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Thomas ([personal profile] torkell) wrote2007-06-06 12:22 am
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Fact can be stranger than fiction

Crackdown on lunar-filled crime (via BBC News)

Extra police officers are to patrol the streets of Brighton on nights when there is a full moon.

It follows research by the Sussex force which concluded there was a rise in violent incidents when the moon was full - and also on paydays.
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[Insp Andy Parr] told the BBC: "From my experience, over 19 years of being a police officer, undoubtedly on full moons, we do seem to get people with, sort of, stranger behaviour - more fractious, argumentative."
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[identity profile] olego.livejournal.com 2007-06-06 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
*houls* :-)

[identity profile] olego.livejournal.com 2007-06-06 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Or is it *howls*? Shoot!

[identity profile] mirrordreams.livejournal.com 2007-06-06 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hahaha - loves it! Is true though, even the door staff at the pub I work in in Wales notice it...