Honestly, it was probably the straw that broke the camel's back on this one.

I usually wear combats when I'm not required to be smart. They're comfy, hardwearing, and I don't give that much of a fuck about my appearance tbh. Today I was wearing US Navy ones. Blue digital camo. Like these.

I was walking home when I turned a corner and noticed a couple of police cars and a guy in cuffs. There was some guy shouting out of a window at them. He said "Why are you wearing those trousers buh?!" I just replied "because I think they're cool!" He then told me that they were not cool and started calling me a dickhead for some reason? This was in front of four coppers and two police cars.

I said to him "You're shouting out of a window at strangers, I don't care what you think." More mouthing off ensued, and the guy wouldn't cut it out. I asked "Are they here for you?" More abuse. The police warned him to shut up, but he kept going on about my trousers? "Why don't you just wear jeans you prick?"

The police then decided to barge into his flat and arrest him for breach of the peace, I assume. They were quick about it, I hadn't even crossed the road before he was in the car. I asked the police if they needed me for anything? No, they didn't, so I continued home.

My interaction with the loony took all of a minute, but he got taken away for it.

Hilarious. Turns out, the fashion police are on my side.

Also, Alex Horne has made fun of a different pair of my trousers on stage in front 1500 people. So I'm above some random window shouter.

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50 comments

  1. I generally wouldn’t worry about taking fashion advice from people in handcuffs, mate.

  2. Various aspects of this story sound implausible, you have a very *random* looking user name, and you’re posting at 3am. However, I have carried out a thorough investigation of your post history, and you seem fairly normal. I would quite like to grill you on the implausible aspects, but it’s 3am.

  3. Strange that some random bloke has got nothing better to do than to diss a stranger’s fashion sense. And loudly, to get the cops’ attention. Sounds like a fun time for you.

  4. And then everyone clapped and a bunch of girls made a tik tok dance inspired by your heroic acts which went viral.

  6. Someone once hung out of a window as I was walking home to shout, in a really horrible tone, “eeeh look at you… with your pizza!” As is that was posh and I was showing off or something. Wasn’t even a branded one. It was a pretty rough area. No police or anything; you just reminded me of it.

  7. These days, if you say OP is a combat wanker, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

  8. The most bizarre things happen to the best of us.

    It’s one of those, nobody would believe you if you told them.

  10. I’m not a lawyer, but this is likely a public order offence (section 50?), using threatening or abusive language in a public place (ie calling you a dickhead and a prick).

    The fact they were leaning out their window ‘might’ be a mitigating factor, but swearing at people can lead to arrest.

  11. So to me it sounds like the guy is known to the police, perhaps someone who is mentally unwell or has been disruptive / anti-social before for whatever reason. Maybe the police seeing him kick off approached him based on what they know of him and what he’s capable of. Nothing to do with your trousers because that would be insane. The guy shouting out to you was weird yeah but the police didn’t arrest him because of your trousers I’m sorry

  13. Can I ask, because I always wonder why people do this – why do you engage with people who are clearly not all there?

    I get randoms approaching me occasionally saying weird shit, but I’m not interested in a conversation with them so I ignore them. It might be seen as rude, but why do the back and forth thing if you don’t care what the person thinks? Why did you feel like you needed to respond?

  14. He probably thought he was tripping because all he could see was a floating torso and feet.

  15. OP, I clicked on your link, but it doesn’t show anything?

  16. People who think this isn’t true have clearly never walked through any council estate…

  17. I’m waiting for the first “shitamericanssay” comment:

    “Europe don’t have freedom of speech. A man was arrested because he said he didn’t like somebody’s trousers. They think they’re better than us but at least we can have an opinion on camo trousers”.

  19. Why engage? Just ignore and let the police deal with him

  22. Did you not feel like the police would prefer you not to further antagonise the nutcase window-shouter they were trying to deescalate?

  23. Police just broke the law and he will be getting a pay day

  24. Not only does this sound very fake.. but even ‘under a minute’.. why even break a stride to talk to nobheads like this?

    I’m filing this one under.. didn’t happen.

  25. I’ve got a pair of those camo trousers.

    Can’t find them.

  28. Idk how I feel about this, is this a good use of coppers time and resources? Like it’s great to see a bully put in their place but, it’s just words. No threats of violence, and not discriminatory against protected characteristics. Cops should demonstrate de-escalation tactics in this exact situation.

  30. Honestly, this sounds like the person had more going on before you arrived for the police to react this way. Breach of the peace is NOT a criminal offence, and will not result in any form of caution or conviction. It is a preventative measure, and as that person was inside a property, the correct way for the police to “prevent breach of the peace” would be to just kindly suggest that you walk away. There is absolutely NO reason, based on what you have said alone, for the police to literally force entry into the property to arrest that man.

    So either the police were abusing their power, there was more going on than you saw, or these police acted with poor judgement.

  31. The boys in blue (digital camo) looking out for each other once again.

  32. They are pretty bad

    For legal reasons that’s a joke

  34. “I’ve been picked on 3 times today all because of me trousers!”

  35. Tragedy here is that they are actually terrible trousers. 😔

  36. Ehh I don’t understand why people are so fervantly downvoting & arguing against anyone saying it’s a false story.

    The Police won’t and more *importantly* cannot just barge into somebodies home, over somebody being called a dickhead and a prick because of their poor fashion choices, lmao.

  37. This smells a lot like bullshit. The police wouldn’t barge into someone’s flat for shouting out of a window, not when they’re already dealing with someone else in cuffs. OP just wants to know if his pants are cool or not. They’re not. They look like something a 40 year old autistic virgin would wear to his laser tag birthday party with his mum and wheelchair bound mute, deaf and dumb Aunty.

  38. My girlfriend’s phone nearly got snatched in Wandsworth but we’re okay with fashion police. Good usage of time.

  39. The fact that you find the blueberries (us navy digital camo nickname) comfortable would make me shout at you as well.

  40. So when you walk into a shop wearing your camo clothing, how do you want people to react?

    * act like they cannot see and ignore you completely, thus proving that your camo is working and you are indeed camouflaged?
    * act like they can see you and interact normally, thus proving that your camo is ineffective?

  43. And our next nominee for Didn’t happen of the Year awards is …

  44. imagine having your home invaded because you were being rude to someone, what the fuck is this police state

  47. Lmao, jesus, what has this country come to where we’re arresting people for bad language and not liking someone’s trousers, unless they were there for a different reason that is a COMPLETE waste of tax payers money.

    Also, why did you even engage and wind the situation up? He shouts shit trousers mate, you go thanks mate! And carry on walking, done, finished

  49. Some getting pinched because you wear shit trousers isn’t something to be proud of.

  50. I love my blue digital US Navy combats. They even have a nicely sewn name panel. These are my “Sanchez” trousers.

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