Fake

[poliphilo]

A video appeared yesterday- shot on a phone as so much news footage is these days- which showed a middle-aged woman being arrested by three policeman in Bournemouth for the Covid-era "crime" of sitting on a public bench. I viewed it on a MSN site. "Now that's a real abuse of power," I thought. And I was going to blog about it- but at the last minute some sixth sense stopped me posting what I'd written. Just as well, because the" cops" and their "victim" turn out to have been members of an anti-lockdown group. As Ailz said this morning, "Real police wouldn't have made such a horlicks of putting the handcuffs on."

It was a very simple fake, nothing deep about it, no expensive set-up or digital trickery involved- but it had us fooled.