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3 Puas arrested in Oxford St. saturday afternoon

Thundercat | 21.10.2008 17:42 | Repression | World

Thats right….
I was just on my way to my spot where I like to do some game when I spot 3 dudes with the PUA uniform. I spotted them and went to lean against a wall to see them in action from a distance while I was making sure that they were in fact PUAs.


I see one of them do a 3 set aproach and eject in 3 seconds, so I had some doubts.
Then, another one of them crosses the street to speak to this blonde lone wolf and after him goes a cop.

In matter of seconds, the cop arrests the guy that now just looks completely shock and disbelief and I think that he actually handcufs the guy. A second PUA crosses the street to see whats going on and gets arrested as well… So the third PUA just goes in and the party begins:

3 random dudes are arrested and searched in a corner of Oxford St. by one uniformed cop and 2 other civilian-dressed. I wanted to help, but I was risking exactly the same as the other 2 dudes and besides, I dont even know them, so I better mind my own business.

So I move on to my spot, open a lone wolf…. takes me 30 minutes to get her number and I walk back Oxf. St. again… AND THEY’RE STILL THERE!!! Seriously… if you’re reading this and you’re the dudes, please just tell us what the hell just happened… Is it because you were opening too many sets on cctv?

WTF…?
And here’s the response from one of the guys who got arrested…
The first and third ones were students, the second one was me. Fucking arseholes.

I don’t lose my temper easily. But that cunt really flipped a switch. I saw one cop handling my guy really roughly for no reason, so I jumped in and got involved. Then another plain clothed came out of nowhere and got me while I was trying to write down his shoulder numbers. Then another student came in to see what the fuck was going on. Yeah, you guessed it. He gets nicked too.

They just go on about “dipping” and codes, like we were meant to understand them, and offered no alternative explanation in English.

They thought we were a gang of Romanian “dippers”, although they refused to explain what “dipping” actually means. They got really abusive and physical, left one of my boys in cuffs for ages even after they realised they’d just made twats of themselves.

I’m still in utter disbelief at how inept, abusive and overly zealous they were.

No explanation. Hardly identification. Fucking unbelievable.
Then turns out “dippers” are people who nick shit off people’s bags.

WHAT THE FUCK.

More later, I’m off to get some sleep. Everyone’s fine and we had a fantastic night after.
 http://www.thundercatseductionlair.com/2008/08/18/is-picking-up-chicks-against-the-law-in-the-uk/

Thundercat

Comments

Display the following 8 comments

  1. what is a PUA??? — try to explain!
  2. pick up artist — pick up artist
  3. PUA = Pickup artist — Fred
  4. oh well... — lady luck
  5. Uniform — Joe Blow
  6. Happened to me too some years back — anon
  7. You don't have to radical... — Jon
  8. hide this — @
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