A friend read some local Danish news complaining about police and brought it up for discussion. The 'triggering' news goes like this: a cook caught a thief red-handed and held him retained while he contacted the police to pick up the thief. Unfortunately, he called twice and nobody from the police force come so he had no choice but to let the thief go.
The worst part is: during his phone call, he was told by the operator that he might be issued a fine ticket because the yelling of the theif in the background was heard and the cook is suspected to be mistreating the thief. I almost fainted when I hear this.
I mean, come on...if I'm the thief & I'm being captured, I would probably been screaming & cursing the cook. What's wrong with the operator? Since when the world change? Instead of protecting citizens & catching thieves, police nowadays refuse to carry out their duties and even worse, fining good citizen for capturing thief? I cannot figure out the logic, not even a single bit!
I was told that the situation wasn't this bad a couple of years back. Due to recent reduce in police station (in the effort to centralize & consolidate police stations) & resources issue, policeman coverage is not as good as before and they're not as responsive as well. But come on, just how big can a place be to be out of coverage? I find it absolutely ridiculous.
If it's only one single complaint, then it is an isolated case but if newspaper can publish at least 10 of these ridiculous police stories at one single time, I think it is seriously problematic.
Here's another one: a guy was sleeping in his car outdoor and was broken into & attacked by thieves. He filed a police report but ended up receiving a police fine ticket because he's not suppose to sleep in the car overnight. OMG, I'm absolutely speechless! I feel like the world has been turn upside down!
All these while, I feel safe walking on streets of Denmark and I've never heard of really severe / disturbing bad social news (compare to back home where female raped, tortured & killed cases are not rare). After hearing this, I seriously feel insecure. What if something happens to me and police is not coming to my rescue when I needed them the most? What am I going to do?
So this friend of mine who used to attend tai-chi class suggested me to learn tai-chi. Tai-chi? With the slow movement of tai-chi, the thief / bad guy probably already knocked me down & achieve his/her/their objective(s). I think I need to learn Taekwando or Karate instead.
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I really liked tai chi and even if you learn the movements slowly, you can certainly speed them up to punch a thief!
If only I'm Jet Li, then taichi will be fast & furious, hmm...
I like about tai chi that it is more geared towards defence, and that it is not too difficult to learn to speed up the movements to use against an attacker and to use his own force for your defence. Plus an added bonus is that it helps to relieve stress a bit even while learning it. :-)
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