Road Wars

The One With the Dogless Dog Man (6x13)

Uitzenddatum: Okt 21, 2008

Dan and Daz start their shift in Reading with a drugs raid. With a bit of hasty tooling up, they head to the house, enforcer at the ready, and – seven knocks later – they’re in. The house is clearly a place where drugs are used, though apparently in better nick than the Chaps were expecting, as they commence the incredibly thorough search that will be required. Dixie is upstairs with new colleague Tom French, where they find clear evidence of major drugs use, the floor behind the bed littered with needles and the walls spattered with little flecks of blood. Gross it may be, but the one thing they needed to find – drugs – weren’t in evidence that day. Dave Jones is responding to a disturbance at a petrol station in Reading, where it is reported a group of youths are beating up an elderly gentleman. Things don’t look quite as described when he gets there, however, as the youths are standing some distance away, and the elderly gentleman is brandishing a broom, and has a fire extinguisher at his side. He’s also sozzled, and appears to have pinched a bottle of wine. More to come… Back with Dave at the Petrol Station, where the man is claiming to have been attacked with by a group of youths, while a security guard is claiming he’s actually nicked a bottle of wine. Things are not improved when the man starts hurling racial insults at the youths, who are, it seems, merely standing watching the ‘show’. Dave is deeply unimpressed and cuffs the man under section 5 of the Public Order Act, though the language doesn’t improve, and instead gets worse, so Dave puts him on the floor and demands that he shut up. Things are quite volatile as there is a risk of the youths being provoked – primarily because the guy just won’t stop wibbling, and continues to spout abuse even when back up arrives, and is only stopped by the door of the van being shut. Mish and Flipper are in Slough, and are getting vibes from a battered vehicle with three young peop