I beg your pardon. Are you calling me a liar?
Frankly, yes.
The idea that UK police would not only fail to investigate a crime, but actually tell a homeowner to move, is utter crap. Especially the latter.
The British police may fail to catch criminals through incompetence, but the idea they would deliberately fail to investigate is nonsense. And that’s believable compared to the utterly ludicrous notion that the British police would actually tell someone to sell up and move house. Utter, utter nonsense.
As I genuinely do not want to call anyone o here an outright liar, I will politely suggest that either you misheard the story or didn’t pick up all the facts, or, as happens here, you have heard a second hand story about the UK and have reprinted it in this thread as a personal story.
As a Brit, who btw does not have any problem with any legitimate criticism of the UK at all, your friends story simply does not sound credible on either point, esp the latter ‘sell your house’ ‘fact’.
The British police, any western police for that matter, would never say that to a UK homeowner. And if they had, believe me, it would have been frontpage news.
IF you can prove the story, I will hapiily retract and apologise for my recent comments immediately.
I am sorry if you are angry at me for challenging you, but as a an actual Brit, if I think someone is telling lies or passing off myths about what is after all MY country, I will challenge them, and if that means upsetting the other poster, so be it. And I would expect you to do thw same if I told questionable facts or stories about the US.
Feel free to ignore me, or put me on ignore, if you wish.