Police in Exmouth, Devon are calling on residents to stop spray painting cheeky artwork on potholes as they claim it makes it harder and more expensive to repair them
Miffed police officers are begging locals to stop spray painting penises on potholes. They claim the cheeky artwork makes it harder and more costly to repair the car-wrecking craters.
Police in Exmouth shared a Facebook post appealing to Devon locals to quit doctoring damaged roads. The force wrote: “Potholes. Yes yes yes. We are all a bit fed up with them.
“But could I just kindly ask that they do not, with the assistance of spray paint, get turned into items of male anatomy?” They claim todger-tweaked holes mean a different council has to clean them up and “ironically” they have to be recorded as criminal damage.
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The force added: “This all takes time and money and none of it solves the hole in the road because the police don’t routinely carry pre-mixed tarmac in our cars. Whilst there is undoubtedly a perceived comedy to this, a lot of people will find it offensive and it brings the tone of the neighbourhood down.”
But amused locals laughed off the cops’ demands, insisting that the crater creations are doing a public service by making the dangerous tyre-trashers easier to spot. One wag replied: “Fair enough, lady parts it is from now on; probably more appropriate anyway.”
Another replied: “Down in Cornwall, someone put a big sign up by a pothole that read ‘make sure your dentures are glued in and hold onto your knickers because you’re in for a bumpy ride’.”
It follows reports that a police officer who was “so intoxicated that he could not walk straight” after consuming wine while on duty would have faced dismissal had he not departed the force. Former detective constable Sean Brierley visited Gravity Well Taproom last July after being informed a suspect at Leyton police station, in east London, was not yet ready to be questioned, a misconduct panel heard.
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