Typical of this country, and the mentality of the chav scum who nick the cars and bikes in the first place, I get really wound up by the total lack of intelligence of these people.

'My little Tommy would still be here today if the 'filth' coppers hadn't have been chasing him'

We're basically a bunch of pussies afraid to dish out real punishment and detterants.

Remember that vid on youtube of the South African police iirc, chasing a pick up truck, shooting at it repeatedly, then the copper leans out of his car at high speed and jumps into the back of the pick-up, like something out of an indiana jones film, and brought the pursuit to an abrupt halt.

The argument of they'll 'come round again' is all well and good, but we should be trying to prevent these petty crimes in the first place, not just accepting that we'll catch the little scrotes eventually once they've racked up a good few offences at the expense of the tax payer.

My ex used to hold the exact opposite opinion and used to say the police shouldn't be chasing them, it's 'disgusting' etc, needless to say, we used to argue like fuck about this as well as many other things we didn't see eye to eye on!