Run-ins With The Police

Over the weekend just past, we had two encounters with the police.

The first one came on Saturday night when, after the meet, Wolfie, Tonks, Ponpon and I were enjoying several craft beers in our local Wetherspoons. At tipping out time, one of the patrons became violent towards a bouncer, and the guard did his thing. As we had phones on us, we were told to call the police, who didn't know where the only Wetherspoons in town was and insisted on us providing a postcode. We left before they arrived.

On Sunday, after my work shift, I met up with Wolfie, Ponpon and Rushy in the centre of Leeds. We were showing our southern friend the range of craft beer options in the city, including The Pit and the newly revamped North Bar which looks like you're drinking in a giant crate but it has opened up the space somehow. It's a nice effect. After Ponpon left to catch his train, the remaining three tried some new bars in town - Atlas Pub and Decadence - the latter of which has only been open a fortnight. Both are typical places really but I enjoyed the range of drinks on offer as well as the atmosphere (although we were the only ones in Atlas) so we will probably go back.

At 10pm we headed home via the pizza shop to discover that the police had closed our road. On closer inspection, someone had crashed into a telegraph pole which had come down in our garden. There were wires everywhere and the wall has been slightly damaged although it surprisingly withstood most of the impact it would appear. Thankfully the house is set quite a way back from the road so this escaped unscarred. I don't know what time the accident happened but the car had already been towed away bad the police had called an engineer to clean everything up. We met him as we were heading to bed and by morning our garden was clear, although the pole is still lying on the side of the road and there is still a lot of broken glass on the pavement.

The mending of the wall is not a huge job but as I don't know who crashed into the pole and who is to blame, I imagine we will have to pay for it rather than the insurance. For the nominal amount of time and money involved, this may be less hassle anyway as my experience with insurance companies has been overwhelmingly negative when it comes to getting pay-outs. Furthermore, my gut feeling is that this was caused by someone driving too fast and swerving, which means they may have no insurance anyway if its a typical boy racer type. Still, it's another job we could have done without.