4) agree to this, but I actually dumped the creature in the dustbin myself.
End of my 'soft toy' phase.....
You can't throw wow-wow away just because of that.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him
Maybe it was a wolfhound, half wolf half dog
There are all sorts of fantastic animals, the cat-fish for example
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I do not believe it!
A motor showroom (!) hosts an exhibition of school rucksacks ('the first status symbol') (!) for children, although they will not start school until August
The rucksacks with unicorn designs etc etc cost up to € 300
'I do not know which to choose' whimpered a confused child. Mum, you decide please'
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A motor showroom (!) hosts an exhibition of school rucksacks ('the first status symbol') (!) for children, although they will not start school until August
The rucksacks with unicorn designs etc etc cost up to € 300
'I do not know which to choose' whimpered a confused child. Mum, you decide please'
€€€
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Cyril Haearn wrote:............... I think it is obscene that the cops use teddies but don't bother enforcing the law, on the other..
They do actually, when there's enough of them not busy enforcing the law somewhere else.................they actually do a good job when they can.
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+1
There needs to be FAR more of them.
We saw two cop vehicles today.
One would have been the Cornwall copper, the other would have been the Devon copper.
We have the Devon and Cornwall Police Force .......................... one copper for each.
There needs to be FAR more of them.
We saw two cop vehicles today.
One would have been the Cornwall copper, the other would have been the Devon copper.
We have the Devon and Cornwall Police Force .......................... one copper for each.
Mick F. Cornwall
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Cyril Haearn wrote:Every day one reads unbelievable true things in the newspaper..
Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd
I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea
Wait until some wee bugger bites off and chokes to death on the eye of one, or the stuffing turns out to be oozing dioxin and the cops grow extra bits and turn orange.
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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The Grauniad reports that
Stone-stackers may be jailed!
I did not believe it for a moment, then I read the article, apparently the stonestackers may be messing up ancient sites
One wonders whether the stones had not been moved by weather or animals in the last couple of thousand years
Read about a stonestacker in the paper
"One harmless nutcase stacks them up, another harmless nutcase knocks them down" he explained
Stone-stackers may be jailed!
I did not believe it for a moment, then I read the article, apparently the stonestackers may be messing up ancient sites
One wonders whether the stones had not been moved by weather or animals in the last couple of thousand years
Read about a stonestacker in the paper
"One harmless nutcase stacks them up, another harmless nutcase knocks them down" he explained
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