This is the kind of thing that gets me throwing things across the room in angry frustration:
A British police officer has said she was raped at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower on Monday.
The victim, 23, has told French police she was attacked by a man wielding a knife in the Champ de Mars park shortly before midnight that evening.
She said the suspect pulled out a knife as she tried to deflect his advances.
Okay, here’s my first point. I know this area very well indeed, and let me just say that it is — along with, say, NYfC’s Central Park — a tourist attraction I wouldn’t go anywhere near after dark. So why would this Dickless Tracy do such a stupid thing? Ah, here’s a clue:
The attacker pounced after the victim went behind a bush to go to the toilet.
She was separated from her friend for only a few moments when the attacker threatened her with a knife.
Translation: she’d been drinking hard, and needed to pee. Where better than in a dark park in a strange city, away from her drinking companion?
Anyway, the gendarmes found the guy and busted him. Surprise, surprise, it was another tourist (nationality not given, uh huh) — but a tourist who travels with a knife and harbors larcenous thoughts.
Sheesh, I myself generally carry a knife when I travel (because I can’t carry my 1911 [lots of bad words deleted] ), but I would only use it in the last extreme in self-defense and not to, say, indulge in a little coercive seduction.
My second point: One would think a cop — especially a Britcop — would know better than to do stupid stuff like the above; but clearly, an excess of booze makes a cop as stupid as the average idiot.
And so much for her police force’s self-defense training; she should ask for a refund.
23 yo woman cop
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sigh
doomed to fail
for thousands of reasons
I have no sympathy for these nitwits
A proper cop is a MAN that is honest, trustworthy, (and all the other boy scout criteria), and is smart and physically adept so as to crack multiple heads with his bare hands if necessary.
Anything less than that is pandering to “the lessers” and a waste of taxpayer money, and therefore criminal.
So, is she now a mudshark?
Maybe later next year she’ll be a coal burner too.
She’s stupid but I’m not hopping on the victim shaming bandwagon. Her training was wasted on her. First was her lapse of judgement to drink too much in an unsafe area. Second was getting separated from her party. Third was taking a piss in the outdoors. Fourth was her lapse in using her training in situational awareness and self defense. I think even British police are trained in some sort of hand to hand fighting since they are unarmed generally.
Her rapist shouldn’t see the light of day ever again. Air Pinochet would be an appropriate method of decreasing recidivism
JQ