No Police, Only Poker

February 29, 2009

Graham Hall was not having a good day. In fact, it seemed that no matter where he turned, he was not going to get any help at all. Hall was first the victim of a crime, and then he was a victim of the police. Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed.

Hall went to the Kidlington Office of the Oxfordshire police headquarters to report a robbery and the guard on duty asked him if he was there to join the poker game. Hall said that he was not there to play poker, rather to report that his home had been broken into. The guard told him that he would have to come back then to report his crime because no one was there to help him.

The guard told him that it was poker night at the station, and therefore no one would be able to service the call. Hall said that he was greeted with a “Good evening sire, are you here for the poker?” It seems that the location where he went to report his crime is not an operational station, and thus they were all off playing poker.

Then he tried to go to the Kidlington Police Station, but it closed early due to the fact that it was the middle of the week. So he called the police non-emergency hot line to report it and they gave him a crime number. The poker game was a charity event, and attended by all off duty personnel.