#police sting

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"THRILLING CHASE, USE OF FIREARMS PRECEDE CAPTURE," Toronto Globe. September 22, 1933. Page 1 & 2. --- Police Scour Bruce County and Catch Quarry at Dinner-Table ---- THEFT CHARGES LAID --- Heartbreaking vigils, an automobile chase, rifle shots, and the alleged attempted running down of officers of the law all preceded the arrest at a farmhouse dinner table of Elmer F. Rankin, long wanted by many Eastern and Western Ontario police chiefs for alleged housebreaking, thefts of automobiles, gasoline, and butter, and eggs by the truckload.

The ultimate downfall of Rankin, who is now locked up in Walkerton jail awaiting trial, was due to the untiring efforts of Provincial Constable Otto McClevis of Walkerton. Among the long list of alleged crimes for which Rankin is to answer is the theft of a car from W. Jenkins of London, Ont., on Sept. 9 last. Constable McClevis last week received information of a car car answering answer the description being parked in a bush fourteen miles west of Paisley.

When the constable arrived at the reputed location of the automobile it had disappeared, and for three days the Provincial officer with the Chief Constables of Walkerton and Paisley, searched every road and every bush in and around Bruce and Saugeen Townships. It was not until Saturday last that the car was found well hidden in a ditch bottom, but arranged so that it could make a fast getaway.

The police secreted themselves for a long wait for the car's custodian and, ultimately, they say, Rankin slipped into the machine, started the engine, and, despite the shout of the officers for him to stop, came shooting down the path directly upon them. The officers had to leap into the ditch for safety. Here it was that McClevis fired from his rifle in an attempt to flatten the rear tires of the car but without success.

A thrilling automobile chase followed, in which Rankin was bested, for he ultimately braked his car and made a run for safety through the woods. The police car smashed into the rear of the alleged bandit's machine but no one was injured. McClevis and the police chiefs chased Rankin for more than a mile, but finally lost him in the gloom.

All that night the officers maintained their vigil of the reads and the byways, but it was not until next day that they heard of a tramp being seen near the Pace farm. When they arrived they found the wanted man eating a meal provided by the hospitable farm wife. At first denying his identity, he finally, police say, admitted himself to be Rankin and quietly submitted to arrest.

According to Provincial police some of the offenses in connection with which Rankin has admitted implication are theft of 1,000 pounds of butter from Paisley creamery in March this year; theft of gasoline from a Paisley garage; theft of one car from Brighton, another from Trenton; theft of a truckload of eggs from a Paisley store in August; robbery of the railway station in Paisley; theft of a car in Elginfield Township, and theft of the Jenkins car at London, Ont.

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I love arrested development so so much

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The Police in studio, 1981 🎚️

Photo by Lynn Goldsmith

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A friendly reminder that this is how John Constantine is supposed to look like

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Monkey Man (2024) | Redlight - Swedish House Mafia, Sting

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The Police - Music Videos/Promos

Part 1: 1978-1980

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The Police - MTV (1983)

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Stolen from Rich Handley's website. A bit about Sting's forward for the Hellblazer 30th anniversary collection.

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"BARBER IS ACCUSED OF EXTORTION PLOT," Toronto Star. May 26, 1934. Page 1. --- Hamilton Schoolgirl Unjustly Accused of Being Hit-Run Driver ---- Special to The Star Hamilton. May 26.-Alleged to have attempted to extort money from Miss Ruth Linkert, high school student, on the false accusation she was a hit-and-run driver, Phillip Young, barber, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of demanding money with menace.

Evidence by members of the Linkert family and Detective Speakman indicated an alleged extortionist had successfully evaded a trap set for him after he had arranged by telephone to meet Miss Linkert and drive along the Caledonia highway settlement. Charles Linkert, the father, had concealed himself in the rumble seat of the car and detectives had followed in a police car.

Young was arrested by Detective Speakman on May 18 as he stepped from a telephone booth in a King St. E. store.

Miss Linkert testified an unknown man had called her and, declaring she had driven from the scene of an accident in which a little girl had been seriously injured, had suggested a settlement.

"He said he didn't think I was at fault but suggested a settlement any- how," Miss Linkert said.

Mrs. Linkert, in a later telephone conversation, represented herself as her daughter. While police were being notified by the father, Miss Linkert went back to school.

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I know no one on tumblr gives a shit about the 80s new wave band The Police but I was just listening to Synchronicity, certainly their most critically and commercially successful album again the other day and I realized I'd been missing a massive joke built into the structure of the record all these years. OK, so it's a theme album about Synchronicity, a Jungian concept and there is this really obnoxious, discordant song called MOTHER in the middle of the record, in which it's clear that the person singing it is attracted to their mother and also that they feel all the women in their life have turned into their mother...and it is written by Andy Summers, when all the other tracks (apart from Miss Gradenko, which is pretty off theme as well and is written by Stewart Copeland) are written by Sting.

I can't believe Sting was like JUNG, JUNG, JUNG, JUNG and then Andy was like: FREUD and I fucking missed it. For forty fucking years I have slandered this song and said Synchronicity is a "near perfect" album... I missed a psychiatry joke in the middle of the psychiatry record. I really don't deserve my lauded position as a gadfly and fan of the 80s new wave/pop band The Police.

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Sting 🐝

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Source: Cover Band Central, Facebook

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The Police