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Eight police officers drag ‘splashed’ swimmer from Bournemouth pool

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8 Bournemouth police drag splashing victim from swimming pool

TO Bournemouth’s Littledown Centre, where eight police officers are responding with extreme haste to reports of splashing incident.

A male, middle-aged swimmer claims youths have splashed him. The man is shouting at the alleged splashers. Police arrive. Eight of them. This is, in their words, a potentially “high-risk” situation. It calls for “dynamic” action. Two  officers jump fully clothed into the water. (They did not shower off first, as the rules demand.) One officer carries a float.

The man is apprehended and dragged to the poolside.

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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment